Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan 's 20 biggest brokerages reported a combined pre-tax loss for the year to end-March of ¥317 billion ( $1.5 billion ) , an increase on last year 's loss of ¥192 billion . |
| 2 | The FT Government Securities index currently stands at 88.18 against a high for the year to date of 89.75 and a low of 85.11 ( see panel ) . |
| 3 | It may be a measure of the state of the property market these days when offices are said to have shown the greatest improvement in May with capital growth ‘ improving ’ to minus 6.4 per cent , combining with stable yields and rental values to give a total return for the year to date of 1.5 per cent , according to the latest Richard Ellis Scottish Monthly Index . |
| 4 | Most drainage schemes should have some regard for the importance to wildlife of these areas , and much can be achieved on quite small areas . |
| 5 | While it is easy to imagine the value of having the information available in digital format , one realises that its preservation is not being undertaken for the value to posterity of the data , but because of its commercial value to 20th Century-Fox . |
| 6 | Derek started watching the six o'clock news on television that evening in a distracted mood , only for his attention to be seized by mention of the name Abberley during the preamble to film of a press conference held earlier in the day at Newbury Police Station . |
| 7 | R A Y N E R , and that 's your head of department in case erm , so if you look in that book in chapter four , right , there 's er agricultural trade and the GATT , if you look er , if you read that chapter , it 'll give you all the information you need to know about erm , agricultural trade , erm , how it 's changed , what the costs , there are a lot of estimates of the costs of agricultural protectionism , and as the benefits to liberalization of er , of trade , and also it gives er , a view of erm , er the Uruguay round of GATT . |
| 8 | The earliest studies were carried out in Kenya , which led policy-makers to suggest self-employment as the answer to lack of formal sector employment ( King 1979 ) . |
| 9 | There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus . |
| 10 | ( There is a strong resemblance between the rise to prominence of ‘ law and order ’ under Thatcherism in Britain and its similar rise under Ronald Reagan 's presidency in the United States ( 1991–1999 ) ; other countries also provide partial parallels . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We are talking about the return to power of the Communist nomenklatura ( party elite ) , ’ Mr Kostikov said later in an interview with Russian and Reuter television , ‘ … that very nomenklatura which fell with such a thunderous crash in August 1991 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was thinking about the irrelevance to psychoanalysis of wit and accountability , ’ said Finch . |
| 14 | Another example that illustrates the need for change is the diminished opportunity to pass deterrent sentences , not just in terms of the threat to society of a particular offender , but the threat to society that is posed by the crime at large in which these people are involved . |
| 15 | But since brachiopods were unable to do many of the things that bivalves do very efficiently , it would be unwise to attribute the decline of the brachiopods to diversification of the bivalves . |
| 16 | The tenor of the work so far indicates my view that any account of the rise to prominence of black sportsmen in Britain is hollow unless constant reference is made to the social conditions amidst which black people lived and live . |
| 17 | THE AUDEN GENERATION by Samuel Hynes Pimlico , £12 THIS literary history of England in the Thirties ( a decade often looked back upon nostalgically as the most recent time when literary giants still stalked the land ) is more than the usual glib account of the rise to fame of that precocious composite poet MacSpaunday . |
| 18 | But as the critics also point out , this trend itself has a political character , and may be interpreted as the consequence of the rise to power of a new technical-bureaucratic class or elite . |
| 19 | Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the stabbing to death of the young black schoolboy Rolan Adams and in the year since then 15 black families — council tenants and owner-occupiers — have been driven out of their homes on the Thamesmead estate . |
| 20 | Moving on from Port Erin there 's a mountain section over the three summits of Bredda Hill , Lhiattee ny Beinee and Cronk ny Arrey Las with the western sides of the hills falling down into the west side of the island to Point of Ayre there are long sections of lonely beach walks . |
| 21 | The complete procedure from cervical dislocation of the mother to delivery of the last pup should take less than 4–4.5 min . |
| 22 | He 's forced the Libyan government a cause for celebration the tenth anniversary of the coming to power of their president Colonel Gadaffi . |
| 23 | Complaints may range from criticism of the architecture of the house to criticism of the methods available for doing housework : |
| 24 | President Hafez al-Assad on March 8 , in a speech to a youth rally marking the 27th anniversary of the accession to power of the Baath Party , appeared to confirm these reports . |
| 25 | ( The defeat of National Party leader Charles Blunt was a direct result of the transference to Labor of second preference Green votes . ) |
| 26 | The ratio S of the maximum to minimum of these standing waves , known as the voltage standing wave ratio , is evidently Nodes , that is minima , of the standing wave occur when where n is any integer . |
| 27 | Conscientious objection to military service is recognised by the United Nations as a legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of thought , conscience and religion . |
| 28 | The exercise of the right to freedom of expression under article 10 may be subject to restrictions ( as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society ) in relation to certain prescribed matters , which include ‘ the interests of national security ’ and ‘ preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence . ’ |
| 29 | The exercise of the right to freedom of expression under article 10 may be subject to restrictions ( as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society ) in relation to certain prescribed matters , which include ‘ the interests of national security ’ and ‘ preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence . ’ |
| 30 | Assignment of the right to payment of the sum of money in a bank account is to be distinguished from the more usual means by which a customer transfers money to someone else . |