Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 2 | The full assimilation of this population to the native English and the submergence of Anglo-Norman culture within English culture took several centuries to complete , while the political separation of English and French territory was not complete until the loss of Calais to the English crown in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 3 | The first letter , from the Jews of Judaea to the Jews of Egypt , commends the celebration of the Feast of the Purification of the Temple and is dated in 124 B.C. The second letter , from Judas Maccabaeus and the people of Jerusalem to Aristobulus , " teacher of King Ptolemy ( Philometor ) " , is apparently dated in 164 B.C. : it tells the story of the end of Antiochus IV and the institution of the Feast of the Purification of the Temple . |
| 4 | Letters formal : pleas for forgiveness/mercy requests for planning permission requests that the selfish giant let people play in his garden from the Mayor of Hamelin to the Pied Piper petitions ( for the release of the children of Hamelin ) . |
| 5 | A charter in 1033 , granting the manor of Patrington to the Archbishop of York , describes the boundaries of the manor which , except on the south where changes have taken place along the river Humber , appear to coincide with the present boundaries of the parish . |
| 6 | In 1922 the percentage of households without even a plough was 32.7 in the Central Industrial Region , 33.6 in the Siberian guberniia of Omsk , and 55.8 in the guberniia of Tsaritsyn to the south of Saratov . |
| 7 | Listen to the words of Abraham to the rich man who died ‘ between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you can not ; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence . ’ |
| 8 | We quoted earlier the words of Ginguené to the effect that the conducteur 's arm was in motion during solo music at the mid-century . |
| 9 | ‘ In the words of Diaghilev to the young Jean Cocteau , astonish me , Fosdyke . ’ |
| 10 | They crossed from one side of London to the other . |
| 11 | After comfortable MCC draws against Western Australia and an Australian XI , we set off by train for more than four months of practically non-stop cricket from one side of Australia to the other . |
| 12 | Sew the looped side of Velcro to the back of the quilt and then press the two firmly together in position . |
| 13 | THURSDAY : Sail north through the straits between the mainland and the east coast of Lefkas to the island 's capital . |
| 14 | Others fly over western Europe , the west coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope . |
| 15 | Fifteen miles away from Menzion you can join the Southern Upland Way , which runs for 212 miles from the south-west coast of Scotland to the eastern seaboard . |
| 16 | His fellows include those who brought bananas from the Indian Ocean coast to the highlands of east Africa , those who brought cassava from the Atlantic coast of Angola to the forests of Zaire , and those who first trekked the hump-backed Zebu cattle down the valley of the Nile . |
| 17 | I carried in tray after tray of Whiskas to the Gairloch store . |
| 18 | The total land area affected by the accord was estimated at up to 2,000,000 sq km , some 20 per cent of Canada 's total land mass , stretching from the borders of Manitoba to the North Pole . |
| 19 | To drive from Lascaux of the prehistoric caves in the Dordogne right across country to Valence on the Rhone is possibly not the most expeditious way of getting from the deep south-west of France to the Mediterranean . |
| 20 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 21 | Alison Wardley , 25 , who left her post last September , is said to have asked the princesses to be bridesmaids and invited the Duchess of York to the April wedding in Withington , Manchester . |
| 22 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 23 | Will the United Kingdom advocate the early admission of Cyprus to the European Community ? |
| 24 | Then I headed north in the general direction of Redbridge to the Aurora Borealis Bide-A-Wee rest home or whatever they called it , determined to get Zaria well sorted . |
| 25 | In Barra and adjacent islands , machair is widespread but occurs as discrete bayhead units , although Eoligarry machair is a distinctive peninsula joining the northern part of Barra to the central massif . |
| 26 | Macaulay wrote , ‘ To represent Charles as a martyr in the cause of episcopacy is absurd … the attachment of Charles to the Church of England was altogether political … . ’ |
| 27 | The well remembered afterdinner speech made in his presidential capacity by the Prince of Wales to the BMA in December 1982 linked the name of Paracelsus with the holistic approach to medicine . |
| 28 | Or should he , de Craon wondered , abandon this game , resume his official status and demand the betrothal of the Prince of Wales to the Princess Isabella ? |
| 29 | To accelerate a body with the mass of Venus to the escape velocity of Jupiter would require a fairly impressive ‘ spit ’ ! |
| 30 | It had three advantages over the submarine system : British launching aircraft already existed whereas the submarines did not ; the American content of the total system could be reduced by manufacture under licence in the United Kingdom ; and the Americans were likely to tie the purchase of Polaris to the mixed-manned Multilateral Nuclear Force that Eisenhower was keen to foist upon NATO . |