Example sentences of "[noun prp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute bankers were being changed from Lloyds to the Royal Bank of Scotland in order to obtain better interest rate bands on cash deposited . |
| 2 | It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards . |
| 3 | That the particular day of the sighting was never regarded as special , and is almost brushed aside , suggests that it was a Tuesday — and the nearest Tuesday to the reported date is the 27th . |
| 4 | The attraction of Indonesia to the Taiwanese lay in its cheap labour , plentiful land for development , and the easy availability of raw materials . |
| 5 | Somare , however , maintained his strong anti-separatist position on Irian Jaya by threatening to hand over any guerrillas found in PNG to the Indonesian authorities [ see also p. 37577 ] . |
| 6 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 7 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 8 | Fate weaves its heady patterns all around ; good luck attends you , nobody fools you : Hugo does not repair with Eleanor to the back room of the pub . |
| 9 | These are made , with a little supervision , by the brownies to coincide with the flower festival at St Peter 's Church in Greenhill on the nearest Saturday to the patronal feast . |
| 10 | President , I I happen to be going on Saturday to the National Final of the Rotary Young Inventor of the Years ' er convention this |
| 11 | Erm , and a we had a thing from Denman , for next erm June , the the thirteenth which is a Saturday to the seventeenth which is a Wednesday from ten till six P M. |
| 12 | And Cardinal Daly asked : ‘ How can they relate what happened on Saturday to the fine words they wrote in August ? ’ |
| 13 | Modified Karplus curve relating the coupling constant J ( Hz ) for H3'-P to the dihedral angle ε ( C4'-C3'-O3'-P ) in degrees . |
| 14 | But there was nothing conservative about the way in which Louis and his successor exploited the bishop of Clermont 's complaints against the count of the Auvergne to secure a foothold in the county ; it was their preparatory work that made possible Philip Augustus ' annexation of the Auvergne to the royal demesne . |
| 15 | Moscow has attempted , rather unsuccessfully , to shift the attention of the Third World from Soviet forces in Afghanistan to the alleged use of Pakistani territory for military purposes by the United States and China . |
| 16 | Then at closing time , he would climb Brownlow Hill to the Commercial Hotel , arm in arm with Bunny , thinking of her , of how special she was , pondering on her remarkable reticence . |
| 17 | A ‘ substantial ’ three-year grant has been given by the DoH to the National Association for the Protection from Sexual Abuse of Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities . |
| 18 | ’ Greetings from Del Curb to the Grand Emissary Lord y'Fipre … y'Fip … to the Grand Emissary . |
| 19 | British and Harrods to the last . |
| 20 | The applicants in the main proceedings also claimed that the nationality requirement amounted to a serious infringement of the rights of ‘ joint venture ’ boats under article 168(4) in conjunction with Annex XII to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities 1985 ( ‘ the Act of Accession 1985 ’ ) ( Official Journal 1985 No . |
| 21 | Between 1950 and 1970 some six million people moved from the central provinces and the frontier region with Portugal to the four major areas of industrial development in Spain . |
| 22 | Don Ewing , director of operations for Arrow , has acknowledged that the company carried arms from Portugal to the Nicaraguan rebels on at least two occasions in 1984 . |
| 23 | Barrow has had to add Spencer Whelan , Craig Goodwin and Mark Limbert to the remaining fit 11 from the Brighton game , and could play himself against Rotherham . |
| 24 | Painters have responded enthusiastically , from the meticulous realism of Frith 's panoramic Paddington to the delicate impressionism of Monet 's Gare Saint-Lazare , from the distorted heat-haze imagery of Dali 's Perpignan Station to the lonely , austere beauty of Vlaminck 's station in the snow . |
| 25 | The journey from New Mexico to the eastern seaboard took around 4,000 years ; its acceptance as a staple , almost a thousand years longer . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Bede , however , says that Wulfhere 's attack on Wight and the gift of the island to Aethelwealh occurred ‘ not long before ’ the mission of Wilfrid to the southern Saxons in the mid-680s ( HE IV , 13 ) , which suggests that Wulfhere 's actions should be placed later in the reign than 661 . |
| 28 | Local Management of Schools transfers powers over personnel and staffing matters from LEAs to the governing bodies of schools which have delegated budgets . |
| 29 | Only the Maronites felt able to drink from the cup of French tutelage and even they quickly found that the chalice contained a special , colonial poison , the effects of which would be passed on to future generations ; for by adding such large areas of Muslim Syria to the new ‘ Lebanon ’ , the French ensured that the Christians ' precarious status as the largest religious community would — once the Muslim birthrate increased — be lost . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's gone wrong ? ’ he said , looking from Lucy to the rising commotion that was beginning to emerge from the restaurant behind her . |