Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After four hours of banging rave tunes and a whole consignment of illegal drugs , they 're in the mood to party . |
| 2 | A compromise solution may be for the vendor to hive the Target business and assets down to a newly formed target company in its group and for Newco then to acquire Target , in the knowledge that only specified liabilities have been taken over by the new Target . |
| 3 | Whilst the natural flow of the design development must be from the top to bottom of Figure I.l , due to the iterative nature of design no truly sequential relationships can be inferred from their order . |
| 4 | An individual who is not resident and ordinarily resident in the UK will , in general , also be outside the charge to capital gains tax . |
| 5 | A red national flag was chosen , no alliances with non-party forces were envisaged , the country was said to be on the road to socialism . |
| 6 | London Irish were horrified at the decision … the cherry and whites happy to be on the way to victory … |
| 7 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 8 | ‘ I suspect we are on the way to recovery and coming out of recession . |
| 9 | For his part , Maurice Strong declared that the summit had reached " agreement without sufficient commitment " , and concluded : " I believe that we are on the road to tragedy . " |
| 10 | I think you can see we are on the road to recovery . |
| 11 | So I think you can now see that we are on the road to recovery , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Another technique for delaying ejaculation is for the man to practice tensing his muscles to stop the flow while urinating . |
| 13 | Thus article 10 requires a balancing exercise to be conducted : the balance in this case is between the right to freedom of expression and such restrictions as are necessary in a democratic society for the protection of the reputation of a non-trading corporation which is also a public authority . |
| 14 | At 40 , he knows he 's on the road to fortune and admits to spending more time talking with journalists than working over hot ovens in the kitchen . |
| 15 | He has been idolised by fictional characters from Dean Moriarty in Kerouac 's On the Road to Barley in Le Carre 's The Russia House , and he is one of only two people looked up to by Miles Davis . |
| 16 | An injured swan is on the road to recovery — thanks to the ancient oriental science of acupuncture . |
| 17 | Oxfam says the country is on the road to recovery . |
| 18 | Gwen is on the road to recovery , and they plan a West Indies holiday together — after a year of painful radiotherapy and chemotherapy . |
| 19 | So , at the age of 31 , instead of standing in court in a pinstripe making pleas in mitigation for the Saturday night disorderly drunks , he is on the road to fame , suitcase and guitar in hand . |
| 20 | It seems the only time I can ever talk to you is on the way to violin lessons and on the way back . " |
| 21 | In this chapter the emphasis is on the importance to health of keeping within certain weight limits . |
| 22 | When Eglantine Jebb launched the Save The Children Fund in May nineteen nineteen , one of her aims was for the fund to work for its own extinction . |
| 23 | very little fighting in Derry was of the hand to hand nature . |
| 24 | Leading by 2 seconds after 2 days , McRae was on the road to victory ; the first for Britain in 16 years . |
| 25 | SICK pop idol Michael Jackson was on the road to recovery yesterday as furious fans slammed the way his Wembley concert was cancelled . |
| 26 | it could expand , unless it could gather strength and produce an army er it was on the road to annihilation which was their the course of erm Chiang Kai-Shek 's was n't it ? |