Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 700 applicants responded to a recent marketing director job ad , underlining the extent to which the recession has hit top management . |
| 2 | The 49 sucklers sold to a top price of £1,460 and £1,300 for pedigree Charolais cows and bull calves at foot presented by P McAllister , Glenarm . |
| 3 | But at 140 Willey went to a superb catch by Roberts , and at the close they were on 146 for 5 , needing another 114 . |
| 4 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 5 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |
| 6 | 6.8 Richard Duncan ( Ards ) who collected the 200m Freestyle for 11–12 year olds last night , netted a championship triple with victories in the 100m and 200m Backstroke. 8.5 Duncan cruised to a comfortable win over Lisburn 's Neal McGrann with a championship best time of 1.16.38 . |
| 7 | After three years fostered to a kindly couple who treated her as their own , she went back to live with her mother . |
| 8 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 9 | In the two financial years 1987-88 and 1988-89 , the council had been involved in 592 deals amounting to a notional £6,052.5m . |
| 10 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 11 | Seventeen thousand people flocked to a remote field at the weekend — not to rave but to relive their youth . |
| 12 | At Blenheim in July 1912 Law spoke to a mass rally of English Unionists , including over a hundred MPs , and made his commitment to Ulster absolutely specific . |
| 13 | If we compare the copy of the Pinturicchio — excellent though it may be — with the paintings owned by American collector Philip Lehman , we have to admit that Joni 's abilities , over a period of ten years developed to a remarkable extent . |
| 14 | In all , 29 teams contributed to a grand total of £16,200 raised by nuclear industry organisations , including AEA technology , NNC and Nuclear Electric . |
| 15 | A concentration gradient through the colon is not observed except for a slight predominance in the ileum and right hemicolon after Asacol and Claversal 500 mg corresponding to a large release of the drug . |
| 16 | One recommendation made to a large number of departments , however , was for changes in teaching methods , notably the introduction of more oral work . |
| 17 | Ironically , the Stag 's reputation as an expensive liability is rooted in the three-litre , 145-horsepower engine — effectively two four-cylinder Dolomite/Saab 99 units siamesed to a common crankshaft — that is germane to the car 's appeal . |
| 18 | Needing a well-earned drink after the afternoon 's work , ten or twelve dykes repaired to a nearby bar . |
| 19 | Plastic additives will become more expensive over the next five years according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan . |
| 20 | Yet the West Germans , too , may be underestimating the pace at which history is moving today in central Europe : too fast , in all probability , for the smooth transitional arrangements which the Kohl government in Bonn likes to think will one day lead to a painless form of reunification . |
| 21 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
| 22 | Hazlitt found the humbler job of reporting parliament for the Morning Chronicle ; we find him describing how one MP rose to a parliamentary occasion by ‘ soaring into mediocrity , ’ a joke any modern sketchwriter would be proud to use and probably has . |
| 23 | One problem relates to a tactical blunder by Swapo . |
| 24 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 25 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 26 | One pharmacist belonging to a national firm contacted the head office , which said that a suitable product can be made by special order at £100 for 100 . |
| 27 | ‘ We do a kit of plans and key parts for £350 , or a kit that needs only 40 hours to get to a bare hull for £1,800 . |
| 28 | All 60 delegates responded to a short self administered questionnaire . |
| 29 | Fears of flooding , explosion , fire or a terrorist attack are just four reasons pointing to a big boycott when the tunnel opens in autumn 1993 . |
| 30 | The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party . |