Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From mid-May to mid-June the Mozarts stayed in Naples , where they visited Vesuvius and Pompeii , went to the opera at the beautiful San Carlo theatre , and were received by the King and Queen of Naples . |
| 2 | Here ruled the successors to Alexander the Great ( d.323 BC ) , who had extended Greek culture far beyond Greece to Asia Minor , Cyprus , Egypt and the Middle East . |
| 3 | Roman generals who campaigned in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean during the second and first centuries BC were regarded by the Greeks as successors to the Macedonian kings , who were in their turn successors to Alexander the Great ( d.323 BC ) . |
| 4 | Returning from exile to head the newly formed Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , Prestes was imprisoned for nine years in 1935 for leading an unsuccessful uprising against the dictator Getúlio Vargas ( 1930-45 ) and on his release was elected to the Senate with the highest personal vote of any candidate . |
| 5 | Several , including Taki , returned from exile to contest the elections . |
| 6 | The coordination and crystal structure of ionic lattices is largely determined by two factors : the ratio of cations to anions the radius ratio of the ions |
| 7 | It was a tool used by farriers to Pare the hoof of a horse and known as a butteris , buttress or buttrace . |
| 8 | Perhaps too much emphasis was given in hyper-Calvinism to God the lawgiver ? |
| 9 | So when Scotland Yard sent us photographs of criminals that we were dealing with , we used to have to take this descriptive form and photograph to Walters the photographers in Plane , and he charged sixpence to copy the photograph . |
| 10 | In a bid to make-up the missing funds Ian has written to more than 350 companies throughout County Durham . |
| 11 | After jumping 2½p to 20½p the shares closed at 17p , valuing the group at around £50m . |
| 12 | Some attempts were made by political parties to annexe the cooperative representation movement , acts that were exploited by J C Carroll in a circular stating that resolutions in support of the Labour Party were being forwarded , together with proposals to finance political work by increasing contributions ( see interviews with S F Perry , Secretary of the Cooperative Representation Committee in Cooperative News 29 March 19 , 5 April 19 ) . |
| 13 | It is a penalty if it was not a genuine attempt by the parties to pre-estimate the likely damages but was intended to hang in terror over one party to ensure that he carried out the contract . |
| 14 | He banishes Hippolytus and prays for his death , which is granted when Poseidon sends a sea monster to upturn the young man 's chariot . |
| 15 | Now that the season is ended it would be appropriate for your Finance Department to invoice the Regional Council for this sum . |
| 16 | It was this regime which sent a gift of 300 horses and five four-horse chariots to Alexander the Great ( Diod. xvii.49 ) , and sold off Cyrene 's corn to the Greek world in time of shortage ( Tod 196 ) . |
| 17 | Common sense ( or observation ) may show that the pattern of behaviour requires the forecaster to give progressively less weight to values the further back in time they occur . |
| 18 | They brought the colt to Jesus the animals and Jesus got on . |
| 19 | The church floor was swept and washed clean , thanks to Cecily the courtesan who had earned her pennies honestly by scrubbing every inch . |
| 20 | P.S. Thanks to Mark the new ‘ funny antics ’ after scoring . |
| 21 | ‘ Give my thanks to Bartholomew the Englishman , ’ Cranston replied drily , ‘ but it does n't explain why a London merchant came down here in the dark , fastened a rope round a beam and hanged himself . ’ |
| 22 | I would have like to see some attempt to error-trap the data input routine , but help with record location is good and editing is easy , so reliance on the good sense of the computer operator should be a feasible proposition . |
| 23 | A misguided attempt to bombard the Castle with rocks conveyed by magically controlled Wyverns failed spectacularly in 1513 , while demonstrating the accuracy and numbers of the undead archers within the towers of the Castle . |
| 24 | Right , and stem the bleeding if you can see where it 's coming from attempt to stem the bleeding , bung the hole up , okay ? |
| 25 | This was Watson 's first known attempt to short-circuit the information filters that build up as organisations get larger . |
| 26 | Having proved he can hurt everyone , Clinton then has to do the Democrat thing , and attempt to fine-tune the economy . |
| 27 | Biya had announced the holding of the elections , originally scheduled to take place in March 1993 , in early September , in a move regarded by many observers as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition . |
| 28 | Since all four windings in one stack must be excited concurrently it is common practice to interconnect the windings to form one phase . |
| 29 | The customer sold the car to X. The finance company rejected the offers . |
| 30 | Pentos shares had dropped to 61p on the Monday before Christmas , having slipped 5.5p to 65.5p the previous week . |