Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian diva , whose operatic performances he faithfully attended from La Scala to the Met — for four months ? |
| 2 | On Dec. 12 an aircraft carrying two FMLN commanders to the peace negotiations was forced to land in Guatemala following an explosion on board , which occurred after a stopover in Honduras . |
| 3 | Union affiliations to the Labour Party had been confined to those " contracting in " under the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 , and the total of affiliated unionists stood at two million throughout the 1930s . |
| 4 | In return for a £250 donation to the Appeal Fund we will give you an engraved Time Capsule measuring 75mm dia. × 230mm long ( 3″ × 9″ ) . |
| 5 | We received an encouraging 50% response to the questionnaire , with 63 of the 129 initial pilot centres sending us their replies . |
| 6 | Growing publicity over ambulance response times to the area has led to several people contacting Teesdale councillors with their own stories of delays . |
| 7 | Growing publicity over the subject of Durham Ambulance response times to the area has led to several people contacting Teesdale councillors with their own stories of delays . |
| 8 | ‘ The developer is seeking the release for housing of a one field width strip parallel to the Glebe Road which had previously been turned down by planners . |
| 9 | A hydraulic fracture is generally expected to propagate in a vertical plane in a direction perpendicular to the minimum horizontal stress azimuth . |
| 10 | Assertion ( 4 ) is falsifiable because a ray of light incident on a mirror at some oblique angle could conceivably be reflected in a direction perpendicular to the mirror . |
| 11 | Take the same geometrical configuration as in the previous example but assume that the rectangular coil is moving with a constant velocity u in a direction perpendicular to the straight wire . |
| 12 | As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official . |
| 13 | Sgurr a' Chaorachain and Beinn Bhan rise to the north of the road , the latter being especially worth a visit for a dramatic view of the cliffs around the Coire na Feola . |
| 14 | These attitudes and intentions will also be influenced by the Importance of the purchase decision to the individual . |
| 15 | They were also given the job of erecting direction signs to the nearest lavatory in corridors and at the exits to lecture rooms . |
| 16 | User reactions to the tape-slide medium were very positive . |
| 17 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 18 | It 's prompted council officers in Oxfordshire to put their contingency plans to the test . |
| 19 | ‘ That you rebuild the villa as a health farm and hydro , we recognize the need to brine money to the area ; establish a nature trail with two rangers , me and Jake , and you can have your holiday village if you reconstruct the marching camp and put some huts up there with thatched roofs like an old British hill fort . ’ |
| 20 | In other words , there must be a tension in the area just ahead of the crack and in a direction parallel to the crack surfaces . |
| 21 | The first development of the Tollmien-Schlichting waves is that they become three-dimensional ; their amplitude varies in the lateral direction parallel to the wall . |
| 22 | The signals are then fed via the cable link to the person 's home . |
| 23 | And that we actually op adopted a b a modern sensible er , reasonable attitude towards all living creatures and that we do today vote to ban fox hunting it is anachronistic as I said earlier , it is not necessary it actually causes harm , not only does it cause harm to foxes , but at least in one case , which is sufficient for me to continue my support for the ban damage to the people in my area . |
| 24 | Also prohibited was payment of ransom or protection money to the guerrillas by farmers and businesspeople ; companies proved to have paid such money would lose their operating licences . |
| 25 | The District 's Annual Report for 1959–60 said that , although the WEA 's national officers were still trying to achieve this increased grant , the Eastern had exceptionally-strong claims and accordingly ‘ we are now pressing for special consideration ’ : in other words , Jacques was arguing with the Ministry that , even if it could not afford 90% grant to the WEA as a whole , could this not be allowed to the Eastern District individually ? |
| 26 | The islands achieved departmental status in 1946 , each sending deputies to the French National Assembly ( elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term ) and representatives to the Senate . |
| 27 | From Holt Fleet the Way crosses the parkland of Ombersley Court and passes through the village of Ombersley and across Westwood Park to the town of Droitwich the route continues along the Roman Salt Way and goes through a variety of farms , follows a canal and passes through several small villages . |
| 28 | THE ‘ HORRENDOUS ’ cost of tunnelling in south London has driven Cecil Parkinson , the Secretary of State for Transport , to consider seriously an alternative route for the high-speed rail link to the Channel tunnel . |
| 29 | Heseltine shafted British Rail — and to a degree erstwhile Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind — by forcing through Cabinet the controversial east London route for the fast rail link to the Channel Tunnel . |
| 30 | A rail link to the B.R. network is considered vital to the E.L.R. 's longer term operations to allow excursion trains in and out and to permit ease of access to visiting locos and rolling stock . |