Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every mile of dual carriageway eats up twenty-six acres of countryside ; the government are committed to fourteen billion pounds expenditure on a road-building expansion . |
| 2 | Its philosophy is still developing , but it 's now a very concrete operation — £2 million has already been committed to 18 research projects in the UK , the Netherlands , Eire and the US , and we are still adding projects to the list . |
| 3 | ‘ Once they have decided that they are committed to one man , they seem to want to acknowledge this publicly and to receive public approval in return . |
| 4 | ‘ Altogether , Mravinsky had many serious and wonderful qualities , and his example as a musician committed to one orchestra , one hall and one city was so important . |
| 5 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 6 | The memory I have of Dasbabu from those days was of him speeding around Cuttack town on his solitary scooter , committed to one or another of his ventures . |
| 7 | That year , therefore , saw the re-establishment of a principle which had existed in Scotland for centuries , namely ‘ the arrangement by which the formation of the records is committed to one set of officers and the custody of them to another ’ ( Conveyancing Lectures , Menzies , 2nd Edn , 1856 , p 165 ) . |
| 8 | Haemopoiesis entails the differentiation of self-renewing pluripotential stem cells into a hierarchy of progenitor cells committed to one or more lineages . |
| 9 | We are all linked up and committed to two missionary families , the Collicts and the Meikles . |
| 10 | A further £1.2 million was committed to 15,000 square feet of offices and 12,000 square feet of warehousing accommodation at the Wood Marine Base in Aberdeen , a third of which has been let prior to completion to Deminex . |
| 11 | The United States , the Soviet Union and other leading member states , all adhered to 242 , disagreeing only over whether Israel should withdraw completely or could insist on minor border rectifications . |
| 12 | An environmental health officer from Liverpool City Council visited the company 's bakery in Lorenzo Drive , West Derby , and found insects could get into the building through ‘ voids ’ around the pipework , and an insect screen had been nudged to one side . |
| 13 | The Analytical Geochemistry Group ( AGG ) won a £750 000 contract from AEA Technology , acting on behalf of UK Nirex Ltd , to undertake the geochemical testing associated with two boreholes being drilled to 1300 and 900 metres respectively through Devonian sediments into Reay diorite or Moine metasediments at Dounreay on the north-west coast of Caithness . |
| 14 | The near-vertical deposit has been drilled to 300 m depth and could be worked in an open pit . |
| 15 | It was drilled to 9450 ft in 1981 , looking for a source of thermal water from the Permo-Triassic . |
| 16 | He had met her previously when she was given a similarly small part in Hell 's Angels on Wheels and now they were both unattached and deeply attracted to one another . |
| 17 | The brain regions responsible for storing the memory could be located to one of the major lobes into which the octopus brain was divided . |
| 18 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 19 | It 's almost quadrupled to three hundred and fifty a month . |
| 20 | For example , if a first-generation hybrid between a brown and an albino mouse is crossed back to an albino , the offspring will be in the ratio 1 brown to 1 albino : if two hybrids are mated to one another , the ratio will be 3 brown to 1 albino . |
| 21 | For NEC , the order means an increase by one third on the current installed base of top end ACOS 3800 mainframes , bringing the total installed to 126 units , and making the ACOS 3800 much more successful than the previous top-end ACOS generation , of which only 46 were sold . |
| 22 | One variety uses a freely suspended massive bar cooled to 4 K and another variety uses a large Michelson interferometer monitored with laser beams . |
| 23 | So the net earnings of the of the office , coming back to nineteen ninety , ninety one , er were fifteen million , they 've dropped to fourteen point four million in ninety one , ninety two and hopefully this year , they 've steadied at that and maybe will increase a small amount to fourteen point six million . |
| 24 | At birth , the heart races along at 140 beats a minute , but by the time we reach adulthood the rate has dropped to 70 beats a minute . |
| 25 | The Ph dropped to 7.8 . |
| 26 | A telling statistic in a recent election study by Rose and McAllister is that , whereas in 196480 per cent of those who came from homes in which both parents were Labour voters themselves voted for the party , by 1983 the proportion from such backgrounds which still voted Labour had dropped to 45 Per cent . |
| 27 | By the end of the campaign , his average image score had risen to 65 but his score on standing up to the USSR had dropped to 56 . |
| 28 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 29 | The speed , which had been about 150 knots prior to the bird strikes , had dropped to 135 knots . |
| 30 | Around 150,000 salmon were caught in the river in 1900 , but by 1920 catches had dropped to 30,000 . |