Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so the poor man had been obliged to die in as Christian a manner as possible in the arms of the atheistical Magistrate who had , of course , listened without the least sympathy to Mr Bradley 's last pious ejaculations , impatiently muttering : " Yes , yes , to be sure , do n't worry about it , " as poor Mr Bradley , looking up into that last , glaring , free-thinking , diabolical , ginger sunset of the Magistrate 's whiskers , commended his soul to God . |
| 2 | Most important of all , their impact falls in particular on those groups of women who have the least recourse to income support ( see below ) . |
| 3 | PHOENIX TIMBER 'S profit fell from £995,000 to £479,000 in the half year to September 30 after some pressure on mrgins . |
| 4 | PHOENIX TIMBER 'S profit fell from £995,000 to £479,000 in the half year to September 30 after some pressure on margins . |
| 5 | For the half year to September , Merrydown reported profits down 19% to £760,000 reflecting strong competition . |
| 6 | The average passenger spent 3% less time at the airports but the numbers are 4m ahead at 44m in the half year to September . |
| 7 | The four companies revealed substantial losses in the half year to September , as the public reaction to the corruption allegations grew , and as the mood in the Tokyo exchange remained subdued by the property price collapse afflicting the country . |
| 8 | Revenues for Scholastic Corporation , the American parent company , rose 13% for the half year to $256.9m . |
| 9 | Whitbread 's pre-tax profits for the half year to August rose to £128.5million against £110.6million a year earlier . |
| 10 | Pre-tax profits for the half year to August are flat , only Pounds 500,000 ahead at £143m , and the UK slump has slammed the lid on margins . |
| 11 | Supermarket group Asda delivered a Christmas bonus in the shape of much improved profits for the half year to November . |
| 12 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 13 | One of the few clues to Joan Main 's whereabouts appeared to be a birthday card she 's sent to her mother from Newport . |
| 14 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 15 | As Fidel Castro 's revolution entered its 33rd year this month , shortages of food and consumer goods were the most obvious of the many challenges to Cuba 's Caribbean version of socialism . |
| 16 | A book published in 1935 , A century of municipal progress ( edited by Laski , Jennings and Robson ) as the title implies , had a tone which was optimistic and self-confident — in sharp contrast to the many threats to world peace at that time , indicative of a breakdown of effective law and order elsewhere : the Japanese invasion of Manchuria , the rise of Hitler , the failure of the Disarmament Conference , the progressive decline of the League of Nations , the assault on Abyssinia and the Spanish Civil War . |
| 17 | This it manifestly does , but it is aware that it is not unique in doing so ( whence the many references to Tristam Shandy and Jacques le fataliste , archetypes of the novel that undermines its own stated project of telling a story ) . |
| 18 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 19 | This is a suitable metaphor after the rain pouring from leaden skies which greeted the All Blacks to training yesterday . |
| 20 | It has already been noted that in order to put Abdulkerim 's Muftilik into the reign of Bayezid II the writers connected with the later tradition have had to ignore Mustakimzade 's dating of Molla Arab 's Muftilik , namely 893/1488 to 901/1496 ( based , as mentioned above , on the and have substituted instead 893/1488 to Rajab 900/March- April 1495 for Abdulkerim 's period of office and the latter date to Rajab 901/March-April 1496 for that of Molla Arab . |
| 21 | ‘ We already have the latter thanks to Sister Meek and Dr. Gillian Baird . ’ |
| 22 | The former ambassador to Rome , Ulrich von Hassell , executed in July 1944 for his involvement in the plot to kill Hitler , wrote on 14 February 1943 of the crisis ‘ symbolized in the name ‘ Stalingrad ’ ’ : |
| 23 | The cows have gone to the cycle path on the former Consett to Sunderland railway line . |
| 24 | An alternative had to be found and it was , in the shape of the former Bury to Heywood line . |
| 25 | IT is hoped that 1993 will see the first working of an ex-B.R. main line loco on the former Mangotsfield to Bath branch when Bulleid Un rebuilt Battle of Britain 34072 ‘ 257 Squadron ’ makes a visit to the Avon Valley Railway . |
| 26 | The relationship between the Review and Scrutiny is best seen within the context of the general reception given in the former journal to modernism , and especially to T. S. Eliot . |
| 27 | The former leads to tests which are congenial to 3 year olds , the latter to the identification of variables whence functional changes in the child 's ‘ theory of mind ’ can be modelled . |
| 28 | A FIRST step to bring perpetrators of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia to justice were taken yesterday when the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution to set up war crimes trials . |
| 29 | Among the customs prevalent in gaols were those such as garnish , fotting or chummage , which all gave the same message to newcomers — ‘ pay or strip ’ . |
| 30 | You resist change ( ie travel the same way to work , read the same newspaper , wear the same sort of clothes , have fixed routines/habits , stick to familiar foods , stick to the same circle of friends ) . |