Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 2 | Orbos , 40 , an unabashed populist , had made a meteoric rise since his election to Congress in 1987 , and was widely credited with having injected new life into the Aquino administration . |
| 3 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 4 | Not until Queen Anne 's reign did Mansel attract much attention , when he took the eye as one of Harley 's henchmen in the Commons , and his appointment to office in 1704 , as comptroller of the household and a privy councillor , was an integral part of the ministerial reconstruction in which Harley 's band of ‘ moderate ’ Tories came to the fore . |
| 5 | While admitting that his testimony to Congress in 1986 had contained inaccuracies , he denied that it had been his intention to mislead the investigation . |