Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 2 | ZOMAX , a new pain-killing drug given to a million people in the UK over the last two years is being withdrawn by the manufacturers , pending changes in the prescribing information issued to doctors . |
| 3 | In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season . |
| 4 | The architect Clough Williams-Ellis of Port Meirion fame published his influential England and the octopus in 1928 — ‘ an angry book , written by an angry young man ’ as the author confessed in a Preface added to a 1975 edition . |
| 5 | In support of the National Gallery 's case Mr Vlnas points to a 1946 agreement signed between Slovak officials and the gallery exchanging the altar for 380 prints , ten Gothic paintings , and twelve Gothic statues . |
| 6 | pion fired on all cylinders to roar to a five under par 66 and a 36-hole total of 142 , just two strokes adrift of leader Tommy Horton , who was beaten by Brian Huggett in a play-off for the crown a year ago . |
| 7 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 8 | CHELSEA 's new manager , Dave Webb , yesterday discovered the magnitude of his task as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League to make it 13 games without a win . |
| 9 | SCOTLAND suffered mixed fortunes yesterday with the women 's side romping to a 138-82 win over Ireland in the opening game of the Home International series in Perth , while in the men 's British championships at Swansea , the Scots were left empty-handed . |
| 10 | A FORMIDABLE All Japan High Schools swept to a five game unbeaten tour record in B.C. in March scoring 41 tries to four in the process . |
| 11 | At the top end of the draw , the United States swept to a 3-0 win over Denmark and will next face Austria . |
| 12 | If both V and Q are constant , will ( a ) a £10 million rise in M lead to a £10 million rise in P ; ( b ) a 10 per cent rise in M lead to a 10 per cent rise in P ? |
| 13 | Needless to say , the company organises its own accounts on Sovereign software , running on a network of 100 personal computers attached to an 80486 server . |
| 14 | Thus it was that the 30 mph ( 50 km/h ) speed limit in built up areas led to a 50 per cent reduction in pedestrian deaths in London by 1935 . |
| 15 | MERSEYSIDE Hockey clubs had another bad day yesterday in the National League , Neston losing 4-2 to Firebrands and second division bottom club Warrington crashing to a 6-1 defeat at Guildford . |
| 16 | Millwall cruised to a 2-0 win over Leicester . |
| 17 | Smith , the British No 23 from Staffordshire , could hardly do anything right as Croft raced to a 4-0 lead and broke service four times en route to the first set . |
| 18 | Well what c what what a what does the language of self help mean to a seventy year old living on a state pension in a council house ? |
| 19 | Chatfield 's ball-handling and kicking skills saw Rovers race to an 11-0 lead in the opening 25 minutes as he set up tries for Aussie centre David Liddiard and second rower Andy Thompson . |
| 20 | Weaverham 's Steve Edwards took 5–42 as the visitors struggled to a seven wicket win . |
| 21 | If McHale reverts to a 4–2–4 system Thompson will push on the right flank with Mark Ash recalled to right-back after being left out for the last three games . |
| 22 | In their two previous clashes with Kenfig , Llanelli romped to a 47-3 victory in 1981 and 33-12 in 1990 . |
| 23 | A add B comes to a hundred and one . |
| 24 | Burnell toiled to a 75 , while Hutt , who birdied two of the first three holes after lunch , then took seven at the 4th , including two penalty strokes from grounding his club in a water hazard . |
| 25 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 26 | Now Mr referred to a two percent clear up rate , I 'm not quite certain what figure that is , I know in Wiltshire it 's much better than that in the thirties and forties . |
| 27 | Two weeks ago , the federal and Länder governments agreed to a 75:25 split for 1994 and set individual salaries at 84 per cent of the rate for western Germany . |
| 28 | The union membership leads to a ten percent h h higher like likelihood of voting Labour . |
| 29 | A Northern blot experiment using a radioactive N-Oct-3 probe detected a single band corresponding to a 5 kb RNA transcript in human brain ( Figure 2 , lane 2 ) but not in human heart , lung , pancreas , liver , spleen and skeletal muscle ( lanes 1 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , respectively ) , indicating specific expression in the nervous system . |
| 30 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |