Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 2 | The water industry favours the change over to European methods of incineration and composting , but faces opposition from people living in the vicinity of proposed incineration plants . |
| 3 | A new national organisation he believed should be on a smaller and more economical scale than required by the struggle up to 1833 ; functioning as a watchdog over legislation and supplying information to ministers and public its style had to be ‘ very prudent and discreet ’ . |
| 4 | It is also hoped to produce estimates across the board up to 1962 as a contribution to the complete picture up to the present . |
| 5 | Heather puts the loss of the money down to pure bad luck . |
| 6 | Around 20 per cent of loans to Third World countries have been spent on arms : the weapons go to poor countries , the money back to rich ones3 . |
| 7 | It is hoped that , by putting the contract out to competitive tender , efficiency will rise and costs will fall . |
| 8 | Brian Deane has scored his first goal at Elland Road ( thank god ) and hopefully it will be the first of many — he does tend to have a hand in the build up to many of our goals but really he was bought to SCORE the bloody things . |
| 9 | The text rests mainly on specific cited examples , drawn from the literature up to 1987 , but the authors comment on both the scope and the likely mechanism of the various transformations . |
| 10 | Paradoxically the ‘ neoclassical ’ part of the neoclassical synthesis has surprisingly little to say about relative prices : the route back to full employment is through the downward revision of absolute prices . |
| 11 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 12 | Chidzero on July 27 , 1989 , announced a stringent budget for 1989-90 aimed at reducing by 11 per cent the previous year 's budget deficit , and bringing the deficit down to 9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 13 | He spread the strip out to full length . |
| 14 | These included offering customers with a repayment mortgage the option of extending the term up to 35 years , while endowment customers were told that they could spread the excess ( the difference between the amount borrowed and their present balance ) over a longer period . |
| 15 | It is not , however , a property in the same sense as we have used the term up to this point , since it is a second-order property ; that is , it is a property of the other two relations that we have sketched so far ( and only of these ) . |
| 16 | He concluded that the liquidators ought not to make the transcript available to the SFO unless it undertook not to use the statements in the transcript in any prosecution against Mr Naviede ( otherwise than in accordance with s 2(8) ) , and that it would not pass the transcript on to any other authority without first securing a corresponding undertaking . |
| 17 | His pickers embezzled one pound in twenty and disguised the weight loss by throwing the wool on to wet stones . |
| 18 | An opportunity for someone with knowledge of regulatory affairs in the Pharmaceutical Industry to broaden their experience and work on international policy questions affecting the industry up to 1992 and beyond . |
| 19 | The importance of stopping smoking needs to be very strongly emphasised , as well as the advisability of sticking to a low animal fat diet for the future , of getting the weight down to normal and of taking those measures necessary to reduce blood pressure to an ideal level , i.e. reducing salt and alcohol intake , keeping the weight normal , taking regular exercise and avoiding anger . |
| 20 | She put the bacon on to two warmed plates and placed the plates in front of them . |
| 21 | At that point Banana manager Keith Lambert instructed Luckwell to drop back and help with the chase and it was touch and go as the next group brought the gap down to three minutes on the finishing circuit at Rotherham . |
| 22 | The computer program had automatically rounded the figure up to 5 per cent . |
| 23 | But if you widen the pavements and you differentiate the pavements from the roadway , and you use continental traffic calming measures which are not great big humps but which are perhaps little stretches of cobbles and things like that , then you should be able to bring the speed down to twenty miles an hour . |
| 24 | The price of keeping the bonus down to manageable proportions is a somewhat less efficient outcome . |
| 25 | fee based on the value ( calculated at 1 s. in the pound up to 100 and 6 d. thereafter ) on goods distrained by a broker , payable to a sheriff 's officer for his services in court . |
| 26 | My advice is that he should pull into a lay-by , turf the others out and then hand the wheel over to firmer and safer hands . |
| 27 | The record company , however , holds annual options to extend the deal up to five , six or even seven albums . |
| 28 | I was doing quite well in the quiz up to that point , but my mind went a total blank on that one . |
| 29 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) had since April 30 landed food on three different beaches along the coast up to 25 km from the capital . |
| 30 | Centre-forward Tom White was Manager Bert Head 's primary target at Pittodrie , but he brought John McCormick back with him as well from the Granite City for a mere £1,500 — and it was the craggy defender who became such a staunch and resolute pillar of Palace rearguards and helped guide the club through to 1st Division security . |