Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Major has invited the French president to dinner tomorrow in a bid to win his support .
2 But the evidence is incontrovertible , and Anselm based his later opposition to homage entirely on the decree of 1099 .
3 The administration 's fiscal 1991 and fiscal 1992 deficit totals both excluded the costs of US military deployment and operations in the Gulf , which were to be the subject of a separate submission to Congress later in the month .
4 SOUTHEND swimmer Sarah Hardcastle made a successful return to competition yesterday after a six-year absence by winning the 400m freestyle at the Optrex National Winter Championships in Sheffield .
5 Perhaps we could first take the right to slipper away from the prefects . ’
6 The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team .
7 I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs .
8 What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants .
9 ‘ The dialectic ’ , according to Sartre , ‘ is both a method and a movement in the object ’ ( I , 20 ) : Marxism asserts simultaneously that both the process of knowledge and the structure of the real are dialectical , but it has never proved the former — basing its claim to truth instead on the ‘ dogmatic dialectic , of natural science .
10 A more immediate issue concerns the consequences for labour of a structure which gives priority to flexibility yet at the same time promises a lifetime of permanent employment which seems to imply inflexibility .
11 Bumper to arse all round the block .
12 She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night .
13 This alkali can contribute to acid neutralisation and the intraoesophageal pH increases with time in response to acid even in the absence of salivary secretion .
14 arabiensis in the Sudan , show resistance to malathion only in the adult stage and it seems evident that such resistance was not in fact selected by agricultural usage .
15 Even a dominant firm will face rivals seeking to find a window of opportunity to chip away at the dominant position .
16 Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence .
17 Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week .
18 Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week .
19 The proposals , if adopted , would mean it 'll be a criminal offence to camp anywhere without the land owner 's permission … and would give local councils the right to tow away and seize any illegally parked vehicles .
20 Glasgow companies are being coaxed into a greener approach to business today as the Made from Recycle ‘ 93 conference gets underway .
21 X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday .
22 There appears to be no policy in relation to dementia either from the point of view of the sufferer or the problems that might follow for other owner-occupiers .
23 We do that in relation to negligence generally in the civil courts , but not in the criminal courts . ’
24 I loved the trees , but having this forest next door , made sure our garden only saw the sun as he moves from east to west early in the morning .
25 In a class devoted to vaguely-worded comparisons between different world religions , or to ill-structured discussion of social and socio-political problems where no examination is taken , there may be a tendency to frivolity both in the preparation of the lessons and in the behaviour of the pupils .
26 For the latter cycle was always directly associated with the moon , whereas the Hebrew week was not but was continued from month to month and year to year regardless of the moon .
27 Before mating , pairs may join belly to belly either in an upright position , or with the female lying motionless belly-upwards just beneath the surface .
28 PRINCE CHARLES made a hush-hush trip to hospital yesterday for a knee operation .
29 For instance : in standards of textual presentation ; in ability to thumb rapidly through a text ; in immediate portability of the viewed page ( desk to bed to balcony to garden ) ; in freedom of posture for the user ( stand , sit , lie ) ; and so on .
30 Melanie had joined us , having put Antiope to bed somewhere among the tents , and so had her minder Tricia , though she was n't slamming with us , rather contenting herself with a small carton of yoghurt drink and a straw .
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