Example sentences of "to [noun prp] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely his Cenotaph to Newton was the greatest tribute one visionary could pay to another ? |
| 2 | Carrington 's second flight to Stockholm was the most difficult of his life . |
| 3 | I do n't know , it was just a novelty , we 'd never ever , I remember an , an aunt of ours that lived in Plymouth near us , she had a house with an upstairs , but she had a downstairs toilet , so we never got to go upstairs you know it 's just one of those stupid things I suppose , I , I thought it was great and another attraction was I think one of the main reasons you got us to really want to come to Harlow was the fact that we 'd have a television |
| 4 | Möllemann 's visit to Taiwan was the first by a German federal minister . |
| 5 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 6 | The expansion in manufactured exports to Portugal was the result of sixty years of prosperity in the gold mines of Brazil . |
| 7 | The most amusing thing about the period of my engagement to Karen was the degree of role reversal involved . |
| 8 | Another who seems to have greatly appreciated his visit to Scotland was the Spanish ambassador Don Pedro d'Ayala , who wrote an account of the country at the desire of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1498 . |
| 9 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 10 | Next to Tuscany was the state led by Venice — the Venetian Republic — as near as anyone came to a democracy in the 16th century . |
| 11 | What had really counted to Eva was the covenant service preceding the commissioning . |
| 12 | Mr Genscher , who appears to have arranged the solution in talks with his East German , Czechoslovak and Polish counterparts in the United Nations , said his trip to Prague was the most moving of his career . |
| 13 | MITCH Cook 's transfer to Blackpool was the only deadline day deal for Darlington . |
| 14 | Next morning the sky had cleared but the winds had increased and the remainder of that 300 mile flight from Swift Current to Calgary was the roughest I have ever experienced before or since . |
| 15 | Hurd 's visit to China was the first by so senior a UK minister since the crushing of the Chinese pro-democracy movement in June 1989 . |
| 16 | But Doyle himself realised just how real the threat to Hendry was the day a large parcel arrived at his Stirling offices . |
| 17 | I needed a break and a ticket to Corfu was the medicine I 'd had in mind for a considerable time . |
| 18 | Yet at the end of the eighties the only government money paid to BR was the rapidly dwindling subsidy paid to Provincial and Network SouthEast sectors to support loss-making services and talk continued of ‘ bustitution ’ , however ridiculed it was by professional transport executives . |
| 19 | The payment to Athena was the aparche , the ‘ firstfruits ’ in a religious sense . |
| 20 | The Lifetime Award to Tremayne was the work of a taken-over revitalised hotel chain aiming to crash the racing scene with sponsorship in a big way . |
| 21 | He adds that ‘ There is little doubt that here existed a town in the time of the Britons ’ and a settlement grew around the Druidic university which according to Peck was the ancient British city of Doorebriff , meaning ‘ sharp stream ’ . |
| 22 | Her marriage to Bill was the beginning of a very happy part of her life and his death in 1990 left her bereft . |
| 23 | Back in 1983 , one exploit that can with reasonable certainty be attributed to Iraq was the attack in July on Iran 's small Nowruz offshore oilfield , causing a large crude-oil slick and heightened environmental concern around the Gulf . |
| 24 | However , the Employment minister , Mr Tim Eggar , last night insisted the most effective social dimension to Europe was the single market , not regulations on employment . |
| 25 | Central to Thorngumbald was the blacksmith 's shop , hub of working activity for a large area , now rebuilt as a modern garage but still owned by the fourth generation of Willinghams . |
| 26 | Yet another new idea the Romans brought to Britain was the private bedroom . |
| 27 | One of the ideas the Romans brought to Britain was the fertilization of the soil by manuring . |
| 28 | Her three-day trip to France was the catalyst of all that was and is to come . |
| 29 | And he had also seen , with a flash of insight , that being ‘ kind ’ to Sandra was the worst cruelty he could inflict on her . |
| 30 | Perhaps the argument that constituted the most serious threat to Copernicus was the so-called tower argument . |