Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb -s] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an idealized three-dimensional numerical simulation of the Northern Hemisphere winter stratosphere , doubling the CO 2 concentration leads to the formation of an Arctic ozone hole comparable to that observed over Antarctica , with nearly 100% local depletion of lower-stratospheric ozone . |
| 2 | In October nineteen forty six Mao says to the cadres look , get land reform sorted out , do n't worry about the war , just get land reform sorted out ! |
| 3 | The working assumption behind the Fry graph is that the mean obtained from three samples approximates to the population mean ( i.e. the actual difficulty of the book ) . |
| 4 | The first time each card is used , the National Trust receives £5 and for every transaction thereafter 5 pence goes to the Trust . |
| 5 | In 1916 Pound recommends to the neophyte , Iris Barry , readings in Catullus , Propertius , Horace and Ovid , but warns her against trafficking with Virgil ( or Pindar ) . |
| 6 | For holders of HNC and HND awards , the agreement through which SCOTVEC joins SCOTCAT means that where planned linkage between an HNC , HND and degree has been designed , the HNC and HND will carry points towards that degree corresponding to year 1 and year 2 respectively of the degree course — this assigns to a maximum of 120 SCOTCAT points to the HNC and 240 to the HND . |
| 7 | The test for a Class 3 transaction relates to the form in which the consideration is to be satisfied . |
| 8 | Birmingham University in the UK West Midlands has started Phase Three of its computer network expansion : it has ordered 20 ECS Hubs , 300 adaptor boards and a Network Integration Centre from 3Com Corp , together worth £115,000 ; by the end of Phase Three , it will have around 2,500 connection points to the FDDI network installed for staff and post-graduate students . |
| 9 | A sequence and no dates is as useful as knowing that one site lies to the west of another without knowing how far . |
| 10 | The thinking is that , in a time of fierce economic and social change in Westernised economies , all companies — from home-based one man/woman bands to the ICIs and IBMs — are having to adapt to new organisational structures and ways of working . |
| 11 | One definition relates to the heaIth of the economy overall ; another group of definitions is concerned with the decline of manufacturing . |
| 12 | Loss of one sense leads to the development of others . |
| 13 | The protection afforded by the 1954 Act applies to the majority of business tenants , even where the tenant is a company rather than an individual . |
| 14 | Jihan is known to have rushed into the house and put through two telephone calls to the United States . |
| 15 | Mr Wilson soon had the situation under control , however , and managed to get the whole school lining up in one of the four corridor approaches to the sports hall . |
| 16 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 17 | There are 179 legally registered iron foundries nearby and , during the winter , smoke from the fires of Agra 's six million inhabitants adds to the acid content of the air . |
| 18 | Further facts at his fingertips : ‘ Our vehicles covered almost ten million miles last year , the equivalent to 20 return trips to the moon . |