Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a much appreciated personal escort for the 100 yards to the hotel , for the price of a handful of Marlboro . |
| 2 | By the next day , hundreds of Chinese students gathered at the Nanjing campuses calling for the African students to be punished and marched on to the municipal offices . |
| 3 | In such cases the court will arrange for the appropriate enquiries to be made . |
| 4 | HOLLYWOOD would go down on one knee for the exclusive rights to Saturday 's England fly-half qualifier at Gloucester between Rob Andrew and Stuart Barnes . |
| 5 | HOLLYWOOD would go on one knee for the exclusive rights to Saturday 's England fly-half qualifier at Gloucester between Rob Andrew and Stuart Barnes . |
| 6 | It was impressive how she coped with the two children for the twelve hours to Juliaca while her boorish husband slept , the baby 's shawl across his face . |
| 7 | There is also a need for the associated amendments to the Treaty of Rome not only to guarantee the sovereignty of the nation State but also to reform the institutions of the EEC — especially the Commission and the Court of Justice — in the way that I have proposed . |
| 8 | The employers yesterday increased their offer to further education lecturers from 5.3 per cent for the year to April , to 8 per cent , with a £700 one-off , lump sum payment for the 17 months to September next year . |
| 9 | In the case of a two-tier board structure , the Proposal allows for the supervisory directors to be appointed by the supervisory board itself rather than shareholders or employees ; in this case , employees would have a right of veto , as would shareholders . |
| 10 | A representative volume is , as the term implies , a volume large enough to include sufficient of each phase for the overall moduli to be independent of surface traction and displacement . |
| 11 | In Tune with the Infinite , subtitled Fullness of Peace , Power and Plenty , would not be out of place on any committed New Ager 's bookshelf if it were n't for the frequent references to God and the Holy Spirit . |
| 12 | And then , bang , crash , oh dear , it was time for the regional franchises to be renewed . |
| 13 | The Halifax estate agency losses for the six months to 31 July compare with break-even in 1988 . |
| 14 | TULLOW Oil , which joined the Unlisted Securities Market on Thursday , yesterday announced pre-tax profits of Ir £41,000 for the six months to 30 June , against £18,000 last time . |
| 15 | SINGAPORE Para Rubber reported lower profits before tax of £148,000 for the six months to 30 June , compared with £212,000 previously . |
| 16 | Losses before tax have been cut to $1.3m ( £800,000 ) for the six months to 30 June , compared with $15.1m in the same period last year , on sales up 14 per cent at $60.2m . |
| 17 | JAMES GULLIVER , chairman of the troubled furniture and carpets retailer Lowndes Queensway , yesterday announced ‘ with sadness ’ a £16.9m pre-tax loss for the six months to 30 July . |
| 18 | Pre-tax profits for the six months to October 1 came in at £134,000 as against a full year 's loss of £128,000 and a previous half time profit of £258,000 . |
| 19 | Guinness Mahon , a British merchant bank 65%-owned by Bank of Yokohama , gave warning that bad debts will plunge it into an after-tax loss of £35m ( $67m ) for the six months to March 31st . |
| 20 | THE shares of Sage Group jumped 31 to 484p yesterday after the Newcastle-based accounting software supplier unveiled a 44 p.c. rise in pre-tax profits to £4.34m for the six months to end-March . |
| 21 | Johnson Matthey turned in pre-tax profits of £32.6m for the six months to 30 September 1991 , virtually unchanged against the same period in 1990 ( at £32.5m ) , according to chairman David Davies . |
| 22 | TI 's interim pre-tax profit for the six months to 30 June 1992 stood at £50.2m on a turnover of £471m , slightly less than the comparable 1991 figure ( £54.2m on a turnover of £441m ) . |
| 23 | In his report ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September 1992 , p 100 ) on the proposed framework for financial reporting published by the New Zealand Society of Accountants ( NZSA ) last year , Bob Beale mentions the NZ government 's audited financial statements for the six months to 31 December 1991 . |
| 24 | Turnover for the six months to the end of March almost doubled to £101m and the interim loss fell from last year 's £6.2m to £5.6m ( tour operators traditionally make a loss during the winter months when few people book holidays ) . |
| 25 | Guinness , the international drinks business , has included an audit review from Price Waterhouse in its interim results statement for the six months to 30 June 1992 . |
| 26 | Britain 's second biggest privatised water giant has romped in with pre-tax profits up from £123.7m to £130.7m for the six months to September . |
| 27 | Profits for the six months to August are expected to be down to £8 million compared with more than £9 million in the same spell a year ago . |
| 28 | Diploma Plc has reported net profits for the six months to March 31 of £5.2m , up from just £300,000 last time , on turnover that rose 19.5% at $74.0m ; at the pre-tax level , profits were 225% ahead at £8.1m ; earnings per share rose 46% to 10.7 pence . |
| 29 | Linx Printing Technologies Plc has reported net profits for the six months to 31 December up 2.7% at £496,000 on turnover up 16.9% to £5.8m . |
| 30 | Renishaw Plc saw net profits for the six months to December 31 down 27.1% at £2.2m , on turnover that rose 3.3% to £22m . |