Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON AIR : John Leslie gives a few TV tips to Colin at the Blue Peter Studio . |
| 2 | Boro could entertain Barnsley on Monday , April 12 , after a visit to Tranmere on the previous Friday night . |
| 3 | BRITAIN has launched a significant lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill , including letters to Congressmen from the British ambassador , Sir Antony Acland , in an effort to prevent delays in the US Trident D-5 nuclear missile programme . |
| 4 | By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification , the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe 's nations , showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe . |
| 5 | Thus an English ambassador going to Stockholm in the mid-seventeenth century took with him a great quantity of household goods and even food " hard to be met with in Sweden " , as well as enough horses to fill a ship hired specially to carry them . |
| 6 | The two main threats to Sunderland in the first half came from Brooks and Coleman . |
| 7 | I mean , when we lost to Sunderland in the 73 FA Cup , they 've never let up about it since , but noone mentions MUFC losing to second division Sheff Wednesday in the 1991 League Cup ! |
| 8 | It was the champions ' first defeat since losing to Hull in the First Division at the start of April — a run of 13 successive victories . |
| 9 | It will have a bridge 5km ( 3.1 miles ) long linking Kawasaki on the Tokyo side to Chiba on the eastern shore . |
| 10 | With 125 people on board — students , teachers , education officials — the vessel left Norway for Aberdeen and called at Lerwick before returning to Bergen during the ten-day itinerary . |
| 11 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 12 | A second instrument of control is the direct subordination to Moscow of the Armed forces and security services , making it possible to bypass the national leadership . |
| 13 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 14 | Administration sources made it clear yesterday that Mr Clinton was ready to go to Moscow for the 3-4 April meeting , whose present venue is Vancouver . |
| 15 | Less than a mile away , locked in all-day talks with Mr Major , Mr Yeltsin was promised an official trip to Moscow by the Prime Minister after his plea for a royal visit was turned down . |
| 16 | Against this background the Soviet leader Gorbachev chose a visit to Moscow by the Algerian President to seize the diplomatic initiative by calling for superpower talks on the nuclear and naval demilitarisation of the Mediterranean Sea , for the transformation of this region in a military sense into a neutral zone for the naval forces of external powers . |
| 17 | Itzhak Moda'i , the Finance Minister , and Yuval Ne'eman , Minister of Science and Energy , had been invited to Moscow by the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and Industry , and discussions during their visit centred on economic and scientific co-operation . |
| 18 | The agreement on the Dahlak facilities apparently was reached in November 1980 during a visit to Moscow by the Ethiopian leader , Mengistu Haile Mariam . |
| 19 | The Director of the State Historical Library plans to invite German specialists to Moscow in the near future to help sort out the holdings and to decide the fate of the books . |
| 20 | With the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact , the Soviet invasion of Poland , and the unthinking acquiescence of the PCF leadership to Moscow throughout the entire series of events , Good and Evil suddenly became ill-defined concepts . |
| 21 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 22 | A big Public NME -type congratulations to BEN of the SENSELESS THINGS who found an equally senseless thing to marry him on August 14 . |
| 23 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 24 | YANKEE DELTA on the apron of the airport where she was made , Tarbes , close to Lourdes in the French Pyrenees . |
| 25 | The Hungarian government has issued a protest to Czechoslovakia over the continued construction work on the Gabcikovo Dam on the Danube — a focus of growing tension between the two countries [ see ED 57 ; passim ] . |
| 26 | We are introduced to Imamu in the first sentence of ‘ The Disappearance ’ seeing as he is one of the main characters of the book , but although Boo Radley plays a large part in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , I would n't consider him to be one of the main characters and it is not until we are well into chapter one that Boo is first mentioned . |
| 27 | Their daughter Mary was born at Linlithgow , of which her father was also fond and to which he fled after defeat by the English at Solway Moss , before going on to Falkland in the wooded heartland of Fife . |
| 28 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
| 29 | In May 1982 the Watford factory was closed and the operation transferred to Rugby with the inevitable loss of many valuable members of staff . |
| 30 | I travelled down to Gateshead for the big meeting there , Great Britain versus the Commonwealth , and was witness to one of the most amazing come-backs in British sprinting history made by , who else , that old war-horse Allan Wells . |