Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1803 " From a statement to this Meeting of the Desertion of the Militia men or non appearance ; which they consider as Disgracefull to the Inhabitants of Islay . |
| 2 | Eros was known as Cupid to the Romans . |
| 3 | Oscar , I tried again , after engaging in a critique of American culture in speech after speech , will you fail to visit the spot where Walt Whitman had been known to read Homer after Shakespeare to the waves ? |
| 4 | The god of fertility , wine and drunkenness in Greek mythology , Dionysius was known as Bacchus to the Romans . |
| 5 | I 'm 16 years old and into any music from All About Eve to The Adventures . |
| 6 | His fellows include those who brought bananas from the Indian Ocean coast to the highlands of east Africa , those who brought cassava from the Atlantic coast of Angola to the forests of Zaire , and those who first trekked the hump-backed Zebu cattle down the valley of the Nile . |
| 7 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 8 | That year will also be the 50th anniversary of the fall of Shanghai to the Communists , an event that ravaged the Keswick family fortunes . |
| 9 | The former constituted the local oligarchy of the poderosos , the powerful ones , who , from the days of Aranda to the debates of 1934 , any reforms intended to relieve the poor . |
| 10 | Using worship , dance , drama , testimony and preaching we began to communicate the truth of Jesus to the Hungarians . |
| 11 | Later , Adam lazily stared past Miranda to the windows — twin rectangles of blue sky , between which hung an old mirror in an elaborately carved mahogany frame . |
| 12 | Busy industry bosses seem to prefer the cosmopolitan chaos of Paris to the charms of Birmingham . |
| 13 | The intrusion of foreigners onto Chinese soil in itself was difficult to accept ; to send the youth of China to the lands of the ‘ foreign devils ’ as the Chinese referred to them , was almost unthinkable . |
| 14 | There will be meetings in 1986 in Beijing and in Cambridge , whilst in 1987 it is hoped that a national conference attended by the Rank Xerox Unit will introduce the whole of China to the techniques and analysis . |
| 15 | There were 13 of us , aged 17 — 19 , and we were on a month-long adventure organised by World Challenge Expeditions , a company which offers young people the opportunity to join treks around the world , from the mountains of Nepal to the rainforests of Ecuador . |
| 16 | Which angel announced the birth of Christ to the shepherds ? |
| 17 | And on a more down-to-earth level , its foraging habits have helped shape and preserve many of Africa 's habitats , from the semi-desert of Namibia to the rainforests of the Cameroon . |
| 18 | The means of negotiation has profound implications for our democracy , for the accountability of Europe to the electorates of Europe and for the accountability of Ministers to their national Parliaments . |
| 19 | On the outskirts these range from the marshes of Walthamstow to the heaths of Hounslow , and from Ruislip woods to Ruxley gravel pits . |
| 20 | The first letter , from the Jews of Judaea to the Jews of Egypt , commends the celebration of the Feast of the Purification of the Temple and is dated in 124 B.C. The second letter , from Judas Maccabaeus and the people of Jerusalem to Aristobulus , " teacher of King Ptolemy ( Philometor ) " , is apparently dated in 164 B.C. : it tells the story of the end of Antiochus IV and the institution of the Feast of the Purification of the Temple . |
| 21 | But a bitterly disappointed Dmowski was moved to complain again and again that Wilson simply did not appreciate the importance of Danzig to the Poles , and was incapable of thinking like a European . |
| 22 | The grants of Valence and Gallia Ulterior to the Alans , and that of Sapaudia to the Burgundians are not attested elsewhere . |
| 23 | A one-mile link from Boathouse Bridge to the East Coast Railway bridge will connect with minor roads to provide routes from the centre of Edinburgh to the lanes of West Lothian and the Forth Road Bridge . |
| 24 | A letter by King Areus of Sparta to the Jews , which would date the discovery of the family connection in the first half of the third century B.C. , was probably forged to provide a background for the authentic correspondence of the second century ( cf. 12.7 ) . |
| 25 | The quotation at the beginning of the book : ‘ Vengeance is mine ; I will repay ’ continues ‘ Saith the Lord ’ ( from the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 12,19 ) sums up the way in which Anna was treated . |
| 26 | The derelict gardens were rescued by Davyd , who had moved down from the mountains of Wales to the plains of East Anglia , but remained very Welsh , his accent giving authority to everything he said . |
| 27 | Dynastic publishers mirror this aspect of our public affairs more obliquely , and Richard Davenport-Hines 's study of the Macmillans down the centuries , from the crofts of Arran to the corridors of Downing Street , offers a fascinating examination of the genre . |
| 28 | Morse , hitherto that day most remarkably under-beered , made his way up through Cornmarket to the Chapters Bar of The Randolph . |
| 29 | The Government 's decision not to refer Anglo-Welsh 's bid for Palatine to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission has set alarm bells ringing throughout the brewing industry . |
| 30 | Ann Petty , Carlisle Grove , Bishop Auckland : It was my half day off when myself and a friend usually went into Newcastle to the pictures , but because of public mourning they were all closed . |