Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mean of two point four percent of patients received a blood transfusion of greater than two units across the region and again this ranged from zero to six point six percent across the region . |
| 2 | A mean of two percent of patients were returned to theatre across the northern region after T U R P and this ranged from zero to seven point five percent . |
| 3 | The mean overall early mortality was point nine percent and the inter-site variation for this ranged from zero to three point eight percent . |
| 4 | And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms . |
| 5 | Brendan Daly moved from Defence to Social Welfare , Michael Woods from Social Welfare to Agriculture and Food , Michael O'Kennedy from Agriculture and Food to Labour , and Bertie Ahern from Labour to Finance in place of Reynolds . |
| 6 | I felt like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz on first seeing Munchkinland — the scene when the screen changed from sepia to glorious Technicolor and Judy Garland spoke that immortal line , ‘ You know , Toto , I do n't believe we 're in Kansas any more . ’ |
| 7 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 8 | To a considerable extent manufacturing expansion over the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century came in response to increasing demand , with overseas markets substantially supplementing the opportunities at home . |
| 9 | Once the documentation is complete , it is suggested that a " completion date " be agreed , so that the necessary searches can be made ( see Chapter 3 , p30 ) and monies requisitioned by reference to that date . |
| 10 | These are his charm , his instrumental attitude towards his own goodness , and his fundamental opacity of mind — all characteristics which he shared with Gandhi to some degree . |
| 11 | A further , if slightly different , anomaly existed in relation to judicial review . |
| 12 | A publisher had asked him to explain , some quarter of a century after the event , how he passed from scepticism to religious belief . |
| 13 | We are , regrettably , completely in the dark as to how they functioned in relation to each other . |
| 14 | His order was reversed by the Court of Appeal [ 1989 ] S.T.C. 463 but restored on appeal to this House [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 1400 . |
| 15 | But by far the most difficult and tiresome task had been that of the telephone girls , who had made scores and scores of transatlantic calls that Tuesday morning , afternoon , and early evening : calls made to one address that led to calls to another address ; calls to one friend that led to another friend or colleague ; from one police department to another ; one State to other States ; calls for one set of records that referred to another set of records that led … ad apparently infinitum . |
| 16 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 17 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 18 | The coin went from hand to reluctant hand . |
| 19 | And , broadly , it continued to be accepted that the key to improvement lay in dedication to competitive enterprise , hard work and self-help , and that those unable to practice these virtues should be helped by their families or by voluntary charity . |
| 20 | ranging from when I went to Leeds to that seminar and there were people excited about the Festival and you know , two weeks before the Festival speaking to Jane in London , said oh we 've had a lot of you know and I said well I 'll get back to you in September and tell you |
| 21 | During their visit they went on excursions to Styal Mill , Chester and Liverpool . |
| 22 | Belinda listened on tenterhooks to one side of the discussion as Tom somehow managed to present his case forcefully while driving at the same time . |
| 23 | They lay at angles to each other , drifting very slowly so that the gold-splintered pattern of the lake changed continuously . |
| 24 | Although Aith lifeboat had been launched it would take her some time to reach the island , so Mr Williamson spoke by radio to four fishing vessels at the scene . |
| 25 | Cheshire 's assistant chief constable , Brian Baister , said in response to last night 's IRA statement : ‘ A warning was given half-an-hour before , but no mention was made of the town of Warrington . |
| 26 | What Eliot said in reply to that question has survived in two versions . |
| 27 | To emphasise the point , he said in relation to overall investment : |
| 28 | Muscle strips relaxed in response to electrical field stimulation with a pulse strength of 10 V and a pulse duration of 0.5 ms ( n=24 ) . |
| 29 | Age Concern wrote in December to social security minister Nicholas Scott expressing anger severely disabled people over 65 were ineligible for the 1993 Fund . |
| 30 | We had in addition to this party , — a doctor coming to visit his mother , who lived in Coll ; a young Englishman with a fishing-rod , who had left a medical practice for a few days , to whip the burns of Coll and breathe the fine air ; a minister 's wife ; a retired minister and his wife , both in delicate health ; the fiscal of Tobermory , who had a farm in Tiree ; the Chief Constable and Sheriff Clerk from Mull , who came to investigate a case of suspected cattle poisoning ; and a young Glasgow teacher , who came to be guest of the Fiscal aforementioned . |