Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 2 | Foreign contributions already received amounted to over $46,000 million and the total foreign commitment came to $54,000 million , with 96 per cent of the outstanding amount being due from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , already the largest contributors with payments of $12,700 million and $12,500 million respectively . |
| 3 | We intend to continue to strongly support the Government in NCVQ in their endeavours to achieve the national targets . |
| 4 | What do you think when you actually erm when you look ahead to erm moving out of the flats and finding somewhere else , where do you w where do you want to go to anyway ? |
| 5 | Speyside , Orkney and Powys all had a 95% ownership figure but in North Wales and Wester Ross the land owned amounted to only 16% and 6% respectively . |
| 6 | The key features review referred to above is devised to identify potential deal breaking problems at an early stage , so as to limit the possibility of Big accumulating large professional fees on ultimately abortive deals . |
| 7 | As a percentage of joint gross national product ( GNP ) this represented an increase from the existing ceiling of 1.2 per cent ( although 1992 expenditure was calculated to come to only around 1.14 per cent ) to 1.27 per cent by 1999 . |
| 8 | This has jumped to more than $140 billion , from $125 billion in late November . |
| 9 | Since 1979 , under the present Government , that figure has trebled to more than 6.5 per cent . |
| 10 | In the mid 1970s more than 25,000 Hereford calves were bred annually.Now that figure has plunged to around 8,000 . |
| 11 | This seems appropriate since , with the exception of fascist states and some contemporary authoritarian regimes , corporatism has developed to widely differing degrees , varies in intensity over time and is contained within vastly different state structures and administrative traditions . |
| 12 | Indeed , the average current-account balance ( ignoring whether the balance is a surplus or deficit ) of the big seven industrial economies is forecast to fall to only 0.6% of their collective GNP this year , down from a peak of 3.0% in 1986 . |
| 13 | The cost of the project has soared to more than £8bn . |
| 14 | For that Macaulay reportedly earned £62,000 but his fee has soared to more than £2 million , making him the highest paid child star of all time . |
| 15 | The following day Sharif sent a special envoy to the UN Secretary-General , calling for a UN fact-finding mission to Kashmir , and warning that Pakistan " can not be expected to continue to indefinitely prevent such marches by use of force " . |
| 16 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 17 | What then will happen to those ‘ little ’ things you want to cling to so much ? |
| 18 | From a peak of 400 mines around 1850 , the number has fallen to just four . |
| 19 | However , by the time we have moved forward from the crack tip to roughly the position of the next interatomic bond , the stress has fallen to rather less than half the peak value . |
| 20 | Thirty African countries have agreed to co-operate in efforts to save the elephant , whose population in Africa has fallen to around 600,000 , compared with over one million a decade ago . |
| 21 | In the face of poaching , land clearance and logging , the world 's population of wild tigers has fallen to around 7,000 ; three of the eight main species have died out and a fourth is on the verge of extinction . |
| 22 | The amount of funds channelled towards buy-out/buy-ins has risen to 61 per cent of the total in 1989 , whereas that for start ups has fallen to only 6 per cent ( start-ups and other early stage only account for 15 per cent of total funds invested ) . |
| 23 | Ever since I started observing it , about 30 years ago , the magnitude has remained between 4.6 and 5.3 , with a mean of 4.9 , but there are occasions when it has fallen to below 6 . |
| 24 | The figure has fallen to less than 60 per cent as overseas banks have become keen lenders . |
| 25 | Although the number of fatal accidents on farms has fallen to about 60 a year , Carl Boswell , the Health and Safety Executive 's chief agricultural inspector , says it is proving very difficult to cut the tally further . |
| 26 | The cropped area has fallen to about 1,500 ha . |
| 27 | NIN ( 29 November 1987 ) claims that the proportion of Albanians in Kosovo has now reached 85 per cent , which would imply that the proportion of Serbs and Montenegrins has fallen to about 11 per cent . |
| 28 | The economy was predicted to expand by 8 per cent in 1992 , its ninth year of consecutive growth , while inflation was expected to fall to around 13 per cent , from 18.7 per cent at the end of 1991 . |
| 29 | In the United States , the encyclopaedia was launched early in 1991 at US$399 but the price is expected to fall to about US$299 by the end of the year . |
| 30 | The public-sector deficit has swollen to more than 10% of GDP . |