Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is beautifully painted with scenes of the dead person 's funeral along the sides , and scenes of Elysium , or the way to Elysium , on the ends ; smiling goddesses in plumed head-dresses ride along in a chariot drawn by a griffin on one end , and by a goat on the other , presumably ready to convey the human soul to Elysium , to live ever after with the gods . |
| 2 | The Red Fort is to Delhi what the Colosseum is to Rome or the Acropolis to Athens : it is the single most famous monument in the city . |
| 3 | Purely tribal loyalties will eventually be neither more nor less than the regional loyalties of Europe , of the Scots to Scotland or the Bavarians to Bavaria . |
| 4 | When is the Home Office entitled to change policy guidelines concerning the release of prisoners on licence or the admission to Britain of immigrant children wanted for adoption here ? |
| 5 | He is expected to return for either the home game with Swindon next Monday or the visit to Blackburn 48 hours later . |
| 6 | To keep my mind in check I decided to remember the journey here ( a cavernous train with wooden seats ) or the flight to Riga ( alarmingly , the roof leaked ) , but I could n't help falling into the mental free-form that this placed allowed . |
| 7 | Wadi Half a was a town of transients , waiting on the boat to Egypt or the train to Khartoum . |
| 8 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 9 | Neither the creation of the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question , however , nor the orders to Nazimov promised to be significant milestones . |
| 10 | An acquisition of newly issued shares does not constitute a disposal by the issuing company — in this instance Target — and the cost to Newco of subscribing the shares is added to its base cost in the " pool " of total shares in Target . |
| 11 | Proposals include work on St John 's Pavement , St John 's Square , Borough Pavement and the approach to St Werburgh 's Square , from Borough Pavement . |
| 12 | The hospital , moreover , is perfectly located for a swift getaway , just yards from the Brussels ring road and the motorway to Paris . |
| 13 | These included a change in the constitutional status of the province so as to make it subordinate to Serbia , the imposition of Serbocroatian as the official language , the dismissal from the Kosovo government of ‘ Albanian chauvinists ’ and of Serbian ‘ opportunists and careerists ’ , and the return to Kosovo of Serbian emigrants ( NIN , 9 November 1986 ) . |
| 14 | The government said that it had agreed to allow the phased release of around 1,300 political prisoners after Sept. 1 , and the return to South Africa of around 22,000 anti-government exiles after Oct. 1 . |
| 15 | Places on the route through France described in the book are Châlons , Lyons , Avignon , and Marseilles ; it also includes a visit to Nice , and the return to Genoa by the Corniche route . |
| 16 | and then when the boys were of school age they went to Brighton and the girls to Hastings and |
| 17 | We were brought up to think of the wonderland between Loch Broom and the roads to Skye as Wester Ross , and always will . |
| 18 | The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better . |
| 19 | ‘ And the trip to Profitis Bias was your last chance to make her see reason , was n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | It was amazing that , after Reaney had broken his leg in '70 and missed both the Cup Final and the trip to Mexico ( as well as the famous end-of-season run in ) , Cooper broke his leg two years later ( at Stoke I think ) and missed the ‘ 72 Cup Final . |
| 21 | No matter what time of year it is , you can freeze your socks off in winter or be boiling to death in summer , and the Ipswich to Debenham bus is always late . |
| 22 | By then , Charisma , and the rights to Malcolm McLaren , had been sold to another British record company . |
| 23 | I have great difficulty coming to terms with all that was being said under H one about migration and the relationship to Leeds and the idea that it matters enormously in the realm exactly where this new settlement , which I hope does go ahead , actually goes . |
| 24 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 25 | Madrid and the road to Valencia remained in Republican hands , but the Nationalists had pushed the front line forward a few kilometres and were dangerously close to the Madrid-Valencia road . |
| 26 | We had managed to enter Bahdu , had been accepted , and the road to Aussa lay open . |
| 27 | The terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki concluded on 17 April included Japanese possession of Formosa , the Pescadores Islands and the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria , the opening by China of four more treaty ports and the payment to Japan of a sizeable indemnity . |
| 28 | I can take you all and the luggage to Applewick . ’ |
| 29 | The decisions made in 1968 and 1969 by Heseltine , then just appointed press secretary , and the equerry to Prince Charles , Squadron Leader David Checketts , opened a door which could not afterwards be closed . |
| 30 | But establishment of a special rate for domestic coal in the 1850s enabled German mines to undercut British coal , and regular coal traffic from Upper Silesia and the Ruhr to Berlin and other big cities was established . |