Example sentences of "as a memorial to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Llanarthney , in the delightful Towy Valley , is Paxton 's Tower , an interesting folly owned by the National Trust and built in 1911 by Sir William Paxton as a memorial to Lord Nelson . |
| 2 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 3 | Balaguer , who was blind and reportedly severely incapacitated , was accused of responsibility for an economic crisis , high unemployment and constant power failures , and of channelling available resources into the completion of the huge Colón lighthouse project , a contribution to the 1992 celebrations of 500th anniversary of Columbus 's arrival in the Americas , and also seen as a memorial to Balaguer himself . |
| 4 | The game , which is sure to be a sell-out , has been organised as a memorial to Mervyn Brown , the former Irish League secretary who died last year after a long illness . |
| 5 | The handsome wrought-iron gates of the Palace were erected as a memorial to Edward VII . |
| 6 | Located in the tiny village of Skinningrove , it serves as a memorial to Tom Leonard , whose vast collection of relics form the basis of a series of displays and recreations of the harsh life of the ironstone miners . |
| 7 | Consequently as a memorial to Helen , and in or der to benefit other sick children , the above Trust Fund was set up in 1985 with the object of sending a sick child of any denomination , together with a parent , to Lourdes each year . |