Example sentences of "to [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Joffre , planning to extend his left flank , prior to enveloping the German right , appealed to King Albert of the Belgians to abandon the North Sea coast and thrust inland with the Belgian Army to join his swinging manoeuvre . |
| 2 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 3 | One effect , according to Guillermo Martinez of the teachers ' union ANDEN , was to overburden classes , |
| 4 | Grace Carter , who spends hours each day talking to truck drivers over the airwaves , says the Chesnut Street car park should have proper facilities . |
| 5 | In order discover more about bifurcations in the system , it is necessary to resort to computer simulation of the equations . |
| 6 | Some hotel and restaurant groups have their own systems trainers , who will receive instruction from the supplier and then ‘ cascade ’ what they have learned to operations staff at the units . |
| 7 | All At Sea has run well against the best when things were against her as well — second to User Friendly in the Oaks , second to Ruby Tiger at Goodwood and second to Rodrigo De Triano at York . |
| 8 | As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood-sport — ‘ We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first-rate sport ’ — the ‘ anti-garotte ’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti-robbery device . |
| 9 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 10 | Partly because of Treasury pressure to limit the overall cost of the scheme and partly due to ageist assumptions concerning the needs of older people , the National Insurance pension was set at a level of bare subsistence rather than adequate maintenance . |
| 11 | This interesting idea , which is being tried out in one or two districts at present , should be subject to research evaluation of the costs and benefits as no reliable data exist at present . |
| 12 | As most of Paterson 's book deals with the histories of Ayrshire 's leading families , his comment on the shoot may have been coloured by a desire to please the gentry involved in the Society , as by 1870 interest had declined to rock bottom with no entries for the papingo shoot . |
| 13 | ‘ It will allow us to undertake a range of improvements from cleaning and painting inside the tunnel to maintenance work at the barriers , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ It will allow us to undertake a range of improvements from cleaning and painting inside the tunnel to maintenance work at the barriers . ’ |
| 15 | Acid House comes a close second to football fans in the tabloids ' top ten of moral panics . |
| 16 | Michael has already spent considerable time in Barcelona , but despite those commitments the all important cross country course at Bramham Park is well on the way to completion thanks to the endeavours of George Podmore and his team . |
| 17 | Top On the workbench ( from left ) ; tuning pegs , a plane , a reamer to taper holes for the pegs , beeswax to lubricate and polish the wood , lute bridges , lute-bridge templates , a saw and a chisel |
| 18 | Good walking to Odysseus birthplace on the hills above . |
| 19 | In the following Experiment 2.3 various colours were used to test how far the eye can be relied on to judge backgrounds in the circumstances under which the eventual instrument would be used . |
| 20 | Ogre bands are attracted to Orc armies by the prospects of loot . |
| 21 | That being the case the entire property would be chargeable to inheritance tax at the rates , subject to regulations , prevailing at death . |
| 22 | ( Television was introduced to South Africa during the years of isolation . ) |
| 23 | A similar paragraph was contained in the subsequent year 's report , but otherwise no information was given to council members about the deals . |
| 24 | Those of us who remember the horrid cruelties applied to Frank Williams in the days when he was generally considered ‘ Wanker Williams ’ , an outsider with no chance to make good , can remember how it felt for Emerson to climb down off his mountain and to try to make good in a changing and by then wholly different world . |
| 25 | Both changes parallel changes made to companies legislation by the Companies Act 1989 . |
| 26 | 1947 South Africa refuses to hand over mandate for Namibia to UN trusteeship on the grounds that it does not recognize UN as successor to League of Nations [ see p. 8834 ] . |
| 27 | The Macclesfield Canal , which was built to serve the growing textile and other industries of Macclesfield and Congleton , was one of the final attempts to hold at bay the growing threat to canal transport from the railways . |
| 28 | I have some doubt whether these contentions were open to Mr. Steed on the pleadings . |
| 29 | Whilst they were waiting to see the magistrate , Richard Baxter spoke kindly to Mr. Keting regarding the needs of his soul , which , ‘ his conscience did not well digest ’ . |
| 30 | Gary also managed a goal for us , which brought him , as well as Palace fans , great delight for it was against his former club , Chelsea , upon his return to Stamford Bridge with the Eagles in November 1982 ( 2–2 ) , and as his career with us drew towards its close , he also performed capably in the centre of our defence . |