Example sentences of "by a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , together with a rise in TV advertising , helped boost Anglia 's profits by a half to £4.8 million in the six months ended June . |
| 2 | After a few more minutes of ribald banter on our part we were startled by a flash to starboard and an explosion as a six-pound shell whizzed across our bows . |
| 3 | The Spectator gets its readers off the hook by a return to Malthus , who made a virtue of not helping the poor , as then , he informed us , they would drag us down by overbreeding . |
| 4 | Humankind , to summarise , has been moving shoddywards since about 480 BC , when Confucius , Buddha , the Second Isaiah and Pythagoras died : to be succeeded , sages of wisdom and toleration that they were , by a return to superstition not unlike the reactions that tragically followed the Enlightenment or Victorian rationalism . |
| 5 | The interviewer also needs to ensure that the potential expatriates have a clear idea of their careers and how an overseas posting followed by a return to work in the UK will aid their career paths . |
| 6 | In place of a fall from grace which is ultimately to be followed by a return to Paradise , we have the notion that mankind originally evolved out of a sub-human stage of bestiality . |
| 7 | General de Gaulle wrote to Ho Chi Minh on 8 February 1966 , stressing that peace could only be restored by a return to non-intervention ; the United States was not named , but clearly this was in de Gaulle 's mind . |
| 8 | This will be particularly pertinent where the retirement is early in the tax year and is followed by a return to Sch E employment . |
| 9 | Brief though their influence may have been , the Kyburgs are still commemorated by a statue to Count Hartmann between the two gates . |
| 10 | A written request for a brief photocall from the media , who were not allowed up the 100-yard driveway to the hotel , was conveyed by a garda to Mr Keenan . |
| 11 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
| 12 | Yawl ran an excellent Oaks trial in Wednesday 's Tripleprint Lupe Stakes at Goodwood , rallying bravely to go down by a head to Gisarne . |
| 13 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 14 | For one , the method is predicated on a claim that answers offered by a respondent to questions proffered by an interviewer are indicators of whatever aspects of the respondent 's social life and being that are the subject of investigation . |
| 15 | Hectic trading in which 3.1 million shares — worth £8million — changed hands was followed by a retreat to 238p when the Barclays vehemently denied that they held any shares in Williams . |
| 16 | This design was inspired by a trip to New England , in the United States , where placing garlands of dried flowers on front doors is a traditional sign of welcome . |
| 17 | Eventually , after one false start , when Edward assumed ( wrongly ) that Helen would not come , they set off in late November '95 for a short walk to Wimbledon , followed four days later by a trip to Croydon . |
| 18 | After establishing the fact that we had only one body , which could not be replaced by a trip to Marks and Spencers if it wore out , we discussed ways and means of preserving it ! |
| 19 | Not much rose on the Tees at Stockton in those days , least of all trout ; and a ducking was followed by a dash to hospital and an appointment with a stomach pump . |
| 20 | This being the case , if the production of constant capital is to increase — an absolute necessity for accumulation to occur — then this can only be done by a transfer to Dept . |
| 21 | With demand reflecting the financial pressures affecting all major airlines and defence cutbacks , profits in the aerospace division fell by a quarter to £18.2m . |
| 22 | Half-year profits rose by a quarter to £8.2 million , despite the slump . |
| 23 | FORMER Chancellor Lord Lawson has sold his luxury home after reducing the price by a quarter to £239,000 and waiting two years for a buyer . |
| 24 | Dividends are up by a quarter to 11.4p , after a final of 7½p payable on May 27 , with earnings growing in line to 54½p . |
| 25 | RATHBONE Brothers , the asset management and private banking group , is celebrating its 250th anniversary by lifting the payout to shareholders by a quarter to 10p , with a 7½p final dividend on July 1 , on the back of record 1991 profits . |
| 26 | The oil and gas equipment contributed almost 50 per cent more at £30.6 million , but paper-pulp equipment making fell by a quarter to £20.4 million . |
| 27 | The term of the interim government headed by Ratu Mara was extended by a month to Jan. 5 , 1990 , because of preparations for Ratu Cakobau 's funeral . |
| 28 | But this morning appears to have been was tragetted by a ground to air missile as it was taxi-ing down the runway and preparing to take off . |
| 29 | In the Masters he blew his chances by pushing an over-clubbed second shot into the crowd to take a bogey-five on the last hole and lose by a stroke to Jack Nicklaus after leading going into the last round . |
| 30 | If this cleaving or oneness is actually to occur , it must be activated by a commitment to intimacy , not just physical intimacy but spiritual and psychological intimacy as well . |