Example sentences of "to [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , could you tell me what Micky 's up to during that ? |
| 2 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 3 | Er in the alternative of course er the local communities have available er the High Court action which I 've referred to during several discussions with yourselves over the last week or two . |
| 4 | The move came after the Gatt talks , thought to worth billions of dollars to world trade , broke down in Chicago earlier this week . |
| 5 | Thank you right now a really clever thing then that you should know about is if I want to times that number by ten right . |
| 6 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 7 | Like the West Country weavers they benefited from the introduction , one weaver in 1838 recalling that his wages had increased from around 5s ( 25p ) to between 12s 9d ( 64p ) and 17s ( 85p ) a week . |
| 8 | By setting a threshold of 5% ( 8% for parties campaigning in coalition ) , the law should cut the number of parties in the new assembly from 29 to between six and eight . |
| 9 | Official figures showed that killings had increased under the state of emergency , from an overall total of about three per day in June 1986 to between six and 10 per day . |
| 10 | Such term-limit propositions , which aimed to limit congressional service to between six and 12 years , were passed in 15 states , although their constitutional validity remained to be decided by the Supreme Court . |
| 11 | The Melrose stand-off , who suffered a double fracture of the right forearm in the Calcutta Cup defeat , was first advised that the injury might take almost three months to heal , but medical opinion now is that the time could be trimmed to between six and eight weeks . |
| 12 | But Russia and the US have just agreed to cut back their nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , reducing the number of warheads from 20,000 to between 6,000 and 7,000 . |
| 13 | Accordingly , it announced the government 's intention of reducing the numbers on teacher-training courses in the public sector colleges from the maximum of 114,000 in 1972 to between 75,000 and 85,000 initial and inservice places by 1981 . |
| 14 | Key points of the accord included ( i ) a set-aside , in the first year , of 15 per cent of the EC farmland currently devoted to growing oilseeds , and a set-aside of at least 10 per cent in future years [ see also p. 39170 ] , in return for the lifting of punitive US tariffs on EC food and drink imports [ see below ] ; ( ii ) restriction of oilseed production to 5.128 million hectares [ not 5,128 million hectares as given on p. 39170 ] , thereby cutting EC production in future years to between 8,500,000 and 9,700,000 tonnes , down from a peak of 13,000,000 tonnes in 1991 [ ibid. ] , in return for curbs on US exports of soya beans and other cereal substitutes to the EC ( so-called rebalancing " ibid. ) ; and ( iii ) trimming the volume of subsidised EC farm exports by 21 per cent ( rather than 24 per cent as proposed in a GATT draft accord " see p. 38746 ) , cutting EC internal price supports by 20 per cent and reducing EC export subsidies by 36 per cent . |
| 15 | He used to smoke sixty cigarettes a day and says he 's brought it down to between fifteen and twenty roll-ups . |
| 16 | They suggest that the number of political offenders from the intelligentsia rose from about 1000 in the 1860s to between 3000 and 4000 in each of the following three decades , before increasing very sharply in the period of the revolution of 1905 . |
| 17 | Without a grid covering the shape , success rates for area or for counting squares fell to between 35–65 per cent for the bottom band , and there was generally some reduction for the remaining pupils . |
| 18 | In its latest report on the spread of AIDS ( acquired immune deficiency syndrome ) , published on July 31 , 1990 , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) said that the AIDS epidemic was " accelerating dramatically " and raised its estimate of the number of people infected with the AIDS virus ( HIV ) to between 8,000,000 and 10,000,000 . |
| 19 | A group of 15 European firms in a range of businesses have come together to create the European Software Institute to improve skills in developing computer software : the Institute , to be based in Bilbao , Spain , will work with customers on software processes and methodology , according to Compagnie des Machines Bull SA vice-president Georges Grunberg , who is the acting chairman ; the other founders are Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa SA , GMD SA , Eritel SA , Finsiel SA and Iberdrola SA from Spain , British Aerospace Plc , the Electricity Supply Board , Lloyd 's Register and Logica Plc , Sema Group Plc , Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , Telecom Ireland , Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA ; each of the founders will pay $118,000 a year for three to five years to fund the Institute , which will have a staff of about 50 ; it hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term . |
| 20 | It hopes to build its membership up to between 100 and 300 companies in the medium term . |
| 21 | If sufficiently precise , as in " can add whole numbers summing to between 100 and 1,000 " the criterion statement may specify the domain of test items from which a representative sample can be selected to assess pupils ' performance in relation to the criterion . |
| 22 | It has already been noted that a criterion statement such as " can add two whole numbers summing to between 100 and 1,000 " does not refer to a precise domain . |
| 23 | It 's generally accepted that the ideal fitness programme is one that will push your pulse to between 70 and 80 per cent of your maximum heart rate and keep it there for at least 20 minutes , at least three times a week . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , Poll Watch estimated that up to 50 per cent of votes cast throughout Thailand involved an exchange of money , with the figure rising to between 70 and 90 per cent in the Isarn ( North-East Thailand ) . |
| 25 | The 1990 budget , presented in October 1989 , sought a 4 per cent growth rate while reducing inflation to between 9.5 and 10.5 per cent . |
| 26 | Laboratories located next to a reactor can increase the number of elements to between thirty and thirty-five . |
| 27 | The new package , due to be formalized in a START II treaty , involved an initial reduction of strategic nuclear warheads to between 3,800 and 4,250 for each side ; further reductions by the year 2003 to between 3,000 and 3,500 warheads ; and the elimination of all multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle ( MIRV ) intercontinental missiles . |
| 28 | The new package , due to be formalized in a START II treaty , involved an initial reduction of strategic nuclear warheads to between 3,800 and 4,250 for each side ; further reductions by the year 2003 to between 3,000 and 3,500 warheads ; and the elimination of all multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle ( MIRV ) intercontinental missiles . |
| 29 | However , in reaffirming it as an objective , Mr Kinnock was careful not to set a timescale for reducing unemployment to between 750,000 and one million , depending on circumstances . |
| 30 | Actual quantities , which exceed internal expectations of only a month ago , boil down to between 100,000 and 200,000 units a quarter , which in turn means that by the end of the current quarter Sun expects to be able to fill all the back orders it has for Model 41 Sparcstation 10s plus the orders it receives in the intervening weeks . |