Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powell and Pressburger brought their Archers outfit under the umbrella of Rank 's Independent Producers company where they made all their films from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to The Red Shoes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 've chosen quite a diversity of places , from wild and lonely Wester Ross to the spectacular north Cornish coast . |
| 4 | The Senate judiciary committee voted on Sept. 27 by 13 to one to confirm the nomination of Judge David Souter to the Supreme Court . |
| 5 | In the early hours of 18 July , Franco sent a telegram from Las Palmas to the eight regional headquarters of the army in mainland Spain and to thirty-one other garrisons . |
| 6 | Among the comprehensive selection of mini-suites are ‘ Panama : Cowabunga Noriega With Jimi Hendrix And Bobby Fuller ’ and ‘ Sayonara Strangeways To The Eclectic Sounds Of Richard Wagner and Des O'Connor ’ . |
| 7 | Pinto , who made a winning debut in Carpi , Portugal , in 1991 , and had led his club Benfica to the European Cup , had always been at the front among a big group early on . |
| 8 | Although there were links to other organizations , such as through Arnold Leese to the Britons and Nesta Webster to the extremist Die-hards , the organization 's political roots had greater connections to the mainly middle-class pressure groups which evolved at the end of the war to protect property against the alleged socialist menace , the most important of which were the British Empire Union , the Middle Classes Union and the National Citizens Union . |
| 9 | The visit of President Hosni Mubarak to the Syrian capital , Damascus , for talks with President Hafez al Assad on May 2-3 , was the first by an Egyptian leader for 13 years and marked the full normalization of relations between the two countries , broken off in November 1977 at the start of Egypt 's peace initiative with Israel . |
| 10 | For sheltered rocky coves follow the pine-shaded lane along the river Tina Menor to the horseshoe-shaped beach at Pechón . |
| 11 | Joan returned with the lady Alianor to the latter 's apartments in uncustomary silence . |
| 12 | ’ Greetings from Del Curb to the Grand Emissary Lord y'Fipre … y'Fip … to the Grand Emissary . |
| 13 | The unfortunate result is that farmers , angered by the attitude of the careless few , block footpaths or refuse access to such places as the dry valley of Gordale Beck to the many considerate walkers who respect not only the countryside but also the problems of the working community who for centuries have fought to make a living from the land . |
| 14 | The charm of Achiltibuie lies in the seaward prospect to a group of islands , the Summer Isles , and especially across the wide breadth of Loch Broom to the lofty heights beyond Dundonnell and Gairloch . |
| 15 | If the plan is successful the 45ft long whales , which may be 20 to 40 years old , will follow the boat past South Ronaldsay to the open sea . |
| 16 | For the same price the 164-miles West Highland line threads its way from the heart of Glasgow past Loch Lomond to the pretty fishing port of Mallaig . |
| 17 | For studies of the distribution and physiology of these species at various localities throughout their range see Edwards ( 1972 , 1973 , 1974 , 1975 ) ; for a study of experiments in introducing other vascular plants from South Georgia to the maritime Antarctic see Edwards ( 1980 ) . |
| 18 | We come this Advent Sunday to the wonderful season of hope . |
| 19 | The term ‘ annunciation ‘ ( announcement ) is that given to the message presented by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would in due time be delivered of the Son of God , and the festival commemorating this — Lady Day — has the date 25 March . |
| 20 | One of its chief fruits was the submission of Dr Zhivago to the literary magazine Novy Mir in July 1956 . |
| 21 | Other new appointees were Enoch Ruhigira to the new post of Minister in the Presidency responsible for Public Service ; Hildesonse Hijaniro to Transport and Communications ; François Xavier Nsengumuremyi as Health Minister ; and Constantin Cubahiro as Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister , taking over from Charles Nyandwi , who became Civil Service and Professional Training Minister . |
| 22 | Spanish minister Count Florida Blanca to the French ambassador , February 1779 |
| 23 | On the fifth floor of the Centre Pompidou from 12 November to 11 January 1993 , ‘ Art d'Amérique Latine ’ comprises 482 works covering the years from 1911 to 1968 : from the Cubism of Diego Rivera to the renewed figurative tradition of Botero , Segui , Morales and Gamarra , and the Surrealism of Lam and Matta ; from the Futurism of Dr Atl to the abstract symbolism of Torres García and the two most fertile Latin American movements of the post-war period , Arte Concreto Invención and Madi . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Much of the West 's money is laundered through its huge concentration of banks ; its registered shipping clogs the sea-lanes of half the globe ; its duty-free stores ( once the repository of Peruvian silver ) now hold immense quantities of electronic goods from the East ; and its beaches and airports bear daily witness to the transfer of cocaine from the impoverished producers of South America to the insatiable markets of the North . |
| 26 | The battle was also a landmark in the conduct of the war , for henceforth both sides dug in and a complex line of trenches soon stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier . |
| 27 | A thrilling boat ride to the very base of the falls is followed by a drive along the scenic Niagara Parkway to the historic village of Niagara-on-the-Lake . |
| 28 | Familiar names are there from Paula Modersohn-Becker , Gabriele Münter , Marie Lourencin , Käthe Kollwitz , Charlotte Berend-Corinth , Hannah Höch and Jeanne Mammen to the contemporary members , Giesela Breitling and Elvira Bach . |
| 29 | In March 1989 , a British court ruled against the extradition of Mohammed Rafiq Kahan to Fiji to face charges of organising the shipment of 12 tonnes of arms from North Yemen to the Fijian port of Lautoka . |
| 30 | The tow was on passage from Puerto Gallegos to the Argentine port of Ushuaia in the Beagle Channel . |