Example sentences of "[noun prp] to [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law .
2 Hugh promoted Elias to the Lincoln prebend of Lafford and in November 1212 appointed him executor of his will .
3 South from Arreau the main road runs along the wide valley of the Neste d'Aure to the resort town of Saint-Lary-Soulan , and then curves to the south-east as the valley narrows and the mountains get higher .
4 BARWELL & Jones has introduced 35 South African wines from the Cape Province to the UK market .
5 Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon .
6 Carole Labno 's pet Shetland pony was presented on Saturday to the Claire House appeal , which is raising funds to build a hospice for sick and dying children .
7 He died suddenly 14 November 1916 while travelling from his home at Buckhurst Hill to the Ilford factory .
8 But it was a happy McAllister who arranged the stall with Matey , joked with Mr Sands , and then in the afternoon after lunch walked with Dr Neil and Matey to the church hall .
9 CLEAN IT UP : Flashback to the court case
10 As the cyclist who organised the commuter challenge , I agree with Bernard Povey ( letters , 5 July ) that the route from Currie to the city centre is downhill for part of the way .
11 The Monastery of Santa de Nogueira had been imported stone by stone from Portugal to the Gila Desert , Arizona , in 1819 , and abandoned after the Mexican-American War .
12 They were the flattest brick arches ever built at that time , and critics predicted their collapse under the weight of trains , but the viaduct was built in 1838 and is still in use , carrying trains from Paddington to the West Country .
13 The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter .
14 He added : ‘ The whole balance of the party is being moved away from the conference and the NEC to the Shadow Cabinet . ’
15 In 1986 , on their first tour to Britain for years , the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , revealed Mukhamedov to the ballet world , and it gasped with astonishment .
16 Follow the sea wall past the Martello Towers to the Felixstowe Ferry , which goes to Bawdsey .
17 He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust .
18 The only all-First Division tie of the round takes Maesteg to the Arms Park to take on top of the table Cardiff .
19 The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects which range from McDonalds to the Gulf War , taking in on the way a whole range of everyday tragedies :
20 The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’
21 JANIE EICKHOFF won the women 's tempo and points races on Sunday to lead the United States to a surprise victory in the three-day World Invitational , at California State University .
22 The mobile belts of Proterozoic times extended the length of what is now the North Atlantic , from east Greenland and Norway in the north , via the British Isles , Newfoundland and the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa in the south .
23 These statements added little to what Arafat had already said but such casuistry , the decision to limit official contact with the PLO to the US embassy in Tunis , and the warning that any terrorist incident attributable to a PLO faction would render US recognition of the PLO void , suggested that the outgoing US administration had acted with considerable reluctance .
24 Anthony escorted Julia and David to the railway station on the Thursday before Easter and while David went to buy the tickets , Julia seized the opportunity to ask her husband to do a small errand for her .
25 Having steered Arsenal to a Cup victory and then to a record Championship , Chapman was at the pinnacle of his career .
26 But it appears that following the fall of the town of Jajce to the Serbs peace has been restored .
27 ‘ Look forward to welcoming Toby to the reception class in four years ' time ! ’
28 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 ) .
29 A notable feature of the ambers from Kakovatos is that they include spacer beads with convergent perforations like those on similar pieces from tumulus burials in south Germany , on the route from the amber coast of west Jutland to the Aegean world .
30 Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire .
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