Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , economic recession has led to sharp increases in unemployment , especially among young black people , and there has been a growth in black migration from impoverished and drought-stricken rural areas since the ending of influx controls in 1986 . |
| 2 | But whereas , in 1981 , 14,250 books sold for every title published , in 1987 that figure had fallen to 10,913 . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that there were more than 17,000 people employed in the Scottish coal industry in 1984 , but by 1989 that figure had fallen to 3,480 and it will be even smaller now ? |
| 4 | In 1990 , a total of 903 knives were seized at ports , airports and other points of entry and in 1991 that figure had risen to 2,082 . |
| 5 | In 1879 only 10 per cent of the tonnage launched on the Clyde was of steel construction , but by 1889 that figure had risen to 97 per cent . |
| 6 | Four years later , on 31 March 1991 , that figure had risen to 6,130 , which represents 63 per cent . |
| 7 | In 1951 there were approximately 15,300 settlers from the Caribbean in Britain : ten years later that figure had risen to 171,500 . |
| 8 | When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year . |
| 9 | In 1956 , only 600 sets received the images produced by the state broadcasting company , Spanish Radio-Television ( Radio Televisión Española , RTVE ) , but , by 1958 , that figure had leapt to 40,000 . |
| 10 | That figure has referred to preventative services . |
| 11 | Their technical programme has led to interesting advances within probability theory , but it has not yielded new insights into the nature of science . |
| 12 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to end his two-year retirement . |
| 13 | Given the difficulties of keeping tabs on such faraway players , it comes as no surprise to learn that Bilardo has appealed to one of the key figures of his 1986 World Cup team , the 34-year-old Jorge Valdano , to come out of his two-year retirement . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , this finding has led to further speculation about the role of hostile , critical and overprotective parenting in the first onset of schizophrenia . |
| 15 | In fact , this technique has led to some of my most successful parties where the parents join in and participate in the proceedings . |
| 16 | According to Body , this swelling stream of public money has led to damaging distortions in agricultural systems and reduced the living standards of the whole population . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Another Coral has hardened to 5–1 favourite to land his second successive Mackeson Gold Cup at Cheltenham on Saturday . |
| 18 | The stiff and painful neck has returned to normal , my wheeziness has improved greatly with no sign of the asthma returning , and my migraines are far less frequent and not nearly so intense . |
| 19 | Recent changes in large household sizes have been even more spectacular — in 1971 6 per cent of households contained six or more persons : by 1985 , this figure had fallen to 2 per cent ( General Household Survey 1985 , 1987 , Table 3.11 ) . |
| 20 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 21 | Thus the French foreign ministry , which had in 1814 some seventy employees with functions directly related to foreign policy ( i.e. excluding messengers , doorkeepers , etc. ) had still only ninety in 1870 ; but by 1914 this figure had grown to 170 . |
| 22 | By then it amounted to 8,000 volumes ; and by 1792 , at the outbreak of war between revolutionary France and most of Europe , this figure had risen to 12,000 . |
| 23 | In 1951 about four million people in Britain owned their own homes ; by 1985 this figure had risen to 14 million , with 62 per cent of the total housing stock being owner-occupied ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 137 , table 8.1 ) . |
| 24 | By 1981 the service sector accounted for 61 per cent of total employment , and by the mid-1980s this figure had risen to 65 per cent . |
| 25 | These figures may be compared with those for India ; in 1881 male life-expectancy at birth was 23.6 years there , and in 1931 this figure had risen to 26.9 . |
| 26 | In Buckinghamshire , for example , 60 per cent of those who lived in areas where the Whig peers Lord Wharton , the Dukes of Montagu , Bedford and Devonshire , and the Earl of Bridgewater owned lands voted Whig in the election of 1705 ; by 1713 this figure had risen to 66 per cent . |
| 27 | In 1931 , 26 per cent of women aged 20–4 were married : in 1951 , this figure had risen to 48 per cent and , in 1961 , to 59 per cent ( Leete , 1977 ) . |
| 28 | When we look at UK multinational corporations ' direct investment we again see the impact of the break-up of the Commonwealth as an economic bloc : in the early 1960s Commonwealth countries accounted for 60 per cent of the UK 's overseas direct assets , but by 1984 this figure had declined to 32 per cent ( taking account of current and ex-Commonwealth countries ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | By 1970 this figure had dropped to 4 per cent . |