Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , much of the work of contemporary assemblies should be viewed in the context of institutions struggling to adapt to massively changed social and world conditions and to impose some check upon the burgeoning executive bureaucracies . |
| 2 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 3 | SINCE ITS inception , CCG 's Provinces Division has grown to over two dozen contracts in just 18 months , reaching from Bournemouth to Folkestone on the south coast up to Birmingham and the South Midlands . |
| 4 | What stands out is how prosperity of this kind has spread to so many more people . |
| 5 | The public-sector deficit has swollen to more than 10% of GDP . |
| 6 | Abolition of the rule preventing practice under limited liability has led to very considerable growth in this form of organisation and , by 1988 , the proportion of practices which had formed limited liability companies had grown to 7.5 per cent of the total . |
| 7 | In a bid to make-up the missing funds Ian has written to more than 350 companies throughout County Durham . |
| 8 | In recent years cycling has grown in popularity and regrettably the number of accidents involving cyclists has increased to approximately 250 per year in Lothian Region . |
| 9 | In recent years cycling has grown in popularity and regrettably the number of accidents involving cyclists has increased to approximately 250 per year in Lothian Region . |
| 10 | Income has risen to about £400,000 , but profit has slipped from a peak of almost £60,000 in the mid-1980s to a modest £34,391 in the 1990–91 financial year , on about £350,000 of tenant 's capital deployed . |
| 11 | You will remember that last year Mr JD charged the veterans department to endeavour to revert to only two reunions . |
| 12 | And in recent history the existence of prejudice has led to both large-scale violence and genocide , as the Holocaust so dreadfully illustrates . |
| 13 | As a result of these two trends , the importance of house ownership in overall wealth holding has grown to almost 50% and a growing number of individuals are inheriting valuable house property . |
| 14 | Pesticide use for all of Indonesia has dropped to about half what it was when the programme started , saving the government $120 million in insecticide subsidies to farmers . |
| 15 | Now this industry has declined to about 2000 people . |
| 16 | However , catalysts have been proved to reduce air pollution by 75 per cent at any speed , and consequently the car industry has had to back down as EEC legislation has pushed for their adoption in member states . |
| 17 | Moreover , the significance of public meetings in the late eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries differed according to both their type and the changing general political context . |
| 18 | Their turnover has threbled to over six million and they employ ninety people , twice as many as last year . |
| 19 | The figure has fallen to less than 60 per cent as overseas banks have become keen lenders . |
| 20 | In 1980 , under 10 per cent of drinks bought were in plastic bottles , while in 1987 this figure has risen to nearly 40 per cent . |
| 21 | Agricultural pesticides had a devastating effect on numbers during the 50s and early 60s but since certain chemicals have been banned the figure has risen to around 1,050 pairs . |
| 22 | Since 1979 , under the present Government , that figure has trebled to more than 6.5 per cent . |
| 23 | In the mid 1970s more than 25,000 Hereford calves were bred annually.Now that figure has plunged to around 8,000 . |
| 24 | Rates of maternal mortality are much higher in the developing than in the developed regions , averaging 10.1 and 9.3 , respectively , for nine Northern European countries and for Canada and the United States combined compared to about 80 deaths per 100,000 live births for the Arab World and around 70 for Asia and Oceania . |
| 25 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 26 | By the final session , the average frequency of waking had fallen to once or twice a week and once or twice a night ; settling time had decreased . |
| 27 | By 1547 customs revenue had declined to about £20,000 per annum . |
| 28 | The number of local Green parties had risen to nearly 270 by the end of the year and the membership had almost doubled from 9000 at the beginning of the year to 17,000 by the end . |
| 29 | But this effect had declined to only 22 per cent by the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 30 | Kylie had quit to further her career in pop , and to look for meatier projects in which to star . |