Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Bond is intended as a medium to long term investment , it may be encashed at any time . |
| 2 | While they are best regarded as a medium to long term investment , you can always sell your units at any time you wish . |
| 3 | The elements of the administrative structure will be sketched as a preliminary to discussion of the offences created by this Part of the Act . |
| 4 | For the part-time farmer lack of time was often associated with fatigue , with an hour or two of manual work being added to a 7 to 8 hour working day . |
| 5 | Profits have dropped by a fifth to £34.8 million in the first half of this year , and he 's not expecting an early recovery . |
| 6 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 7 | The dividend is lifted by a fifth to 12.74p , with a final 8.92p covered by normal earnings of 34.4p , up almost 4p a share . |
| 8 | In a famous episode in February 1985 , Oxford University congregation voted by a 3 to 1 majority to deny the Prime Minister an honorary degree , a rebuff previously extended only to the late President Bhutto of Pakistan . |
| 9 | This position is echoed by Lehrer ( 1987 : 256 ) , who states that " to has no meaning of its own " , by Buyssens ( 1987 : 341 ) , who asserts that it is a " well-known fact that when the infinitive is used as the subject , the predicate , or the direct object of the sentence , it is normally preceded by a meaningless to " , and by Andersson ( 1985 : 57 ) , who distinguishes between the preposition to , which has a meaning , and the pure to infinitive marker , " which only has the syntactic function to introduce [ sic ] an infinitive " . |
| 10 | BRENDAN McNally drives the Bobcat to collect china clay which will be fed into a blunger to be processed into ‘ slop ’ . |
| 11 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 12 | I mean those horses offered at fifty to one could have been offered at a hundred to one and still the bookies would have finished up ahead , but of course those people those few people who 'd at fifty to one would have one twice as much . |
| 13 | If you have an open fire you should keep the grate filled with a 3 to 4 inch layer of fuel and regulate the burning rate by carefully using the air control at the front of the grate . |
| 14 | Despite this the Duma was reduced from a legislative to a consultative body and hedged by all manner of restrictions . |
| 15 | We have previously shown that adenomcarinomas of the colon have a five to 10-fold increase in urokinase type plasminogen activator content accompanied by a three to five fold decrease of tissue type plasminogen activator , based on activity and antigen measurements . |
| 16 | The following morning , the bombardment was resumed as a preliminary to a stronger infantry attack by the German 3rd , 7th Reserve and 18th corps in the general direction of Fort Douaumont , the largest in Verdun 's defensive ring . |
| 17 | In all but seven of 38 WFS countries located in three major developing regions and having the requisite statistics , the mortality of infants whose mothers had migrated from a rural to an urban place was higher than of those whose mothers continued to reside in rural areas of that country , while statistics for 26 out of 36 WFS developing countries suggest that movement of a woman from an urban to a rural place increases the health hazards and reduces the survival chances of infants . |
| 18 | In this case the merit of the project in terms of each criterion is scored on a 1 to 5 scale . |
| 19 | In this case the merit of the project in terms of each criterion is scored on a 1 to 5 scale . |
| 20 | This hypothesis can not be convincingly proven on current evidence , but if accepted , it would suggest an early ribbon development with short side-streets and lanes , perhaps extending c. 700 m ( 2300 ft ) either side of the main north-south road junction , followed by a mid to late second-century remodelling of the region to the west , perhaps contemporary with the new defences . |
| 21 | On the internal market , the price is calculated at a third to a half of the Western auction estimate price . |
| 22 | The sound of someone 's throat being cleared as a preliminary to speaking aloud caused her to stop . |
| 23 | Again if you re rely on L P G heaters as soon as you 've got an emp er a , a , a cylinder empty , get it out the way back to your supplier to make sure that you only have it serviced on a one to one basis so you get a one for one swap . |
| 24 | Throughout drama school there will be continuous work on acting solo pieces , and both singing and acting tutorials are usually conducted on a one to one basis ( more on tutorials in chapter 7 ) . |
| 25 | The healing rates achieved by a six to eight week treatment of erosive reflux oesophagitis are about 50% for potent histamine H 2 receptor antagonists ( for example , ranitidine ( 150–300 mg twice daily ) ) and up to 90% for omeprazole , a proton pump inhibitor . |
| 26 | Profits plunged by a tenth to £9.5 million in the last six months . |
| 27 | In experiments described above ( e.g. Figs. 24.8 and 24.10 ) , the onset of turbulence was specified clearly by the stage at which the spectrum changed from a discrete to a broadband structure . |
| 28 | From a legal point of view , however , such concurrence from a relative is of no effect , since there is no power vested in a relative to consent to the treatment of another . |
| 29 | TTT , carefully nurtured in the early days of PNP — especially after our fourth report had provided both a label and a framework for its development — became less prominent as coordinators returned from a collaborative to a solo teaching role . |
| 30 | Operating losses were cut to £11.6m from £18.8m and group sales actually improved by a tenth to £399m , helped by favourable exchange rates . |