Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] [art] [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 was Francis who gave Cantona his foothold in English football by bringing him to Sheffield for a one-week trial last January . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The two main threats to Sunderland in the first half came from Brooks and Coleman . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll drive you there — you got ta be there , they want you — ; we 'll take you to Hull in a chauffeured car . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It will have a bridge 5km ( 3.1 miles ) long linking Kawasaki on the Tokyo side to Chiba on the eastern shore . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The agreement on the Dahlak facilities apparently was reached in November 1980 during a visit to Moscow by the Ethiopian leader , Mengistu Haile Mariam . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There was thus some political pressure from Conservative Ministers to ensure that Boards allocated overheads to their contracting activities properly and secured an economic profit , but the contractors ' association director was so politically inept in following this up that Citrine had no difficulty in exposing him to Whitehall as a biased anti-nationaliser who was unwilling to accept a reasonable accommodation . |
| 20 | Dana had travelled from Berlin to Salamanca on an old motor bike that was to play a large part in our lives both in Spain and in England . |
| 21 | Though watched by Louis , Gomez held out his hand to Trent in an unspoken plea for absolution . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In May 1982 the Watford factory was closed and the operation transferred to Rugby with the inevitable loss of many valuable members of staff . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Shipments for the three months to March on the same basis rose 7% to $1,872m , up 33.9% on the March 1992 figure . |
| 29 | Nearly all the records are for the period December to March with a distinct peak in February , but there have been two April records since 1947 , one for May ( 2nd , 1956 , Rye ) , one for October ( 16th , 1969 , Pevensey ) , and one for 13 November 1971 in the Adur Levels ; there are also two old records for November . |
| 30 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |