Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had also owned the house next door to Christie 's round in Rillington Place . |
| 2 | The days following our visit to Johanna were full of frenetic busyness : Benjamin had to pack our belongings , I had to sell a cup ( I 'd stolen this from Wolsey ) and draw what money I had deposited with the goldsmiths . |
| 3 | The 1908 Rules point out that the return fare to Henley is available at the price of a ‘ single , plus a quarter , on the club member personally presenting his membership card , properly signed , to the booking clerk at a Great Western Railway Station ’ . |
| 4 | Exports to Germany are equivalent to 15% of Holland 's GDP , 12% of Belgium 's and 11% of Austria 's , compared with only 4% of France 's and 3% of Italy 's and Britain 's . |
| 5 | Neighbor to Neighbor were delighted with the free publicity provoked by the row , but have been effectively frozen out of TV advertising — since P&G made its announcement , only one other TV station has run the advert . |
| 6 | In contrast to the books written then , The Road to Jaramillo is full of insight into the interactions , communications , thoughts and impressions that make scientific problem solving enlightening . |
| 7 | The opposition to Raybestos was unusual in that it involved the formation of an autonomous women 's group , in which up to 30 women became involved . |
| 8 | No visit to Pickering is complete without going to Beck Isle Museum . |
| 9 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 10 | Under the 1985 Pressler Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act , US aid to Pakistan was dependent on the President certifying that Pakistan did not possess a " nuclear explosive device " . |
| 11 | Negotiations for the player 's £60,000 transfer to Parkhead are ongoing with Bangor insisting that Byrne plays out the season here . |
| 12 | Afterwards , he ensured the men who had accompanied him to Scotland were well before sending Ranulf off to wash their clothes and busy himself about the abbey . |
| 13 | This concession to Vichy was unacceptable to de Gaulle on grounds of self-interest , because it reduced the stature and role of Free France . |
| 14 | First , however , we must go back to Schleiermacher 's contemporary in Berlin . |
| 15 | I 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to . |
| 16 | She went to Tyler 's Hard with Nigel Mossop , a colleague at Mallender Marine , on the twenty-eighth of August . |
| 17 | Dark Age Boiotian emigrants to Anatolia are responsible for Boiotian-type place-names like Erythrai and Mykale in Asia Minor ( though the red , erythros , soil of Boiotian Erythrai and the red stone of the Ionian city make the name physically appropriate for both ) . |
| 18 | The area from here to Reeth is rich in the history of lead-mining and the moors about are riddled with shafts and workings . |
| 19 | Idly Jehan wondered how it was possible to ensure that every woman made available to Artai was incapable of childbirth . |
| 20 | While Thomas had inherited her nose and her chin , the likeness to Vitor was apparent in the shape and darkness of his eyes , in the line of his mouth . |
| 21 | My obligation to Harry is sacred for his father 's sake , even if I did not love him like my own . |
| 22 | THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL is supposed to be a neato film . |
| 23 | No trip to Chamonix is complete without skiing the Vallee Blanche . |
| 24 | An alternative and more interesting route of return to Clapham is available by following the wall west , turning south , from the end of the Allotment , passing other satellites of Gaping Gill , descending Trow Gill and joining the pleasant path along the valley of Clapham Beck . |
| 25 | The volume telling us of the coming of salvation to Israel is complete with the death and resurrection of Jesus . |
| 26 | No holiday to Egypt is complete without a visit to Cairo , the busy , bustling capital of this ancient country and a sightseer 's delight . |
| 27 | Alexei thought that marriage to Jehana was likely to be anything but settling , but he did not argue . |
| 28 | He was remembering , too ; the air thus near to Parfois was full of memories . |
| 29 | No trip to Holland is complete without a trip to the historical capital Amsterdam . |
| 30 | Defending its latest manoeuvre , Stratus says ‘ the move from complex instruction set to RISC was difficult , RISC to RISC is straightforward by comparison . ’ |