Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest paid was down from £3.1m to £1.2m and gearing at the year-end was 9 per cent . |
| 2 | Operating profit was down by 9% to $26.6m and net profit after taxes was down slightly — off 1.8% at $16.4m . |
| 3 | It was Mr Carway who discovered that the holding in Laforza 's parent company , the Jersey-registered AIUK , was only under option to Eagle , not directly owned by it . |
| 4 | The tenancy was not from year to year but for a term which would continue until Matlodge certified that it was ready to proceed with the development of the property . |
| 5 | This was totally in contradiction to Mr Venables ' claim that he was promised security of tenure . |
| 6 | The island was also of interest to geologists , botanists , zoologists and other scientists . |
| 7 | It was up to Moscow to start checking among the émigrés and escapees who 'd gone to Paris after the war ended . |
| 8 | Adjusted to take account of interest paid , net investment income in sterling terms at the full year was up from $389.1m to $464.8m — a growth rate in original currencies of 6.0% , partly reflecting the benefits derived from the issue of $140m of preference capital in September last year . |
| 9 | Despite losses in the fourth quarter marginally lower at $2.7m ( 1991 : $2.8m loss ) the deficit at the full year was up from $9.1m to $12.5m , largely reflecting adverse currency movements in Brazil . |
| 10 | Glynwed International ran on 10 to 273p , Fisons gained 15 to 384p , Guardian Royal Exchange gained 6 to 142p and Kwik Save , which reports figures at the end of the month , was up from 573p to 588p . |
| 11 | In Canada , where premium income rose from $96.1m to $139.8m following the acquisition of the general insurance business of the Prudential Corporation , the deficit for the quarter was up from $2.9m to $11.8m — a relatively satisfactory performance in difficult market conditions . |
| 12 | We have in the past raised this through the er Association of County Councils in the education side , with and we , there was quite a lot of support , and also have had support in the past from er , Kenneth Carlyle and Douglas Howe erm who were , supported the view , er which was particularly in relation to youth training , as this is more adult training we 're talking about here . |
| 13 | Finally at 0015 the casualty was safely under tow to Lowestoft with the master and engineer aboard and the lifeboat was able to retrieve her hard-working crew and return to station . |
| 14 | The classical tradition held that Nature became beautiful only when subjected to reason ; the romantic view , that Nature was beautiful precisely because she was uncontrolled and was therefore in opposition to Reason . |
| 15 | The only complaint — and she was not really complaining against her uncle , perhaps I should rather say the cause for depression — was that from time to time she was very homesick and longed to see her mother and girls of her own age . ’ |