Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It will have a bridge 5km ( 3.1 miles ) long linking Kawasaki on the Tokyo side to Chiba on the eastern shore . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The agreement on the Dahlak facilities apparently was reached in November 1980 during a visit to Moscow by the Ethiopian leader , Mengistu Haile Mariam . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In May 1982 the Watford factory was closed and the operation transferred to Rugby with the inevitable loss of many valuable members of staff . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For James and the Nazarean Party in Jerusalem , what matters is Jesus 's teaching and his claim to Messiahship in the established context of the time — as rightful king and liberator . |
| 15 | Chapman had first appreciated the crowd-pulling potential of a station practically on Arsenal 's doorstep , giving the club a quick connection with most parts of the capital , when he came to Highbury as the visiting manager of Leeds City in 1913 , and it now fired his imagination . |
| 16 | A special award went to Stewart at the annual pop ceremony for a lifetime 's achievement , while Hucknall took best British male artist and best British group trophies . |
| 17 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 18 | Thus re-established Gehlen returned to Germany on the winning side to head up the CIA 's new Cold War against Russia . |
| 19 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 20 | Britain protested to Romania over the violent crackdown on dissent and urged Romanian state employees to overthrow the Communist government for their own safety . |
| 21 | Certainly it has exhausted the works explicitly credited to Carver in the great Scone Choirbook , and I suppose that is why Dr Elliott remarks , in connection with Pater Creator Omnium , that any music which ‘ may have intervened between the Mass Fera Pessima … and this work is sadly lost ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I remember coming up to Middlesbrough for the final game with Oxford , which Boro won 4–0 , ’ he recalled . |
| 23 | As for his Holiness himself , he was treated to a ride from Gatwick to Victoria behind the Royal loco No 73142 Broadlands bearing the special Southern headcode ‘ HF ’ ( Holy Father ) . |
| 24 | He was not allowed to go to Brussels for the European premiere of his play The Crucible . |
| 25 | The , in the last few months alone , we 've also had visits to Brussels by the General Secretary , the Deputy General Secretary , a number of Regional Secretaries , political officers , training officers and others . |
| 26 | The resumption of relations , suspended by Indonesia in 1967 [ see below for background ] , was planned to coincide with a visit to Indonesia by the Chinese Premier , Li Peng . |
| 27 | The major foreign policy event during 1990 was the restoration in August of diplomatic relations with China , during a visit to Indonesia by the Chinese Premier Li Peng . |
| 28 | He had left his hometown of Kiel in northern Germany and covered the distance to Wissembourg on the Franco-German border in the space of ten days but he was still uncertain where he was ultimately headed . |
| 29 | When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well . |
| 30 | Or there is Nikias who ( iii.91 ) sails from Melos to Oropos on the Boiotian border , thence to Boiotian Tanagra , to meet Hipponikos coming from Athens . |