Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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1 | This has jumped to more than $140 billion , from $125 billion in late November . |
2 | Robins has jumped to the head of Stuttgart 's hit list after helping Norwich top the Premier League following his summer move from Manchester United for £800,000 . |
3 | James Wattana has jumped to no 5 in the provisional rankings for next season following his victory in the Strachan Professional Championship last Friday . |
4 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
5 | Since 1979 , under the present Government , that figure has trebled to more than 6.5 per cent . |
6 | Canaletto has shot up to £8–10 million , which seems high even considering the undisputed quality of the painting , while the Rembrandt has plunged to £5 million . |
7 | AN Oxford student has plunged to his death after a late-night drink and drugs party . |
8 | In the mid 1970s more than 25,000 Hereford calves were bred annually.Now that figure has plunged to around 8,000 . |
9 | Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction . |
10 | Among the great moments in the reading programme are those when writing has developed to the point where the learner-reader can read his or her own story to the teacher — a triumphant change of roles — and when children are found in quiet comers reading to each other . |
11 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
12 | These questions have lost nothing of their force in the decades since 1914 as subsequent conflicts have contributed their own appalling demonstration of man 's capacity for inhumanity , and as a new sensitivity has developed to the dilemmas facing the human race and to the degree of inequality and injustice in human affairs in general . |
13 | Comshare uses Scripts , a technique it has developed to port commands from the application to the database . |
14 | This seems appropriate since , with the exception of fascist states and some contemporary authoritarian regimes , corporatism has developed to widely differing degrees , varies in intensity over time and is contained within vastly different state structures and administrative traditions . |
15 | However , when the weathering mantle has developed to a depth of several metres the rate of water movement at the weathering front becomes very slow . |
16 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
17 | A LOVELORN Italian woman dying from cancer has travelled to Plymouth in search of her British wartime sweetheart . |
18 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
19 | A student from Darlington 's German twin-town has travelled to Britain to study life on an English newspaper . |
20 | A STUDENT from Darlington 's German twin town has travelled to Britain to study life on a British newspaper . |
21 | New York 's mayor has travelled to Tokyo to ensure that Japan 's cash-conscious companies do n't abandon the city that never sleeps . |
22 | John Gould , a research student at the University College of North Wales in Bangor , has travelled to Orkney after hearing of the plight of the whales . |
23 | The Committee has commented to the Health and Safety Commission , directly and through CIC , on draft regulations and an approved code of practice intended to implement the EC Temporary and Mobile Construction Sites Directive , stressing the need for clarity in defining the roles of all the parties with a responsibility for site safety . |
24 | In that narrow sense , Reagan was right when he insisted at his testimony , as on every previous occasion , that ‘ no-one has proven to me that there was a diversion . ’ |
25 | Its underwater design is a refinement of the ‘ pure centerboard ’ concept that has proven to be so fast and seaworthy on the race course in Ted Hood 's series of Robins . |
26 | Paul , who commutes daily — a weekly total of 630 miles — from his home town of Dundee has proven to be an excellent draughtsman both manually and on CAD , gaining expertise on CADvance , AUTOCAD and Microstation Intergraph systems which are supported throughout FWWG . |
27 | This has proven to be a strong deterrent against theft . |
28 | This has proven to be the case in all of the uses of to examined to date . |
29 | Guillaume 's notion of a representation of person as a support within the infinitive has proven to be extremely fruitful for explaining the uses of this form discussed above . |
30 | The cost of the project has soared to more than £8bn . |