Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [n mass] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken her to most of the local beauty spots ; arranged for cannon to be fired over the lake for their echoes and the quaint museum to be selectively open when they visited the place . |
| 2 | The February 1971 auction saw the majority of the Tora fleet sell for $2,000 to $5,000 , depending on type and aircraft time . |
| 3 | The government retained a minority share in the Sicartsa rolled steel mills which sold for $170,000,000 to the Villacero Group , while Grupo Acerero del Norte bought Altos Hornos de Mexico for $350,000,000 and took over $350,000,000 of its debt . |
| 4 | A more prurient depiction of childhood was Bouguereau 's ‘ Retour des Champs ’ , of a tousled-haired girl carrying a bundle of what seems to be herbs , which sold for $180,000 to the trade ( £103,400 ) ( est. $100–150,000 ) . |
| 5 | A pair of mahogany and ebonised doors by Alfred Waterhouse from the Natural History Museum in London sold for £1,700 to the Fine Art Society itself ( est. £800–1,200 ) , while an oak corner bookcase by Waterhouse brought £8,500 ( est. £2–3000 ) . |
| 6 | Breaking the five-figure mark again , he sold for 10,800gn to the judge , Roger Hazard , Grantham , Lincolnshire . |
| 7 | It also offers powder skiing weeks off-piste with a local guide in Klosters and Grindelwald for £199 to £295 on top of the holiday cost . |
| 8 | 4 The attacker places his left leg down and pivots through 180° to the right , extending his right leg . |
| 9 | ERICSSON LOOKS FOR 30% TO 40% GROWTH IN UNIT SALES OF CELLULAR PHONES THIS YEAR |
| 10 | At the same time , the Chancellor announced that with immediate effect the threshold for the 1 per cent stamp duty charged on houses would be lifted from £30,000 to £60,000 , which will cut the cost of buying a £60,000 home by £600 . |
| 11 | Thailand 's GDP per head , for example , is lifted from $1,780 to $1,580 . |
| 12 | With £10.8m cash under its belt , and earnings up 7 p.c. to 12½p a share , the payout is being lifted from 4.31p to 43/4p , with a 3.3p final on July 7 . |
| 13 | The dividend total is being lifted from 17.44p to 18p , with a 12.33p final on July 24 . |
| 14 | Property price inflation lifted turnover and operating profits , but costs also increased steeply , with interest charges leaping from £1.236m to £3.94m , reducing the pre-tax result . |
| 15 | The rewards are just beginning to come through with Mercury 's contribution to C&W trading profit leaping from £4million to £14million in the six months to September 30 . |
| 16 | BET , which deals in laundry to plant hire , saw its half-year profits slump from £71.5m to £40.5m and has slashed its interim dividend from 4.25p to 2p to conserve cash . |
| 17 | However , concern has been caused by the fact that between 1976 and 1989 the ratio of debt to personal disposable income rose from 50% to over 100% ( BEQB May 1989 ) , and since 1980 the growth in credit has substantially exceeded the growth in income . |
| 18 | When asset sales are excluded , earnings per share rose from 3.4p to 5p , a 47pc increase . |
| 19 | In Canada , where premium income rose from $96.1m to $139.8m following the acquisition of the general insurance business of the Prudential Corporation , the deficit for the quarter was up from $2.9m to $11.8m — a relatively satisfactory performance in difficult market conditions . |
| 20 | Turnover climbed from £187.2 million to £204.5 million , while earnings per share rose from 5.8p to 6.5p . |
| 21 | When the syntactic component was switched off , the error rate rose from 4% to 30% . |
| 22 | Of unmarried women who became pregnant , the proportion who married the father before the baby was born fell from 40% in 1970 to 11% in 1988 , whereas the proportion of pregnancies terminated by abortion rose from 24% to 37% . |
| 23 | Their net confidence rose from 24% to 46% . |
| 24 | Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company reported that first half profit before tax rose from £73.1m to £101.1m . |
| 25 | Ecu bonds rose from 5% to 10% . |
| 26 | Third quarter replacement cost profit rose from £129m to £172m at British Petroleum , and rose by 58% to £824m at Royal Dutch/Shell Group . |
| 27 | Tipping fees at New York city 's only landfill , Fresh Kills , rose from $10 to $150 a ton between October 1991 and July 1992 ; in northern New Jersey , tipping fees have shown a similar increase . |
| 28 | Losses before tax rose from £47.9m to £146.4m in the year to 30 September 1992 at National Home Loans . |
| 29 | European profits rose from £30m to £42m . |
| 30 | First half profit before tax rose from £43.75m to £47.07m at Tomkins in spite of sales falling by 3.2% to £575.5m . |