Example sentences of "[noun prp] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One can find parallel rivalries across the globe , from Aztec and Toltec beliefs in Mexico to the myths of India , China and Japan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fortunately the brilliant improvisation of the Marne aroused G.Q.G. to the possibilities of motor transport . |
| 5 | MDC has also been more sympathetic than LDDC to the interests of existing firms in the area . |
| 6 | At Limoges he had ostentatiously donated a cloak embroidered with the words Henricus Rex to the monks of St Martial 's . |
| 7 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 8 | He coached Arsenal to the Double , helped guide England to the semi-finals of the World Cup and is acknowledged as one of the supreme tacticians in European football . |
| 9 | There had been no provision by the War Office for dealing with the problem of sexually transmitted diseases , the only directive having been an exhortation from Lord Kitchener to the troops to be sexually continent . |
| 10 | ‘ I know naught of how you came into this plight , girl , and I care little enough , but this I know — you have broken the spell-wall and opened Andernesse to the powers of the dark ! |
| 11 | From the summit one looked beyond Colmar to the hills of the Vosges and east to the hills of the Black Forest . |
| 12 | One afternoon did not blind Brady to the demands of the future , however . |
| 13 | There were many people in Greece who felt grateful for the repression of even minor social disturbances , such as that of Dyme in Achaia about 116 B.C. , so typically described in the letter by the Roman proconsul Quintus Fabius Maximus to the magistrates of the city : abolition of debts and contracts ( SIG 684 ) . |
| 14 | The win took Cambridge to the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time in their history , following their recent proud FA Cup record of reaching the quarter-finals each year from 1988-1990 . |
| 15 | The path follows the course of the River Bure to the ruins of St Benets Abbey on the far bank . |
| 16 | Aged nine , I joined the library and was introduced by a boy called Sid Staveley to the photographs in Lord Russell of Liverpool 's The Scourge of the Swastika , a bulging book bound in jaundiced polythene which was kept in the adult section . |
| 17 | WIVES of Tottenham Hotspur players took their backing for embattled chief executive Terry Venables to the gates of Alan Sugar 's mansion yesterday . |
| 18 | The fear of opponents was that the new system would push down production budgets ; drive out minority programmes and ‘ serious ’ projects ; subject ITV to the needs of advertisers more than before ; force the BBC down market to maintain its audience share . |
| 19 | One classic route follows Gunnerside Gill to the dams at Blakethwaite and returns back to Gunnerside by Hard Level , Old Gang and the track over Brownsey Moor by Long Brae to Potting . |
| 20 | The pictures were screened by ITN after their reporter Penny Marshall was given access by the Serbs to the camps near the north Bosnian town of Prijedor . |
| 21 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 22 | Since 1984 there have been constant campaigns alerting the public in Thailand to the dangers of HIV , AIDS , and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 23 | I crouched , shivering with cold , until I was dragged up and thrown into a huge cage on a gaudily painted cart and driven down through the Shambles and Westchepe to the magistrates at the Guildhall . |
| 24 | In 1948 the United Nations gave Israel to the Jews in Israel . |
| 25 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment should become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp on Friday duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
| 26 | Recklessly deciding that the appointment was to become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . |
| 27 | Busy industry bosses seem to prefer the cosmopolitan chaos of Paris to the charms of Birmingham . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is the day when gossip is exchanged , slander is perpetuated , goods are bought and sold , refrigerators , deep freezes and wine cellars are replenished , bubblegum stuck to the more inviting parts of old ladies ' dresses , and money transferred from the coffers of the DHSS to the tills of the Red Lion in joyous cacophony . |