Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his centenary greetings to the Army , the Secretary of State for Scotland paid tribute to their " massive contribution in the field of social welfare " . |
| 2 | The rest of Spain was held by Muslims , wrongfully , as the Christians saw it ; the emperor of León laid claim to the rest of the peninsula . |
| 3 | Kuwait government and the people of Kuwait provided assistance to the Palestinians all over the world , including the Palestinians living in occupied land . |
| 4 | They pressed for a particular re-reading of Darwin to add weight to the older evangelical claim that women had a rightful place in regulating sex . |
| 5 | P&W is confident that it can continue to grow the business further and is contemplating acquiring a company in the North of England to gain exposure to that lucrative market . |
| 6 | The centre will help business and organisations across Scotland and the north of England to gain access to the £4.5 billion of funding available for research and development through the EC up to 1994 . |
| 7 | Late in the reign of Edward 111 , it came into use as the language of the Convocation of Canterbury , instead of Latin and French , in 1399 Henry of Lancaster laid claim to the throne in English ( 22 , p.43 ) and from 1395 the use of English generally became more common in wills ( 135 , pp.209–10 ) . |
| 8 | Duke John and the Earl of Cambridge laid siege to Quimperlê , probably on 23 June , and after a heavy English assault the garrison agreed that if they were not relieved within a week they would surrender . |
| 9 | The move follows protest action by Greenpeace , which had prevented Hyundai 's logging barge leaving the port of Svetlaya to take timber to Japan . |
| 10 | It remains determined to achieve regional parity with Israel in order to compel the latter to make peace on terms favourable to itself , including a return of the Golan and possibly the 1949 demilitarized zone along the eastern edge of the Sea of Galilee to allow access to its waters . |
| 11 | The most immediate and exuberant assumption , that of Prince Cuong De , pretender to the throne and a descendant of Emperor Gia Long , was that the Japanese army would help him to recover his throne and his country ; but the example of Japan gave rise to different interpretations . |
| 12 | Great mounds of Soya awaiting dispatch to animal feed mills . |
| 13 | The motor car is socially divisive in that while 50 per cent of the population of Britain have access to a car , the remaining 50 per cent do not and they are always the underprivileged sections of the community : the old , the young , the poor . |
| 14 | The kings of France paid homage to no one . |
| 15 | On Aug. 1 the Australian Prime Minister , Bob Hawke , had accused the USA of " an unfriendly act " following sales of US subsidized wheat to Yemen , one of Australia 's traditional markets . |
| 16 | In West Sussex in 1547 Richard Stygant of Yapton got leave to sublet three crofts containing 9 acres for five years , as did John Standen of Nutbourne in respect of a messuage , garden and 3 acres . |
| 17 | When the news of his victory in the Battle of Lagos , as it is known , reached London on 6 September even the perpetually anxious Duke of Newcastle gave way to optimism . |
| 18 | In 799 the Moors retook Barcelona , and King Louis of Aquitaine laid siege to it . |
| 19 | Most versions of BASIC allow access to the computer 's memory with the PEEK function and the POKE command . |
| 20 | He was unfortunate to have been in office when George III 's association with the Earl of Bute brought unpopularity to his whole family . |
| 21 | In November 1102 , he explicitly ordered Gerard of York to swear obedience to Anselm . |
| 22 | Lord Mackay of Clashfern gives evidence to the national heritage select committee 's inquiry into media intrusion |
| 23 | According to the guidelines I would assess that all residents of Edinburgh have access to a –community woodland ’ if the 5 miles parameter is adopted . |
| 24 | These misgivings in the face of the anaesthetist were weakened when in 1853 , Queen Victoria 's physician asked Dr John Snow of Edinburgh to administer chloroform to the Queen , who welcomed his help and was duly delivered of Prince Leopold . |
| 25 | When forced to do so , the president 's action was greeted by applause : the fact that the president was Alfrink of Utrecht added piquancy to the event . |
| 26 | One day earlier , the Stratford to Tottenham Hale service in the east end of London bade farewell to passengers . |
| 27 | That of Clark draws attention to the phenomenon of speech repair in two-year-olds , where speech errors are spontaneously corrected , indicating that children must have awareness of language at some level virtually as soon as they begin to talk . |
| 28 | General Baratieri , hearing he was to be superseded in command of the Italian forces , advanced by night with three columns through the rocky hills and gorges near Adua to give battle to Menelik 's army , which numbered a hundred thousand men . |
| 29 | Defeat in Canada merely sharpened France 's desire for revenge in Europe and as October gave way to November conditions in the Channel and Bay of Biscay worsened , making it ever harder for the British squadrons to hold their stations . |
| 30 | The peace with Scotland brought opposition to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella into the open , and , perhaps more significantly , marked the beginning of a breach , not as yet overt , between them and the young king , who was now sixteen years old . |