Example sentences of "[num] and to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this connection , one opposing clergyman sought the intervention of the courts via an order of mandamus addressed to the Lord Chamberlain that he should present to Her Majesty a petition to the effect that the granting of the Royal Assent to the latter Bill would be contrary to the Act of Settlement 1700 and to Her Majesty 's coronation oath , both of which , he argued , forbade Her from thus imperilling the maintenance of Protestantism . |
| 2 | In Great Britain , the high cost of the Battle of the Somme had led to the fall of Asquith on 11 December 1916 and to his replacement as prime minister by David Lloyd George , in whose leadership the British people placed high trust . |
| 3 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
| 4 | Well I had a hysterectomy when I was forty nine and to me life really did begin at fifty ! |
| 5 | Sir Edward , 82 , was private secretary to the Queen until 1967 and to her father , George VI , for six years before his death . |