Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 2 | IF THE TRAUMA and problems involving the Great Warbirds Air Display ( GWAD ) from its established site at West Malling in Kent to Wroughton in Wiltshire were not enough , Elly Sallingboe , her airshow team and all the pilots involved in the show had to contend with low cloud , torrential rain and wind that gusted up to 65 knots on the first day of the show . |
| 3 | The ULS measured the financial support given by MAFF to individual farms in its 12 study areas against the degree of natural handicap established by their own Hills and Uplands land classification . |
| 4 | The political and military support given by Egypt to the United States-led coalition in the Gulf war was regarded as an important factor in the Paris Club debt relief , which supplemented write-offs of Egyptian debt by the United States and the Gulf Co-operation Council countries in October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] . |
| 5 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 6 | but it skims across the surface of the water and it 's very quick , it only takes half an hour to go from Ramsgate to Dover . |
| 7 | The charges stem from P&G 's David-and-Goliath dispute over TV adverts placed by Neighbor to Neighbor , a grassroots pressure group campaigning for a boycott of coffee from El Salvador . |
| 8 | ‘ When ICL moved from Stoke to West Gorton in Manchester , I became a commuter and I did n't like it , ’ he says . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's time we left for the NEC , ’ Myra said , her eyes darting from Claudia to Roman and back again . |
| 10 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 11 | Michel Garretta , director of the National Blood Transfusion Centre , and his chief assistant , Jean-Pierre Allain , were each sentenced on Oct. 23 to four years in prison for knowingly distributing blood contaminated with HIV to haemophiliacs [ see p. 38978 ] . |
| 12 | Candidates tend in Ireland to be voted for by electors who know them , and they must be selected with this in mind . |
| 13 | The Dunfords moved from Petersfield to Alton in 1940 . |
| 14 | Although the butler 's face registered nothing , his eyes flickered from Lee to Katherine and back to Lee . |
| 15 | In a similar way , a Roman soldier writing from Palestine to his parents in about 4 BC might well have written : ‘ This is an out-of-the-way dump . |
| 16 | I represent approximately 288 members of EESA within branches ranging from Carlisle to Blackpool . |
| 17 | The world has become so inter-dependent that we now see IBM Japan exporting American computers built in Japan to the EC . |
| 18 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 19 | Doreen became agitated , her voice rising to a higher pitch as her eyes darted from Silas to Lucy . |
| 20 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |
| 21 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 22 | Barak 's eyes shifted from Laidlaw to Graham . |
| 23 | The company says the stuff automates moving from Macs to PCs to Suns despite the fact they all use different character sets to create their on-screen texts . |
| 24 | What nonsense is this about a double bed ? ’ he demanded , his eyes switching from Doreen to Lucy . |
| 25 | Rodriguez hesitated , his eyes shifting from Ward to the silent faces of the other diners , all watching us . |
| 26 | Britain 's trade gap narrowed in February to seven hundred and fifty million pounds from eight hundred and fifty-eight million , but the figures are worse than expected by City analysts . |
| 27 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 28 | Forty vintage aircraft flying from London to Australia ! |
| 29 | Ly Tong , a former South Vietnamese air force pilot who had lived in the USA since the end of the Vietnam War , hijacked an aircraft flying from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City on Sept. 4 . |
| 30 | At present , a multinational company can not run just one fund for all its staff ; an employee moving from Britain to Spain has to join a different fund . |