Example sentences of "[noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Winter may have repelled invaders from Napoleon to Hitler , but he is a domestic tyrant from whom successive regimes have sought to escape by pushing south to more friendly climes and warm-water ports . |
| 2 | I knew too that he was supposed to have exclaimed , ‘ By God , sir , I 've lost my leg ! ’ and that the Duke , momentarily removing the telescope from his eye , replied , ‘ By God , sir , so you have ! ’ immediately resuming his scrutiny of the Prussians and his own ‘ infamous army ’ chasing Napoleon to his doom . |
| 3 | A dynastic match : the marriage of Prince Napoleon to Princesse Clotilde of Piedmont , January 1859 . |
| 4 | There are yet more clues in Marx 's exposition of the autonomous state in the France of Louis Napoleon to the power of bureaucracy in the post-colonial situation . |
| 5 | The evident plagiarism which underlay her ‘ prodigious ’ contributions to polymer science was too obvious to require special demonstration except to the inquiring scientific minds of the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry which elected Elena Ceauşescu to its membership . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Temperatures at the lake-beds in about 6 m depths were higher than at the surface when ice was present , rising from 1°C in mid-May to about 3°C in late July . |
| 8 | From mid-May to late June , though , the bats were nor particularly concentrated round the street lights . |
| 9 | She had travelled to Maidenhead to his old address and the new occupants of his small mansion had no idea where he had gone . |
| 10 | From Axe Edge , on the Buxton to Leek road , the shapely reef peaklets of Chrome and Parkhouse Hills can be seen , lying lengthways on the banks of the Dove . |
| 11 | For many abolitionists emancipation was celebrated by raising Buxton to the pantheon of heroes . |
| 12 | Tesseract will port Primrose to Unix by year end using Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Pyramid Technology Corp multi-processors . |
| 13 | Public transport : bus service from Grasmere to Windermere Railway Station ( numbers 518 & 555 ) . |
| 14 | Overheard on the Bathgate to Edinburgh train last Saturday , as a passenger observed rugby fans tucking into champagne and chicken legs in the Murrayfield car park : ‘ Well , hen , ’ she observed to her companion , ‘ that 's the biggest car-boot sale ah 've ever seen . ’ |
| 15 | These figures were put in perspective by a report from Lowell Observatory in Arizona to a meeting , in Boston . |
| 16 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 17 | It 's something of a shock after the deserts of Utah and Arizona to be greeted by Canadian-style pine forests and snow showers in early June . |
| 18 | To counter this unwelcome threat to its monopoly of Cleveleys traffic , Blackpool offered to run a bus service — its first — from Thornton Station to Cleveleys and to carry goods along the tramroad from Fleetwood to Cleveleys . |
| 19 | The Institute bankers were being changed from Lloyds to the Royal Bank of Scotland in order to obtain better interest rate bands on cash deposited . |
| 20 | Following an official visit by Jaruzelski to Moscow , the Polish Foreign Ministry announced on April 17 , 1990 , that the 1965 Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance with the Soviet Union would be renegotiated , and by removing communist elements of the document , the review would replace ideological obligation by normal state-to-state relations . |
| 21 | Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law . |
| 22 | Jack Birkenshaw , back where he has always felt he most belongs , has a hard job ahead in trying to restore Leicestershire to their long-lost glories . |
| 23 | Hugh promoted Elias to the Lincoln prebend of Lafford and in November 1212 appointed him executor of his will . |
| 24 | Modern zoologists put it in the Wallacean sub-region along with its adjacent islands , together with the Philippines ( except Palawan and the Calamian group of islands ) and the Lesser Sundas from Lombok to Timor . |
| 25 | When it convened Joseph instructed the white men to leave the valley , and turn over Findley and McNall to the Nez Perce for trial . |
| 26 | Pam Ashton will take the Trans Pennine Trail , a route she is helping to establish , which stretches from Southport to Hornsea on the east coast . |
| 27 | Organised by Merseyside Training and Enterprise Council in association with the Department of Trade and Industry , the TEC Tour will spend 10 days visiting business parks and industrial estates from Southport to Speke starting next Monday . |
| 28 | British Rail released details of the damage to Saturday 's 8.49pm Southport to Hunt 's Cross train only last night . |
| 29 | Ferguson marked his return by latching on to an Alan Main clearance to beat Murdoch to the jump on the edge of the box , and head in the fourth . |
| 30 | THE University of Stirling has appointed Dr Brian Murdoch to a personal chair in German . |