Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCaw Cellular Communication Inc reported that it sold about 14.5m newly issued shares of Class A common stock to AT&T Co for $400m as part of AT&T 's negotiated attempt to win a 33% stake for $3,730m and acquire an option for voting control of wireless phone company . |
| 2 | The new latrine in its fairly protected situation , and the newly appointed shithouse clerk was to be a great boost to Commando morale during the days ahead . |
| 3 | It easily financed the 1992–93 PSBR , though two factors will not be repeated — the huge demand for gilts after the Tories unexpectedly won the April 1992 election and the boost to sterling funding from the massive sale of foreign-currency reserves during the ERM crisis . |
| 4 | The symbolism of the sea has often been used by writers and speakers , but a similar ploy can be used relating to other professions , hobbies and subjects ranging from football to plane travel with original effect . |
| 5 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 6 | The IDU elected Andrew Peacock , leader of the opposition Liberal Party of Australia , as its new president in succession to Aloïs Mock of Austria . |
| 7 | It may be a sign of the times , but Craig Innes ' switch to rugby league in Britain did not draw much newspaper comment in New Zealand . |
| 8 | The economic transition was made more difficult by the collapse of COMECON , the disintegration of trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries as a consequence of the switch to dollar trading from Jan. 1 , 1991 [ see p. 37979 ] , the impact of the Gulf crisis and increased oil prices . |
| 9 | But by the end of the decade Renatel is expected to reach 100 megabits per second — a capacity made possible by France 's planned switch to fibre optics throughout its telephone system by the year 2000 . |
| 10 | Looking back , there 's no doubt that we were too impatient and were unprepared for the major impact of the change from institution to community care on all concerned . |
| 11 | Please convey my appreciation to Media Action on how they handled the campaign in such a short period of time . |
| 12 | When Lenny McLean is brought up from the cells in his cardigan to strand trial for the murder of Gary Humphreys , there are no spare seats in the gallery of Court 13 . |
| 13 | While this is in accord with the development of learning skills specified in the second part of Objective 1 , it could deflect attention from the central concern of linking library enhancement to curriculum development across the board . |
| 14 | They discuss everything from AIDS to water pollution to the European Community . |
| 15 | In this book Foucault investigates the massive shift ( mentioned in Chapter 2 ) from corporal to carceral punishment between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries . |
| 16 | Second , his indifference to business proficiency as a qualification for his closest companions . |
| 17 | Such a stand was also shaped by the essentially libertarian ideas of the mainstream feminist movement , which included opposition to state intervention of all kinds ( including protective legislation and the inspection of homes under the Infant Life Protection Acts ) , and by the more general movement for moral reform , which comprised an interlocking nexus of feminist , social purity , temperance , anti-vaccination , and animal welfare societies . |
| 18 | Indeed , it was the quality of the latter revenue department , as much as opposition to income taxation in principle , which had inclined eighteenth-century governments towards using indirect taxes on consumption alongside the traditional land tax . |
| 19 | However , the vehement opposition to prison building by penal reform groups appears to have been vindicated in the light of a worsening of overcrowding and the further deterioration of regimes . |
| 20 | The US had maintained as recently as Oct. 15 its opposition to IMF assistance to Vietnam , blocking a French plan at a regional IMF meeting in Bangkok to help Vietnam pay off arrears of US$140 million to the Fund . |
| 21 | By the third number , he had found his confidence and switched from electric to acoustic guitar for Give Me Love — the only sadness being that the slide guitar part was played on a synthesiser . |
| 22 | Spring to Autumn Programme by request . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that susceptibility to autoimmune disease in general , including Crohn 's disease , is under the control of a single dominant gene , the specific clinical effects of which are determined by other genes , hormonal influences , and environment triggers . |
| 24 | This paper examines the contribution of research to hill farming in Scotland and the opportunities and possibilities that exist for change in the industry . |
| 25 | On the one hand , it signified the commitment of the Department to student involvement in evaluation . |
| 26 | Penda was no stranger to Bernician terrain across which he had campaigned before ( HE 111 , 16 ) , and his army successfully traversed the whole length of Oswiu 's kingdom to besiege him at Iudeu . |
| 27 | It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do . |
| 28 | It was planned to fly the bomber to Southwind Aviation at Brownsville , Texas , during November for its 100 hour check and winter overhaul . |
| 29 | Why not extend the study to co occurrence within the same phrase ( moon in a silver sky ) or within the same sentence ( the moon stared down with its silver eye ) ? |
| 30 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |