Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British also had financial interests , were the principal users of the canal , and remembered Napoleon 's threat to India . |
| 2 | They had finished in 1815 , with Napoleon 's banishment to St Helena . |
| 3 | HISTORY tells us that a large part of Napoleon 's attraction to Josephine pertained to smell . |
| 4 | But over the past year the Conservative Association 's contrubtion to party coffers was precisely nothing . |
| 5 | But over the past year the Conservative Association 's contrubtion to party coffers was precisely nothing . |
| 6 | It is a daunting task to compile an adequate list , but it has been successfully attempted in such publications as Crane and Kaye 's Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals , 1620–1800 ( 1927 ) , and the Library Association 's Subject-Index to Periodicals . |
| 7 | Very often , a horse 's resistance to infection can be weakened by the constant pressure exerted during training , competition or hunting . |
| 8 | The larvae then penetrate the intestinal wall , and travel through the horse 's tissues to organs such as the liver and pancreas . |
| 9 | Gibraltar was discussed in talks between the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd and the Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez in London on Feb. 12 , 1991 , and again during Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez 's visit to London in May 1991 [ see p. 38201 ] . |
| 10 | Also dealing with the early nineteenth century , British Journey : Karl Friedrich Schinkel edited by David Bindman and Gottfried Riemann , studies the great German architect/designer 's visit to England and Scotland in 1826 as recorded in his important journal . |
| 11 | However , the extent to which products like PageMaker , Ventura , Harvard Professional Publisher or Ready , Set , Go will impact on a dealership 's day to day customers is not at all clear . |
| 12 | The report referred to " the failure , negligence , complacency and indifference noted on all levels of the services that had planned the visit [ Boudiaf 's visit to Annaba ] , organized its schedule and guaranteed the security of the President " . |
| 13 | He was tolerant of his brother Neil 's attempts to piggyback his way into the movies on the Connery name , and understanding of his mother 's very Scottish shame at his success ; she took to booking even her hair appointments in her maiden name . |
| 14 | French President François Mitterrand 's visit to Israel and Jordan in late November demonstrated the French government 's desire to increase its involvement in the peace process . |
| 15 | The assailant 's answer to Jacob 's demand represents the turning point in the contest , and in the story . |
| 16 | The Trust ca n't afford to do that , and tonight meets to discuss the manor 's sale to Paddy McNally , a millionaire friend of the Duchess of York , who already owns property in nearby Sevenhampton . |
| 17 | If Walker also fails to recover in time for Tuesday 's trip to Leeds , Thorstvedt will face the agonising decision of whether to play for club or country . |
| 18 | For Celtic and Macari , a vital game tomorrow in advance of Tuesday 's flight to Lisbon for the second leg UEFA Cup tie . |
| 19 | Easily reached from most parts of the country , short sea crossings to Fleetwood , Stranraer and Cairnryan , coupled with up to 34 ferry arrivals and departures daily illustrate the Port of Larne 's importance to Industry and Commerce . |
| 20 | The story of Alice Walker 's rise to bestsellerdom emphasizes how the literary star system selects and tokenizes particular works while ignoring others . |
| 21 | With BBC TV and BSkyB joining forces to rival ITV 's £20 million a year bid for Premier League games , and another mysterious , well-funded satellite company lurking in the background , English football 's value to TV is now ‘ beyond the wildest dreams of any club chairman in the land , ’ says Jim Cadman . |
| 22 | Baxter and Kinnell were football 's answer to Jake and Elwood . |
| 23 | Troubled by a broken marriage , bankruptcy , a drink problem and inflamed by a wild and uncontrollable temper , he was football 's answer to Benny Lynch , a genius in search of tragedy . |
| 24 | Adams 's response to Chodorow 's ego psychology provides a Lacanian account of ‘ the constitution of a split subject through the play of presence and absence ’ ( 1983 : 47 ) . |
| 25 | Arafat 's address to UN Security Council in Geneva |
| 26 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 27 | Arafat 's visit to Syria and Jordan |
| 28 | Arafat 's speech to UN Human Rights Commission |
| 29 | Firth 's contribution to linguistics was very great ; it is an irony of history that his death in 1960 occurred on the eve of an unprecedented expansion in linguistic studies at British universities . |
| 30 | Whether Ceauşescu 's leaks to Brezhnev about Nixon and Kissinger 's assignations with Mao and Zhou Enlai helped US-Soviet relations is less obvious . |