Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Forth studies will include other transport developments proposed last month in the Government 's response to consultation on possible improvements to road , rail , bus , traffic management and public transport west of Edinburgh and between Lothian and Fife . |
| 2 | Awards received by Freeman , Fox & Partners , to which his outstanding designs contributed in no small way , included the Queen 's award to industry in 1967 , and , jointly with Rolls-Royce , the first MacRobert award in 1969 . |
| 3 | At demonstrations , he had seen faces ‘ filled with hatred ’ which reminded him of the months preceding Hitler 's rise to power in 1933 . |
| 4 | DONALD WOODS saw a dream come true with South Africa 's entitlement to re-entry into international cricket , and the experience was enhanced by his journey with the team through the World Cup tournament . |
| 5 | Preconditioning with brief periods of ischaemia has now been shown to increase the heart 's resistance to infarction in numerous species , including rabbit , rat , and pig . |
| 6 | Although the enterprise flourished , Elizabeth Malleson remained convinced that adult education ought not to be organized on a single-sex basis and , after failing to persuade the Men 's College to merge , converted the Women 's College to coeducation in 1874 . |
| 7 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 8 | Preparations started in 1984 to return No 4468 Mallard to full working order for the fiftieth anniversary of its record–breaking run in 1988. 1986 saw the locomotive 's return to steam in original streamlined condition . |
| 9 | Karamanlis , 83 , had presided over Greece 's return to democracy in 1974 , holding office as Prime Minister until 1980 and then serving a term as President from 1980 to 1985 . |
| 10 | Both now faced trial before a civilian court , the first trial for offences committed under the military regime since Chile 's return to democracy in 1990 [ for full background to the Letelier case see pp. 28273-74 ; 34989 ; 36097 ; 37709 ; 37914 ; 38719 ] . |
| 11 | A prominent political figure since Spain 's return to democracy in 1975 , he was Minister of Finance from 1977-79 and Minister of Justice 1980-81 . |
| 12 | Members of this Gaullist elite also played an important role in engineering the General 's return to power in 1958 . |
| 13 | The tension between these two contradictory functions has provided the space within which new signs and new attitudes can break through ; it also , depending on which function is in the ascendant , explains pop culture 's vacillation to date between empty reaction and charged visions of possible futures . |
| 14 | In Earle v Medhurst [ 1985 ] CLY 2650 the plaintiff 's claim to privilege for medical reports he had disclosed in a previous action against a different defendant claiming damages for similar injuries was not upheld . |
| 15 | The Inner House of the Scottish Court of Sessions has held that the Prescription and Limitations ( Scotland ) Act 1973 ( the Act ) did not exclude the Crown 's claim to interest on overdue tax that related to a period more than five years before the Crown had acted to recover the tax and interest thereon ( see Lord Advocate v Butt and others [ 1992 ] STI 169 ) . |
| 16 | Not least was the king 's promotion to colonel of one of the most notoriously renegade local gentry , Thomas Lansford of East Hoathly , who had been fined £9000 and obliged to flee abroad after shooting firstly at the deer and then at the person of Sir Thomas Pelham . |
| 17 | Craig had been monitoring developments within the republican movement since 1966 , when he had obtained intelligence from RUC , Garda Síochána and British sources about the IRA 's turn to agitation on social and economic issues . |
| 18 | The book examines harmonisation of technical standards and the Community 's approach to harmonisation with particular reference not only to existing legislation but also proposed legislation . |
| 19 | The Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari , who as UN special representative had been closely involved with Namibia 's transition to independence in 1990 , was appointed as chair of the session by Boutros-Ghali in place of José Cutilheiro , the European Communities ( EC ) chief negotiator who had resigned in August . |
| 20 | The first cathedral of this name in Novgorod was built in wood soon after Vladimir 's conversion to Christianity in 988 . |
| 21 | We investigated the predictors of 2-year mortality after patients ' admission to hospital for community-acquired pneumonia , and focused on the predictive value of age . |
| 22 | Since the fifties , the law has ratified tenants ' right to freedom from damp , but nearly 40 per cent of the tenants in Shepherd 's Nottingham estate said their health had been impaired by damp . |
| 23 | This time it is a parents ' guide to assessment at Key Stage 3 . |