Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
| 2 | Among the other contributors are José Marques de Melo , President of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers ; Fátima Fernandez , Professor of Communication at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ; Hernán Uribe , Vice President of the Latin American Federation of Journalists , and Guido Grooscors , Ambassador for Venezuela to the Organisation of American States . |
| 3 | What is the point of moving a person who is famous through the world as Chichester to the anonymity of being Archbishop of York ? |
| 4 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 5 | Brin was issued with false documents to fool the Germans and he worked for 5 months with the resistance , helping allied servicemen to escape along the so called Comet line ; a 1,500 mile route across Europe from Holland through Belgium and France , on through Spain to the safety of Gibraltar . |
| 6 | A torchlight procession will be held through Bootle to the coal terminal at Gladstone Dock on November 25 . |
| 7 | With the Malvern Hill rising to the north ; the Wye Valley and rolling Herefordshire stretching to the Welsh borders to the west ; the secret Royal Forest of Dean to the South ; and the Severn Vale , Gloucester , Cheltenham and the Cotswolds to the east ; surely Newent must be the centre of England at its best . |
| 8 | It was on ‘ evidence ’ such as this that a Gloucestershire jury on 22 May 1300 reduced the Forest of Dean to the king 's demesne lands and woods . |
| 9 | ( Another member of the Russell family , Lord Charles , used his influence as the Queen 's Serjeant-at-Arms to get William Hale White 's father the position of Door-Keeper to the House of Commons . ) |
| 10 | You use Top Mere Road to climb out of Kettlewell to a cairn at Cam Head before an old drove route drops you sharply into Starbotton to the inevitable pub . |
| 11 | Artist lives unhappily ever after , bequeaths portrait of Lisa to the world . |
| 12 | A stampede broke out , people pushing past Jezrael to the cockpit to see the first signs of other human beings through the canopy . |
| 13 | I fancied that I could see the lights of Porkkala to the south ; west — for the coast bends south along here — but Signe said that it would be too far away . |
| 14 | The new government also agreed to sell the beleaguered State Bank of Victoria to the Commonwealth Bank , an institution owned by the federal government . |
| 15 | Earnings of other textile workers in the southern and eastern parts of the country , disclosed by Arthur Young in his Tours of the 1770s , suggest a range from the 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) earned by the specialist blanket weavers of Witney and carpet weavers of Wilton to a low of 5s ( 25p ) scraped by Norwich worsted weavers at a time of serious decline in their trade . |
| 16 | After extensive renovation , Chiswick House was opened formally by the Duke of Devonshire to the public , in 1958 . |
| 17 | This has aroused the criticism of ‘ nationalist patriots ’ , who see something shameful in the admittance of Coca-Cola to the Hermitage . |
| 18 | Britain , in common with the Allies , had learned from the First World War that international peace and stability could only be maintained by the early restoration of Germany to the comity of nations . |
| 19 | The falls are at Neuhausen , an extension of Schaffhausen to the south , rather than a suburb of it . |
| 20 | Continue down the short valley of Mosedale to the road , which you follow eastwards until it crosses the River Duddon ( 1.75 ) . |
| 21 | From the top of Crinkle Crags make a careful descent to the head of Mosedale to the south-west ( 1 mile ) . |
| 22 | Other evidence suggests that many of these were marched towards Maribor to the east or Celje to the south and that subsequently the mass-slaughter of many thousands of Croats took place . |
| 23 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 12 October : His Excellency Senhor Luis Neto-Kiambata was received in audience by The Prince of Wales and The Prince Edward , Counsellors of State acting on behalf of The Queen , and presented the Letters of Recall of his predecessor and his own Letters of Credence as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the People 's Republic of Angola to the Court of St James 's . |
| 24 | Central to the amendments was the changing of the country 's official name from the People 's Republic of Angola to the Republic of Angola . |
| 25 | The Supreme Court ruled on Sept. 16 against a challenge by a dissident faction of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary to the legality of the party 's spring 1991 congress and the election of its leader Endre Borbely . |
| 26 | At the time of the Han dynasty , when jade was still the only material fit to accompany the emperor , it was accompanied in the case of feudal lords and officials of grades 1–3 by pearls and in that of officials of grade 4 by gold.47 One indication of the status of pearls in Christendom is their use in iconography as symbols of regeneration , and the way they have long been used to enrich the crowns of sovereigns from the sacred crown of Hungary to the mitre crown of Catherine II of Russia and in our own day the State Crown of Queen Elizabeth II ( Frontispiece ; figs. 35 and 37 ) . |
| 27 | Professor Graham Clark has suggested , for example , that the dwellers on the Mesolithic site at Star Carr in Yorkshire were exploiting not only the lake on which it was situated , but also the lowland of the Vale of Pickering to the west , the Yorkshire wolds to the south , and the North Yorkshire Moors to the north . |
| 28 | A charter in 1033 , granting the manor of Patrington to the Archbishop of York , describes the boundaries of the manor which , except on the south where changes have taken place along the river Humber , appear to coincide with the present boundaries of the parish . |
| 29 | Curiously , you fail to ascribe Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait to an absence of that same clear leadership in the Middle East . |
| 30 | On Jan. 6 , as part of a televised speech , he had described the liberation of Palestine as the main objective in the struggle , while reaffirming nevertheless that " the return of Kuwait to the motherland is a reality " , that the Iraqi army should prepare for " the mother of battles " , and that the war would reach " every struggler and fighter whose hand can reach out to harm aggressors in the whole world " ; on Jan. 9 , when an International Islamic Popular Conference opened in Baghdad , he promised that in the event of war the Americans would " swim in their own blood " . |