Example sentences of "to [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 35 companies offer PMI from £85 to £1,800 a year for a couple , depending on age , health and extent of cover . |
| 2 | If the UN were to take over some government functions , the bill might rise to $10m a month . |
| 3 | New statistics show average incomes rose from £338 to £343 a week ( 1.4pc after inflation ) while average spending increased to £272 from £257 a week ( 5.8pc or 2.3pc after inflation ) . |
| 4 | Expect to pay about £50 to £60 a case for English wines , which will never be cheap because crop levels are seldom high and most vineyards are small . |
| 5 | A crippling recruitment and retention crisis has seen BR lose vital engineering staff to better paid jobs for example in British Telecom and Mercury , where senior technicians ' rates are up to £60 a week more . |
| 6 | A scheme the weekly earnings disregard from £15 for a man and dependent wife to £60 a week for six months , to encourage the over-50s to take on part-time work . |
| 7 | The forgeries are understood to be changing hands at up to £60 a time across the province in pubs and clubs . |
| 8 | The sole equivalent here is the modest ‘ give as you earn ’ scheme , with up to £480 a year deductable from taxable salary if donated to a registered charity . |
| 9 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 10 | But Allen was only wrong in that the price collapsed suddenly to ls a pound . |
| 11 | And if shortages or surpluses are general across the market this will be immediately apparent and indicate to GEMMs a need to adjust quoted prices . |
| 12 | Women going to the mosque had their veils snatched off ; a Moslem waterseller was set upon and beaten ; Moslem stalls in the market were upset ; and during the evening call to prayer a bell had been rung loudly . |
| 13 | SunSelect is pricing PC-NFS 4.0 at $4,415 for one user , $90 for an upgrade , but under a special 90-day promotion five seats will run to $25 a seat , 25 seats to $20 a seat and a site license at roughly $13 a seat . |
| 14 | Fresh-picked morels can go for up to $25 a pound ; dried , for $15–20 an ounce . |
| 15 | You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 . |
| 16 | Inflation is supposed to tumble to 17% a month . |
| 17 | On Feb. 6 the Cabinet approved and sent on to parliament a package of measures to tighten German export controls . |
| 18 | There was a more dramatic drop in refining margins over the past two years — from $5 to $2.88 a barrel in Europe and $2.71 to $1.75 in the US — reflecting competitive conditions in product marketing during the recession . |
| 19 | In theory he was correct , and in 1838 , well after Herschel 's death , the German astronomer F. W. Bessel managed to measure a star distance in this way . |
| 20 | The firm has six employees and many were taking home up to £165 a week , but all have agreed to draw just £100 . |
| 21 | However , to raise this income to £140.90 per week the family would need to more than double their earnings , from £75 a week to £165 a week ( Hansard , 28 July 1988 , col. 509 ) . |
| 22 | The company has opened three holiday camps for four-day breaks costing up to £225 a head . |
| 23 | Vietnam 's economic collapse is held at bay only through massive aid from Russia amounting , by one estimate , to $3m a day . |
| 24 | During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine . |
| 25 | As she could not afford to keep a nanny or an au pair , having permanently available a woman who had borne and reared ten children , together with a woman who had been one of them , had been to Scarlet a godsend . |
| 26 | The results make startling reading — you can save up to £1,000 a year on a £100,000 loan , simply by choosing the right lender . |
| 27 | Borrowers of £100,000 can pay up to £1,000 a year over the odds if they chose the wrong lender five years ago . |
| 28 | Top-quality Scotch beef is replacing more expensive German beef in Italy and the price for the best and heaviest home-killed bullocks has been forced up to £1,000 a head — which goes some way to explaining why fresh meat is suddenly so much dearer in shops . |
| 29 | Despite the reams of analysis of new environmental taxes , Mr Major did next to nothing , except raise petrol duties by 10% and widen the tax difference between leaded and unleaded petrol by less than 2p , to 16p a gallon . |
| 30 | By early November , however , prices had tumbled to $1,603.50 a tonne ( for immediate delivery ) , and fell steadily as stocks rose to a record 315,600 tonnes in December . |