Example sentences of "a [num ord] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also ready to deliver a second snub to France by naming a new public holiday Trafalgar Day in celebration of Admiral Horatio Nelson 's defeat of the French and Spanish in 1805 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Mr Major is ready to deliver a second snub to France by replacing May Day with a new October bank holiday , Trafalgar Day , to celebrate Admiral Nelson 's historic naval victory in 1805 . |
| 3 | If those are then accepted , you have a second sheet to appendix ten which has been er modified and which has been circulated just prior to the meeting . |
| 4 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 5 | A second trip to Russia in 1991 involved a trip to the Kremlin where Signor Datrino proposed his exhibition , involving the significant loan of treasures in return for sponsorship of restoration , restructuring and other work at the Kremlin . |
| 6 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 7 | He was of royal blood , the great grandson of King Sahle Selassie , a second cousin to Menelik and son of the famous Ras Makonnen . |
| 8 | Messer Griesheim has awarded a second order to Air Products to supply a 1710 t per day oxygen plant , to be built at Dormagen , Germany . |
| 9 | The growth of multinational corporations provided a second spur to Eurocurrency business . |
| 10 | Although he received a standing ovation from the delegates , supporters of Keating continued to predict that — the denials of the former Treasurer notwithstanding — a second challenge to Hawke 's position would be delivered before the end of the year . |
| 11 | In the bottom half of the draw Chris Wilkinson was again preparing for a second challenge to Jeremy Bates ' domination as he overcame strong challenges from Italy , South Africa and Sweden to reach his second final . |
| 12 | East won with the king and returned a second club to dummy 's king , with South discarding a second diamond from hand . |
| 13 | As PostScript is something of a second fiddle to Hewlett-Packard 's PCL in the PC world you might have thought that this was nothing to do with you . |
| 14 | He had to show the print a second time to censorship boards to convince them they had imagined the nudity . |
| 15 | A deal involving the supply of 40 Chinese F-7P fighter aircraft by the end of 1993 , concluded during a second visit to China [ for previous visit see p . |
| 16 | Once Bess Halidon had been laid to rest in the small village churchyard , and the initial shock of her mother 's death had abated , Joan decided to pay a second visit to Framlingham Hall . |
| 17 | A major force of 5,000 Japanese were moved into Aileu and a second visit to Ainaro by men of another Japanese unit ( which , is not clear ) was full of brutality : the priests were killed ; some houses were burnt down . |
| 18 | Pickering Methodist Church member Peter Robinson is making a second visit to Albania in May taking 200 mattresses and clothing collected in the Ryedale area . |
| 19 | The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’ |
| 20 | The UN Security Council delayed considering the resolution on the occupation of Kuwait [ see box ] to allow time for Primakov 's diplomacy on a second visit to Baghdad . |
| 21 | Although she subsequently indicated that she intended to institute divorce proceedings , the mother subsequently returned to Australia after the husband had paid a second visit to England . |
| 22 | President George Bush , who had visited the affected region in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane , made a second visit to Florida and Louisiana on Sept. 1 , and pledged that the federal government would continue with the relief operation " until the job is done " . |
| 23 | In 1732 , on a second visit to Rome with Henry and Stephen Fox , his portrait by Antonio David shows him fashionably dressed , holding a gun , with an attendant , dogs , and a brace of partridges — he was highly rated as a shot . |
| 24 | The team have since made a second visit to Korup to complete some unfinished tasks , and the whole Korup relationship was a success . |
| 25 | £35,000 is on a second mortgage to Dorend Limited which chareges interest of 39 per cent . |
| 26 | Soon after midday Tom Poole and his brother Richard decided to take their interesting visitors on a short walk to the farmhouse called Marshmills in Over Stowey , home of a large tribe of Poole cousins who were almost a second family to Tom and Richard : among them were Penelope Poole , ‘ a beautiful , dark-eyed girl ’ who would never return Tom Poole 's love for her ( he died unmarried ) , and John Poole , an Oxford fellow and later the rector of Enmore , who was Tom Poole 's friend and companion from childhood . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's a first cousin to Sir Walter Raleigh , ’ Arty ventured and laughed nervously . |
| 28 | The Royal Shakespeare Company is paying a first visit to Durham City but not to tread the boards . |
| 29 | I had arrived at Ullapool by bus in mid-afternoon , determined to satisfy an ambition to make a first visit to Lochinver . |
| 30 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |