Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [noun] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company retains major ambitions in China and says it wants to help the country create by the end of the century a network that would be over twice as big as the one operated by British Telecommunications Plc — China plans to raise the number of telephone lines to 100m nationwide by the year 2000 from just 25m now . |
| 2 | ‘ It [ the UK government ] could only provide substantial extra resources to industry either by cutting public spending elsewhere or by raising taxes or by increased borrowing … |
| 3 | The best illustrations of this are in societies where the authorities bring defaulters to heel directly by the power of their curse . |
| 4 | A coach driver steered 27 elderly passengers to safety yesterday by crashing his vehicle into an empty house after its brakes failed on a steep hill in Paignton , Devon . |
| 5 | The next farm in place and that was dairy cattle , I had five cows to milk then by hand , but only in the morning . |