Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] 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 | Great dogs do not always make great studs , but Dux sired thirty-six champions , a record for the breed to date in the USA . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The designer , Henry E. Coe , allowed for natural ventilation by arranging for the roof to part in the centre by the use of pulleys . |
| 9 | Most drainage schemes should have some regard for the importance to wildlife of these areas , and much can be achieved on quite small areas . |
| 10 | Help may come in many forms , from the provision of a hand rail for the bath to time at a day centre . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In fact , the system developed during the transition to industrialisation in the early part of the present century . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Hammonds had placed Luddism as the resort to violence by traditional workers who had failed in the face of a growing laissez-faire |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Rise Kagona , founder of the group , said the birth of Zimbabwe acted as the floodgate to inspiration for the band . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yet there is a pronounced asymmetry between the approach to equilibrium during cooling and the behaviour on heating . |
| 25 | ( 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 . ) |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was thinking about the irrelevance to psychoanalysis of wit and accountability , ’ said Finch . |
| 29 | Cows still meander through the village to pastureland near the stream which runs alongside the graveyard . |
| 30 | And ‘ oh ’ they went as their heads tipped back , and ‘ oo-oo-oh ’ as the slow rain of fireflies sank through the air to invisibility against the earth . |