Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This equable climate has long appealed to people from northern Europe ( especially the United Kingdom ) as a place to escape to from the rigours of a cold winter . |
| 2 | That sum was the Bundesliga transfer record as recently as last season and has only risen to £3.3m since Mattheus Sammer left Italy for Borussia Dortmund . |
| 3 | Katy ploughed £3,000 into a Woolwich PEP which has already grown to £3,567 . |
| 4 | FRESH controversy gripped Britain 's discredited nuclear power programme yesterday after the Central Electricity Generating Board admitted that the overall cost of decommissioning redundant power stations and dealing with spent fuel has nearly doubled to £13.3 billion . |
| 5 | The volumes involved are large ; turnover of straight bonds in recent years , for example , has typically amounted to $500 bn per quarter . |
| 6 | The idea behind this policy was to try and expand the software and services side of ICL 's business , which has now grown to £600m a year . |
| 7 | I understand that that estimate has now risen to £58 million . |
| 8 | Over half of all patients developed a clinically import nt complication in the first 100 operations ( 52% ) ; this figure has now fallen to 25% in the last 68 operations . |
| 9 | The sale of 4P packaging and the BOCM Silcock animal feed business slowed sales growth , but helped cut net debt from £1.5 billion to £1.2 billion , and interest costs almost halved to £148 million . |
| 10 | I think it 'll be a blow for him ; he does get so attached to people . ’ |
| 11 | The £30,000 capital with which George and Marie had started in business had now grown to £140,000 . |
| 12 | The fine for such an offence when this rule had been applied to the original directors of the House of Industry in 1794 was £20 it had now risen to £100 . |
| 13 | Last year he told ministers that , in eight months , the cost of the project had almost doubled to £176 million . |
| 14 | Most controversially he announced sweeping cuts in commodity subsidies which he said were unavoidable as government subsidies on wheat and petrol had previously amounted to £S1,000 million and £S7,700 million respectively , which simply could not be sustained . |
| 15 | Even if the private sector could be persuaded to take on the project , whose estimated costs have now trebled to £3bn , the fare levels needed to make it profitable would make trail travel to Paris through the tunnel barely competitive with the airlines . |
| 16 | I have now converted to 12V and put a 2.5 BMC diesel into it . |
| 17 | So as I say I , I found Friday very useful , I found the er , the renewed routines , although we , I mean we all had lots of problems with the videos , they did n't come out but it did n't really matter because the three of us in our group sat there and very openly , very honestly , and without any personal animosity whatsoever helped each other and that again , as I say very useful and so above all a and I think it 's something that I feel very strongly about because we have n't talked to people we 've , in English , understandable language about what this is all about . |