Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With growth rates for technical and scientific Unix solutions rising by up to 30% a year , SGI is still able to cock a snoot at the commercial world with impunity for the present : ‘ we want our systems to make money , not count money , ’ says SGI president and chief executive officer , Ed McCracken . |
| 2 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 3 | In January 1942 , the President ordered General MacArthur to withdraw from there to Australia . |
| 4 | If imports account for close to 50% of UK sales in those sectors , a 10% devaluation would directly raise the RPI by around 2% over a period of , say , one to two years . |
| 5 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 6 | Yes , Dock Commission sold the dredger , they sold the hoppers and then last the steam hopper went from here to Harwich and what they done at Harwich they , on the foredeck , see a big hopper , what we call hopper number three , they put a crane on there and use it t as a hopper then and |
| 7 | John Stevenson drove at up to 90mph in areas where speed limits were imposed , the court heard . |
| 8 | It would also leave the neighbours of the incinerator plants exposed at least to UK wastes , and probably to some imports . |
| 9 | Another possibility is that as the aggregate demand curve rises from AD to AD 1 the expected level of prices rises to P 2 , and the relevant short-run supply curve is the line labelled SS 1 . |
| 10 | Government stocks fell by up to £¼ . |
| 11 | Government stocks improved by up to £⅜ . |
| 12 | This allowed the administration to extend to the Soviet Union credit guarantees worth up to US$1,000 million to buy US agricultural produce . |
| 13 | The property market should be following UBS 's lead and saying deals reported at up to 20pc above their true value is precisely where to draw the line . |
| 14 | A good public bus service operates from nearby to Malcesine although car hire is recommended and parking is available . |
| 15 | Minitech UK Ltd , Derby , claims its Warp Drive disk array can improve input/output processing speeds by up to 300% with access times of less than three milliseconds for Unix sites with 4Gb or more database data . |
| 16 | Rarely had the rollercoaster dynamic of rock 'n' roll been so extreme — unknowns shoot from nowhere to top of charts with incendiary musical formula . |
| 17 | It 's many years since the last train ran from here to Gloucester . |
| 18 | Now it is to be sold , along with snaps of the late Mirror newspaper tycoon with Ronald Reagan valued at up to £300 . |
| 19 | The firm claims that three of its objects are as powerful as seven handwritten SQL queries , with 50 objects combining for up to 1m possible queries . |
| 20 | June 14 : Shortfall revealed of up to £100million of investors ' funds . |
| 21 | The Reverend Peter Green warned in How to Deal with Lads ( 1911 ) of how ‘ the club is rushed by a swarm of rough lads whom you do n't know and over whom it is impossible to exercise any control ’ . |
| 22 | Her suspicions flew at once to Ethel having cast a spell on the cat to get even with Mildred for the insult to Ethel 's family . |
| 23 | And instead of a ship going from here to Aberdeen , she might be a fortnight going there , with bad weather . |
| 24 | The number of people below the poverty line increased by up to 75% in parts of Ghana between 1974 to 1984 . |
| 25 | Telnet/OLTP is claimed to provide significant gains in transaction processing efficiency by decreasing central computer processing by up to 50% and by decreasing Telnet traffic on the network by up to 90% — and existing Telnet applications are compatible with Telnet/OLTP . |
| 26 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 27 | On completion of a suitable programme outcomes based on up to date knowledge of practice of nursing or health visiting must be achieved by a returning nurse or health visitor . |