Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Bond is intended as a medium to long term investment , it may be encashed at any time . |
| 2 | While they are best regarded as a medium to long term investment , you can always sell your units at any time you wish . |
| 3 | The elements of the administrative structure will be sketched as a preliminary to discussion of the offences created by this Part of the Act . |
| 4 | For the part-time farmer lack of time was often associated with fatigue , with an hour or two of manual work being added to a 7 to 8 hour working day . |
| 5 | Earnings crashed by a third to 41p . |
| 6 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 7 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 8 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 9 | In a famous episode in February 1985 , Oxford University congregation voted by a 3 to 1 majority to deny the Prime Minister an honorary degree , a rebuff previously extended only to the late President Bhutto of Pakistan . |
| 10 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |
| 11 | The union affirmed its opposition to 100 per cent coursework and support for a 20 to 70 per cent limit . |
| 12 | The Austrian pulled away further with a third to Hunt 's fifth in Sweden to stretch hi lead to a mammoth 47 points . |
| 13 | BRENDAN McNally drives the Bobcat to collect china clay which will be fed into a blunger to be processed into ‘ slop ’ . |
| 14 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 15 | AFRICA 'S NEWSPAPERS — CIRCULATION RANGING FROM A THOUSAND TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS |
| 16 | Since the first of September till the twenty-sixth of September , we 've had thirteen bikes go all over Banbury , and since the twenty-sixth of September it seems to have increased and we 've had eight of various sorts go , er ranging from a hundred to a hundred and ninety pounds . |
| 17 | I will switch emphasis from attending Branch meetings to meeting on a one to one basis with these people in each branch . |
| 18 | Figure 3.1 shows the important position which planning should occupy as a preliminary to decision making and implementation . |
| 19 | By now the Cheltenham Gold Cup was her target , and in January 1986 Dawn Run was sent over to Cheltenham to run in the Holsten Distributors Chase as a preliminary to her big date less than two months later . |
| 20 | Mark Tantum , a senior lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg that a bank robber who turned from a mechanical to an electronic chainsaw to open the cash-box deserved different treatment from the hacker who simply accessed computer systems . |
| 21 | I mean those horses offered at fifty to one could have been offered at a hundred to one and still the bookies would have finished up ahead , but of course those people those few people who 'd at fifty to one would have one twice as much . |
| 22 | If you have an open fire you should keep the grate filled with a 3 to 4 inch layer of fuel and regulate the burning rate by carefully using the air control at the front of the grate . |
| 23 | Moving from a four to a six of the same capacity means smoother running , as individual cylinder explosions are less powerful and a six is inherently better balanced . |
| 24 | Moving from a large to a single bed |
| 25 | What is more , the table is remarkable in revealing a progressively better record for successively smaller sizes of factory ( although medium-sized factories ceased to fall in number in the mid 1980s , and all figures are influenced by contracting units moving from a larger to a smaller category ) . |
| 26 | Mr Collin said : ‘ The Government says the cost of administration will drop from a million to £400,000 , that is one reason why their Council Tax estimates are misleading . ’ |
| 27 | He placed £10,000 which he did not possess on a 10 to 1 favourite , Bellevin , to win £1,000 . |
| 28 | The opportunities provided in the clinical area for teaching on a one to one or small group basis should enable the teacher to be aware of at least some of these differences in her students , and to make some provision for them in her teaching . |
| 29 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
| 30 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |