Example sentences of "in [noun] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank of England was forced to signal an increase in base rates to 15 per cent — the highest for eight years — after the Bundesbank lifted its own key rates by a full point to clamp down on West German inflation . |
| 2 | The sudden collapse in sterling came despite last week 's 1-point rise in base rates to 15 per cent , intended to defuse the selling pressure and reinforce the Government 's battle against inflation . |
| 3 | A reduction of only one percentage point in base rates to 8% between now and the end of the year would not please advocates of economic expansion . |
| 4 | The Chancellor 's Autumn statement , due between 3.30 and 4pm today , is likely to signal a fresh cut in base rates to 7% or even 6% . |
| 5 | A further cut in base rates to 6% is now likely to stay on ice till next year . |
| 6 | The survey , in which 814 manufacturing companies took part between September 23 and October 14 , after the reduction in base rates to 9pc , shows : |
| 7 | ‘ Further falls in base rates to at least 6pc are necessary ; in addition , specific measures to stimulate the housing market would boost confidence by indicating the Government 's commitment to the home-owner . ’ |
| 8 | However , legislation introduced in Missouri in 1991 had limited non-economic damages in malpractice cases to US$430,000 . |
| 9 | As Docherty said : ‘ The problem caused by the tendency in user organisations to hive off IT to specialist managers is that the real users and decision-makers within them are isolated . |
| 10 | We will safeguard the abatement negotiated by Mrs Thatcher which has so far brought some £12,000 million in budget rebates to Britain . |
| 11 | In the short term the crises resulted from state governors ( of both political parties ) becoming involved in wrangles with their state legislatures after recommending deficit reduction measures such as increased taxes and reductions in entitlement programmes to which the elected legislators were not keen to agree . |
| 12 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |
| 13 | From now on , for the most part Branson confined his role in contract negotiations to a neo-imperial one , coming in to ‘ do a number ’ , as Draper put it , when a particularly big star , or recalcitrant manager , required wooing . |
| 14 | The second issue is the adjustment of Value Added Tax in EEC countries to around 15% , as well as the abolition of the considerably lower rate of 6% in a number of countries . |
| 15 | Students have also been successful in making individual applications ( for example in computer studies to the British Computer Society ) and , indeed , such applications in the early years often formed the necessary groundwork for institutional recognition . |
| 16 | If MAFF introduced a similar assessment in England and Wales , there would be social and environmental benefits and a shift in HLCA payments to the most handicapped farms . |
| 17 | Many different viruses have been shown in field trials to be capable of giving very satisfactory levels of control of their host insect . |
| 18 | To clarify this situation , all futures trades ( investment and trading ) conducted after 26 July 1990 by pension funds and authorized unit trusts were exempted from taxation ; and this has encouraged these institutions to participate in futures markets to a greater extent than previously . |
| 19 | The heir to the Blenheim Palace Estate was being sought after failing to pay more than ten thousand pounds in maintenance arrears to his wife Becky , who lives at Kiddington in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | He was released yesterday from Pentonville prison where he had been due to serve a 112-day sentence for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance arrears to estranged wife Becky . |
| 21 | As with many things , it is the excess which is harmful ; regular exercise can help to reduce this excess and may allow the alterations in eating habits to be a little less drastic . |
| 22 | A 10% jump in half-time profits to £617,000 was due mainly to cost savings . |
| 23 | A 7% jump in half-time profits to £23.1m , came alongside news from boss Peter Barr that acquisitions were off the menu . |
| 24 | Northern Fuels of Northgate House in the town was shown to owe £10,045 in rent arrears to its office landlord the Equitable Life Assurance Society . |
| 25 | In view of the decision in CIR v Eurocopy plc [ 1991 ] STC 707 , the Revenue takes the view that in practice alterations to the terms of approved employee share schemes that effect a change in the rights of existing option holders are unlikely to be approved . |
| 26 | Pesticide use for all of Indonesia has dropped to about half what it was when the programme started , saving the government $120 million in insecticide subsidies to farmers . |
| 27 | Defending Champions Red Star lost in Brussels thanks to goals from the Anderlecht trio Bosman , Oliveira and Degryse with Pancev and Cula scoring for the Yugoslavs . |
| 28 | Cut-Off Channel patchy , although roach nearing 2 lb in pleasure nets to 14 lb at Hilgay Bridge . |
| 29 | Selling in bear markets to clients who have some inkling of it can be hell . |
| 30 | Draw steps to scale , adjusting measurements if necessary ( bearing in mind materials to be used ) . |