Example sentences of "[vb past] to [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 2 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 3 | Indeed , Kirsner et al have reported a case of rectal stricture which reverted to normal once the symptoms had subsided . |
| 4 | Between father and son , also , some things specifically belonged to one or the other : a child 's bicycle was his , not his father 's . |
| 5 | Here the density of the labouring population speaks for itself , though while in the Cosford villages it reached almost 55 per cent , in the rising centre Hadleigh it amounted to less than a third . |
| 6 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |
| 7 | For most of this period , transfers to the state enterprises amounted to more than the total public deficit ( Gimeno 1984 : 88–92 ) . |
| 8 | Between 1403 and 1502 the number of new foundations fell to 120 and the downward trend continued into the sixteenth century with only thirteen new foundations between 1503 and 1547 , the year of the Chantries Act . |
| 9 | Fears that the US occupation would wreak vengeance on those who had assisted the war effort , brought about the sabotage of industrial plant and industrial output fell to less than a third of pre-war levels . |
| 10 | All the children we spoke to stressed that the social worker from the placement agency was the family 's social worker and not their social worker , and this was a position of which they very much approved . |
| 11 | It appeared to many that the of the C C P was moving away from one of the most fundamental principles of socialism . |
| 12 | I wrote to both and the handyman and said that is was for a performance related bonus and er |
| 13 | Very intimate sounds were coming from the cubicles , but it was n't until the girl who had beckoned her earlier on came out of one of them and pointed to another where the door was open , and whispered harshly , ‘ Do n't you want to go ? ’ that she realised , Yes ; yes , she did want to go . |