Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top priorities of his programme , which was endorsed on the same day , were stabilization of the domestic market , cuts in exports to COMECON ( Council of Mutual Economic Assistance , or CMEA ) partners , curbing the increase in hard-currency foreign debt , an active social policy , and measures to solve the worst environmental problems . |
| 2 | There would be no cuts in major services , but there would be some reductions in the community education service and cuts in payments to outside bodies . |
| 3 | There was to be an import ban on construction materials for which local substitutes were available , and cuts in subsidies to coffee producers and exporters were to be made by April . |
| 4 | The entire north face is a very steep scarp which reaches in places to a height of over 240 metres , but to the south is a more gentle dip slope towards the sea . |
| 5 | The narrator then goes on to tell of this divorcee , Brenda Goring , who arrives in their village and who latches on to his quite mouse of a wife , whom he dearly loves , fills her ears with tales of the fast life she has always led and still leads in visits to London and , worse , is always to be found in his home when he gets back exhausted from the office . |
| 6 | This will usually involve detailing precisely the accounting adopted for each major item of income and expenditure in far more detail then appears in notes to the accounts . |
| 7 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 8 | Indeed , the conscious mind is not employed when the Christian prays in tongues to the Lord ( I Cor. 14:14 ) . |
| 9 | Black & Decker 's Tough Truck converts in seconds to a four wheeled truck for use with loads up to 220 lbs — price £29.95 . |