Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britten had heard Gershwin 's opera in America , and his own solitary previous stage work , Paul Bunyan , evidently owes still more than Grimes to the American show tradition . |
| 2 | The situation is that Gaius Seius becomes heir to a half , and Mucius and Maevius to the other half : the logic of the problem makes clear that they are substitutes ( both pupillary and vulgar ) for the half originally destined for the children ; and since Gaius Seius has not been disinherited his entitlement still stands , as the text confirms . |
| 3 | Lucy Marks and Val Ford contrast the attitudes of Guatemala and Nicaragua to the mental health of their own people . |
| 4 | LONDONERS gathered in their thousands at Hyde Park , last Saturday to welcome bandsmen from all over Scotland and Ireland to the British Piping Championships . |
| 5 | Other international interests — from France and Spain to the Irish Republic and Israel — chipped in an unchanged but welcome £69.3m . |
| 6 | That description is the one consistently applied by God and Moses to the Promised Land . |
| 7 | Many modern commentators , from Burke , Hamilton and Madison to the present day , have frankly seen the device of representation as a means of limiting popular participation and control , and of retaining the day-to-day powers of government in the hands of a ( preferably enlightened ) elite . |
| 8 | EVERYBODY is invited this Saturday and Sunday to the seventh birthday celebrations of the Carpet Supermarket in Long Lane , Aintree . |
| 9 | In any event , Canary knew that the only possible solution to create the large numbers of Japanese aircraft was to remanufacture AT–6s and BT–13s to the proper configuration . |
| 10 | Then later , in 1896 and 1897 , letters were sent by Fellows , Morton and Clayton to the Grand Junction , complaining of the lack of progress in either constructing wide locks or lifts at Foxton and Watford . |
| 11 | He gave a stimulating programme ranging from the crystal clear Partita No 1 of Bach , through Schubert and Schumann to the 20th century Berg and Prokofiev . |
| 12 | Two others , Alice and Margaret Blaikie , presented his Jacobite pamphlets and MSS to the National Library of Scotland as a memorial after his death in an Edinburgh nursing home 3 May 1928 . |
| 13 | With the aim of keeping only the Imperial Tobacco and Imperial Foods divisions , Hanson within a short period of time sold Imperial 's hotels and restaurants interests to Trust House Forte ( £190 million ) , Golden Wonder Crisps to Dalgety ( £87 million ) and Courage to the Australian company Elders IXL ( £1.4 billion ) . |
| 14 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 15 | Driving across the flat and prosperous farmlands of Picardy and through the shabby industrial suburbs of Charleroi and Liège to the German/Belgian frontier on which Aachen sits , the first thing you notice is its novelty . |
| 16 | In Britain , democracy is well established but the relation of Scotland and Wales to the unitary state is disputed . |
| 17 | And from Punks and Rockers to the Royal Family , Spotlight gets behind the stereotypes to examine the diverse mixture of people who inhabit this country . |
| 18 | Exported by Hazlitt Gooden and Fox to the Metropolitan Museum at £145,275 . |