Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few at this conference were a-quiver at the prospect of bidding for the Tilbury to Southend line . |
| 2 | He then worked again with Whitworth , surveying lines for the Edinburgh to Glasgow canal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As proposals for the Hackney to Chelsea tube line will not be tabled until crossrail starts , does that mean that development of the Hackney to Chelsea line will be delayed ? |
| 5 | InterCity , which is responsible for the Norwich to London 125 service , was halted by the one-day strike , as were trains run by Network Southeast and Regional Railways . |
| 6 | A member of Reading & Leighton Park Canoe Club , he has been Publicity Officer for the Devizes to Westminster Race , Treasurer of the Marathon Committee and Southern Region Secretary . |
| 7 | The leaflets give details of timetables for the Middlesbrough to Saltburn line as well as specials to key towns in the North-East . |
| 8 | The transfer tickets are , therefore , being offered for the Waterloo to Portsmouth return run on Friday , February 12th . |
| 9 | The SQQ for the Monday to Thursday period ended 29 october was calculated at 73.51p per kg lw , which represents a fall of 0.79p compared with the corresponding period last week . |
| 10 | With Charles Rennie , the civil engineer , he surveyed the new harbour for Saltcoats and the line for the Glasgow to Ardrossan canal . |
| 11 | During the May to August breeding season , she found that three quarters of perch nests along a 150-metre-long stretch of the stream were parasitised by schools of minnows ; during the same period , she only once saw a minnow laying its eggs away from a perch nest . |
| 12 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 13 | The three-lane motorway will run close to the existing line of the A74 between the Annan to Eaglesfield Road ( B722 ) in the north and Kirkpatrick Fleming in the south where it will join the section of motorway recently completed between Kirkpatrick Fleming and Gretna . |
| 14 | He 's now considering tackling the Southern Upland Way , starting in Galloway in the West and walking through the Borders to Cockburnspath , just a few miles from his home in Innerwick . |
| 15 | ‘ Our journey in convoy from Liverpool through the Atlantic to West Africa took 17 days . |
| 16 | CAIRNPAPPLE HILL Near Torpichen off the Linlithgow to Bathgate road . |
| 17 | In 1972 , the Leicestershire County Council , as part of its general policy of improving the amenities at places of interest in the countryside , created a car park off the Foxton to Gumley road , on the derelict site of a wartime hospital , and also built a timber-arched footbridge over the canal to give direct pedestrian access to the canal towpath . |
| 18 | THE conversion of the Bury to Manchester line to Metrolink operations has meant that it is no longer available for conventional locomotives and trains . |
| 19 | Following the decline of the Stockton to Darlington railway , the station gradually fell into disrepair and was repeatedly vandalised . |
| 20 | By a curious twist of fate it was the same house where Pease and George Stephenson worked during the plan and construction of the Stockton to Darlington railway . |
| 21 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 22 | The civil division of the Order of the Bath is the jealously guarded preserve of the home civil service , so that every six months a new crop of bureaucrats begin making their way from Companion of the Bath to Knight Commander or Dame Commander to Knight Grand Cross . |
| 23 | The common woman 's view of the Devizes to Westminster Race |
| 24 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 25 | The only problem I have to tell you about is the cancellation of the Banbury to Paddington train that was due to arrive at Oxford at three minutes past seven . |
| 26 | On 15 September , the Republic spent seven hours presenting its damning view of the UDR to Peter Brooke , the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | The aluminium is being used on a large scale for the first time in Britain in the electrification of the Hooton to Chester line . |
| 28 | The advent of the new government of Indian Prime Minister V. P. Singh in December 1989 led to a steady improvement in relations between the two countries , despite the extension of the deadline for the final withdrawal of the IPKF to March 31 , 1990 [ see pp. 37126 ; 37184-85 ] . |
| 29 | While Pétain strove to reanimate the French Army , many units of which had mutinied after the collapse of Nivelle 's ill-judged offensive , Haig moved the weight of the BEF to Flanders to pursue his plan . |
| 30 | The National Rivers Authority is busy rebuilding a major weir at Tewkesbury , and another 7 weirs on the stretch of the Avon to Evesham are awaiting restoration with help from the trust . |