Example sentences of "to [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 2 | It 's called Lynx because up to eight of the machines can be linked so you can play with friends . |
| 3 | ‘ It lacks but ten minutes to eight of the clock , ’ it snarled . |
| 4 | Death sentences were handed down to eight of the accused . |
| 5 | Five vertical strikes of the print-head are needed to produce a character ; each strike uses up to eight of the nine available pins . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ No artist I have ever known has ever felt to assured of the immortality of her work — or of the salvation of her soul , ’ |
| 8 | End-labelled restriction fragment probes used for DNA binding analyses on the HSV-1 IE-3 promoter and the VZV gene 62 promoter regions were prepared as follows : - The UP6 probe , including the gene 62 mRNA start site at nucleotide -287 proposed by Felser ( 12 ) was isolated as a SalI-RsaI fragment , spanning nucleotides -409 to -188 of the gene 62 promoter , from the plasmid p140 ( 28 ) . |
| 9 | The shareholders are treated as having received a distribution of £100 on which tax of £20 has been paid and , assuming they will be liable for income tax at the higher rate , will have a further £20 of income tax to pay ( see s14 TA 1988 and sections 77 to 79 of the 1993 Finance Act ) . |
| 10 | Early today polling institutes forecast the opposition could win 440 to 476 of the 577 National Assembly seats after next Sunday 's run-offs . |
| 11 | Examination in this connection of the provisions of regulations 143 to 147 of the Regulations of 1989 , which reproduce identical provisions in the Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1980 ( S.I . |
| 12 | When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses . |
| 13 | The unique feature is that social workers were given authority to spend up to two-thirds of the cost of a place in residential care in order to support an old person in his or her own home , who would otherwise require such a place . |
| 14 | They provide up to two-thirds of the party 's money ( though Michael Pinto-Duschinsky , of Brunel University , calculates that in 1981 this was 90% ) . |
| 15 | Overall it would appear to have accounted for less than a tenth of the income of spiritualities ; in seven Norfolk parishes in 1658 the glebe varied from one-eighth to two-thirds of the living , though the average scarcely exceeded a quarter ; acreages ranged from one to fifty-two with a median of twenty-four in these and three other parishes . |
| 16 | The average duration of use of heroin by clients of the three agencies is about one to three years , a habit length which accounts for about half to two-thirds of the users known to each agency . |
| 17 | The government has responded with engineering works to prevent the rivers ' winter and spring floods reaching the marshes ; according to the UN , water has been prevented from reaching up to two-thirds of the marshes this spring . |
| 18 | That is being helped by the change in the turkey processing market in the past 15 years or so which has led to two-thirds of the national output , worth a total of £300 million a year , being eaten in portion and added value form . |
| 19 | At its height Baring Securities generated up to two-thirds of the privately-owned merchant bank 's profits and in 1988 won a Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 20 | The electricity company is giving special help to 500 of the worst-affected . |
| 21 | One forecast estimated the right-wingers could clinch up to 500 of the 577 National Assembly seats . |
| 22 | In the Northern statelet , the power of the main protestant churches at present remains subordinate to that of the fundamentalists and the religious political societies . |
| 23 | It is important to note that in 1912–14 the protestant — loyalist group saw their right to violence as prior to that of the official state . |
| 24 | He used the columns of the Irish Times to inform Roman catholic consciences of permitted interpretations of state divorce on the grounds of religious liberty , interpretations which were diametrically opposed to that of the Irish bishops . |
| 25 | Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review . |
| 26 | The review adds : ‘ What we now seek is a DTI which will have an equal , if not superior status , to that of the Treasury . ’ |
| 27 | Colombia does not have a consumption problem comparable to that of the US or Europe . |
| 28 | To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control . |
| 29 | For the Canadian model to work , a unitary electorate analogous to that of the UK is required . |
| 30 | Musicians ' work and way of life is different to that of the members of most unions . |