Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , new investment only amounted to £91m . |
| 2 | So while the expectation of altruism mathematically relating to kin relatedness is almost inevitably doomed to be disproved in human societies , there is now considerable evidence that sociobiology identifies some broad relationships and tendencies which are incontrovertible . |
| 3 | Alternatively , the cost of burial abroad limited to £1,000 per Insured Person . |
| 4 | Turnover likewise dropped to £14.7m from £36.6m because , Lester said , virtually all major orders were delayed . |
| 5 | An attempt to have them evicted failed because the county court judge ruled that the law only applied to people who had no interest in the property . |
| 6 | An attempt to have them evicted failed because the county court judge ruled that the law only applied to people who had no interest in the property . |
| 7 | Mobility therefore relates to people 's ability to move and to reach desired goals . |
| 8 | Although his yearly stipend only amounted to £6.00 or so in today 's values , he was soon witnessed to be spending the equivalent of thousands of pounds on various good works for his village . |
| 9 | More than 13,000 new policies were completed in that period with new annual premium business increasing by 19 per cent to £7 million , and single premium business almost doubling to £57 million . |
| 10 | Two days of haggling on the price followed , with the seller reluctantly dropping to £3500 . |
| 11 | The stock fell another 6 to 240p before Hoare Govett was reported to have issued a recommendation on the basis of a 9 p.c. yeild , helping the price partially recover to 242½p . |
| 12 | Under the letter of intent , StorageTek agreed to issue 1.3m new shares Amperif shareholders and will set aside about 600,000 shares for warrants and employee stock options , valuing the company at $75.3m at the time of the announcement — but that valuation quickly improved to $83.6m as Storage shares shot up $4.375 to $44 even in after-hours trading on the news , and hovered round there on Friday . |
| 13 | Though not entirely restricted to Friends , it was an approach particularly appealing to people in whom quietist instincts remained strong both before and after the direct political involvement exemplified by the election of Joseph Pease to parliament in 1832 . |
| 14 | For example , in the Shove case , the sum awarded by the High Court under the first two headings in the above list alone amounted to £7300 : not a trifling amount . |
| 15 | Completing the AIB complement is a small secretarial and administrative staff and an information officer who is , in reality , the custodian of all papers , reports and information generally relating to aircraft accidents of all kinds throughout the world . |
| 16 | The value of grants authorised to be paid from the Fund also increased to £16.6m ( £13.1m in 1991 ) . |
| 17 | Well we 've also heard the the the , the paradox that , as Moira said , there 's a growing stigma now attached to people who do smoke |
| 18 | According to the count , the bill for the holiday party often came to £500 . |