Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 2 | Alfie has now changed from his local Lloyds in Cardiff to nearby Barclays . |
| 3 | Mathisen ( 1984 ) documented secondary porosity enhancement of 40% in Plio-Pleistocene volcaniclastic sandstones from Indonesia in addition to alteration of many of the original grains and cements ( e.g. feldspars , volcanic fragments , zeolites ) ; this has occurred in burial depths of only 400–900 m . |
| 4 | He suggested that Aeneas left Dido in obedience to his fate but he was not thereby relieved of feelings of shame or unhappiness — he felt " a worm " . |
| 5 | At the presentation by HRH The Duke of Gloucester GCVO in addition to the Ian Allan Railway Heritage Awards and those made by the Railway Heritage Trust Westinghouse Signal Limited and others , the Association of Railway Preservation Societies Limited ( ARPS ) made its own presentation of the Peter Mainsty Award for Excellence to British Rail for their imaginative restructuring , refurbishment and revival of Liverpool Street Station . |
| 6 | Published by the Countryside Commission , the guide details services along the entire trail running from Overton Hill in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire . |
| 7 | You could make no better start than the Ridgeway national trail , running from Overton Hill in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire . |
| 8 | ‘ The topographers you mention as identifying the scene are guessers and are wrong ’ , wrote Hardy in reply to an enquiry about ‘ Little Hintock ’ in The Woodlanders . |
| 9 | Small in comparison to major fairs such as Basel , it is however the leading Asian fair and this year included ninety-one galleries of which fifty-nine were from outside Japan ( nine less foreign galleries than in 1992 ) . |
| 10 | Manners replied that he had three reasons for appointing Scott in preference to the other two prize-winners . |
| 11 | This permissive attitude is generally acceptable to States in relation to business transactions , but is likely to meet strong objection if applied to consumer transactions . |
| 12 | Nothing could impress the Jews of Egypt more favourably than a letter by Judas Maccabaeus in person to the very respected Jewish-Egyptian writer Aristobulus , who will recur in our story . |
| 13 | This immense stretch of Europe , extending over 1200 miles along the North Sea and Baltic coasts from Bruges in Belgium to Novgorod in the Soviet Union , displays a close unity of architectural style . |
| 14 | During the Qasem regime in 1961 Iraq had laid claim to Kuwait in succession to Ottoman Turkey . |
| 15 | All of the sites have FDC in addition to their various ledger packages , but there is no local software link between the two . |
| 16 | It is worthwhile noting that Liverpool have spent a colossal amount rebuilding Anfield in addition to their outlay on linguistically-challenged scandinavian defenders . |
| 17 | The ferry , en route from Oslo in Norway to Frederikshavn in Denmark , was sailing under a Bahamian flag of convenience , and survivors contended that the death toll was aggravated by the crew 's unfamiliarity with safety procedures , the large majority being Filipino and Portuguese and also new to the ship . |
| 18 | A Cabinet reshuffle on March 9 , 1990 , involved the appointment of Wilson Ndolo Ayah in succession to Robert J. Ouko , who had been murdered in mid-February [ see pp. 37309 , 37239 ] . |
| 19 | Skogström invited Yachting World on a whirlwind trip round this new cruising ground , starting with a baptism of fire : a motor boat journey from Kotka in Finland to Vyborg in Russia . |
| 20 | Up and down the country , sixteen booksellers from John Waghorn in Durham to Benjamin Smythurst in Plymouth , from William Eaton in Yarmouth to Samuel Lobb in Bath , were interested and Thomas Howard in York invested in three copies . |
| 21 | It is in the middle-class home that a sense of genuine community is created — by the Hales in relation to Dixon in North and South , by Esther with Charlie in Bleak House , or Maggie and the Jakins in The Mill on the Floss . |
| 22 | Mrs Nicholson meanwhile was doing rather well in her beautician business and when Jack was five they moved from the less-salubrious surroundings of Sixth Avenue in Neptune to Fifth Avenue in Neptune City which was , as Jack recognized years later , a slightly better position for a young boy . |
| 23 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 24 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 25 | They made a dazzling bouquet , not without charm , but the bunch which was presented each May Day by Mrs Curdle in person to the doctor was of such gargantuan proportions that Mrs Bailey was hard put to it to find a suitable place for it . |
| 26 | Deng had launched his current campaign in January in response to attacks on his reformist allies within the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) by hardliners , particularly from within the central advisory commission ( CAC ) , the so-called " council of elders " headed by arch-conservative Chen Yun . |
| 27 | This is by no means the case for North Shields and the rest of North Tyneside in relation to the Tyne and Wear Structure Plan . |
| 28 | Banking stoppages begun in February resulted in agreement on April 4 on a 5.4 per cent pay increase , backdated to Feb. 1 and applicable for 13 months , plus a one-off payment of DM |
| 29 | Alcatel Cable SA reports that a consortium led by its Alcatel Submarcom venture , in which AT&T Co and Pirelli SpA are the other members , has signed a $53m contract to install a submarine cable between Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay : the team will run 1,071 miles of optical fibre cable in two pairs from Florianpolis in Brazil to Las Tolinas in Argentina and Maldonado in Uruguay to create the Unisur system , which will have capacity of 560Mbps and will link South America to the global optical fibre network via the existing Americas I and Colombus II systems ; the new system is due to be completed next year . |
| 30 | Moreover , the use of Tradeco in relation to the property transactions would afford a degree of personal protection to the members of the church council as regards limited liability , which is an important factor in the context of land transactions . |