Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the output started at 8 volts at about 800 r.p.m. and fell to 7 volts at 2800 r.p.m. ( max r.p.m. for the engine under test ) . |
| 2 | Some provision was made for the giving of legal advice by salaried solicitors outside the ambit of private practice in the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 , but the part of the Act which would have established full-time paid solicitors located at the Legal Aid Area Headquarters and travelling to smaller places was never brought into force . |
| 3 | Usually Guppies are hardy fish and adapt to most water conditions , but they do prefer alkaline water . |
| 4 | the , it 's been put to me to er interview various people or listen to other people if they can tell me about |
| 5 | It 's very wide the all the people or most of the people that go to these things are either all players already themselves |
| 6 | The equatorial and polar radii have been measured by various means and correspond to some level above the cloud tops . |
| 7 | The classification exercise provides another arena for the conflicting points of view as to the relative importance of good people as opposed to good systems . |
| 8 | The extent to which spadefoot tadpoles become cannibalistic varies between the different species and according to ecological circumstance . |
| 9 | Nofziger , who had headed the White House Office of Political Affairs in 1981-82 , had been convicted of illegal lobbying for the Wedtech Corp. within a year of leaving office , fined $30,000 and sentenced to 90 days in prison [ see p. 36018 ] . |
| 10 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 11 | Explore the exciting underwater world at the Brighton Sea Life Centre … discover one of England 's largest collections of marine creatures from shrimps , starfish and stingrays to sensational sharks and octopus . |
| 12 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 13 | Forecasters may attempt to identify shifts as between , say : * preferences towards work and leisure orientations ; * preferences for individually determined as opposed to governmentally determined expenditure ( eg pressure for tax reductions , restricting local government expenditure etc ) ; * traditional authority/religious personal ethics as opposed to personal freedom and individualistic behaviour . |
| 14 | The worry for the anthropologists is that some sociobiologists jump directly from their impressively careful observations of the mating behaviours of lions and deer and ostriches to sweeping assertions about the causal determinants of mating behaviour among men . |