Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fifty-eight separate surnames recorded in Willingham in 1575 had risen to ninety by the 1720s , but only a hard core of twenty-two families remained . |
| 2 | Papert explains that Reagan 's election in 1980 put paid to any hopes of obtaining public money to establish such a centre in the United states . |
| 3 | The imposition of an additional levy on alien exporters in 1303 had led to English merchants playing a major part in handling wool shipments later in the century , but it was Edward III 's war taxation for his French campaigns , much of which was derived from levies on wool exports , which did most to promote the development of cloth manufacture in England , by creating a tariff barrier which raised the costs of the raw material to the foreign manufacturers . |
| 4 | As far as applied psychoanalysis is concerned , the neglect of Totem and Taboo and Freud 's phylogenetic theory in general have led to predictable consequences . |
| 5 | There was doubt that this was possible , given that economic growth in 1989 had fallen to 3 per cent , from 5.6 per cent in 1988 . |
| 6 | West Germany , whose machine tool exports to eastern Europe were estimated in 1989 to have amounted to 45 per cent of its total machine tool exports , had consistently pressed for restrictions to be lifted . |
| 7 | The changes were viewed as an attempt to the heal the bitter rift between the politically dominant Tutsi and the more numerous Hutu population , which in 1988 had led to 5,000 civilians being killed in ethnic violence [ see pp. 36328-29 ; 37056-57 ] . |
| 8 | The proportion of those on remand , that is , being held prior to trial or sentence , was 14.5 per cent in 1979 but in 1988 had grown to 23 per cent , with the average waiting time for trial at the Crown Court also increasing . |
| 9 | Its population in 1851 had risen to 7,261 . |
| 10 | A population of 5,000 in 1851 had increased to 43,000 by the end of the century , and lines from Chester , Manchester , Liverpool and Birmingham converged on this important junction . |