Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period the number of book issues sampled from library authorities has grown from 3m to 10.6m . |
| 2 | Mr W. F. G. Plowden has agreed in principle to the Society having the Bishop 's Castle Railway goods van , at present used as a shed at Eaton Station House — but the Society will have to provide a shed in lieu . |
| 3 | Since that time , a major change has occurred with respect to social mobility that has had a direct bearing on the emergence of Britain 's underclass , and this is considered in this chapter . |
| 4 | But intake of other green vegetables has increased from 0.19oz to 0.50oz per week . |
| 5 | It is the second time Kemp has switched from Slough to Selhurst Park . |
| 6 | A report on suicides at Oxford University has called for ways to be found to reduce academic pressure on students . |
| 7 | Subscription income has risen from £778,683 to £811,942 , an increase of 4.3% . |
| 8 | The concern of these groups has grown in response to a perceived widening of the gap between cherished moral values and actual day-to-day behaviour . |
| 9 | The statement , meant to be reassuring , that ‘ Mummy has gone to heaven to be with Jesus ’ , can leave the child very jealous and angry with God for taking his mother away from him . |
| 10 | Pupils are losing out as the cost of arson attacks on schools has doubled from £60m to £120m . |
| 11 | Fighting has cut off supplies to the refugees . |
| 12 | In the space of only two weeks , the Slovak lawyer has moved from dissident to defendant to government minister . |
| 13 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 14 | Since his election Dr. Kumar has had regular battles with Mr Bates , who since his narrow defeat has moved from Gateshead to Marton . |
| 15 | The sensationalist side of sports reporting has gone from strength to strength in the popular press since the advent of television . |
| 16 | The number with saving goals has risen from 66% to 79% . |
| 17 | Like the overnight success of a movie star , health care reform in the United States has leapt from oblivion to notoriety . |
| 18 | The name of every decent practice gets used from time to time to justify something indecent . |
| 19 | The Central Electricity Generating Board ( now privatized and split into two companies ) is funding a large-scale , 2-year project to assess links to childhood cancer , while another recently announced study aims to look at links to sudden infant death . |
| 20 | The extensive range of Wedgwood jewellery has been complemented by the addition of fine bone china cameos and the collectability of Coalport figurines continues to go from strength to strength . |
| 21 | While turnover overall has advanced from £46.09m to £55.37m , reflecting the inclusion of BMK for a 10 month period , comparable turnover year on year was down 11% . |
| 22 | The committee has asked from time to time , that I keep it updated with er European legislation , in so far as it affects employments matters , and this I 've intended to do in Paper K. There are two Appendix . |
| 23 | The British sculptor Barry Flanagan has progressed from bronze to stone and marble in the course of a career marked by the influence of Minimalism and Arte Povera . |
| 24 | The flight burns up energy , and the hummingbird has to stop from time to time during its journey , to defend a territory and re-fuel . |
| 25 | The White Paper ( see p2 for detailed news coverage ) addresses a number of the structural issues which AEA has identified as barriers to innovation in the UK . |
| 26 | On this basis the position of region B has deteriorated with respect to region A. On the other hand one may say that for Region A , between year 1 and year 2 , unemployment increased by 25 per cent ( expressed as a percentage of unemployment in year 1 ) and for region B , unemployment increased by 20 per cent ( expressed as a percentage of unemployment in year 1 ) . |
| 27 | Contrast this with the woodwind who often seem to be fighting gamely against insubordinate instruments and recalcitrant reeds , their difficulties surely exacerbated by lack of contact with the West , where orchestral wind playing has gone from strength to strength . |
| 28 | In total our fruit consumption has risen from 61lb to 69lb per person . |
| 29 | And the Queen has arrived in Cyprus to a row over executions that took place thirty years ago . |
| 30 | Just-in-time management philosophy has moved from manufacturing to the university library sector . |