Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 2 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 3 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 4 | Gerard had returned to his home in the Catholic area off North Queen Street after a trip to the local swimming baths with friends . |
| 5 | Steve Tomalin says : I started last year after a trip to the Alps . |
| 6 | He pointed to the green roll and after a pause to the navy . |
| 7 | A visit due to be made to Suva by Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans in November 1990 was cancelled by Mara after a speech to the UN General Assembly in which Evans derided the new Constitution . |
| 8 | After a flight to the east , your body is behind the new local time and to adjust to it you will have to advance your body clock . |
| 9 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 10 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 11 | This strangeness will very quickly pass in the same way as a capped tooth or new filling feels peculiar after a visit to the dentist yet , after a couple of days , we do not even notice it any more . |
| 12 | He refused , so after a visit to the General Hospital , almost empty of patients and deserted by Burmese staff , with the remaining civilian doctors and sisters about to leave , I set off sadly with several stragglers and drove through the night to Prome . |
| 13 | After a visit to the cottage hospital one day , Reid said to me , ‘ There 's nothing to do , Kit . |
| 14 | The Flowerpot Men after a visit to the local haberdashers |
| 15 | ‘ The discourtesy shown to me , down to the last detail … was not expected and I profoundly resent it , ’ he wrote to his brother after a visit to the new Prime Minister at Chequers . |
| 16 | One of Mr Paull 's interests is dowsing and after a visit to the famous crop circle , he returned home with samples of the cereal from inside and outside the circle . |
| 17 | And the Punch cartoon depicting BRITISH LIPMAN on the side of a Telecom van , and the newspaper hoarding which stopped my daughter and me in our tracks after a visit to the acupuncturist in Baker Street . |
| 18 | Eighteen years later Jean Genet commented that he could see the revolution could n't work after a visit to the Odeon , occupied by students and workers . |
| 19 | A report published on Aug. 19 in Washington , written by two staff members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee after a visit to the region on Aug. 7-14 , estimated that 35,000 people had died in Bosnia since late March ; Bosnian Moslems formed the largest group of casualties . |
| 20 | After a visit to the White House on April 3rd by relatives of the victims of Pan Am flight 103 , the airliner blown up over Lockerbie , Scotland , the Bush administration announced stricter airport-security standards . |
| 21 | Speaking after a visit to the Soviet Union , he said that the state of the Chernobyl plant was " shocking " , and he called for the closure of the three reactors still operational [ see Chernobyl article in this issue ] . |
| 22 | SPEAKING after a visit to the headquarters of the Cleveland Ambulance Service , Paul Raynor , Conservative candidate for Middlesbrough , said the government 's NHS reforms were already bringing tremendous benefits to the people of Cleveland . |
| 23 | Two consultants from Newcastle General Hospital , Dr Anil Gholkar and David Mendelow , have returned to Tyneside after a visit to the main hospital in Bejing , China . |
| 24 | A court in America has heard claims that a woman became infected with the virus after a visit to the dentist . |
| 25 | Its most poignant moment is the reprise of the opening line , ‘ She is no more ! , effected , after a modulation to the relative , via chord V in F minor to chord I in A major . |
| 26 | If permission were given after an application to the planning committee , the monument would be erected east of the Nelson monument above the former Royal High School building , which would have housed a Scottish parliament if the Conservatives had lost the general election last April . |
| 27 | After an appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof , the European Court of Justice affirmed that a fresh examination had to be made under Article 27(2) , and the court in the state where enforcement was sought was not bound by the determination made under Article 15 of the Hague Convention . |
| 28 | Mrs Hawkins agreed to put it into practice after an appeal to the public . |
| 29 | The death penalty , upheld after an appeal to the Supreme Court on Feb. 16 and subsequently confirmed by the Council of State chaired by President Fidel Castro , had been passed on Feb. 5 by the Havana Popular Provincial Court . |
| 30 | In 1286 he joined Edward in Gascony , after an embassy to the papal curia , and in 1289–90 he journeyed once again to the curia to discuss , inter alia , the granting of a papal dispensation for the marriage of Edward of Carnarvon , Edward 's son , to Margaret of Scotland , the Maid of Norway [ q.v. ] , and Edward 's projected crusade . |