Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like you to open this pack please , which has January to June . |
| 2 | Thus most Tories supported the war with France in William 's reign as both necessary and desirable , whilst it was a House of Commons with a Tory majority which committed England to war in defence of a balance of power in 1701 . |
| 3 | She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) . |
| 4 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 5 | Mariana is yoked in an arranged marriage to her uncle , Philip IV ; she , as representative of the Spanish crown , is also a representative of the colonial and religious yokes which bound Mexico to Spain . |
| 6 | This errand of death which took Nizan to Spain for the fourth time within fourteen months was symbolically appropriate . |
| 7 | Radio Monte Carlo reported on Aug. 29 that Syria had released Nureddin al-Atasi , President from February 1966 until his overthrow by the 1970 bloodless coup which brought Assad to power , after 22 years ' imprisonment . |
| 8 | The report added that human rights violations in northern Sudan had increased dramatically since the June 1989 coup which brought Bashir to power [ see p. 36728 ] , with purges in the judiciary , civil service and Army , the banning of trade unions , and the torture of hundreds of political detainees . |
| 9 | Samuel Katwere , editor of The Star , the only independent English-language newspaper , was arrested on Nov. 6 , 1989 , and held without charge over an article published in the paper on Sept. 22 , 1989 , which alleged that the managing director of the government-owned Ugandan Commercial Bank was being paid huge amounts in compensation for the death of two children during the war which brought Museveni to power , and further called Museveni a liar for defending the banker against allegations raised in parliament that he was being paid more than he was worth . |
| 10 | In April 1974 , seven months after the coup which brought Pinochet to power , he arrived at the Air Force base of Colina on the outskirts of Santiago to begin his two years of military service . |
| 11 | According to Radio Française d'Outre-Mer on the nearby French-administered island of Mayotte , about 30 officers were involved in the coup attempt , led by Lt. Abderamane Abdallah and Lt. Cheikh Abdallah , sons of the former President , Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman , who was assassinated on Nov. 27 , 1989 , in the coup which brought Djohar to power [ see pp. 37033-34 ] . |
| 12 | And angry Craigavon Mayor , Fred Crowe , said the 1,000lb device which tore Portadown to shreds could have been prevented . |
| 13 | The Klausen Pass trip from Uri to Glarus can be made by a postbus service which operates July to September from Fluelen via Altdorf , the sector flurglen to Linthal being classed as a mountain postroad . |
| 14 | That is what led Marx to history and then to anthropology as , in the course of his work , he pushed his analyses ever further backwards in the evolution of human society . |
| 15 | This concurrence of anthropology and Christian belief was , similarly , what attracted Eliot to Demant , who was editor of the 1944 lectures , Our Culture : Its Christian Roots and Present Crisis . |
| 16 | Yet what brought Edward to heel temporarily at least — was a baronial threat that they might have to find another king if he would not keep his coronation oath , which in their minds meant observing the Ordinances . |