Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her reluctant pioneering activity in Huntingdonshire led to courses at Eaton Socon , St. Neots and the county town . |
| 2 | A chance meeting at an international conference on prison security in Stockholm led to Latvia getting the blessing of a Scottish Office minister for assistance from the Scottish Prison Service towards reform of their penal system . |
| 3 | Four claims filed against the firm in Tennessee amounted to $255m . |
| 4 | It boasts the first greens in Portugal constructed to USGA specifications and they are a joy to putt on . |
| 5 | Further talks at ministerial level between the USA and the Soviet Union in December led to speculation that only " very technical " details remained to be resolved , including the installation of US special perimeter monitoring facilities outside Soviet factories producing SS-24 and SS-25 missiles . |
| 6 | He said there had been representations from the bookmaking and greyhound racing industries in Scotland opposed to evening opening , though there had also been comments from the bookmaking industry supporting the principle . |
| 7 | The church is the only one in Ireland dedicated to St Maeldoid , who founded a monastery in the area during the seventh century . |
| 8 | At his own expense he spent some months in England attached to units of the British Army for training . |
| 9 | Children at Hardy Memorial Primary in Richill got to grips with such intricacies as foreign currencies , languages , customs , national flags and costumes and of course , food . |
| 10 | Anne Lucas from Staley Bridge in Cheshire wrote to Kevin saying she was losing her will power to stick to her diet . |
| 11 | Britain ratified the Convention in 1951 but did not accept its enforcement machinery until 1966 , and its impact on English law was not apparent until the next decade , when the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg began to hand down decisions holding the United Kingdom in breach of the Convention for failures to guarantee certain basic rights to its citizens . |
| 12 | It was n't an April Fool 's Day joke when engineers working on WCUK 's VAT building in Liverpool announced to colleagues that they could walk on water ! |
| 13 | For such a brief spell each year the bird is with us , its range in Britain restricted to lowlands south-east of a line from the Wash to the Severn estuary . |
| 14 | As Chemistry in Britain went to press in December it had settled back to around $25.50–27.50 per lb . |
| 15 | In recognising the crucial importance of lower non-wage costs in Britain compared to Europe . |
| 16 | THE first permanent public gallery in Britain devoted to art inspired by the world 's many religions has opened in Glasgow . |
| 17 | Mally Shaw ( Mrs Yates ) in September moved to Great Longstone near Bakewell . |
| 18 | Steve Farrell , chief engineer at Prodrive in Banbury moved to England from Australia eleven years ago and with a history of skin cancer in his family was always on the watch for it . |
| 19 | Momentous events were taking place , however , in Russia — riots in Petrograd led to mutiny in the military forces and , on 15th , March 1917 , the Tzar abdicated . |
| 20 | THE mother of a British cyclist held in Iraq appealed to Saddam Hussein to free him yesterday . |
| 21 | A further revolution that has not yet taken hold widely in Japan is that of networking personal computers and word processors , and one American working for a large Japanese company in Tokyo complained to Reuter of hours spent every day hunting down paper documents written on dedicated word processors and then stuffing them laboriously into facsimile machines — when an efficient personal computer network could save all the effort . |
| 22 | One shrimp which was found turned out to be an American introduction that originated from ponds in Grangemouth used to season timber . |
| 23 | Gathering his wits , the pot-man said , ‘ The constable and a man from Scotland Yard in London came to Dore 's Lodge today . |
| 24 | When the war was renewed in the 1370s , the price of wine in London rose to 10d. per gallon , although during the truce of 1375–77 it fell again to 6d . |
| 25 | But the group made £1.5m on the sale of properties — a site in Enfield went to J Sainsbury Plc for net proceeds of £8.6m , and a site in Newmarket , occupied by Roxboro Ltd , was sold for £1.4m . |
| 26 | In Berlin the Jewish cemetery was damaged on Sept. 16 , and on Sept. 25 three men were arrested for the bombing on Aug. 31 of a memorial in Berlin dedicated to victims of the holocaust . |
| 27 | The most that was achieved was in a few examples of new highway construction ( in London the long-standing schemes of the Great West Road and the North Circular came to fruition ) ; and in the bigger cities , there were road-widening schemes , some stretches of dual carriageway and the occasional new project ( such as the Headrow in Leeds linked to redevelopment ) and some spectacular new projects ( such as the new suspension bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool/Birkenhead ) . |
| 28 | Pam Large from Banbury in Oxfordshire wrote to Kevin to say that her husband was trying to secure a big business contract with a new company for his kitchen and bathroom furniture business . |
| 29 | Tensions over the degree of British commitment to eventually joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) during the Madrid summit in June contributed to Sir Geoffrey Howe 's removal from the Foreign Office in July . |
| 30 | Tensions over the degree of British commitment to eventually joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) during the Madrid summit in June contributed to Sir Geoffrey Howe 's removal from the Foreign Office in July . |