Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [n mass] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 715/33 has 8Mb to 192Mb memory , the 715/50 16Mb to 256Mb . |
| 2 | Cable & Wireless rose 3p to 853p , Standard Chartered climbed 5p to 953p , while Midland Bank parent HSBC firmed 10p to 705p . |
| 3 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 4 | In the current economic climate banks will not normally lend more than 50% of the value of invoices and may sometimes only be prepared to lend 20% to 30% . |
| 5 | During the Popular Front period it was comparatively simple to attract people to organizations with apparently acceptable aims , later persuading them to become Communists . |
| 6 | It is by no means impossible to introduce people to music that is unfamiliar . |
| 7 | I gather you introduced these Spidex people to Nadirpur . |
| 8 | While I support fully the RSPCA campaign and their use of ‘ shock ’ tactics , I feel that the horrifying sight of a heap of dead dogs is no more likely to stir people to action than the sight of a pile of dead cows will turn us all into vegetarians . |
| 9 | Shares of Pennine Optical slipped 2p to 75p on the Third Market as the company paid £1.6m for A-Z Dental , a false teeth maker . |
| 10 | Pre-tax-profits in the year to March 31 jumped 64% to £64.2m from £39.1m in the previous 12 months . |
| 11 | Turnover in 1992 rose 11% to $32,095m , and is forecast to grow 6.7% this year . |
| 12 | Amersham International dropped 9p to 408p . |
| 13 | Pringle sweater giant Dawson International climbed 8p to 228p ahead of Tuesday 's interim figures . |
| 14 | BAT Industries firmed 4p to 454p , GrandMet edged 2p better to 447p , Allied-Lyons climbed 4p to 614p although Rothmans International lost 4p to 693p . |
| 15 | Pearson , up 12p to 728p , was helped by a rumoured Kleinwort Benson upgrading , and Amersham International jumped 27p to 435p as Hoffman-La Roche , the Swiss group , emerged as a 5 per cent shareholder . |
| 16 | By the same logic , can it be right to send people to prison because they have been found guilty of drunkenness , vagrancy , offences related to prostitution , and drug offences ( of whom there were nearly 900 men and 100 women in 1981 ) ? |
| 17 | Glaxo , by contrast , was able to gain 14p to 642p amid upgrading following yesterday 's results . |
| 18 | Northern climbed 10p to 285p ; Argyll jumped 9p to 361p . |
| 19 | Commercial Union advanced 7p to 595p , Sun Alliance added 4p to 368p , Legal & General went 6p better to 473p , Guardian Royal firmed 2p to 215p , General Accident climbed 8p to 677p and BAT Industries which owns Eagle Star , firmed 3p to 451p . |
| 20 | In the same sector , Royal benefited 5p to 312p following news of the sale of a US reinsurance operation . |
| 21 | In the same sector , Royal benefited 5p to 312p following news of the sale of a US reinsurance operation . |
| 22 | Dennis Smith , vice-chancellor of the University of California at Irvine and a long-standing adviser to NASA , says the agency is nowhere near ready to send people to Mars . |
| 23 | Commercial Union pushed 7p ahead to 600p , Sun Alliance added 3p to 368p , Royal Insurance went a penny better to 309p while Guardian Royal gained 2p to 215p. after reporting interim profits in line with the City 's forecasts . |