Example sentences of "to [noun] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Many " names " ( whose assets supported Lloyd 's underwriting activities ) criticized Lloyd 's Council for a decision of June 4 to demand a levy from " names " to double to £1,000 million the market 's " last resort capital fund " ( which was used to meet claims if " names " were unable to do so ) . |
2 | As Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. pointed out during the course of argument , there is a difference between saying that ‘ a person is not a statutory tenant ’ and saying that ‘ a person is not a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection such a tenant can possess . ’ |
3 | While Ipswich are one game away from the National League title , Chelmsford are one place away from relegation to the Second Division but when it comes to March 28 the league will seem a million miles away and both sides will have their sights set firmly on a semi-final place . |
4 | As a result , the book value of the company 's debt rose from £8.2 billion at the end of 1991 to £10.2 billion a year later , though the dollar equivalent remained virtually unchanged at $15.3 billion . |
5 | The closure , which will save MFI up to £2.5 million a year , follows the introduction of new technology . |
6 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
7 | And , unfortunately , the situation is likely to remain rather explosive and uncertain until the full Moon in Libra on 10 April brings to light all the information you require to force a showdown . |
8 | But it appears to imply that we are all equally disposed to crime all the time ; there are no individual differences in motivation ; variations in individual criminal action are solely accounted for by variations in the constellations of incentives and disincentives that apply in each case . |
9 | It therefore did everything it could to shipwreck such a process . |
10 | But the true figure is much higher , with one London health authority estimating that its hospitals alone lose up to £1 million a year . |
11 | World Bank officials said that the Bank expected to be making loan commitments of US$4,500 million to $5,000 million a year by the middle of 1994 to former Soviet republics . |
12 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
13 | On June 30 to July 2 the army occupied the Algiers headquarters of the opposition fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , closed two mosques and reported 700 arrests . |
14 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
15 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |
16 | They draw their income from the Duchy of Cornwall and pay tax on riches of up to £3 million a year . |
17 | From January 1989 to January 1991 a total of 146 patients underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for choledocholithiasis . |
18 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
19 | That help amounts to £400 million a year , which is very considerable and is necessary . |
20 | to rugby next the cherry and whites are back on the winning trail … they beat Pontypool at the weekend in a real rough and tumble of a game … |
21 | From June 1990 to February 1991 the Lawnmarket Building was vacated in order to allow a programme of refurbishment to be carried out . |
22 | Quotas at first restricted imports to $½ million a year . |
23 | His government pledged to increase its environmental aid by 50 per cent to $1.4 billion a year from 1993 . |
24 | It involves capital spending of £79 million over the next 12 years , plus up to £3.3 million a year revenue spending on schemes including pedestrianisation , traffic calming , cycle paths , improved bus facilities , more railway stations , and new rail links to Alloa and , later , to Grangemouth . |
25 | ‘ It is projected to average £33 billion annually to the turn of the century and grow to £45 billion a year for the first decade of the new century . |
26 | Wages always fell , never rose ; those in the coasting trade from £pound10 to £pound2 15s a voyage , so far that " there was a prospect of Seamen sailing ships for their mere food " . |
27 | However , if he does this he will not normally be permitted to post such an offer document within 12 months of the date of the statement , unless an offer for the target is announced by a third party within that period ( Note 3 on Rule 4.2 ) . |
28 | ‘ Cause brothers do that shit to bitches all the time ’ . |
29 | The difference of treatment for the two bids gave rise to criticism that the government 's merger policy favoured conglomerates . |
30 | The supervising engineers were naturally unhappy and only his promise to catch up — and his reputation to back such a promise — prevented the companies from operating the clauses that allowed them to take over the work and reassign it . |