Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [be] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monday 's 46 point drop in the US market meant a nervous opening in London but the fall in FTSE 100 index was confined to single figures until mid-afternoon . |
| 2 | Blacks had little political power being scarcely represented in local and national government : in 1962 , in the southern states , only six blacks were elected to public office . |
| 3 | Of the 75,000 BTOE of solar energy which reaches the earth , only 2.3 BTOE is converted to useful energy by man — 71% is used for food production , 24% goes on the burning of wood and agricultural waste and 4% on hydro electricity . |
| 4 | An estimated 200,000 troops were confined to special bases under the terms of the May peace agreement between the government and UNITA [ see p. 38180 ] . |
| 5 | The reason a black hole ‘ remembers ’ the electric charge , angular momentum , and mass of the matter that collapsed and forgets everything else is that these three quantities are coupled to long-range fields : in the case of charge the electromagnetic field , and in the case of angular momentum and mass the gravitational field . |
| 6 | The region also boasted the highest proportion of births outside marriage one in three babies were born to unmarried parents . |
| 7 | This A-2 jacket is designed to exacting Army Air Corp standards and is upgraded from the original horsehide to luxurious goatskin leather . |
| 8 | Using this major exhibition as a sounding board , the range , consisting of an 80 wool 20 nylon twist in sixteen colours was shown to potential customers . |
| 9 | By 1988 , 2,908 blacks were elected to public office in the southern states . |
| 10 | More than three-quarters of all stillbirths after 36 weeks were linked to unfavourable antepartum or intrapartum conditions and were free from fetal malformations . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , London Contemporary Dance makes a rare four day visit to the Liverpool Empire tomorrow with a three-work programme in which one piece is danced to Rolling Stones music . |
| 12 | Modern techniques of communication have intensified the demonstration effect whereby the practices and beliefs of one society are introduced to other societies and have increased the speed with which consumption patterns common to one socio-cultural grouping spread to all corners of the world . |
| 13 | Of the 51 species of Chisocheton ( Meliaceae ) , in Malesia for example , one species is restricted to peat-swamp forest and another to limestone , while , in dipterocarps , Shorea curtisii is always found on ridges and slopes apparently associated with particular water relations in the forest . |
| 14 | However , there can be problems , specifically because of the fashion for breeding it as small as possible , which at one time was taken to dangerous extremes . |
| 15 | As revealed exclusively in TODAY , yesterday , the £100 million contract was awarded to multinational Alcatel after it undercut British firm Westinghouse . |
| 16 | Another 1,000 million people are exposed to high levels of suspended particles from coal , wood and oil combustion and traffic dust . |
| 17 | In January 1990 Fiji was restored to nominal civilian rule [ see p. 37189 ] . |