Example sentences of "of [noun] to [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lets hope Community Care will be a constant companion and source of support to Thompson in the future . |
| 2 | Both French nationals , Mrs de Menil was born a Schlumberger , an Alsatian family whose fortune was made in oil drilling equipment , and which transferred is centre of operations to Texas in 1942 . |
| 3 | A land corridor was successfully opened from the Croatian port of Split to Sarajevo on July 29 . |
| 4 | He sent waggon-loads of treasure and a great entourage of knights to Saragossa with requests for a formal reconciliation . |
| 5 | This allowed the government to allocate sums of money to LEAs for particular educational purposes , thus reducing the local authorities ' control over how the block grant was spent . |
| 6 | The destination — as so often with this ship — was Honduras in Central America , quite a rich source of exports to England at the time , including the mahogany which was used for so much 19th-century furniture . |
| 7 | JTR travelled on to Bute on the Iona and thence through the Kyles of Bute to Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne where passengers transhipped for the continuing boat journey through the Crinan Canal to the open seas and islands of the West Coast of Argyll . |
| 8 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 9 | Now that sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 10 | Donations last year amounted to £1,230.50 , which encourages members to make a donation annually , as an expression of thankfulness to God for health and strength . |
| 11 | Mark bought an elephant , Tara , for £4000 and embarked on a 600 mile trek with five eccentric Indian companions , from Konarak on the shores of the Bay of Bengal to Sonepur by the mighty River Ganges . |
| 12 | They had to operate from a precariously-held line stretching 800 kilometres from Akyab on the Bay of Bengal to Ledo at the foot of the Tibetan mountains . |
| 13 | After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier . |
| 14 | A group based in Minneapolis , Pastors for Peace , is planning to send a shipment of aid to Cuba on July 16th from 11 American cities , including Miami . |
| 15 | It was ironic that Mr Lamont gave details of aid to BR at the same time as the old-world Princess Margaret Rose was steaming across the countryside to London 's Marylebone station to raise £2 million for the museum-like Great Central Railway . |
| 16 | [ See p. 36870 for Japanese suspension of aid to Myanma in October 1988 and the partial resumption of aid in February 1989 . ] |
| 17 | Where the door remains shut , this kind of openness to God in worship can remain incomprehensible and even irritating . |
| 18 | The widow 's ivory face , framed in its veil of luxurious black curls , seemed more exquisite than ever and Athelstan said a prayer of thanks to God for such beauty . |
| 19 | And of course a vote of thanks to FIFA for ensuring the league 's Welsh internationals were able to represent club and country in the same week . |
| 20 | The society obviously accepted that the resigning secretary acted in good faith , for a month later it passed a vote of thanks to Huntingford for ‘ his unremitting zeal in extending the extra connection of the Society , and in soliciting the correspondence of other Agriculture Societies and Individuals , and his Diligence in forwarding the attendance of Committees , in preparing the business of all meetings and in arranging the correspondence and other Communications to the Society ’ . |
| 21 | The construction of detailed migration histories from census and archival evidence will enable the project to examine themes such as migration paths , the impact of migration on communities in Wales , and the effect of migration to England on the survival of Welsh culture . |
| 22 | It has been stoked primarily by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Russian vice-president , who has warned that it may be time to review Khrushchev 's gift of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 , and by President Kravchuk , a Communist Party boss turned Ukrainian nationalist . |
| 23 | ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said . |
| 24 | The grant of independence to India in 1947 removed the keystone from the British imperial archway , but , because India and Pakistan became Dominions in the fashion of Canada , Australia and New Zealand , nothing seemed to change : the Empire went on . |
| 25 | The trend accelerated greatly with the coming of Independence to India in 1947 and then to other countries of the Far East . |
| 26 | Zuckerman 's proposal of marriage to Maria in The Counterlife is an indication of its importance , and of the importance of escape both for the tradition and for the unsatisfiable Roth . |
| 27 | Upset by what he had seen and casting around for someone to blame , he translated his guilt into aggression and resurrected the threat of marriage to Sien as a supposed solution . |
| 28 | Mr Smith , a Northampton headmaster , has been involved in bringing hundreds of refugees to Britain from the Yugoslav war zone . |
| 29 | Unrest continued , however , culminating in a mass exodus of refugees to Italy in January and March 1991 [ see pp. 37972 ; 38105 ] . |
| 30 | It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight . |