Example sentences of "to [num] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Birmingham , R. W. Dale was pastor of Carr 's Lane Chapel from 1859 to 1891 and gained considerable fame for his theological writings , his involvement in political issues as a Liberal and his compilation in 1874 of The English Hymn Book . |
| 2 | Champagne Lover was backed from 16-1 to 2-1 and beat 18 rivals by 12 lengths . |
| 3 | Organised by the Henry Moore Foundation , the show features works from 1922 to 1984 and includes sixty-five carvings , maquettes , working models and life-size figures . |
| 4 | With Sarah Whitfield , Sylvester has written Volume I , which covers Magritte 's career to 1930 and identifies 333 oil paintings , with an additional fifty-six works , recorded but lost , listed in an appendix , and Volume II ( 1931–48 ) , which will be published in the autumn . |
| 5 | He must reduce himself to zero and have perfect control over all senses … ’ . |
| 6 | The FBI and Britain 's Serious Fraud Office are investigating the scandal at its US offshoot , which is alleged to date back to 1983 and involve bogus defence contracts with Pakistan , China and South Africa . |
| 7 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |