Example sentences of "the [noun] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is no reference to a requirement of ‘ suddenness ’ in the Homicide Act 1957 , and the courts have in effect restricted the defence to people with certain kinds of temperament . |
| 2 | A spokesman for the UK Offshore Operators ' Association said : ‘ Superficially , the reduction to 50pc sounds good , but the tax is tied in with a lot of allowances , including exploration and appraisal , and that has all been abolished , and that is going to have a devastating effect of exploration and appraisal . ’ |
| 3 | The appeal judges reduced the award to £39,634 . |
| 4 | The prize money ranges from $525,000 for the winner to $50,000 for last place . |
| 5 | Resellers in the $10m to $20m category get 68% and 58% respectively . |
| 6 | it warned of the dangers to people of the weedkiller 2,4,5-T , with scant hope of doing much good in official circles , especially in the MAFF . |
| 7 | Eileen O'Brien , IDC 's director of terminal services , says the surge in PC X server sales was n't forecast to happen until 1994 , attributing the rise to people who use X technology buying PCs and running X server software on them as a cheap alternative to X terminals and the improving quality of the software . |
| 8 | UBS P & D plans a series of roadshows in Europe to present the proposals to Heron 's many thousands of bondholders who have seen bonds slashed to a third of their face value . |
| 9 | A BRIDGE could open up the route to sales success in France for a new product marketed by the protective coatings division of Celomer . |
| 10 | Under the terms of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction legislation ( the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act , passed in 1985 and amended in 1987 — see pp. 34094-95 ; 35895-96 ) there was a statutory requirement to reduce the deficit to $64,000 million by 1991 and to achieve its complete elimination by 1993 . |
| 11 | The estimate meant that , if no agreement was reached between congress and the president , $104,800 million would be sequestrated automatically from the 1991 budget , under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction legislation ( the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act ) which provided a statutory obligation to reduce the deficit to $64,000 million by 1991 and to achieve its complete elimination by 1993 . |
| 12 | An increase in the deficit to £1.4bn is expected , reflecting lower export volumes last month . |
| 13 | The business then came under the banner of C&P and results for 1987 slashed the deficit to £4m with sales of £858m . |
| 14 | It can drive up to eight servos and operates from the 4.8V to 6V servo supply . |
| 15 | He was represented at the hearing of his Appeal by the Association and the Tribunal increased the assessment to 80% . |
| 16 | Information technology is playing , and will increasingly continue to play , a major role in opening up the curriculum to people with disabilities . |
| 17 | It is expected to be in the £53 to £64 a night tariff range , less than other major hotels around Belfast . |
| 18 | Feeding 's the key to £1,000 cheque |
| 19 | The key to people 's behaviour style is in the words they use , the sound of their voice and what you notice in their face and body language . |
| 20 | Even with the ACE initiative dead , commoditisation remains the key to MIPS ' strategy . |
| 21 | Electronic communication — probably telecommunication-based teleconferencing and close derivatives — will be the key to multimedia 's effectiveness . |
| 22 | The capping has brought down the poll tax bill in the borough to £339.22 , a reduction of nearly £14 . |
| 23 | Christmas spending on foreign camcorders , CD players and electronic games last month helped widen the gap to £1,190 million , with total imports 10.6 billion . |
| 24 | Subsequent Cabinet and Service Department screening in Whitehall reduced the figure to £4,700 million which was the most that the Treasury believed the economy could bear without being put on to a war footing . |
| 25 | That 's about the national average , but Rover wants to reduce the figure to 3% . |
| 26 | Political news direct from the Commons rose from 13% of items before the experiment to 21% after . |
| 27 | My 525i was 16% more powerful than its predecessor and capable of pushing the car to 143mph , or streaking from 1 to 62mph in 8.6 seconds . |
| 28 | Mr Watts sent 10,000 copies of the pamphlet to MPs , peers , the Press , neighbours of Lord Aldington , the parents of pupils at Winchester and to former pupils , in an attempt to force Lord Aldington 's resignation as Warden . |
| 29 | Thus the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for a pound could be obtained by converting the pound to 100p and dividing by 17 . |
| 30 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Conservative party is proud to have reduced the basic rate of tax from 33p in the pound to 25p and the upper rate from 98p to 40p ? |