Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a bid to make-up the missing funds Ian has written to more than 350 companies throughout County Durham . |
| 2 | Pesticide use for all of Indonesia has dropped to about half what it was when the programme started , saving the government $120 million in insecticide subsidies to farmers . |
| 3 | Rates of maternal mortality are much higher in the developing than in the developed regions , averaging 10.1 and 9.3 , respectively , for nine Northern European countries and for Canada and the United States combined compared to about 80 deaths per 100,000 live births for the Arab World and around 70 for Asia and Oceania . |
| 4 | Kylie had quit to further her career in pop , and to look for meatier projects in which to star . |
| 5 | Fenella had managed to not quite scream . |
| 6 | By December , British casualties on the Somme had risen to over 400,000 . |
| 7 | If an indicator of social deprivation is a substitute for mortality , then this means discarding the best available direct proxy for morbidity , which is after all what much of the NHS seeks to respond to rather than some ill defined concept of social deprivation . |
| 8 | Two months later , after revenue and applicants to Bristol had dropped to practically zero , the authors of the report publicly retracted their claims , but the damage had already been done . |
| 9 | Since last week 's bumper post bag caused our 50-storey multi-plex office block to cave in under the sheer weight of ever-hopeful readers ' entries , we here at Bizzerk have had to temporarily relocate to a Hawaiian island where cargo boats deliver letters by the sackload for our native postal workers to process . |
| 10 | Since last week 's bumper post bag caused our 50-storey multi-plex office block to cave in under the sheer weight of ever-hopeful readers ' entries , we here at Bizzerk have had to temporarily relocate to a Hawaiian island where cargo boats deliver letters by the sackload for our native postal workers to process . |
| 11 | Thirty African countries have agreed to co-operate in efforts to save the elephant , whose population in Africa has fallen to around 600,000 , compared with over one million a decade ago . |
| 12 | The prospect of a betrayal of everything News on Sunday has meant to so many people is there … |
| 13 | Cos Gordon wanted to go to straight through this and th the turn table . |
| 14 | POLICE chiefs are worried that the brutal murder of Paul Sheldon has led to more young people going into Edinburgh city centre armed with knives . |
| 15 | Yet chemists are working on just such a project and one group in Japan has managed to selectively filter copper , using light to drive it through a filtering membrane . |
| 16 | The Weber does tend to slightly strangle the power under full load , but does return better mpg figures in general use and is a good investment . |
| 17 | Survey data collected over the last three decades will be re-analysed to see whether changes in the geography of economic and social well-being in Great Britain have led to either or both of changed political attitudes and changed partisan allegiances . |
| 18 | Since its launch in 1988 , sales of OS/2 have grown to only about 300,000 a year . |
| 19 | First note that if you argue that , you must now logically think that the disadvantage has gone : prime-borrowing rates in Japan have risen to over 8% , roughly level with those in America . |
| 20 | AN ATTEMPT by an Australian scientist to verify American claims that Vietnamese forces are spraying chemical weapons in South-East Asia has failed to either prove or disprove the accusation . |
| 21 | In my view the competition between ACCA , CIMA and ICAEW has led to much better accounting examination systems . |
| 22 | The upshot of that , though , was that Travis felt worse than ever on learning that Derek Talbot had called to again ask Rosemary for a divorce , but that Rosemary had given Derek an outright ‘ no ’ . |
| 23 | If the note was some cryptic escape-route , if Guy had woken to bitterly regret last night 's impulsive actions … |
| 24 | By June 1990 a total of 95,000 Germans had their applications for citizenship approved by the West German embassy in Bucharest , while the mayor of Sibiu , Mircea Tomas , was reported by Tanjug as saying during a visit to Belgrade that the German community in Romania had fallen to only 80,000 . |
| 25 | ‘ Why did n't you ring Mrs Gray to find out where Paul had got to when he did n't turn up ? ’ |
| 26 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 27 | have been taken over with a vengeance and put into the anthropological perspective which in the poem Eliot has applied to so much past literature . |
| 28 | J E Smith has applied to partially demolish , alter and extend a dwelling at 38 Durham Road to provide a replacement dwelling . |
| 29 | I believe that , already , expenditure at Asfordby has amounted to about £300 million . |
| 30 | Then , as John began to climb to where the other had been , Nicholas felt his way to the fallen sapper . |