Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr W. F. G. Plowden has agreed in principle to the Society having the Bishop 's Castle Railway goods van , at present used as a shed at Eaton Station House — but the Society will have to provide a shed in lieu . |
| 2 | Like the overnight success of a movie star , health care reform in the United States has leapt from oblivion to notoriety . |
| 3 | The British sculptor Barry Flanagan has progressed from bronze to stone and marble in the course of a career marked by the influence of Minimalism and Arte Povera . |
| 4 | A company spokesman said last night that Salomon had acted in response to payments being made by other institutions . |
| 5 | In a statement issued on Nov. 10 Worner had said in reference to the opening of borders between East and West Germany ( see p. 37024 ) that " … we see this as part of an inevitable process ' . |
| 6 | Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s . |
| 7 | What we see is a little temple-state , the economic and social structures of which had been shattered by the recent wars between Antiochus III and Ptolemy V. Palestine had passed from Egyptian to Syrian control . |
| 8 | James Hamilton had passed from aggressiveness to fuddled good nature , calling everyone his best friend , pressing more drinks upon them . |
| 9 | The night before , and through the morning into the afternoon , the Wolverines had rampaged from level to level , always moving as quickly and confusingly as they could . |
| 10 | Two points off a relegation place and with no money to spend , they 're on Skid Row and Kendall has gone from prince to pauper . |
| 11 | Jay stood frozen from head to toe and watched the car accelerate down the road . |
| 12 | Since then his career in the West has gone from strength to strength . ’ |
| 13 | His party is the only one in Europe to have switched from communism to nationalism via socialism and to have stayed in power . |
| 14 | By that time the Fascist party in Italy had increased in strength to 300,000 members . |
| 15 | It transpired this was his permanent secretary , Sir Bruce Fraser , one of the greatest Treasury mandarins of the day Vivian had acted without reference to his secretary of state , the Head of the Home Civil service , or the Prime Minister . |
| 16 | Squash at Harlow Sportcentre has moved from strength to strength , starting with just two courts when the centre first opened . |
| 17 | In The Maldive Mystery Thor Heyerdahl has written in relation to the Indus Valley kingdoms of north-west India : |
| 18 | Mr Rice , a surgeon , stated that PC Charlton had died from pressure to the brain caused by a fracture of the skull , this in turn being consistent with the young constable 's head hitting the kerb during the affray . |
| 19 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
| 20 | Gossip has it that NT has slipped from summer to winter 1992 and now again to sometime in the first half of 1993 . |
| 21 | Then she dried her tears and read aloud the epigraph Orwell had chosen for Homage to Catalonia to make sure her voice would not betray her . |
| 22 | Hitler had stood for resistance to a cancer spreading across Europe . |
| 23 | Mr Gould had urged a referendum on the Maastricht treaty and Mr Blunkett had called for sterling to be revalued in the ERM . |