Example sentences of "on the [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brennan adapted the capital asset pricing model to try to gauge the effects of dividends and taxes on the returns to shareholders : where . |
| 2 | The entrepreneurs believe putting their faith in old Ladas will put them on the road to riches |
| 3 | In order for an exchange to become a recognised investment exchange , it must demonstrate to the SIB that , inter alia : ( a ) it has financial resources sufficient for the proper performance of its functions ; ( b ) that it has rules and practices which ensure that business conducted by means of its facilities is conducted in an orderly manner , affording proper protection to investors ; ( c ) it limits dealings on the exchange to investments in which there is a proper market ; ( d ) where relevant , issuers of investments dealt in on the exchange are required to comply with such obligations as will , so far as possible , afford to persons dealing in the investments proper information for determining their current value ; ( e ) it has its own arrangements for ensuring performance of transactions effected on the exchange or ensures their performance by means of services provided under clearing arrangements made by it with a recognised clearing house ; ( f ) it has ( or secures the provision on its behalf of ) satisfactory arrangements for recording the transaction effected on the exchange ; ( g ) it has adequate arrangements and resources for the effective monitoring and enforcement of compliance with its rules and any clearing arrangements made by it ; ( h ) it has effective arrangements for the investigation of complaints in respect of business transacted by means of its facilities ; and ( i ) it is able and willing to promote and maintain high standards of integrity and fair dealing in the carrying on of investment business and to co-operate by the sharing of information and otherwise with regulators . |
| 4 | I was informed that a group of young teachers at one college were planning a boycott on the day to protests against their poor living conditions and low pay . |
| 5 | Crowds generally thin out around the Isle of Dogs loop between 15 and 19 miles , so if you 're looking to get rid of the rest of the watching population , head for Canary Wharf , the complex will be open on the day to spectators . |
| 6 | Other radical feminists have focused on the problems to women of men 's control over their work , especially in the home as unpaid housewives . |
| 7 | Whether the subject is the Royals or Nazis , researchers are immediately on the phone to hordes of ‘ ordinary people ’ , inviting them into studios all over the country to spout forth . |
| 8 | The personification furnishes not only a necessary step on the way to judgments about particular people , but a plateau we can occupy to consider these judgments . |
| 9 | At the pier , shops sell batiks and woollens to the ferry travellers : families with packed cars and roof-racks ; men with sheepdogs on the way to trials at Mallaig ; bikers on some kind of round robin according to their luggage tags — ‘ Genève-Edinburgh-Brugge-Genève ’ . |
| 10 | It relates to places of entertainment such as cinemas , theatres , dance halls , and proprietary clubs and permits the sale or supply of liquor for consumption on the premises to persons frequenting them as an ancillary to the entertainment provided . |
| 11 | On an APU sponsored visit to the USA , Burstall and Kay ( 1978 ) drew the following lessons from the USA experience : that the APU should obtain information that is , on the one hand , of use to teachers and on the other to decision-makers ; and that the information collected must be related to needs rather than being simply that which is easy to collect . |
| 12 | Where root crops are fed on the ground to cattle the rabbit has easy pickings and it remains interested and satisfied with the debris littering a field that once held a root crop . |
| 13 | The structure , conduct and performance of the ISE are of importance because they affect the degree of competition in the market , and hence on the costs to investors and borrowers . |
| 14 | It must have seemed utterly reasonable to extend the golden rule of the Sermon on the Mount to animals so that animals deserved the same treatment which the human expected from other humans . |
| 15 | The difficulties of accounting precisely for how readers of the play text get from the words on the page to judgements concerning the " personalities " of characters are overcome , to some extent , by the analysis of their conversational behaviour and using the powerful interpretative apparatus of discourse analysis and pragmatics to this end . |
| 16 | Anthropologists who have studied witchcraft among African tribes have commented on the reaction to suggestions that the disease of an individual may be the result of a virus , not of witchcraft . |
| 17 | But his emphasis on the opposition to options considered by the Home Office suggests there will be no Bill before a general election . |
| 18 | The state marketing board passed on the losses to producers . |
| 19 | Articles were placed in the press chronicling the joys of country life ( and — as will be shown — fruitless attempts were made to demonstrate that the rural environment was having a positive effect on the children 's health ) ; talks were given on the radio to parents ; special posters were printed ; and it was arranged for the Queen to visit certain schools in November to publicise the scheme . |
| 20 | Rumi compared the tears and the effect they have on the soul to drops of rain on the desert . |