Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had gone to Moscow in 1943 as correspondent for the Observer and the Yorkshire Post , and from this experience wrote Soviet Ballet ( 1945 ) , which helped to introduce contemporary Russian dancing to the British public . |
| 2 | Creevey was returned to Parliament in 1820 as MP for Appleby , through his friend Brougham 's good offices with Sackville Tufton , ninth Earl of Thanet [ q.v. ] , holding this seat until 1826 . |
| 3 | Eurotunnel 's consultants , SETEC Economique and Wilbur Smith Associates , originally estimated total cross-Channel traffic volumes of 67m passengers and 84m tonnes of freight in 1993 rising to 94m/123m in 2003 and 119m/170m in 2013 . |
| 4 | The family was posted to Sussex in 1847 and Dresser was educated at the Government School of Design at Somerset House in London from 1847 to 1854 . |
| 5 | It should be noted that this test was expressly limited by Megarry V-C to secrets in industrial or trade settings . |
| 6 | ABBEY National is offering to meet up to £250 of legal and mortgage valuation fees for customers who are remortgaging or switching to Abbey National . |
| 7 | The situation is thus similar now to electromagnetism after Oersted and Faraday but before Maxwell ( see Box ) . |
| 8 | Each landsurface catena is composed of landsurface units which are identified and defined according to responses to single or groups of contemporary geomorphic ( in 1968 ) and also to pedologic ( in 1977 ) processes . |
| 9 | In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund . |
| 10 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 11 | Araja took Italian opera to Russia in 1736 and Italians almost completely monopolized the imperial opera for nearly half a century while promising Russian musicians , such as Bortnyansky and Berezovsky , were sent to Italy to be trained — and had their operas produced there . |
| 12 | It remained the main route from the south to Aberdeen until 1800 and Samuel Johnson , Robert Burns and Walter Scott were among the travellers who used the route . |
| 13 | On graduation in 1899 she entered the Imperial Ballet , bypassing the corps de ballet and rising through the ranks to ballerina in 1905 and prima ballerina a year later . |
| 14 | Far more settlements had access to areas of common and waste than is generally acknowledged in books about the English landscape ( Fig. 82 ) . |
| 15 | Beigbeder was elected Chairman in succession to Brooke in 1979 and Thomas Neff , then manager of the New York office , became Chief Executive . |
| 16 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
| 17 | Finally ( aside from numerous fascinating appendices and notes ) we find a postlude discussing the repeated major changes made to education in general and mathematics in particular since 1960 . |
| 18 | The far-infrared and sub-millimetre space telescope ( FIRST ) would extend ISO 's coverage to regions between infrared and radio , while the X-ray multi-mirror would be a very sensitive X-ray telescope . |
| 19 | John Patten seeks return to belief in good and evil |
| 20 | MR JOHN PATTEN , the new Education Secretary , has begun his term in office with a passionate condemnation of the godlessness of society and an appeal for a return to belief in good and evil . |
| 21 | He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1930 and brigadier in 1933 , and he was knighted in 1937 . |
| 22 | The scheme which offers help to people aged 70 and over discharged from the accident and emergency department has been run on short-term funding for over five years . |
| 23 | The frowners fear that the ideal of European union will fade just when it is usefully poised to temper the return of nationalism to Europe in general and Germany in particular . |
| 24 | The contract price quoted was £605 per car , but the South Metropolitan company 's accounts show £551 18/0d. per car , paid to Brush during 1906 and £388 6/0d. paid to B.E.T . |
| 25 | Although in a company official 's words Informix Software Inc has managed to ‘ get away without it ’ so far , the Menlo Park , California-based software house has finally been brought to book by competitive and market pressures . |
| 26 | Specialist roles have also been experimented with , for instance , by Kolvin et al ( 1981 ) who trained and used aides to provide nurturing treatment to pupils with emotional and behaviour difficulties . |
| 27 | The state pension is paid to men aged 65 and women of 60 — Age Concern believes that the law should be changed to make pension age the same for both sexes . |
| 28 | Cattle Identification Documents would have a value as they carried the holder 's potential right to premium payment , which this year will be £56.34 , rising to £70.42 in 1994 and £84.15 the following year . |
| 29 | The changes also applied to elections to municipal and county councils so that the electorate was now composed of all ratepayers , excluding recipients of poor relief . |
| 30 | After making a living in London and Scotland the family moved to Spennymoor in 1905 and Coias have been in the town ever since . |