Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ David Keys from The Independent in London sent me his articles , ’ said Marin , surprised that the national press and institutions concerned with the preservation of the cultural heritage had shown no knowledge of or interest in the silver , whose sale had been announced by Sotheby 's to loud fanfares the month before . |
| 2 | The motor control routine shown in Fig. 8.3 is entered with the number of steps loaded into accumulator A ( if the number of steps can not be expressed within the confines of an eight.bit word corresponding to 256 steps the routine must be executed several times ) and the index register X pointing at a location in the list between ENDLOW and ENDHI . |
| 3 | Couples ages 25 to 34 eight to eleven times a month . |
| 4 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the electric fireplace which the American public watches an average of six to eight hours a day ’ . |
| 6 | And Richard Hannon saddled a similar number of horses — equivalent to eight runners every racing day — to take the trainers ' title with 147 winners netting £1.78 million in prize money . |
| 7 | Build up slowly to a frequency of 20 muscle-pulls six to eight times a day . |
| 8 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 9 | Gold is pretty heavy , being six to eight times the , weight of the gravels , and it follows a certain line down the riverbed . |
| 10 | Those that will demand up to eight times the usual premium . |
| 11 | ‘ Up to eight litters a year , ’ Fred said . |
| 12 | YOUNGSTERS are gorging themselves on junk food — eating up to EIGHT snacks a day . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's nobody in the UK to date that 's really offered small to medium-sized businesses the same buying power and service as large companies , ’ said Jane Knowles , marketing manager for Business Superstore . |
| 14 | Longer-term effects were studied in four young couples , three who normally slept about 8 hours every night , and one who slept 6.5 hours a night , who volunteered to attempt to reduce their sleep progressively to 4.5 hours a night over a period of between six and eight months . |
| 15 | But with up to 92 flights a day over Upper Heyford , members of the local action committee are likely to be even more concerned tonight . |
| 16 | Over a third of cystic fibrosis patients are now over the age of 15 , and the number of patients is increasing by 100 to 120 patients a year , most of whom are adults . |
| 17 | As a result of these promotions , his salary rose from 15 to 22.50 rupees a month . |
| 18 | The plants needed up to 3000 poles an acre to grow , a fairly intensive demand in itself on the exploitation of Wealden underwood . |
| 19 | To European liberals the holy alliance was a sinister plot directed against the liberals . |
| 20 | Courtaulds Nippon Paint , a 50/50 joint venture between Courtaulds Coatings in the UK and Nippon Paint in Japan , will bring together the coil coatings technology of both companies and will make available to European customers the best Japanese technology and the systems Nippon Paint has developed for providing fast-response customer service . |
| 21 | To European eyes the brute physicality of Mehmet Memo Sander , a Turkish-born movement-performer now resident in California , is quite phenomenal . |
| 22 | Czechoslovakia would continue to form a single market , but in the approach to European bodies the government would try to ensure that the Czechs and Slovaks were able to act as " independent and equal subjects " . |
| 23 | Recruitment took place in Bengal as well as in South India , and the remarkably comprehensive Murray 's Handbook pointed out to European travellers the stations where the migrants might be seen entraining for the tea plantations . |
| 24 | There was no longer any understanding that in making available advantages to private individuals the state was at the same time imposing a ‘ trust ’ that the business be conducted for the public good . |
| 25 | In late 1917 , proclaiming Labour 's new commitment to ‘ the democratic control of industry [ through ] the common ownership of the means of production ’ , Arthur Henderson pledged the Party to ‘ strenuously resist every proposal to hand back to private capitalists the great industries and services that have come under Government control during the war … we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . ’ |
| 26 | Two hydrocyclone separators are to be installed on the Gyda platform next year to more than double the installation 's water handling capacity to 35,000 barrels a day in readiness for an anticipated increase in produced water from the reservoir . |
| 27 | They must be returned by branches to regional Directors no later than Friday march 13 , 199 . |
| 28 | James Cannavino , IBM Corp senior vice-president and Personal Systems supremo says the company is getting 6,000 to 7,000 calls a day on its OS/2 number requesting details of OS/2 2.1 , which is due to ship on June 14 : he claims that current sales of OS/2 are running at around 200,000 copies a month . |
| 29 | James Cannavino , IBM Corp senior vice-president and Personal Systems supremo says the company is getting 6,000 to 7,000 calls a day on its OS/2 number requesting details of OS/2 2.1 , which is due to ship on June 14 : he claims that current sales of OS/2 are running at around 200,000 copies a month . |
| 30 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |