Example sentences of "of [noun prp] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters formal : pleas for forgiveness/mercy requests for planning permission requests that the selfish giant let people play in his garden from the Mayor of Hamelin to the Pied Piper petitions ( for the release of the children of Hamelin ) . |
| 2 | Approached from the sea the effect was magnificent as the buildings extended from the lower Sanctuary of Asklepios to the middle city with its gymnasia , its agora and sacred precinct to the upper acropolis city with its important temples , steeply sloping theatre cut into the hillside and famous Altar of Zeus . |
| 3 | Other buttresses to Bismarck 's system were an alliance between Austria-Hungary and Serbia , which virtually made the smaller country a Habsburg satellite during the reign of King Milan , and the accession of Rumania to the Triple Alliance , which guaranteed that country against Russian attack . |
| 4 | On a clear summer 's day there is no finer sea passage than the one along the eastern edge of the Minch , taking in all the sheer rugged beauty of the western highlands , then into the narrows of Raasay and Khylrea , the Sound of Sleat , on past the magical islands of Skye , Eigg Rhum and finally through the lovely Sound of Mull to the safe harbour of Oban . |
| 5 | Not only am I aware of that dependence ; I am aware of the debt that we owe the area and of the real contribution made by the people of Plymouth to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marine Commandos , among other units involved . |
| 6 | Reports in late January spoke of a stalemate in the autonomy talks and of the effectiveness of the government 's economic blockade of Kurdistan [ see pp. 38458 ; 38598 ] which was enforced by a heavily fortified military line across north-eastern Iraq , running from Qasr-e-Shirin on the Iranian border east of Kirkuk and south of Arbil to the Turkish border west of Zhako . |
| 7 | Tiny hummingbirds fly down from New England into Louisiana and then take off on a non-stop sea-crossing of five hundred miles across the Bay of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula and the warm jungles of Central and South America . |
| 8 | In a speech at the end of February to the Royal Society of Arts , Renton suggested that the role of the central Arts Council should be reviewed when the delegation of powers to the Regional Arts Boards ( RABs ) is complete . |
| 9 | Fifteen miles away from Menzion you can join the Southern Upland Way , which runs for 212 miles from the south-west coast of Scotland to the eastern seaboard . |
| 10 | In Barra and adjacent islands , machair is widespread but occurs as discrete bayhead units , although Eoligarry machair is a distinctive peninsula joining the northern part of Barra to the central massif . |
| 11 | The only way catholic nationalists can fulfil their present aspirations as a people is by extending the Republic of Ireland to the entire island . |
| 12 | Rent arrears from the beginning of December to the present time at £800 a month would be paid , said Mr Finnegan . |
| 13 | It was not clear whether he would retain his Cabinet post of Minister-Delegate to the Co-ordinating Committee of the Front . |
| 14 | Since methylation of Dcm seems to proceed through binding of SAM to the active site ( see above ) it seemed plausible that this reaction may be stimulated by the presence of DNA . |
| 15 | Mark 's promise that the Holy Spirit will look after their words when arraigned before councils for the sake of the gospel is brought into the Mission Charge by Matthew : it seems clear that he is looking forward from an isolated incident in the ministry of Jesus to the continuing mission of the post-resurrection church of which he was a member . |
| 16 | The addition of Murav'ev to the Secret Committee , which took place on the recommendation of Orlov immediately after his appointment as minister , was probably the low point of the emancipation story . |
| 17 | From Kissingen he ordered the head of the Secret Committee to abandon his delaying tactics , and almost immediately after his return to St Petersburg , in July 1857 , he offset the appointment of Murav'ev to the Secret Committee by adding his brother , the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich . |
| 18 | Indeed Acheson spoke of his increasing fears of China to the British ambassador , Sir Oliver Franks , as soon as 17 December 1949 . |
| 19 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 20 | From the lush , sandy shores of the island of Penang to the great capital of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia is a land of vast contrasts , Moorish cities , jungles , plantations and hill villages . |
| 21 | One of the reasons is almost certainly the very high cost of UDCs to the public purse . |
| 22 | Will the United Kingdom advocate the early admission of Cyprus to the European Community ? |
| 23 | The terrain is very varied from the great expanse of Dartmoor to the gentler stretch of Exmoor . |
| 24 | The re-election of Milosevic to the Serbian presidency disappointed Western hopes for the election of a leader more disposed to compromise over Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 25 | The attitude of Iran to the Soviet plan was crucial . |
| 26 | Listen to the words of Abraham to the rich man who died ‘ between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you can not ; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence . ’ |
| 27 | His party of three ships had travelled from Lisbon out to Malacca with Albuquerque , thence down the Strait and past the immense island of Borneo to the confused archipelago where all spices known to man grew in wild profusion . |
| 28 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |
| 29 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |
| 30 | The house was pink like her mother 's dress , and sat high on Beverly Hills with a view out over the whole sprawl of Kingston to the hazy bay beyond . |