Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doherty was aghast 12 months ago when he made his first attempt to win the title and lost heavily to the unfancied Fergal O'Brien but this year he was determined to wipe out that memory and win his third title in a matter of months . |
| 2 | She also plans a sequel to the million-selling Cher Fitness : A New Attitude video next year and is working hard to fulfil one outstanding ambition — directing a Hollywood movie . |
| 3 | The seaside town in north-west Wales , south of Snowdonia and within yodelling distance of Glough Williams-Ellis 's Portmeirion , will be showing its gardens , too ( see below ) — from the grandeur of Lloyd George 's Bryn Awelon , to the cottagey Bryn-y-Bont . |
| 4 | Under the new monthly system , the usage fee will be charged to your account on the first Friday of each month and will cover the period up to the preceding Sunday . |
| 5 | HERE are two more unlikely lads to add to the super WWF Wallchart we gave you on Monday . |
| 6 | Second to the sporting GT model , the diesel , in either of its two trim levels , is the most desirable of the AX range . |
| 7 | But in both cases we find that these molecules are expressed at the correct developmental stage and localize normally to the putative NMJ sites in the absence of the motor neuron ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 8 | In contrast to the putative N-Oct 5 proteins , which are transcriptionally inert , the N-Oct 3 protein activates transcription from a reporter gene promoter with an octamer sequence , when transiently expressed in HeLa cells . |
| 9 | However , Tottenham drew level on 71 minutes after Durie 's powerful run allowed Walsh to slip the ball to the unmarked Gray to score his first goal for the club . |
| 10 | The first of Miller 's important tackles came after twenty two minutes , as Town 's defence was caught wide open , but before Loud could pass to the unmarked Patterson , he dropped him superbly . |
| 11 | Steve Jenkins pushed the ball past Steve Winters , then chipped exquisitely to the unmarked Julio Berazi who coolly controlled the ball and drilled home . |
| 12 | Ballymoney equalised just two minutes later when Danny Graham slid the ball to the unmarked Michael Neill who then drilled his shot into the roof of the Cookstown net . |
| 13 | Thomas rose and beckoned Corbett over to one of the arrow-slit windows and pointed down to the winding River Lauder . |
| 14 | Examples range from efforts to structure sentencing decisions through legislative criteria ( for example , Criminal Justice Acts 1982 and 1988 ) to the far-reaching Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission . |
| 15 | But as a corrective to the excitable Hugo , let me quote another great French writer of the nineteenth century , a formidably astringent one this time , who likewise tramped dutifully up to the Lac de Gaube : the novelist Gustave Flaubert . |
| 16 | Kitchin was apprenticed to the map-engraver Emanuel Bowen [ q.v. ] on 6 December 1732 . |
| 17 | It can not be better exemplified than by the uncomfortable relationship of late Cretaceous marine sediments to the metamorphosed Precambrian rocks of the Bohemian Massif , as illustrated in plate 3.1 . |
| 18 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 19 | As the government itself was to admit in its response to the resultant Griffiths Report on Community Care , the ‘ rapid growth of residential and nursing home care ’ had been ‘ unplanned and largely based on the availability of social security benefits ’ . |
| 20 | Marienburg lay open to the plundering Orc and Goblin horde and the sturdy Marienburgers prepared to defend their city . |
| 21 | Looking to the impressive Kilnsey Crag on the Dales Way in Wharfedale |
| 22 | Moody , in his first Test for two years , departed early on Day 2 , having made 50 , but Boon reached his century before falling to the persevering Prabhakar , who finished with 5 for 101 , including his 50th Test wicket . |
| 23 | According to the Serbian-based Tanjug agency and Serbian television reports , the contents of the municipal museum of Vukovar , and its branches , have been taken to Serbia . |
| 24 | Would the sulphur emitted by that coal be in addition to the 4 GW limit set now ? |
| 25 | The doctrines and policy of Sir Kenneth Newman were set out candidly in an unpublished , private lecture to the European Atlantic Group in 1983 , entitled Public Order in Free Societies . |
| 26 | My old man occasionally joined us on a Saturday morning , but only to get some cash off Granpa so that he could go to the Black Bull and spend it all with his mate Bert Shorrocks . |
| 27 | I even went with him to the Black Bull that night , determined to spend my weekly wages on whatever he wanted . |
| 28 | THE JAYHAWKS , Minneapolis ' answer to The Black Crowes , plug their forthcoming Def American LP ‘ Hollywood Town Hall ’ , with dates at London Harlesden Mean Fiddler and London Hammersmith Odeon supporting Dwight Yoakam . |
| 29 | The mission had been to penetrate a terrorist base in Libya and eliminate all personnel , which included Salim Al-Makesh , an advisor to the Black June , a movement founded by Abu Nidal in I976 in protest at the involvement of Syria in the Lebanese civil war , and Jean-Jacques Bernard , a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 30 | The last election to the 21-member Staten was in January 1989 , when the MEP won 10 of the 21 seats [ see p. 37075 ] . |