Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the half year to September , Merrydown reported profits down 19% to £760,000 reflecting strong competition . |
| 2 | Whitbread 's pre-tax profits for the half year to August rose to £128.5million against £110.6million a year earlier . |
| 3 | Pre-tax profits for the half year to August are flat , only Pounds 500,000 ahead at £143m , and the UK slump has slammed the lid on margins . |
| 4 | Supermarket group Asda delivered a Christmas bonus in the shape of much improved profits for the half year to November . |
| 5 | Revenues for Scholastic Corporation , the American parent company , rose 13% for the half year to $256.9m . |
| 6 | It is clear that yield can vary quite considerably with coupon for the same term to maturity , and with term to maturity for different coupons . |
| 7 | Jean Goodwin presented a £300 cheque to Dr. Bathall for Cardiac Support Group , and Heather Trimming presented a cheque for the same amount to Mrs. Todd for the Alton branch of Sight Concern Hampshire . |
| 8 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 9 | As Fidel Castro 's revolution entered its 33rd year this month , shortages of food and consumer goods were the most obvious of the many challenges to Cuba 's Caribbean version of socialism . |
| 10 | An alternative had to be found and it was , in the shape of the former Bury to Heywood line . |
| 11 | By combining information on ships and shipowners found in the Liverpool Plantation Registers with material on the voyages of the same ships to Africa and the Americas gleaned from other trade and shipping records , it is possible to reconstruct in considerable depth a major port 's involvement in the Atlantic trades at this time , and to begin to assess their impact on economic change in its hinterland . |
| 12 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 13 | One of the few clues to Joan Main 's whereabouts appeared to be a birthday card she 's sent to her mother from Newport . |
| 14 | The applications , which are likely to be approved , involve changing the use from a restaurant to a pub , including a flat on the first floor , and changing the use of a former restaurant to offices . |
| 15 | This constitutes " a green desert " of no more use to wildlife than a regularly mown and weeded lawn . |
| 16 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 17 | As a former aide to president Johnson told Paul Light in early 1979 : From the president 's perspective Congress had become impossibly formless in structure . |
| 18 | Waters Lunniss , the stockbroker owned by the Norwich & Peterborough Building Society , will allow up to four members of a family with the same surname to pool all their shares and pay commission of only 1½ per cent or £10 a person , whichever is greater . |
| 19 | He observed Jane Pargeter come out of the kitchen — the neck of her shirt folded up , her forearms freckled but brown from a recent holiday with the same attention to detail . |
| 20 | Captain Goldsborough , wrapped in his thick , black fur , and with a little time to while away until the road should be clear of wedding-carriages , appeared to be telling her so . |
| 21 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 22 | Trollope thus praises Mr Thorne for continuing to inhabit the great hall at Ullathorne Court ( there is no dining-room ) , with no more concession to modernity than a modem grate , although it is now only the socially acceptable , not the humble , who come to the great front door that opens into it . |
| 23 | The relationship between the Review and Scrutiny is best seen within the context of the general reception given in the former journal to modernism , and especially to T. S. Eliot . |
| 24 | A FIRST step to bring perpetrators of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia to justice were taken yesterday when the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution to set up war crimes trials . |
| 25 | PHOENIX TIMBER 'S profit fell from £995,000 to £479,000 in the half year to September 30 after some pressure on mrgins . |
| 26 | PHOENIX TIMBER 'S profit fell from £995,000 to £479,000 in the half year to September 30 after some pressure on margins . |
| 27 | The average passenger spent 3% less time at the airports but the numbers are 4m ahead at 44m in the half year to September . |
| 28 | The four companies revealed substantial losses in the half year to September , as the public reaction to the corruption allegations grew , and as the mood in the Tokyo exchange remained subdued by the property price collapse afflicting the country . |
| 29 | One is bound up with the fact that we do indeed suppose that there is some set of types of circumstances , each type related in the same way to startings-to-work of the wipers . |
| 30 | The Commission argued that , even if the requirements in question formally applied in the same way to nationals of the host state , in reality they were discriminatory in terms of both their purpose and their effects , since the overwhelming majority of British nationals involved in the fishing industry were likely to fulfil the residence requirement . |