Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 20 November 1992 , the interest rate on unpaid tax and repayment supplement for income tax , capital gains tax , development land tax , corporation tax ( including advance corporation tax ) , petroleum revenue tax ( including advance petroleum revenue tax ) , supplementary petroleum duty , Stamp Duty Reserve Tax , and on tax charged by an assessment for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax wholly or partly attributable to failure or error by the taxpayer , is reduced from 7.75% to 7% . |
| 2 | From 6 November 1992 the rate of interest on unpaid tax and repayment supplement for income tax , capital gains tax , development land tax , corporation tax ( including advance corporation tax ) , petroleum revenue tax ( including advance petroleum revenue tax ) , supplementary petroleum duty , Stamp Duty Reserve Tax , and on tax charged by an assessment for the purpose of making good to the Crown a loss of tax wholly or partly attributable to failure or error by the taxpayer , is reduced from 9.25% to 7.75% . |
| 3 | Among the casualties wholly or partly attributable to drainage were 97 per cent of herb-rich haymeadows , 50 per cent of lowland fens , and 60 per cent of lowland raised mires , all lost in the space of a generation . |
| 4 | Do n't take it personally or too much to heart . |
| 5 | This latter fact simply means that as we go along the chain of correlated consequences to larger and larger systems the links in the chain become tighter and tighter , less and less subject to quantum mechanical " creakiness ' . |
| 6 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 7 | Many compounds , more or less related to morphine , have been prepared and tested , and a substantial list of alternative drugs provides possible substitutes with merits for particular purposes . |
| 8 | In other words , each offers different and characteristic communication features which are more or less valuable to information users , depending on the use to which those users want to put the information . |
| 9 | Again , constitutional theory maintains that ministers are both collectively and individually responsible to Parliament for their actions . |
| 10 | Some of these diseases are becoming more and more resistant to treatment . |
| 11 | It seemed in truth a time of indulgent expansion ; and , as if in retribution , students of all kinds , in universities old and new and in the polytechnics , became more and more resistant to authority , not just social authority , but the academic authority of their teachers and of the disciplines within which they were studying . |
| 12 | External designs are easiest to work on but most prone to interference from mud and water . |
| 13 | These last two forms of cancer are now considered by experts to be in the category ‘ diseases for which the excess mortality in smokers may be partly or wholly attributable to smoking ’ . |
| 14 | Zen masters insist that no amount of teaching and practice will help people who are temperamentally or intellectually unsuited to contemplation . |
| 15 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |