Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painters have responded enthusiastically , from the meticulous realism of Frith 's panoramic Paddington to the delicate impressionism of Monet 's Gare Saint-Lazare , from the distorted heat-haze imagery of Dali 's Perpignan Station to the lonely , austere beauty of Vlaminck 's station in the snow . |
| 2 | Birbeck believed that Branson had played the joke as ‘ revenge ’ for a Music Week reporter feeding stories disparaging Branson to the satirical magazine Private Eye — and he was partly right . |
| 3 | From the cheapest Metro to the new flagship 800 coupe , a Rover comes with a luxurious quality you will search hard to find in any rival . |
| 4 | Prince Charles Edward had now , against vastly superior forces , advanced 500 miles [ 800 km ] in 19 weeks from a remote comer of the Outer Hebrides to the very heart of England , a mere 125 miles [ 200 km ] from the capital ; his advance guard , at Swarkestone Bridge , six miles [ 10 km ] beyond Derby , was even closer . |
| 5 | The typical barnyard ( or factory-farm ) pig — whatever its breed — is almost certainly descended from the Eurasian wild boar Sus scrofa , whose natural range covers a broad sweep from south-western Spain to the Far East . |
| 6 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 7 | Vietnam issued protest notes in early September to the Chinese government demanding that it halt " illegal " oil exploration in Vietnamese territorial waters in the Gulf of Tonkin . |
| 8 | The abrupt transition from 1963 London to the Paleolithic era would emphasise the Doctor 's time-travelling capabilities , while the sub-plot of making fire , crucial to the narrative , would bring home to the audience the key to the human race 's survival made by its ‘ discovery ’ . |
| 9 | During 1760 the long run of British success continued , culminating , on 8 September , with the surrender of all Canada to the British crown . |
| 10 | Stalin 's frank priority was the post-war reconstruction of the USSR , not the winning over of Eastern Europe to the Soviet cause . |
| 11 | The growth in exports from eastern Europe to the developed market economies slowed from 6 per cent in 1988 to 4 per cent in the first half of 1989 . |
| 12 | Increasingly , however , some in the administration think that trade will not be enough to anchor Eastern Europe to the prosperous West — which means that policy-makers are considering the ticklish question of the future of the European Community . |
| 13 | But the Hellenistic Greeks preferred the fanciful images of an eternal Egypt to the Egyptian thought of their time . |
| 14 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 15 | These are made , with a little supervision , by the brownies to coincide with the flower festival at St Peter 's Church in Greenhill on the nearest Saturday to the patronal feast . |
| 16 | That the particular day of the sighting was never regarded as special , and is almost brushed aside , suggests that it was a Tuesday — and the nearest Tuesday to the reported date is the 27th . |
| 17 | As he explained on 13 February to the Italian Chief of the General Staff , Colonel Emilio Faldella , he wanted the slow occupation and thorough " cleansing " of the territory , not just quick military victories . |
| 18 | Ideas relating the folds and faults expressed in the Mesozoic cover of southern England to the underlying basement structure go back at least as far as Godwin-Austen ( 1856 ) , but have gradually become more firmly based . |
| 19 | 8 Cadenza to the first movement of one of Mozart 's ‘ pastiche ’ keyboard concertos , K.40 . |
| 20 | In order to convey the right of control to the consignee , the letter of credit beneficiary handed over his signed CKR to the confirming bank . |
| 21 | From the suburbs of industrial northern England to the bright skyline of Sydney , Australia , Tim Clayton has striven to perfect his art as a photo journalist . |
| 22 | On a stroll along the famous five-mile seafront , from Brighton 's bustling Marina to the sheltered calm of Hove Lagoon , you 'll encounter Britain 's original electric railway , the Victorian Palace Pier , Peter Pan 's Playground , the King Alfred Leisure Centre and a host of other attractions . |
| 23 | The Canadian Human Rights Commission released a report on Jan. 15 which concluded that the rights of a group of native Inuit had been violated when they were forcibly relocated from northern Quebec to the Arctic wilderness of Cornwallis and Ellesmere Islands . |
| 24 | It was the abiding appeals of bourgeois pacifism , not any new-fangled ideas about proletarian revolution , which informed popular support for the readmission of Soviet Russia to the international community . |
| 25 | What misreading of West European politics could produce the following assimilation of the urban radicalism of the 1970s in Western Europe to the pluralist ideal of small-town politics in the United States ' ? |
| 26 | Response by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales to the Welsh Office consultation paper |
| 27 | Response by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales to the Welsh Office Consultation on Mineral Planning Guidance Note 3 |
| 28 | Response by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales to the Welsh Office draft Planning Policy Guidance Note |