Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company therefore said that salesmen must agree to a new restrictive covenant which barred them from soliciting customers for up to a year after leaving . |
| 2 | The new system will not only provide subscribers with up to the minute , page-ready results but will offer cricket coaches a means of analysing players ' performance — for example a batsman 's record against certain bowlers . |
| 3 | The new system will not only provide subscribers with up to the minute , page-ready results but will offer cricket coaches a means of analysing players ' performance — for example a batsman 's record against certain bowlers . |
| 4 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 5 | Yet there are people who see the stones throw distance from there to the covered market as an intolerable distance . |
| 6 | The IMF on Jan. 27 approved an extended arrangement , authorizing drawings of up to the equivalent of SDR343,800,000 ( about US$484,000,000 ) over the next three years in support of the government 's economic and financial reform programme . |
| 7 | GUIL : ( Excitedly ) Out of the void , finally , a sound ; while on a boat ( admittedly ) outside the action ( admittedly ) the perfect and absolute silence of the wet lazy slap of water against water and the rolling creak of timber — breaks ; giving rise at once to the speculation or the assumption or the hope that something is about to happen ; a pipe is heard . |
| 8 | To her , it was nothing dreadful after all , but she was compelled to keep silent and pay lip-service at least to the general despair , for fear she would be outlawed otherwise . |
| 9 | Our society pays lip-service at least to the idea of imagination in that the word " imaginative " is normally regarded as a compliment — the opposite of " dull " . |
| 10 | It will also replace a rotten back door , under a scheme with the local district council which offers grants of up to a thousand pounds for such work for elderly people in the town . |
| 11 | Workers would be given shares of up to a quarter of the total in their enterprise . |
| 12 | Waste compactors offer a new concept in efficient and cost-effective waste disposal by safely and hygienically reducing waste to up to a quarter of its original size . |
| 13 | Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems . |
| 14 | Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems . |
| 15 | The extent of the practice is , however , obscured by the widespread custom that permitted tenants to make demises for up to a year — in some places as much as three — without licence from the lord of the manor . |
| 16 | Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a derivative of fast packet switching technology , offering speeds of up to the Gigabits per second range , supports voice , data , image and video , and can therefore implement ISDN . |
| 17 | ATM is a derivative of fast packet switching technology , offering speeds of up to the gigabits per second range , supports voice , data , image and video , and can therefore implement ISDN . |