Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [n mass] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Significantly is that almost all the new cases are confined to people in the high risk groups or those who 've knowingly had sexual contact with them . |
2 | The enlarged Group made £1,371,000 profit before tax in the six months compared to £1,886,000 in the same period last year . |
3 | The original legislation passed in 1985 stipulated that the deficit must be reduced to $36bn in the 1990 fiscal year which began on 1 October . |
4 | As the original inhabitants leave these barracks , the estates become unwanted stock allocated to people in the greatest need with the least choice — usually poor households with small children . |
5 | It 's given to people in the last years of this century who will make a difference to the plant in the next century . |
6 | Over half of all patients developed a clinically import nt complication in the first 100 operations ( 52% ) ; this figure has now fallen to 25% in the last 68 operations . |
7 | This is not cheap : housing costs eat up 44% of a typical wage-earner 's income , as opposed to 14% in the 1950s . |
8 | BAD debts at Southern Water more than doubled to £2.7m in the first six months to end-September , when profits rose 8% to Pounds 60m . |