Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [adj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Merseyside thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and numbers of cars stolen are down to 12,992 an overall drop of nine per cent . |
| 2 | On the negative side , the small shareholder may find himself scaled down to such a small stake that a sizeable portion of profits would be wiped off by share-dealing costs . |
| 3 | There was no hint that Waringstown would be kept down to such a moderate total when Shane Harrison and Brian Sturgeon put on 46 for the first wicket . |
| 4 | The idea is to create employment until the total unemployment is brought down to half a million . |
| 5 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 6 | Some basic features of the Von Neumann computer do not carry over to all the other designs we will study , for it can be characterized as a word-oriented , single-address binary computer . |
| 7 | Last week 's starter with Heinz Wolff ( ITV , 13 March ) was all the more impressive for getting off to such a terrible start with the tortuous answer that interviewer Ian Fells elicited to his opener about the meaning of biomedical engineering . |
| 8 | It adds up to all the portable power you could need — at a price that 's uniquely CompuAdd . |
| 9 | Nor is it , unless applied by someone brave enough to face up to all the disturbing hypotheses that can arise in the course of it . |
| 10 | Up to 1980 the supplementary benefit regulations permitted claimants in residential homes who could not be catered for by the local authority an amount sufficient to meet reasonable board and lodging charges in the area . |
| 11 | Up to 1980 the sick leave for industrial accidents declined considerably at British Telecom ( BT ) , but from 1981 as a run-up to privatisation , BT introduced more competition into its working methods . |
| 12 | Ordinary life was halted to allow time for realization of the sorrow to penetrate the layers of defence that we all set up to blunt the terrible pain of loss . |
| 13 | Pountaine had gone up to Imperial a Communist Party member , but Notting Hill and the underground proved a stronger pull . |
| 14 | Clearly the phrase can mean anything one likes : it would be difficult for anybody to refuse to sign up to such a worthy aim as international understanding . |
| 15 | It really should not come as a surprise to find Lewis , who continues his professional career tonight against Bradford 's Steve Garber at Hull City Hall , owning up to such an unexpected hobby . |
| 16 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
| 17 | ‘ I told them I was n't interested , so it went up to half a million . |
| 18 | The scale of the problem of elder abuse is highlighted by a study last year , which suggested that up to half a million elderly people may be suffering abuse from carers or relatives . |
| 19 | Hardship is clearly caused to disabled people ( 40,000 on government estimates , up to half a million according to the Disablement Income Group ) who are able to live in the community . |
| 20 | The charity aims to raise up to half a million pounds from the scheme . |
| 21 | Up to half a dozen may break the barrier . |
| 22 | This reluctance expressed an unusual lack of thrift on the part of men to whom it was a necessity , but the bond with the past was strong and there was some ill-defined superstition clinging about the woods which forbade the useful dismantling of these huts built , often , to accommodate up to half a dozen men through all the taxations of a northern spring , summer and early autumn . |
| 23 | Up to half a dozen years ago any invitation by the government that offered users meaningful involvement in planning community care would have been seen as unrealistic and even cynical . |
| 24 | In time , this practice led to highways with up to half a dozen parallel tracks ; the one in use at any given moment depending on the weather and on how much maintenance local labourers had carried out . |
| 25 | There had been considerable controversy over the method of presidential election , which had originally been expected to take place with up to half a dozen candidates in January 1990 prior to the legislative elections of March-April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ) . |
| 26 | In these up to half the annual output may occur in the three or four weeks of springtime thaw . |
| 27 | You might have noticed however , that people can spend small fortunes on themselves , go out to all the trendy places and stand around admiring themselves in their fashionable clothes but find that no one thinks any better of them for it . |
| 28 | I came back to such a pretty St Luke 's little summer — with pale blue skies and golden leaves and sunshine . |
| 29 | Preparing for the off in the London Marathon last April , WCUK Nottingham project manager , John Holder , got his running shoes on to complete the 26 mile 394 yard distance for the first time . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 're forced to live on benefits you 're thrown on to such a low level that you ca n't dress properly for interviews or even afford the travel involved . |