Example sentences of "to [num] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 2 | The shareholders are treated as having received a distribution of £100 on which tax of £20 has been paid and , assuming they will be liable for income tax at the higher rate , will have a further £20 of income tax to pay ( see s14 TA 1988 and sections 77 to 79 of the 1993 Finance Act ) . |
| 3 | At its height Baring Securities generated up to two-thirds of the privately-owned merchant bank 's profits and in 1988 won a Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 4 | That is being helped by the change in the turkey processing market in the past 15 years or so which has led to two-thirds of the national output , worth a total of £300 million a year , being eaten in portion and added value form . |
| 5 | We checked as far as possible the information for the cases listed in tables 2.1 to 2.4 of the Black report ; in table III cross references are given to the cases listed in these tables of the Black report and , when necessary , the information has been corrected . |
| 6 | He believes that up to 300 of the 2,000 priests who threatened to leave will actually do so . |
| 7 | Articles Twenty-Nine to Thirty-One of the Thirty-Nine Articles denied transubstantiation but were ambiguous about the real presence , while the 1559 Prayer Book combined the formula used in 1549 to imply a physical presence with that of 1552 which was meant to indicate commemoration only . |
| 8 | This winter these perils have led to 12 of the main teams mounting more than 90 rescues , mainly since the start of the year , of which one-third were judged as serious incidents . |
| 9 | FIS deputies were elected to 188 of the 231 seats in which the there was an outright winner . |
| 10 | Ltd. an action brought by the local authority under s.100 to obtain the abatement of obnoxious odours , raised the defence of best practicable means , and Brabin , J. in his judgement said obiter , ‘ I do not find the meaning of sections 92 to 100 of the 1936 Act ambiguous . |
| 11 | Finally , it must be remembered that where odour nuisance arises from outside the workplace , affecting employees inside the workplace , for example from a nearby factory or due to manure spreading in the surrounding fields , then sections 92 to 100 of the Public Health Act 1936 will apply should the odour amount to a statutory nuisance , since the Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1982 amended s.92(1) ( d ) of the Public Health Act 1936 to ‘ any dust or effluvia caused by a trade , business or manufacture or process which are prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ deleting the words [ to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood ] . |
| 12 | It is responsible for around 79 per cent of deforestation , 72 per cent of arable land expansion , and 69 per cent of growth in livestock numbers … some 4.5 million square kilometres of additional wildlife habitat will have to be converted to human uses — equivalent to four-fifths of the total area of nature reserves in the world in 1990 . ’ |
| 13 | The research was based on a postal questionnaire to 490 of the main research centres and elicited a positive response from 36 per cent . |
| 14 | McMahon was involved in the build-up to three of the four goals and also came out a clear winner in what was , at times , a bad-tempered midfield confrontation with Batty and McAllister . |
| 15 | Reinforced by troops from the sizeable Japanese army in Korea , which crossed into Manchuria without obtaining prior permission from the Japanese government , the Guandong Army had extended its occupation to three of the four provinces of Manchuria by 1932 . |
| 16 | The Rawsons ( a brother and sister team ) have worked hard on the property creating a games-room from a garage , an Alpine section in the garden and adding private facilities to three of the five rooms . |
| 17 | The answer to three of the hon. Gentleman 's questions is yes . |
| 18 | If the synodic period of Venus were exactly 584 days , the number of revolutions required would be 65 , corresponding to 146 of the 260-day cycles . |
| 19 | In 1968 , the raising to sixteen of the school-leaving age was postponed . |
| 20 | Special note should be made of : ( 1 ) the definitions of " domicile " of individuals on the one hand and of corporations ( including limited companies ) and associations on the other , in ss 41 to 46 of the 1982 Act , and ( 2 ) the provisions in Scheds 1 and 4 ( ibid ) which give the Court jurisdiction to hear and determine claims . |
| 21 | Sections 2 to 4 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act apply to contractual terms or notices which attempt to exclude or restrict liability for negligence and breach of contract . |
| 22 | It is debatable whether this permission can properly be described as a " right or interest " in the copyright ; if it can be so described then sections 2 to 4 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 do not apply to software contracts and this is the most likely interpretation . |
| 23 | The United States decided this week to delay a planned withdrawal of up to 3,000 of the 18,000 US troops in Somalia . |
| 24 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 25 | Half the male population is economically active , compared to one-quarter of the female population . |
| 26 | Put eight to ten of the cooked potato pieces , chopped , into a food processor or blender , add a little of the mushroom-cream mixture and whizz to a paste . |
| 27 | Plans for the extensive use of privatization coupons , reserving 40 per cent of nationalized property for sale to citizens at special low prices , encountered problems when it was revealed on Jan. 20 that up to 6,000,000 of the 8,000,000 books printed ( each worth Kcs1,035 or about US$35 — and exchangeable for shares in state companies — see also pp. 38584-85 ) had disappeared , allegedly bought up by private investment funds promising individuals a tenfold return on their investment after a year . |
| 28 | Curators at the Pompidou Centre are anxiously awaiting the results of negotiations between Russian museums and the eighty-nine year old Russian heiress Irina Shchukin over property rights to twenty-five of the 130 paintings in the exhibition ‘ Matisse 1904–17 ’ running until 21 June . |
| 29 | The statutory framework of the National Curriculum is contained in sections 1 to 25 of the 1988 Act . |
| 30 | The DLP won 116 of the 237 seats open to popular election , thereby entitling it to 33 of the 62 seats awarded on the basis of proportional representation , bringing its total in the 299-member Assembly to 149 , one seat sort of an overall majority . |