Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee concluded , however , that whilst these factors were of relevance to sentencing , it was less clear that they could form an appropriate basis for distinguishing one offence from another . |
| 2 | Announcing the figures , Environment Minister David Trippier claimed that heavy rains were in part to blame for overloading coastal sewage treatment systems , while the preceding drought meant that a higher density of sewage bacteria had been carried in rivers . |
| 3 | These were in contrast to upland permanent pasture , where arable farming could only be undertaken infrequently , in special circumstances . |
| 4 | Then one could spin it round when news , travel or holiday programmes on radio and television specify certain places and you could see where they were in relation to Britain and the rest of the world . |
| 5 | When the words came , they were hissed and halting , each of them separately delivered and stressed and they were in answer to Harry 's first remark as if those that had followed had not yet been absorbed . |
| 6 | This was in a generally low-waged county ; in 1794 in Durham their earnings were from £4 to £6 . |
| 7 | As shown in table II , seronegative children who had received IPV were 2 to 14 times more likely to seroconvert than those who had received OPV ; seroconversion rates in the IPV group were from 67% to 100% , compared with only 5% to 53% in the OPV group ( p < 0.001 ) . |
| 8 | Increases in the OPV recipients were from 83% to 85% ( 2% ) for type 1 , from 91% to 94% for type 2 ( 3% ) , and no change ( 75% ) for type 3 . |
| 9 | The route has also changed , for the first walks were from Bradford to York , the winner of the first race taking 7 hours , 7 minutes and 50 seconds to cover the thirty-nine and a half miles . |
| 10 | Inside fares by 1800 were from 4d to 6d ( 1.5p to 2.5p ) a mile . |
| 11 | Hereditary wardenships , for example , were from time to time inherited by priests : in 1207 William of Wrotham , Archdeacon of Taunton , received from King John seisin of the lands he held in chief in Somerset , and the wardenship of the forests of Somerset and Exmoor in Devon . |
| 12 | Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others . |
| 13 | Some landowners were from time to time able to obtain , by favour or by purchase , a royal grant of the right to hunt the lesser beasts of the forest , such as fox , wild cat and hare , but rarely the deer ; the general prohibition remained . |
| 14 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 15 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 16 | Although there were from time to time reports of " crossed aphasia " , in which the lesion is on the same side as the preferred hand ( Bramwell , 1899 ) , these were initially regarded as no more than occasional exceptions of the " contralateral rule " . |
| 17 | The OPV recipients ' increases were from 76% to 85% ( 9% ) for type 1 , from 91% to 95% ( 4% ) for type 2 , and from 57% to 65% ( 8% ) for type 3 . |
| 18 | but when they were ringing I were on phone to John 's mum because there were someone hanging about house , so I talked to John 's mum for ages on phone and then Debbie rang , did n't she ? |
| 19 | Former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega ( on Jan. 8 ) , Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda ( on Jan. 10-11 ) , Japan Socialist Party leader Takako Doi ( on Jan. 13 ) and Yemeni and Libyan delegations were among visitors to Baghdad , while King Hussein of Jordan continued a series of meetings , including a visit to London in early January . |
| 20 | From Monday to Thursday every week Milton and Arnold were at home to friends from 5pm to theatre time . |
| 21 | They 're celebrating their centenary this year … not much of a party so far … the club are short of money and struggling near the bottom of the table … they have n't won a game in two months … on Saturday they were at home to Yeovil … |
| 22 | On 1 October , 1910 , Northampton were at home to Coventry City . |
| 23 | The biggest award was for £150,000 to Ullaspool , a company set up to raise funds to build a new swimming pool at Ullapool . |
| 24 | But Mr Roberts said his company 's dividend was worth £3m to shareholders in one year , while the package of tariff cuts would cost the company £7m . |
| 25 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 26 | But he was able to anticipate that objection by suggesting that the prohibition applied only to knowledge sought in self-aggrandizement , not to that which was of service to humanity . |
| 27 | What she said was of interest to Edouard , but he could see that it was by way of a preamble . |
| 28 | When I first bowled to him in the nets I said it was like bowling to Zaheer Abbas . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought I was under contract to Paul Lexington Productions . ’ |
| 30 | As it was Chaplin threw him a challenge to a round of fisticuffs , accusing Mayer of encouraging Mildred , who was under contract to Mayer , to press for a higher divorce settlement . |