Example sentences of "and [adv prt] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrests gave Seth a record of at least nine drink driving incidents , leading the judge to order him into Alcoholics Anonymous and on to two years ' probation . |
| 2 | The fabulous museum tells the story of moving images beginning in 2000 BC with shadow puppets through the silent era and the golden age of Hollywood , and on to recent developments in television . |
| 3 | Gloucester do n't believe in doing things the easy way … funny thing is they play better when they 're up against it … so this game was ideal … they were losing and down to fourteen men when Pete Jones was sent off mid way through the first half for stamping … |
| 4 | Behind , away from home and down to 14 men , Kelso ought to have been down and out , but Jeffrey rallied his men in typical fashion and the visiting pack dominated the first 25 minutes of the second half . |
| 5 | More favoured here was the use of promissory notes and bills of exchange in large volume and down to low denominations . |
| 6 | Are the doorways wide enough for a wheelchair , can you go easily from one room to another , is the floor level throughout the flat , or are there steps up and down to various rooms ? |
| 7 | The story is told of two top executives from different agencies who would wave to each other , one from his chauffeur driven Jaguar and the other from his Porsche , as they passed on the M4 when buzzing up and down to important clients . |
| 8 | In contrast , he selected those companies that had data in the PIMS system for at least seven and up to thirteen years ; this gave him data on 460 US companies . |
| 9 | In addition , pairs usually breed at Bracklesham Bay , Aldingbourne gravel pits , the Crumbles , and Normans Bay , and up to nine pairs do so at the Midrips . |
| 10 | will be available from one , first of April and up to sixty parishes will be invited to sign |
| 11 | There have been June or July records annually since 1960 , except in 1971 , 1972 and 1975 , and up to 27 birds have been seen together , although smaller numbers are much more usual . |
| 12 | Initially Virtual Network Architecture will be limited to the local area network : each DragonSwitch module supports 16 Ethernet ports and up to five modules can be slotted into each Access/One chassis . |
| 13 | The cheese is sold at no younger than two years and up to five years old . |
| 14 | Or travel independently with Sally Ferries ' ski-drive package : return ferry crossing for a car and up to five passengers , snow chains and RAC Eurocover from £139 . |
| 15 | Hoverspeed has introduced a £35 same-day or 24-hour return for a car and up to five passengers on its Folkestone to Boulogne route , Sundays to Thursdays . |
| 16 | The basic building block is a single frame containing eight or 16 RISC processors and up to four frames can be joined together . |
| 17 | And up to four children can travel for £1 each on any journey . |
| 18 | The season of production lasts probably less than two months in the Arctic basin , and up to four months in the peripheral region ( read Bursa , 1961 ) . |
| 19 | Accountants , lawyers and other professionals who engage in such business would face enormous fines and up to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | It was prompted by nationwide dismay at an announcement that 31 out of 50 pits still operating in the UK were to close and up to 30,000 miners ' jobs would be lost . |
| 21 | Insulation up to 3 clo units ( p. 177 ) is effective for active people , and up to 4 units for sedentary work ( Brotherhood , 1973 ) ; additional thickness of clothing tends to be cumbersome and counterproductive , requiring more energy to carry it about . |
| 22 | If elimination of lead in petrol could reduce blood levels by half — as the study assumed — it would reduce average blood pressure levels by 1 to 2 points , thereby meaning that 12,000 fewer people would need treatment for hypertension annually , there would be 6,000 to 12,000 fewer heart attacks , and up to 2,655 lives would be saved — more than the total number of fatalities on the nation 's roads each year . |
| 23 | There are three routes … 25 miles for the older machines and up to 70 miles for robust models . |
| 24 | He enjoyed the gradual arrival of other birds , travelling northward and up to higher grounds as they too followed the spring , the buoyant thrushes , sudden parties of blue tits in the lower valleys , and the drumming of woodpeckers from out of still leafless woods . |
| 25 | At the same time the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society was reported to be dealing with 8,000 Ossete refugees who had fled into North Ossetia , and up to 3,000 Georgians from South Ossetia who had fled to Georgia proper . |
| 26 | These accommodated about thirty old people , which was originally considered the optimum size , but over the years purpose-built homes grew larger and up to seventy places became quite common . |
| 27 | The transitional period for a company will begin when it is privatised and will be at least six months and up to 16 months . |
| 28 | Nearly all of this material was obtained by scooping the top of the surface , or by picking up small rocks up to about fist-size , or from cores a few centimetres in diameter and up to 2.4 metres deep . |
| 29 | Taking the bark to make the drug kills the tree , and up to 5,000 trees are needed to produce only 2lb of paclitaxel . |
| 30 | It uses 25MHz 68040 processors for two- to four-way symmetric multi-processing , and can support up to 192Mb of shadowed memory , mirrored disks up to 52Gb and up to 900 users . |