Example sentences of "to [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased Stiffness — The number of separate body parts fell from 170 in the Renault 5 to 119 in the Clio . |
| 2 | Within marriage the most important change experienced by women was the steady decline in the fertility rate until after World War II ( Table 2 ) , while in the 1870s there were over 295 legitimate live births per 1000 married women aged 15–44 , this figure had dropped to 222 by the first decade of the twentieth century and to only 111 by the 1930s . |
| 3 | Gresham 's made a promising start with contributions from Ivor Crampsie , Alistair Ponder and Hugh Semple but slumped from 131/3 to 169 at the hands of Ashley Cowan ( 4/33 ) and Richard Wilson ( 4/36 ) . |
| 4 | It then fell to 37,440 by the beginning of the following year , but in the first six months of 1989 it rose by 20 per cent to 45,1()0 and by a further 29 per cent to over 58,000 in the second half of the year . |
| 5 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 6 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 7 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 8 | He supposes that , in each abdominal segment , there is a gradient of some diffusible substance , from high at the front to low at the back . |
| 9 | So matches this side , not to low , it 's to low on the other bit , . |
| 10 | It 's called Lynx because up to eight of the machines can be linked so you can play with friends . |
| 11 | ‘ It lacks but ten minutes to eight of the clock , ’ it snarled . |
| 12 | Death sentences were handed down to eight of the accused . |
| 13 | Five vertical strikes of the print-head are needed to produce a character ; each strike uses up to eight of the nine available pins . |
| 14 | If you homed in on erm one to eight on the flap that would er create the average revenue which is the average across all of our products of six thousand pound . |
| 15 | Daisy Miller won her fifth race in a row here and is one of a quartet with five successes — the others are Claxton Greene , Confused Express and Rubie 's Choice — chasing Carl 's Choice , who moved on to eight in the West Kent Open and must be favourite to win The Daily Telegraph Trophy . |
| 16 | With these he turned his game around and was gratified when his handicap was raised to eight in the autumn listings a year later . |
| 17 | It was quarter to eight in the morning . |
| 18 | The $2,700 million emergency measure was passed by 404 votes to eight in the House and by 94 votes to two in the Senate . |
| 19 | Cos I was out with my first daughter at quarter to eight in the morning to catch the bus to take her to adopted aunty |
| 20 | And this th th this three surgeons go out from here and they do all their research on the various and they operate from eight o'clock at night to eight in the morning , non-stop , using three theatres , each doing a forty five minutes one , and then another one takes |
| 21 | Some traders expect it to fall to 3,100 within the next few weeks . |
| 22 | Two unlinked genes were found homologous to Oct-11 in the mouse genome in contrast to rats and humans which have only one ( data not shown ) . |
| 23 | Deepening concern that Labour could form the next government at Westminster provides a potent message for the billboards which other parties , with links to neither of the two main protaganists , can not match : ‘ Vote Kennedy to keep Kinnock out . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Numbers waiting more than a year have already been significantly reduced from 367 to 293 at the end of January , ’ said Mr Flook . |
| 25 | More than 680 homes were sold in January , rising to 750 for the first three weeks of this month . |
| 26 | ‘ No artist I have ever known has ever felt to assured of the immortality of her work — or of the salvation of her soul , ’ |
| 27 | The taxpayers were assessed to Schedule E income tax for the years from 1983–84 to 1985–86 on the basis that under the concessionary scheme they had received benefits that were to treated as ‘ emoluments ’ of their employment under section 61 of the Act of 1976 , the cash equivalent of such benefit being chargeable to income tax in accordance with the provisions of section 63 of the Act . |
| 28 | Our main analyses were of men and women who were aged 25 to 74 at the baseline examinations . |
| 29 | Pages 72 to 74 in the instruction book give details of reading the card . |
| 30 | The 69 amino acids POU-specific domain ( POU S ) is located at positions 454 to 522 in the derived protein sequence and is separated from the 60 amino acids POU homeo domain ( POU HD ) ( positions 542 to 600 , defined according to Laughton ( 22 ) ) by a 20 amino acids linker sequence . |