Example sentences of "to [noun prp] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The agreement on the Dahlak facilities apparently was reached in November 1980 during a visit to Moscow by the Ethiopian leader , Mengistu Haile Mariam . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two ETA members arrested in Anglet ( France ) in January 1990 [ following the discovery of an arsenal there — see p. 37588 ] , Carmelo García Merchán and Manuel Murua Alberdi , were on Sept. 8 flown to Spain by the French authorities to face a number of charges , including six assassinations committed since 1982 . |
| 9 | A previously planned visit to Spain by the Moroccan king had been cancelled after Spain voted in November 1988 in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution proposing the organization of a referendum [ see p. 36780 ] . |
| 10 | Mark bought an elephant , Tara , for £4000 and embarked on a 600 mile trek with five eccentric Indian companions , from Konarak on the shores of the Bay of Bengal to Sonepur by the mighty River Ganges . |
| 11 | Twenty works leased to Bond by the Australian Guarantee Corporation have been repossessed ; Heavside Clark 's early watercolours of Aboriginal Field Sports , and the group of Conrad Martens watercolours bought from Kerry Packer in 1987 . |
| 12 | The list had been drawn up and presented to Cristiani by the independent Truth Commission , with responsibility under the peace agreement for ascertaining who was responsible for human rights violations during the civil war ( 1980-1991 ) . |
| 13 | A two-day visit to Port-au-Prince by the special mission of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) on Dec. 6-7 had been intended to further negotiations deadlocked the previous month in the Colombian city of Cartagena [ see p. 38569 ] . |
| 14 | Annie McCafferty was a very reliable person who had been recommended to Carrie by the local midwife . |
| 15 | An apparent suggestion by Chatichai during a visit to Thailand by the Japanese Director-General of the Defence Agency , Yozo Ishikawa , on May 3 , that Thailand and Japan hold joint naval exercises in the South China Sea caused concern among Thailand 's regional allies in the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 16 | Washington was startled by the 2am White House announcement of the visit to Beijing by the National Security Adviser , Admiral Brent Scowcroft , and the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger . |
| 17 | Certain schools of thought hold , for instance , that the ancient Greek art of ‘ pankration ’ , brought to China by the invading armies of Alexander the Great , along with the martial art of Graeco-Roman wrestling , gave birth to some forms of kung fu . |
| 18 | An agreement to establish relations " as early as possible " had been reached during an Aug. 11-13 visit to Singapore by the Chinese Premier Li Peng [ see p. 37656 ] . |
| 19 | The crew of six survived the impact , five of them escaped to Sweden by the sixth member , Vic Stevens the Flight Engineer , injured his foot and being unable to travel was captured by the Germans . |
| 20 | An agreement , in principle , for a joint French-Soviet mission in 1992 was signed on July 3 during a visit to Paris by the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev [ see p. 36821 ] . |
| 21 | The announcement was preceded on Feb. 6-8 , 1989 , by a state visit to Morocco by the Algerian President , Chadli Bendjedid , when an agreement was signed enabling the transportation of Algerian natural gas to Europe by pipeline through Morocco ( see p. 36507 for September 1988 discussions ) ; 1,500 km of the 2,000-km pipeline would cross Morocco to Tangier , 225 km north-east of Rabat ; in return Morocco would receive subsidized oil and natural gas from Algeria . |
| 22 | The incident in which boxes of fish were smashed and contaminated with diesel yesterday was the second in which fish being exported to Europe by the Ayr-based Scotprime , has been damaged by angry French workers . |
| 23 | They told him it was a welcome to Petrograd by the revolutionary workers and sailors : they had been roaring one word " Lenin " . |
| 24 | At the end of a six-day visit to Iran by the Pakistani Minister of State for Defence , Col. ( retd ) Ghulam Sarwar Cheema , a defence co-operation agreement was signed . |
| 25 | David , son of King Robert I and heir to the throne , had been sent to France by the English King Edward III . |
| 26 | The return trip to Heathrow by the British Airways Super Shuttle opened up another OKI insight . |
| 27 | ‘ The elegance of his surroundings are [ sic ] withering , ’ Vaughan commented in his journal , having been introduced to Lehmann by the Greek scholar Cosmo Rodenwald , with whom he served in the Pioneer Corps . |
| 28 | As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks . |
| 29 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 30 | Kildare , which has been handed over to Paul by the Irish Government for his famous Hole in the Wall Gang charity . |