Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gratitude for the invitation to pay a brief tribute to Jim Byam Shaw on his retirement from active participation in the affairs of his famous firm must be tempered for an old friend by reflection on the difficulties that any such tribute involves . |
| 2 | According to Jim Sillars MP , senior vice-convener of the SNP , the irony is that the SNP know very little of the man . |
| 3 | Yes my daughter went , went to Gall Place Hotel swimming pool a lot . |
| 4 | American book prize goes to Hiram Powers monograph |
| 5 | The plan was put forward in a letter to Cardinal Amleto Cicognani , Secretary of State , dated 18 October 1962 , when the Council was barely a week old ( L'Osservatore Romano , 26 January 1984 , or Hebblethwaite , 1984 pp. 442–4 ) . |
| 6 | Something of this cultural cosmopolitanism may be gauged from the fortunes of the psalter given in 1318 to Cardinal Gaucelme Duèse , papal nuncio to England and nephew of John XXII , by Geoffrey of Croyland , abbot of Peterborough . |
| 7 | Octogesima Adveniens ( 1971 ) on the 80th anniversary of Rerum Novarum was not an encyclical but a letter to Cardinal Maurice Roy , then president of International Justice and Peace . |
| 8 | In 1516 he was associated with Vertue in designing new works at Eton College , the west range and Lupton 's tower , but early in 1515 he had already become architect to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey [ q.v. ] |
| 9 | She has already written to the Superior General of the Dublin-based order , and to Cardinal Cathal Daly , the Primate of Ireland . |
| 10 | This volume closes with a long inventory of the furnishings belonging to Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga not long before his death in 1756 . |
| 11 | To General von Zwehl the slaughter of his triumphant corps was particularly galling . |
| 12 | Sir John French , Commander-in-Chief of the BEF , proposed to General Joseph Joffre , French Commander-in-Chief , that the British Army should be moved northward . |
| 13 | This was duly reported to General Joseph Galliéni , now Minister of War , who had heard similar disquieting news from other sources . |
| 14 | On the second day of ‘ Operation Just Cause ’ the US still had no idea of the whereabouts of General Noriega , according to General Colin Powell , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff . |
| 15 | He is a cunning military strategist : he has a ‘ game plan ’ for the war , and according to General Colin Powell , he is ‘ resourceful ’ and ‘ ingenious ’ in implementing it . |
| 16 | Lady James is related through her mother to General William Beresford , who briefly captured Buenos Aires in 1806 . |
| 17 | Christian MPs close to General Michel Aoun wanted to talk first about a Syrian withdrawal , in according with the general 's instructions . |
| 18 | Blake left the navy in 1947 with an excellent report on his work , a copy of which was sent to General Gerald Templer , Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office . |
| 19 | Menu of the historic dinner given to General Jan Christiaan Smuts in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords , 15 May I 917 . |
| 20 | At this lunch I was introduced to General Aung San by U Tin Tut . |
| 21 | Malcolm Macqueen , a nephew of an Inverness laird , and recommended by Norman Macleod of Macleod to General Simon Fraser as surgeon of his regiment , had studied medicine at Edinburgh university and had recommendations from his professors , but Macqueen 's qualifications were rounded off by his ability to speak Gaelic ‘ in its purity , which is necessary for a surgeon of a Highland regiment ’ . |
| 22 | The principal part in the attack was given to General Sir Hubert Gough 's Fifth Army , with one corps of Plumer 's Second Army on its right flank and the French First Army , under General Francois Anthoine , on its left . |
| 23 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito . |
| 24 | Haig had one compelling argument in favour of attack — the decisive , though limited , victory at Messines , although the credit for that was rightly ascribed almost entirely to General Sir Herbert Plumer . |
| 25 | A Briton heads Nato 's Army Rapid Reaction Corps and another is second-in-command to General John Galvin , the American Supreme Allied Commander in Europe . |
| 26 | The Faculty of Music owes its existence to General John Reid , soldier in George III 's army , music lover , amateur composer and benefactor . |
| 27 | Officials of the ANC 's rival black nationalist group , the radical Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , have also arrived in Abuja and will be holding talks with Mr de Klerk today , according to General Ike Nwachukwu , Nigeria 's Foreign Minister . |
| 28 | By the time the two sides prepared to meet on the field of Gettysburg , Llewellyn had risen to be the aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee the Confederate commander . |
| 29 | Thomas Forster had been assigned to General George Carpenter , a highly experienced cavalry officer . |
| 30 | A similar call was made to General de Bazelaire , now commanding units on the Left Bank . |