Example sentences of "[verb] to the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 When this does not hold , additional full revolutions will be added to the total time because the next record to be processed will be missed , and a further revolution or revolutions will be required before it is available once more .
2 The impurity is not confined to the actual time of bleeding , but continues for seven days beyond the last sign of vaginal blood , thus effectively confining women to this state of impurity for twelve to fifteen days of the month .
3 The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge .
4 Its psychogenic origin was reaffirmed with the descriptions of Ryle , Sheldon , Berkman , and Venables in the 1930s , a point of view that has predominated to the present time .
5 McRae roared to the fastest times on five of yesterday 's 10 timed stages through the rain-lashed Welsh forests .
6 The coordinate time t measured by this remote observer is related to the proper time through eqn ( 8.3 ) : .
7 IBM UK Ltd is likely to underwrite the construction by Mimtec Ltd , an electronics manufacturer owned by Murray International Holdings Plc of a new plant in Gourock , a few miles from IBM 's Greenock personal computer factory : the plant would employ about 400 people assembling personal computers under contract to IBM ; according to the Financial Times , some £9m of the cost of the plant would be met by an enterprise trust , with the rest from grants ; IBM would ultimately take over the plant when the trust was paid off .
8 An Italian cabinet committee has approved plans to create a single telephone company , Telecom Italia SpA by the end of 1995 out of a merger of holding company Stet SpA , Sociata Italiana per l'esercisio delle Telecomunicazioni pA , the main phone company , Italcable SpA , the international carrier , and the satellite operator Telespazio SpA , according to the Financial Times .
9 In its latest salvo over equal access to each other 's markets , AT&T Co is telling the US regulatory authorities that the accounting rates — the amount the originator pays the co-respondent for landing a call — between the UK and the US could be cut by 60% : according to the Financial Times , AT&T says British Telecommunications Plc has refused to agree a cut , British Telecom says nonsense , we are still considering it and we will let them know next month ; transatlantic accounting rates have fallen by near 50% over the past two years .
10 Elsag Bailey SpA has acquired Ferranti International Controls Inc of Houston , and according to the Financial Times , Ferranti International Plc is in process of getting out of the US , where it does some $100m a year , some 25% of the total , and employs about 1,000 people : it is winding up a Pennsylvania company , Ferranti International Simulation & Training and will sell the rest .
11 BPCC is heading for a flotation on the Stock Exchange , either late this year or early next , according to the Financial Times .
12 According to the Financial Times of Jan. 19 , the PLO chairman , Yassir Arafat , had recently threatened to call a PNC meeting and resign if the current peace efforts reached a dead end .
13 The Soviet Union also offered a SFr200,000,000 low-interest loan to renovate the Baotou Iron and Steel Works in Inner Mongolia , one of the original Soviet-aided projects from the 1950s , according to the Financial Times .
14 According to the Financial Times , subsidized grain sales to China were renewed on Dec. 5 .
15 Political discussions had centred on the Gulf crisis and on the recent Arab deaths in Jerusalem [ see p. 37759 ] ; all were able to condemn the latter , and according to the Financial Times of Oct. 11 " the Arab side appeared encouraged by what they [ saw ] as French recent acceptance of some linkage between the Gulf and the Arab-Israeli problem " .
16 The country had the highest sulphur dioxide emission per head of population in Europe [ see p. 36792 ] and according to the Financial Times of Feb. 21 , 1990 , one power station burning brown coal in Cottbus produced more pollution annually than Norway and Denmark together .
17 According to the Financial Times of April 26 , 1990 , a joint IMF/World Bank report on the Brady plan stated that fewer deals had been concluded than hoped for and that negotiations between banks and debtors had often taken too long .
18 In the event , however , Shamir 's meeting with Bush in Washington on Dec. 12 was friendly and , according to the Financial Times of Dec. 12 , " appeared to smooth over relations between the two leaders " .
19 According to the Financial Times ( London ) , fighting between the rival supporters had left more than 1,000 dead in the Johannesburg area since August 1990 , and 3,000 dead in Natal province since mid-1987 .
20 In a first step towards removing massive food subsidies , a pilot project to replace state subsidised grain rationing with a free market was to begin on April 1 , according to the Financial Times of March 12 .
21 According to the Financial Times of June 17 , the government signed an agreement , backed by the World Bank , with a consortium of Western companies for the construction of an oil-fired power station worth US$1,300 million , 50 km west of Karachi .
22 The meeting , reportedly called at the instigation of Japan , was dominated by concern over the recent advance of the US dollar which , according to the Financial Times of June 24 , had risen by up to 20 per cent against the German deutschmark and other currencies in recent weeks [ see pp. 37978 ; 38170 ] .
23 According to the Financial Times of July 17 , foreign aid agencies had so far donated US$400,000,000 while an additional US$400,000,000 had been generated from internal sources .
24 There was confusion , however , over the position of the two central banks , Gosbank and Vneshekonombank ( Bank for foreign economic relations ) , whose responsibilities were transferred back from RSFSR to central control on Aug. 29 , and whose chairmen , respectively Viktor Gerashchenko and Yuri Moskovsky were reinstated , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 30 , partly as a result of pressure from European banks .
25 According to the Financial Times of Sept. 19 , the Economic Committee would replace the majority of ministries , which were functioning under their deputy ministers after the resignation of the whole Cabinet in August [ ibid . ] .
26 According to the Financial Times of Oct. 3 , the government was unaffected by the unco-operativeness of the unions , which were " being written out of Mr Solchaga 's script " .
27 Further legislation tabled in 1991 involved ( i ) major educational reforms ( aimed according to the Financial Times of April 24 , 1991 , at " humanizing the gruelling baccalauréat school-leaving examination " to make it achievable for a larger proportion of pupils , by simplifying the syllabuses of the different baccalauréats , shortening and alleviating the school working week and modernizing teaching methods ) ; ( ii ) steps to deal with France 's growing urban problems [ see below and pp. 38113-4 ; 38197-98 ; 38299 ] ; ( iii ) Corsica [ see below ] ; and ( iv ) a new privatization policy [ see p. 38156 ] .
28 According to the Financial Times of Oct. 18 , the formal approval by ministers of the US decision to scrap battlefield nuclear weapons had helped postpone the airing of differences over the deployment of tactical air-to-surface missiles ( TASM ) which a number of NATO 's European partners , especially Germany , were reluctant to accept [ see also pp. 36476-77 ; 37931 ; 38457-58 ] .
29 Many of the ministries based in Moscow and responsible for specific branches of industry would be reconstituted as semi-independent corporations , according to the Financial Times of Nov. 6 .
30 According to the Financial Times of Nov. 22 , the constitution owed much to the French system , allowing substantial presidential powers .
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