Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got to go down to graphics |
| 2 | He used to go around with a jug of orange juice to drum home to people that it is impossible to earn more unless more is produced . |
| 3 | ABBEY National is offering to meet up to £250 of legal and mortgage valuation fees for customers who are remortgaging or switching to Abbey National . |
| 4 | The consortium 's dire financial position has prompted Lothian Regional Council to provide up to £25,000 for an independent survey of the pit 's viability which it is hoped will restore confidence among potential investors . |
| 5 | Is not that a consequence of the need to provide up to £15 million to cure the concrete cancer problem at Craigavon ? |
| 6 | Cereal stocks all set to soar up to 40m tonnes |
| 7 | I do n't think there 's any need to talk down to people , but you ca n't assume specialist knowledge . ’ |
| 8 | Industry analysts consulted about the failure of the deal to sell up to 30% of Electronic Data Systems Corp to British Telecommunications Plc unanimously concurred that the deal was more critical for EDS owner General Motors Corp than for EDS and would have no short-term impact on the world 's largest systems integration company . |
| 9 | The tour is necessary , they say , to raise funds to create a safe environment for Barnes 's art — funds they had originally sought by trying to sell up to $100 million in paintings . |
| 10 | You will probably purchase these fish at under 10cm and at this size they are really still only fry , but with a potential to reach up to 50cm . |
| 11 | Beginning in 1991 , the government was authorized to allocate up to $500 million a year until the total liability of approximately $1,250 million was paid in compensation for losses incurred in the forced relocation of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans in camps throughout the American west . |
| 12 | Domestic loans a year ago accounted for only 35% of life-assurance companies ' ¥116 trillion in assets ; they expect to allocate up to 60% in the present financial year . |
| 13 | The overhang was cleared , enabling the shares to bounce back to 356p , down 2 on balance . |
| 14 | They suggest that ‘ contemporary music is a means that God uses today to reach out to people who otherwise would not consider the truths of Christianity for themselves ’ . |
| 15 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 16 | The art of managing personal relationships , and the ability to talk independently to people with tact , diplomacy , and persuasiveness are great assets . |
| 17 | Inevitably their constituencies would come to matter more to MPs than Parliament . |
| 18 | For some local authorities , care programming is taken to apply only to people in hospital : |
| 19 | Most machines will have eight SIMM slots , allowing you to fit up to 32Mb of RAM . |
| 20 | GE Capital will buy 45 of GPA 's newest jets for $1.35 billion and receive an option to buy up to 80% of the company . |
| 21 | L M Ericsson Telephone AB filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission for a transferable rights issue to buy up to $293.5m of convertible subordinated debentures due June 30 2000 . |
| 22 | Temporary Deprivation of Baggage — Additional cover up to £100 to cover up to £100 to cover essential hire of personal effects following at least 24 hours baggage delay , or purchase of replacement items within the above sum insured of baggage/personal effects . |
| 23 | A factor , by contrast , will usually be willing to advance up to 80% of the value of invoices immediately , with the remainder , minus its fee and interest , when the client 's customer settles his bill . |
| 24 | The Law Society 's Remuneration Certificate service should remain free of charge , but the Society will have a power to require up to 50% of a bill to be paid by the client before the certificate is granted . |
| 25 | Intel is also expected to achieve strong growth , taking over poll position this year , growing slower than RISC , but still likely to win up to 29% of the market by 1997 . |
| 26 | They 're expected to fetch up to £4,000 and every penny will go to charity . |
| 27 | The drawings are expected to fetch up to £500,000 ; the owners apparently had no idea of their value . |
| 28 | One of the most important is a 23.11 carat yellow diamond expected to fetch up to £50,000 . |
| 29 | Among the 200 paintings coming under the auctioneer 's hammer is an original by the late Graham Sutherland — ‘ The Great Globe at Swanage ’ — which is expected to fetch up to £15,000 . |
| 30 | One of the more unusual items is a miniature gold sawn-off shotgun made into a pendant which is estimated to fetch up to £500 . |