Example sentences of "[noun prp] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute bankers were being changed from Lloyds to the Royal Bank of Scotland in order to obtain better interest rate bands on cash deposited . |
| 2 | It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards . |
| 3 | That the particular day of the sighting was never regarded as special , and is almost brushed aside , suggests that it was a Tuesday — and the nearest Tuesday to the reported date is the 27th . |
| 4 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 5 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 6 | Fate weaves its heady patterns all around ; good luck attends you , nobody fools you : Hugo does not repair with Eleanor to the back room of the pub . |
| 7 | These are made , with a little supervision , by the brownies to coincide with the flower festival at St Peter 's Church in Greenhill on the nearest Saturday to the patronal feast . |
| 8 | President , I I happen to be going on Saturday to the National Final of the Rotary Young Inventor of the Years ' er convention this |
| 9 | Modified Karplus curve relating the coupling constant J ( Hz ) for H3'-P to the dihedral angle ε ( C4'-C3'-O3'-P ) in degrees . |
| 10 | But there was nothing conservative about the way in which Louis and his successor exploited the bishop of Clermont 's complaints against the count of the Auvergne to secure a foothold in the county ; it was their preparatory work that made possible Philip Augustus ' annexation of the Auvergne to the royal demesne . |
| 11 | Moscow has attempted , rather unsuccessfully , to shift the attention of the Third World from Soviet forces in Afghanistan to the alleged use of Pakistani territory for military purposes by the United States and China . |
| 12 | Then at closing time , he would climb Brownlow Hill to the Commercial Hotel , arm in arm with Bunny , thinking of her , of how special she was , pondering on her remarkable reticence . |
| 13 | A ‘ substantial ’ three-year grant has been given by the DoH to the National Association for the Protection from Sexual Abuse of Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities . |
| 14 | Painters have responded enthusiastically , from the meticulous realism of Frith 's panoramic Paddington to the delicate impressionism of Monet 's Gare Saint-Lazare , from the distorted heat-haze imagery of Dali 's Perpignan Station to the lonely , austere beauty of Vlaminck 's station in the snow . |
| 15 | The journey from New Mexico to the eastern seaboard took around 4,000 years ; its acceptance as a staple , almost a thousand years longer . |
| 16 | Tiny hummingbirds fly down from New England into Louisiana and then take off on a non-stop sea-crossing of five hundred miles across the Bay of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula and the warm jungles of Central and South America . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's gone wrong ? ’ he said , looking from Lucy to the rising commotion that was beginning to emerge from the restaurant behind her . |
| 18 | Not only am I aware of that dependence ; I am aware of the debt that we owe the area and of the real contribution made by the people of Plymouth to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marine Commandos , among other units involved . |
| 19 | I took Friday to the other side of the island and showed him my big canoe . |
| 20 | As announced on March 10 two shipyards in the Rostock area were to be sold to the Norwegian firm Kvaerner and one in Wismar to the German concern Bremer Vulkan ; the already much reduced workforce of 10,300 at these yards would be cut to 7,000 . |
| 21 | Extrapolations of reflectance values measured on Kupferschiefer to the top surface Carboniferous result in values of 2.0–2.5% Rm . |
| 22 | Second , and more important , came the succession of Mikhail Gorbachev to the Soviet leadership . |
| 23 | The ‘ Nye Report ’ of the American Committee investigating the munitions industry in 1935 printed a mass of documents on the entry of the United States to the Great War with the intention of influencing American policy . |
| 24 | The lesser main road from Twycross to the local market-town of Ashby de la Zouch was to have a minimum width of twenty-two yards ; and the other roads of the parish were to be ‘ of a proper width ’ . |
| 25 | Birbeck believed that Branson had played the joke as ‘ revenge ’ for a Music Week reporter feeding stories disparaging Branson to the satirical magazine Private Eye — and he was partly right . |
| 26 | The following morning Julia accompanied David to the gloomy courtroom again with a sense of relief . |
| 27 | The North American Free Trade Zone ( Nafta ) was envisaged as stretching from the Yukon to the Yucatán peninsula [ for background see pp. 37849 ; 38140 ] . |
| 28 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
| 29 | This sale of over 500 of the finest works from the 10,000 volume Epstein Family Collection include : a first edition , first issue of Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit of which only 250 were privately printed ( est. $25–35,000 ) ; Adam Smith 's Wealth of Nations ( est. $15–20,000 ) ; Samuel Johnson 's Dictionary of the English Language ( est. $6–9,000 ) ; Charles Darwin 's Origin of the Species ( est. $8–12,000 ) ; and a presentation copy of the piano score of Rhapsody in Blue , 1929 , inscribed by Gershwin to the English author John Galsworthy ( est. $3–4,000 ) . |
| 30 | The hope for a language which would express the essence of things rather than being conventional noises perpetuating old-wives ' tales is an old one , going back beyond Lavoisier to the seventeenth century . |