Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altogether clubs raked in more than £133 million in gate receipts from domestic games during 199192 compared to the previous year 's £114m . |
| 2 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 3 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 4 | The victory of the Conservatives in the British general elections of 1979 led to a radical questioning of the role of the public enterprise sector . |
| 5 | The bureau , in Horsemarket , received 259 inquiries during November last year an increase of 90 compared to the same month in 1990 . |
| 6 | How could a violently anti-system movement conceived for an extraordinary emergency akin to that of 1940 adapt to a gradualist parliamentary strategy ? |
| 7 | Sterling Chemicals announced a 97 per cent fall in net profits to $700000 for the first quarter of 1992 compared to the previous year . |
| 8 | An 8-handicap player , he had gone round in 74 , which gave him a net score of 66 to add to the previous day 's 67 . |
| 9 | In the same way , the second Edwardian Prayer Book of 1552 conformed to the Reformed theology of the eucharist and denied both transubstantiation and consubstantiation . |
| 10 | While the accounts of the siege of Harfleur in the late summer of 1415 refer to the time-honoured methods of mining and blockade used by the English , pride of place for effectiveness is given to their artillery , which caused both fear and destruction to the beleaguered town . |
| 11 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 12 | Road deaths increased in the UK by six percent to 1250 in the second quarter of 1990 compared to the same period for last year . |
| 13 | Like Azikwe , Nkrumah enrolled at Lincoln University , Pennsylvania , founded in 1854 as a college for Blacks , which introduced a theological faculty in 1869 affiliated to the presbyterian church . |
| 14 | In Lambeth , for example , about one-quarter of expenditure in 1979–80 went to the voluntary sector , which was represented on appropriate committees ( Spooner , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | From the available information , we can not tell how many of the 1160 deaths in 1986 belong to the 1946 cohort so we can only estimate it to be 1160÷2 = 580 and assume that another 580 of the 1946 cohort will die in 1987 . |
| 16 | Over the long term there has been an ‘ age-migration ’ of the accident statistics , whereby the number of under-15s killed per annum has fallen by 61 per cent from 1927–82 compared to an 80 per cent increase for the 15–24 year old group . |
| 17 | London 's evening paper was similar in lix score to a Swedish evening paper , but there were major differences in word and sentence scores . |
| 18 | The size of 's commitment to animal feed has increased very considerably with ’ turnover forecast to rise to over £500 million in 1993 compared to a previous level of £200 million per annum . |
| 19 | To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million . |
| 20 | Infant mortality rates are rising rapidly , reaching 17.9 per 1,000 births in 1991 according to the Russian statistical classification , although the report states that if international standards were applied the figure could be three times this level . |
| 21 | A $1500m ‘ global initiative for the security and sustainable use of plant genetic resources ’ is needed in 1993–2000 according to a new report from the Keystone Centre . |
| 22 | The expiry of the Licensing Act in 1695 led to a massive output of printed propaganda , in the form of pamphlets , broadsides and newspapers , and the press proved to be highly partisan in nature . |
| 23 | Dr Hazel will be known to some staff : he worked for the Edinburgh City Engineer 's Department and in 1975 transferred to the Regional Council , working in the Transportation and Highway Planning Division . |
| 24 | First , as a criticism of the sheer impracticability of the grandiose project Owen had in 1833 put to the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes and which still survived in the objectives though not in the activities of its even shorter-lived successor , the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union , the Webbs ' case succeeds . |
| 25 | The ‘ battered child syndrome ’ first discovered by Henry Kempe in 1962 referred to a clinical condition in young children , invariably under three , who had received serious physical abuse , usually from a parent , and was identified by the association of subdural haematoma ( a pooling of blood around the skull ) together with evidence of broken or healing long bones ( Kempe et al . , |
| 26 | In 1895 he became gas engineer and in 1900 transferred to a similar post on the Midland Railway at Derby , where he became assistant works manager in 1905 , works manager in 1907 , and chief mechanical engineer in 1909 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Britain 's current-account deficit of £20 billion ( $31 billion , or 3.6% of GDP ) in 1989 fell to an annual rate of only £4.1 billion in the six months to February , and the odd monthly surplus may soon appear . |
| 28 | New apparatus made new experiments possible ; for example , the new diffraction gratings prepared by H. A. Rowland at Johns Hopkins University from 1882 led to a great improvement and quantification of spectroscopy , while the microscope led to the cell theory . |
| 29 | These matters spilled over into the British Psychological Society and eventually in 1951–52 led to a major row on the benefits of psychoanalysis , which meant that the relationship between scientific developments and educational practice became further confused . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the Belgian scholar van der Vyver pointed out that a panegyric addressed by Ennodius of Pavia to Theodoric the Great in 508 refers to a recent influx of Alamans into Ostrogothic territory , and he suggested that this should be linked to Clovis 's victory , which he placed in 506 . |