Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Fuel tanks were drained , leaving only enough for the pilot to taxi to the Queen Mary loading point where any surplus fuel would then be completely drained . |
2 | The marshes around Altdorf made it difficult for the Orcs to group for the assault , and several mobs of Orcs disappeared forever when they strayed into the marshes . |
3 | Great dogs do not always make great studs , but Dux sired thirty-six champions , a record for the breed to date in the USA . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It takes the shortfall for the year to date to £19.3billion and the annual total will easily top the £20billion forecast by the Chancellor , Mr John Major , in his autumn expenditure statement . |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis . |
9 | The offer of £1 , from Gold Cup sponsors TNT for the first side to score goals in the competition must have been tempting to the Reds , who more than doubled their tally for the season to date on Friday . |
10 | The designer , Henry E. Coe , allowed for natural ventilation by arranging for the roof to part in the centre by the use of pulleys . |
11 | Most drainage schemes should have some regard for the importance to wildlife of these areas , and much can be achieved on quite small areas . |
12 | Help may come in many forms , from the provision of a hand rail for the bath to time at a day centre . |
13 | It is usually possible for the teacher to type in a list of words so that the game can be aimed at a specific child , providing additional experience of words that may be giving difficulty . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The joint HDUR and UVR talks ended on March 24 and called for respect of rights of nationalists and minorities , for the right to education in a mother tongue and for an unbiased bilingual media to assess accurately recent disturbances . |
16 | The conclusions are that AZT is not an effective prophylactic of AIDS in those infected with HIV and that the CD4 cell count may not be a reliable proxy for the progression to AIDS in infected people . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | In fact , the system developed during the transition to industrialisation in the early part of the present century . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The Hammonds had placed Luddism as the resort to violence by traditional workers who had failed in the face of a growing laissez-faire |
21 | 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 . |
22 | In the enthusiasm of the renewed emphasis on the Spirit these days he is some times presented as the pathway to power in the Christian life , the secret of success in personal living and in service . |
23 | Rise Kagona , founder of the group , said the birth of Zimbabwe acted as the floodgate to inspiration for the band . |
24 | 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 ) . |
25 | The treaty defining relations between West and East Germany ( 1972 ) represented a rejection of Adenauer on two key issues : first , it accepted the legitimacy and moral equivalence of East Germany , and secondly it saw accommodation with East Germany as the key to peace in Europe , whereas Adenauer 's policy had been to turn his back on East Germany in the name of freedom and democracy . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Yet there is a pronounced asymmetry between the approach to equilibrium during cooling and the behaviour on heating . |
28 | ( 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 . ) |
29 | 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 . |
30 | This tells us something about the limits to fusion as an articulative method ( as against other methods , such as parody or deliberate disjunction ) and about the limits to the expropriation of meaning : some syntactic structures are simply incompatible . |