Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [n mass] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finance company personal loan Rather like bank personal loan , for say £300 to £3,000 , but often not specifying a particular purchase and arranged by post ( or through ‘ money shop ’ ) with finance company ; interest rate usually fixed at start . |
| 2 | After jumping 2½p to 20½p the shares closed at 17p , valuing the group at around £50m . |
| 3 | The memory subsystem is a high bandwidth design offering 200M-bytes per second data transfer capable of addressing 8Mb to 256Mb of memory . |
| 4 | The memory subsystem is a high bandwidth design offering 200 Mbyte/second data transfer and capable of addressing 8MB to 256MB of memory . |
| 5 | The IoD estimates that the increased taxes announced yesterday will have the effect of adding 7p to income tax . |
| 6 | Mr Van de Kamp , the state attorney-general , who admits to a personal distaste for execution , has responded with a commercial in which he boasts of sending people to death row — while , in the background , the camera dwells on a close-up of the gas chamber . |
| 7 | * Tim Moulds responsible for allocating people to tasks . |
| 8 | A row has also erupted about sending people to Mozambique . |
| 9 | However , this solution prevents the group achieving any gains from assigning people to tasks according to their comparative advantage . |
| 10 | The top chasers have a habit of being able to give weight and a beating to their more humble rivals and although Barnbrook Again appears to have been given a stiff task in conceding 8lb to Rusch de Farges , his two runs already this season should give him the advantage . |
| 11 | ‘ The criminal justice system has limited finances for taking people to court and locking them up , and there is a growing feeling among the public that neither the courts nor prison actually achieve anything . |
| 12 | Urban transport would be reduced by 40 per cent and taxi services would be limited to taking people to hospital or to funerals . |
| 13 | Buckingham 's MP George Walden is holding a public meeting in his constituency tonight aimed at allowing people to air and share their views on the Gulf crisis . |
| 14 | One of Robert Steel 's principal sponsors was Country Walking magazine , which is continuing its support by giving £2 to Enterprise Neptune every time a National Trust member takes out a year 's subscription . |
| 15 | Coun Young said : ‘ I think it is pretty ludicrous to suggest anyone is getting rich by taking people to hospital ‘ But if people who do this sort of thing are facing the prospect of making a loss they just wo n't bother . |
| 16 | In the end , leaders will be supported in the same way as they always have been : by winning people to Christ , who then begin to tithe their income in order to support and set free their leaders for full-time work in the church . |
| 17 | By leaving £5,000 to ACET , however , the taxable value of your estate is reduced to £135,000 and this would give a tax saving of £2,000 . |