Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Kew was criticized for its fidelity to bedding-out and Latin plant names .
2 DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue .
3 Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly .
4 The tour is centred around Patterdale Youth Hostel which is ideally located in its proximity to Lake Ullswater where many of the activities take place .
5 It may well be the case that the very concept of adjudication as applied to disputes between private individuals will have to be modified in its application to litigation involving public bodies .
6 In the past the general rules of construction have been modified in their application to exclusion clauses because , in an effort to restrict the use of wide exclusions , the courts have developed particularly strict methods of construing exclusion clauses .
7 Whilst this section is confined in its application to acts expressly authorised to be done on behalf of a firm , the general law of agency will continue to attach liability to the firm for the unauthorised acts of its employees when those acts are within the course of their normal or apparent activities for the firm .
8 No longer breeds Egypt , and now confined in our region to S Iraq .
9 A BOY aged 16 was last night charged with the rape of an 11-year-old girl who was attacked on her way to school .
10 Bishop believed that change was essential and reported on his return to Washington that there was undue complacency in Tokyo ; the vested interests in the occupation bureaucracy believed that American dominance in Japan must be continued for a considerable period and Bishop held that tough action would be required in order to transform attitudes and to terminate the occupation .
11 When I had first heard of my appointment to Stornoway I had been elated at the prospect of leaving a somewhat dull routine existence down south .
12 Lady James is related through her mother to General William Beresford , who briefly captured Buenos Aires in 1806 .
13 After several more paragraphs stating that any Yugoslavs " who can not be disposed of " on these conditions should be retained until arrangements can be made for their evacuation to Italy , an additional " NOTE " refers back to para ( i ) : " There was considerable discussion upon the interpretation of the term " use of force " .
14 Mozart , with plans made for his departure to Paris and his mother 's return to Salzburg , became attached to a young singer , Aloysia Weber , daughter of Fridolin Weber , a violinist , singer and copyist at the Mannheim court .
15 The Tayside participants prepared for their visit to France while the French group were in Scotland and then both groups travelled to La Charente together .
16 They removed files of documents and tape prepared for his defence to charges of burglary .
17 The possibility of an increase in Japanese interest rates was raised , but seemed to be ruled out for the present by the Finance Minister , Ryutaro Hashimoto , in a statement made after his return to Tokyo .
18 It must have been written after his return to England in January 1120 , and probably not long after this date .
19 Three sets of cadenzas survive , the first for the Countess , another for Mozart 's own use ( 22 ) , and a third written after his move to Vienna in the 1780s .
20 A Regency rosewood dining table , once owned by Gladstone and used at Downing Street , presented after his death to Lord Rosebery , sold to Partridge for £38,000 ( $65,777 ) , estimate £6–8,000 .
21 I have recently moved with my work to Edinburgh and would be interested to hear from other Salford graduates of the same era !
22 De Villiers ' hazel eyes shot from her face to fitzAlan at the bright greeting .
23 His view of love has already been revealed in his song to Helen ; and he seems to enjoy match-making Troilus and Cressida for subversive reasons of his own .
24 You will seen in my reply to Mrs Butterworth of Ambleside that I mention the fact that the Catholic Voice is often short of material for publication .
25 The schoolhouses had been left empty in the Revolution , and then ransacked by peasants , as the Bolshevik investigators had noticed on their way to Nikol'skaia .
26 None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school .
27 Piatakov , a Ukrainian , now argued that , following Lenin 's April theses , prepared on his return to Russia , which rejected the existing party policy of supporting the provisional government and set the Party on the road to the seizure of power , socialism was on the immediate agenda , not the establishment of a bourgeois republic .
28 As noted , his prestige had steadily risen since his accession to office .
29 As a lawyer , he was often the last good person that evil-doers met on their way to prison , or worse .
30 The most enthusiastic advocate of ‘ Gregorian ’ liberty during these years was Hugh , bishop of Die and later archbishop of Lyons , whom Anselm first met on his way to Rome in 1097 , and with whom he spent the last eighteen months of his exile from May 1099 to August 1100 .
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