Example sentences of "on [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who ruled India were aware that what they referred to as their prestige would in the end by compromised by too obvious a reliance on resort to arms . |
| 2 | There are also plans to take pupils on outings to Wimbledon and Ascot , and there will be nights at the opera . |
| 3 | Pictured above are two of the three winners receiving vouchers from ( left ) , safety and personnel manager ; ( centre ) , quay foreman at Yarmouth Marine Base and ( right ) , secretary/receptionist on contract to Hamilton Oil . |
| 4 | Staff who take such a break remain on contract to Shell . |
| 5 | Bangladesh A member of BGS staff continued to advise ODA on the Barapukuria Coalfield Project , which covers exploratory drilling and site evaluation by British firms on contract to ODA . |
| 6 | Meetings have been held with employers , the Scottish Trades Union Congress , local authorities and the Scottish Sports Council to discuss health promotion and a report on improvements to Scotland 's diet is under consideration . |
| 7 | Millions of pounds are being spent on improvements to roads and the upgrading of the A1 is hoped to be complete by 2000 . |
| 8 | Yorkshire Water is to spend more than £300m on improvements to supplies , treatment works , mains and sewers in the coming financial year , equivalent to £180 per household . |
| 9 | Albright purchased the patents , and then took out his own patents on improvements to Schrötter 's method . |
| 10 | In the polytechnics themselves , as one CDP document on reactions to Developments indicated , ‘ in general , the proposals are welcomed , although with some reservations ’ . |
| 11 | Later studies have concentrated on comparisons with attitudes to oil development in Dorset and on reactions to Chernobyl . |
| 12 | Removing neuron X2 has a similar effect on response to training pattern F'3 . |
| 13 | He says that if it were rats which were passing on TB to cattle there would be no hesitation : the rats would be killed . |
| 14 | In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November . |
| 15 | The scenery on route to Manarola is stunning , and from there it is a 20 minute walk to Riomaggiore — which is probably the prettiest of the five villages . |
| 16 | Last year 's Uk finals of Yamaha 's global search for the hottest unsigned band of the year saw memorable performances from Manic Street Preachers , chapterhouse and Teenage Club , and put Nottingham 's Glory Boys on route to Tokyo for the worldwide finals . |
| 17 | The response rate on returns to date , then , is 68 per cent . |
| 18 | He describes 18 walks of former industrial aggregate railways stretching from Stoke on Trent to Burnley . |
| 19 | Oleg Kozlov , who in June 1990 had hijacked a Soviet internal flight with 54 passengers on board to Helsinki , was sentenced by a court in Latvia on March 14 to five years in a labour camp . |
| 20 | Already in his fifties , Borrow was not apparently disconcerted to find the coach meeting the train at Plymouth was full but set out accordingly on foot to St. Cleer , where he was offered hospitality by the Taylor family at Penquite Farm . |
| 21 | Nearly 50,000 striking mineworkers from the Black Sea town of Zonguldak , who had begun in early January a protest march on foot to Ankara , called off the march on Jan. 9 in response to a call from Semsi Denizer , leader of the largest miners union , Maden-Is . |
| 22 | Adam Carver returned on foot to Rose Bower for the second time that evening . |
| 23 | Rich men in gowns , dresses and Roman robes set off on foot to north , south , east and west . |
| 24 | Here , faced by uncompromising contours , the glen branches into two , Glen Pean and Glen Dessarry , either of which can be followed on foot to Loch Morar : a long and arduous trek . |
| 25 | We left Canjuers on the Monday morning and arrived later on that day at a small village , from where we would march back on foot to Orange . |
| 26 | Some have gone on foot to Catroimani , in the heart of the Indian land . |
| 27 | Finally it was abandoned in a back street in Kingsbury , and the four students thankfully made their way on foot to Wembley Tube Station . |
| 28 | He continued on foot to Casterbridge to order the best gravestone available for twenty-seven pounds , which was all the money he had . |
| 29 | As soon as school was over I took the train from Hammersmith to Whitechapel , then continued the rest of the journey on foot to Charlie 's home . |
| 30 | Occasional forays are made by Class 31 's on Shrewsbury to Swansea trains hauling failing or failed DMU 's . |