Example sentences of "[verb] to [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are guide-lines on standards of care but these are not always adhered to even when charges are high . |
| 2 | Only 10 isolates showed localised adhesion and seven of these adhered to less than 40% of HEp-2 cells ; there was no obvious relationship between the presence of localised isolates and patient group or disease activity . |
| 3 | Diplomatic activity and international agreements became in a sense tactical , adhered to only when upholding the pursuit of the all-important ‘ self-sufficiency ’ . |
| 4 | There may also be other costs if , for example , the qualification message adds to rather than reduces uncertainty or if the market misinterprets the message . |
| 5 | PRESCRIPTION charges are set to soar to more than £4 as Chancellor Norman Lamont fails to heal Britain 's sick economy . |
| 6 | Yeah anyhow I think she 's hoping to come to tomorrow cos erm , idea in the air that on Maundy Thursday instead of having an ordinary mums and toddlers we 'll have a in church for half an hour and then a run around cups of coffee with the big toys in the hall , a good idea |
| 7 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 8 | The death toll from an army offensive launched on Saturday rose to more than 60 as the federal forces pounded targets from the Adriatic port of Dubrovnik to the besieged Danube river town of Vukovar . |
| 9 | Protector Somerset held the number of privy councillors around twenty , but under the Duke of Northumberland it rose to more than thirty . |
| 10 | Consequently , the number of directly employed staff rose to more than 7600 by 1980 but is now down to about 7000 as the airline industry , in common with many other industries , feels the effect of the recession . |
| 11 | Custom and excise revenue already formed 57 per cent of total tax income by 1750 and rose to more than 70 per cent before Addington 's direct tax gathering of 1803 – 15 reduced it to 60 per cent . |
| 12 | During the previous twenty-five years Chesterfield 's burial totals never rose to more than seventy per annum and were usually at a much lower level , but in 1587 the number of recorded deaths reached a staggering 313 . |
| 13 | These were scored when UOS pressure dropped to less than 50% of the prevailing UOS pressure within one second without the occurrence of swallowing or straining . |
| 14 | The haemoglobin and packed cell volume were checked at least once daily , and a blood transfusion was given if the haemoglobin dropped to less than 9 g/dl or if the vital signs deteriorated . |
| 15 | And in only seven or eight generations , it 's dropped to less than one percent . |
| 16 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 17 | I 'm not going to stop dressing the way I want to just because they do n't like it , but it 's discouraging . |
| 18 | For a relatively prosperous family , spending on cooking probably drops to less than 5 per cent of the annual income . |
| 19 | A further 57 people were detained bringing the number interviewed to more than 1,000 since Operation Bumblebee began in January . |
| 20 | The additional organising effort , however , brought in extra resources of no more than £pound394 , and could hardly have amounted to more than 450 paying members , suggesting a total membership of less than 5,200 . |
| 21 | Our small scale numbers confirm the earlier studies quoted , that is , that older children especially , seem able to distinguish between different types of relationships and to have the capacity to relate to more than one set of parent figures simultaneously . |
| 22 | The migrants may be the types of applicants who are more willing to ‘ shop around ’ for courses , applying to more than one . |
| 23 | And in that time the number of share-owners has more than tripled to more than nine million . |
| 24 | Administrative costs in the NHS were traditionally low , representing less than 10 per cent in the UK compared to more than 20 per cent in the USA . |
| 25 | In answer to ‘ obscure and spurious questions such as whether universals may exist by themselves , whether they are only in the mind , whether they exist separate from things or only with them ’ , he says that these ‘ great universals are nothing more than … common nouns … that can be applied to more than one object ’ . |
| 26 | So far Sandra , 27 , who has nine O-levels , has applied to more than 500 firms in Barnsley . |
| 27 | They also met customer services supervisor and her two assistants — and — who they will speak to often when placing orders over the telephone . |
| 28 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 29 | Intense , novel and variable stimuli are attended to rather than others , whilst regularly repeated stimuli seem to become ignored . |
| 30 | The report showed that although China 's population would grow to more than 1,500 million by 2025 , the success of family planning programmes had slowed birth rates . |