Example sentences of "by [adv] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the bill was reconsidered by the House of Representatives on Sept 30 , however , the lower chamber voted by only 258 votes to 169 to override . |
| 2 | The Inland Revenue raised £79.4 billion , down 3½ p.c. , while Customs and Excise receipts rose by only 11½ p.c. to £61.8 billion despite a 17 p.c. increase in the rate of value added tax to 17½ p.c. , reflecting low sales of consumer items attracting VAT . |
| 3 | In year 4 , demand continues to increase , but this time by only 500 units to 3,500 units : the desired capital stock goes up to thirty-five and so net investment of only five machines is necessary . |
| 4 | His concern was justified when the no confidence motion was defeated by only 447 votes to 412 . |
| 5 | They lost by only seven runs to Yorkshire last week , and over the next ten days they will face Nottinghamshire , Northamptonshire and Glamorgan . |
| 6 | Despite an 81-seat Democratic majority and an intensive bout of lobbying and arm-twisting , the president won by only 219 votes to 213 , with two-thirds of the Democrats from oil-rich Texas siding with the Republicans . |
| 7 | And this is why , in spite of the years of ostracism , it was possible for the Springboks to lose by only three points to the All Blacks and 23 points to the Wallabies . |
| 8 | Marjory last week captained the school 's senior general knowledge team which last year won the regional title but this time lost by just one question to their Ferryhill opponents . |
| 9 | In India 's innings — their highest Test total on home soil — 21-year-old Vinod Kambli converted his overnight 164 into 224 , failing by just 12 runs to equal Sunil Gavaskar 's individual Indian Test record . |
| 10 | He failed by just 12 runs to equal Sunil Gavaskar 's individual India Test record the 236 not out he made against the West Indies at Madras in 1983-84 . |
| 11 | Of the 570 patients whose hospital notes were reviewed before the study , 415 ( 73% ) were judged by generally accepted criteria to be medically suitable for community care . |
| 12 | Judgment can be enforced in the High Court by not dissimilar methods to those in the county court . |
| 13 | However , it is also informed by more rigorous approaches to language — those of generative linguistics and formal semantics — and this greater leaning towards formalism can be seen both in its treatment of integration and construction , and in the attention it pays to aspects of language processing such as parsing . |
| 14 | Guaranteed delivery of documents or goods by 10am next day to all main UK business centres , and by noon to almost everywhere else . |
| 15 | Overall , the number of complaints and inquiries fell by nearly 10 p.c. to 1,206 but the number of complaints was ‘ slightly above the 1990 level ’ . |
| 16 | It was only when she realised that she had n't used the unarmed combat that was by now second nature to her , but was struggling in a manner that was instinctive , that she stopped . |
| 17 | And that by now familiar music to many of you means that in five minutes it will be the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 18 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 19 | Such reflections , of course , are counterbalanced by equally sketchy references to the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ during the period of transition from capitalism to socialism , and to the eventual ‘ abolition of the state ’ , the elimination of ‘ a political power properly so-called ’ , and the replacement of ‘ the government of men by the administration of things ’ ( the latter notion derived from Saint-Simon ) . |
| 20 | The inappropriate implementation of the ‘ theme ’ doctrine has now , though , been replaced by equally disturbing challenges to the integrity of the historic pub . |
| 21 | More accurately , we have witnessed a reaction by increasingly competitive producers to the uneven spatial development of class struggle , resulting in the migration of all types of employment , but especially manufacturing , from areas of high class struggle to areas where the struggle is less developed . |
| 22 | The Abbey National , now a bank , and the Leeds Permanent and the Halifax building societies were quick to break the bad news to already hard-pressed homeowners by stating that mortgage rates will probably have to rise by around 1.25 points to 14.75 per cent . |
| 23 | Among the six members of the sub-committee responsible for drafting this submission was the Eastern District 's former full-time tutor Harold Shearman , by then Academic Adviser to the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at London and a WEA vice-president . |
| 24 | A cut of 1% to 7% could be on the cards in tomorrow 's autumn statement and this pushed the FT-SE 100 Index ahead by over 19 points to 2714.6 . |
| 25 | The review resulted in an upward revision of the Sanga-Sanga field 's gross initial proved wet gas reserves by over 800 bcf to 12,460 bcf . |
| 26 | We have suggested that the lost berths could quite easily be replaced by a mixture of pontoons , remaining pile berths and by very small additions to existing marina complexes . |