Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given constraints on public expenditure , it is unlikely that the Government could be persuaded to introduce maintenance grants for 16 to 18-year-olds . |
| 2 | Weston Hall in Northamptonshire passed in 1925 to Sacheverell Sitwell , a descendant of the Blencowe and Jennens families . |
| 3 | In the late fourteenth century , between 1371 and 1401 when rural rents were declining , the number of tenements owned by the vicars-choral of the Minster increased from 183 to 238 , and the average rent rose from 6.7 to 7.1s. , an increase of just under 6 per cent . |
| 4 | The mean coefficient of variation for each group of albumin concentrations ranged from 58 to 82% and showed no relation with the concentration ( table ) . |
| 5 | Kingfisher shot up from 487p to 570p before settling back at a more realistic 530p , while Marks & Spencer rose 24 to 325p and Dixons put on 26 to 236p . |
| 6 | ‘ We were n't liked at all to begin with , especially by the Children 's Department who resented the fact that a programme aimed at 8 to 14-year-olds had been given to the Drama Group , and not to them . ’ |
| 7 | In the first experiment , dietary nitrogen was given in casein at four different protein values ranging from 5 to 16% . |
| 8 | Something of this cultural cosmopolitanism may be gauged from the fortunes of the psalter given in 1318 to Cardinal Gaucelme Duèse , papal nuncio to England and nephew of John XXII , by Geoffrey of Croyland , abbot of Peterborough . |
| 9 | Plumage varies from pale to dark , but with many intermediates and no two birds exactly the same Pale form like Hobby but with upperparts more grey-brown and more rufous on heavily streaked underparts . |
| 10 | These transactions led in 1988 to disputes , to legal proceedings and to threats of further litigation . |
| 11 | Node i is indicated by a number i in a circle and node i is joined to node j with an ( unbroken ) line or edge and an arrow directed from i to j , if x i j is basic . |
| 12 | Kevin Drinkell , 29 , became Coventry City 's record signing yesterday when his transfer from Rangers cost £800,000 — £20,000 more than the fee paid in 1987 to Chelsea for David Speedie . |
| 13 | Many insects can detect ultraviolet light , while the vision of the common goldfish ranges from ultraviolet to far-red : achievements that we have only been able to equal in recent years with the development of sophisticated electronic equipment . |
| 14 | An important feature of IBS symptoms is their tendency to improve with placebo : in clinical trials the placebo response ranges from 40 to 70% . |
| 15 | This research has been criticized partly because it is American evidence and partly because the American rates were slashed by 23% over three years with the top personal rate being reduced from 70 to 50% whilst the UK moved from 60 to 40% in just one year . |
| 16 | In theory at least , the diameters range from 5 to 15mm ( 0.2 to 0.6in ) and lengths are around 2 metres ( 78 in ) which is enough for any kite spar . |
| 17 | Anglian Water raced on 14 to 331p , Severn Trent added 13 to 315p and Thames Water put on 15 to 344p . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , Henry II wished to maintain that the Vexin belonged of old to Normandy and was therefore his by hereditary right , it was safer not to confuse the issue by marrying Alice to one of his sons . |
| 19 | They totalled almost £5.7m ( £3m in 1990 ) , including £1.46m from the pre-merger schemes , at the end of last year because the share price soared from 633 to 896p last year . |
| 20 | December trading accounts for 12 to 25% , sometimes hitting 30% , of the annual turnover of general bookselling in the UK . |
| 21 | Santa Clara , California-based SynOptics Communications Inc has cut prices on its LattisNet family of Fibre Distributed Data Interface intelligent hubs , saying the cuts were made possible by lower component costs and better manufacturing efficiencies — the 2000 FDDI Workgroup Hubs were reduced immediately , with the 2912A with 12 shielded twisted pair master ports and two fibre optic A/B ports reduced by 36 to $10,000 , or $714 per port ; the Model 3904 FDDI Fiber Optic Host Module was cut 27% to $5,500 and the 3910S-04 FDDI Network Management Module was cut 33% to $10,000 . |
| 22 | When the Wolverton Shed went in 1882 to Northampton , a works shunting engine did this service ( manned by Bletchley Shed men ) until the early 1920s . |
| 23 | Among the water companies Northumbrian Water spurted 68p to 419p and Yorkshire Water put on 77 to 430p . |
| 24 | Anglian Water raced on 14 to 331p , Severn Trent added 13 to 315p and Thames Water put on 15 to 344p . |
| 25 | Sears put on 2 to 92p , helped along by a couple of brokers ' recommendations . |
| 26 | High density polyethylene sales rose from 2.2 to 2.4m tonnes in 1989–90 and polystyrene from 1.5 to 1.6m tonnes . |
| 27 | A royal charter granted in 1257 to Roger de Merlay for his lifetime , that his own woodwards should have exclusive custody of the vert in his woods , provided however that the king 's foresters should still have custody of the venison there , and that de Morlay 's woodwards should be answerable to the Justice of the Forest , or at the Forest Eyre for any waste of those woods . |
| 28 | Sophia commented on this to Ianthe who was sitting in front of her . |
| 29 | If we write x i j for the number of items sent from i to j , the problem can be written as an LP . |
| 30 | His father retired in 1813 to London , and Auldjo was educated at Atwood 's School in Hammersmith , and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1823 but did not take a degree . |