Example sentences of "to the [noun prp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was perceived as a threat to the Plantagenets in Aquitaine . |
| 2 | Millar came to the NCLC in 1923 , first as press officer , but he soon became general secretary . |
| 3 | Millar came to the NCLC in 1923 , first as press officer , but he soon became general secretary . |
| 4 | No stranger honeymooners could have gathered there than the gangs of parliament members — 67 of them — who were ferried down to the Bekaa in Syrian helicopters and armoured limousines , guarded by squads of bodyguards armed with anti-tank rockets . |
| 5 | His increasing climbing experience plus his renowned strength and stamina made him an obvious choice for the first New Zealand expedition to the Himalaya in 1951 . |
| 6 | The nature of Russia 's ‘ conquest ’ , ‘ subjugation ’ , ‘ annexation ’ or ‘ assimilation ’ of Siberia has been the subject of a good deal of historical debate , and is indeed discussed briefly in some of the following chapters , particularly those by Basil Dmytryshyn , David Collins and James Forsyth — the last concentrating on the ambiguous impact of the incoming Slavs on the aboriginal Siberian peoples — but what is important to underline in this introductory essay is that Muscovy 's expansion from the Urals to the Pacific in the seventeenth century was in a sense the territorial and colonial complement to the institutional consolidation of the political power of the Russian autocratic state . |
| 7 | The NVC is intended to provide a national standard for describing vegetation , in much the same way as a national Flora describes the species , and so it is clearly desirable to refer to the NVC in local Floras . |
| 8 | Les Aspin , a member of the US Congress and chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee , said he had a ‘ nasty surprise ’ when he saw Soviet tanks fitted with the multi-layer reactive armour during a visit to the Ukraine in August . |
| 9 | Brian — better known as BK to his friends — went to the Ukraine in November on a visit organised by the Life Church of Mobile . |
| 10 | But then he could have turned north to the Tay in safety . |
| 11 | In February , he had entered into alliance with Charles V against France ; by June , he was sending English soldiers to the Netherlands in response to a French attack . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Lancashire County Council announced it was to send representatives to the Netherlands in a bid to rescue the Leyland truck plant and the Chorley parts warehouse , where together more than 900 jobs were lost on Friday . |
| 13 | When Sunderland came to the Manor in the league in December less than 2,000 Weirsiders saw them lose 3-0 . |
| 14 | Despite the débâcle over the march , the rally had been a success and the DHAC returned to the Guildhall in late August for its largest and most successful demonstration so far , in the council chamber . |
| 15 | Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 . |
| 16 | In the Fourth Crusade especially , in 1204 , the interior was looted and the gold and treasure carried away to western Europe particularly to the Vatican in Rome . |
| 17 | Hungarians , Poles , Yugoslavs , and in time Czechs , are not drawn to the EC in the hope that it may become wider and looser . |
| 18 | Some observers suggested that Brundtland 's stance reflected domestic pressures to " stand up " to external attacks on Norway 's fishing industry , after she was criticized for making concessions to the EC in fisheries talks earlier in the year . |
| 19 | At a meeting in the Bahamas the previous month President Kennedy had persuaded the British prime minister , Harold Macmillan , to agree to the MLF in return for American Polaris missiles . |
| 20 | Zachary Wong of the liberal political group Meeting Point was returned to the Legco in a Dec. 8 by-election . |
| 21 | The result was seen as a sign of continuing support for the liberal factions which had won a sweeping victory in elections to the Legco in September [ see p. 38436 ] . |
| 22 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 23 | He attacked and defeated the British forces which Riothamus had brought to the Loire in support of the emperor . |
| 24 | The only other party to win any seats was the predominantly Moslem USNO , another BN member and the chief opponent to the PBS in the Sabah Assembly . |
| 25 | The most recent observation of the region with a filled-aperture telescope is the 20' resolution survey made at 2.3GHz : the map shown in Fig. 2 illustrates the relationship of the source to the SNR in the MOST map and the galactic ridge . |
| 26 | The approach to the CNAA in 1965 from the Scottish Woollen Textile College for the associateship in textile design to become a degree raised the questions we have already discussed regarding the position of art and design , but it also raised the question of submissions from colleges where entry standards had not been at the level of the DipTech , and where issues of the college environment needed to be discussed . |
| 27 | Differences were described in polytechnic prospectuses and submissions to the CNAA in terms of tradition , employment-orientation , relationships with industry and employers generally , and commitment to effective teaching . |
| 28 | When he retired from the chair Frank Hornby sent in a note about Clapham 's contribution to the CNAA in the early years . |
| 29 | The Emperor emerged from the cathedral itself at half past seven , escorted by the Abuna , the Patriarch of Alexandria and the Etchege , the senior monk of the realm who ranked second to the Abuna in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Church . |
| 30 | The comments above and Table 14.2 are culled from a paper I presented to the IEE in 1963 . |