Example sentences of "to [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States House of Representatives on June 20 voted by 410 to eight to cut off military aid to Jordan worth US$27,000,000 , pending assurances that " the government of Jordan has taken steps to advance the peace process in the Middle East " [ see p. 38119 ] . |
| 2 | Changing a manager 's perception of a glass from half-full to half-empty opens up big innovation opportunities . |
| 3 | Fucking twenty five to three clamped up fucking arsehole , about to stick one on tramp . |
| 4 | Twenty-five was about the average age of marriage for Scottish women , — and it does appear to be the case that with the notable exception of Dundee ( where a large number of women continued working ) it was usual throughout the period up to 1914 to give up regular employment on marriage and to return to it only if widowed or in great hardship . |
| 5 | The centre was established last autumn with SFr40 million ( US $30 million ) from the Swiss government and has an NEC SX-3 vector-processing supercomputer linked to the high-capacity Swiss education and research network ( SWITCH ) and to those carrying out joint research with Swiss government organizations . |