Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] to [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economy was predicted to expand by 8 per cent in 1992 , its ninth year of consecutive growth , while inflation was expected to fall to around 13 per cent , from 18.7 per cent at the end of 1991 . |
| 2 | In the case of developing countries , different dates of origin may in themselves be expected to lead to quite different features in their industrial relations despite the attainment of a similar stage of economic development . |
| 3 | By the year 2010 this figure is forecast to grow to around 87 per cent . |
| 4 | The former Digital Equipment Corp plant in Springfield , Massachusetts is host to a new company formed and staffed by former DEC staffers , SpringBoard Technology Corp , which will specialise in the refurbishing and low-volume manufacturing of tape drives , disk drives and modules : SpringBoard is scheduled to open on May 24 and is expected to grow to over 100 staff . |
| 5 | Revenues from oil and gas production were expected to amount to around 20,000 million kroner in 1990 , equivalent to nearly 7 per cent of the national budget . |
| 6 | Although inflation in October is expected to decline to around 7.2 per cent , because a 1.25 per cent increase in mortgage rates in October last year will drop out of the annual comparison , the recently announced increases in mortgage rates will send inflation back up again in November . |
| 7 | But in October , the rate is expected to slow to around 63 4 per cent because a mortgage rate rise in October 1988 drops out of the annual comparison . |
| 8 | Unemployment climbed by 30 per cent in January 1991 and was expected to double to nearly 300,000 by the end of 1991 . |
| 9 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 10 | Gearing is expected to rise to about 60 per cent before any disposals are taken into account . |
| 11 | Here was the genesis of the myth , destined to lead to so many follies and disasters , that Britain was rich , as well as powerful , because of her Empire . |
| 12 | Many of the dichotomies traditionally employed in this area — for example between constraints operating through reasons and constraints due to other factors — are formulated with individual subjects in mind , and so do not apply , while others , which were originally intended to apply to only some properties of individuals and collectives , must bear extra weight . |
| 13 | For example , to enable inhouse teams to win catering and cleaning contracts in local authorities and the health service , labour has had to submit to more rigid disciplines and hierarchical control , not less . |
| 14 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 15 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |
| 16 | Congress , we are bound to come to only one conclusion that equalizing pensions to sixty will be of benefit to all people , and the Tories are definitely not supporting that approach . |
| 17 | Interest rates were set to fall to around 21 per cent following the Central Bank of Nigeria 's announcement of a new base rate of 14 per cent . |
| 18 | The same strictures can also be adapted to apply to less inflationary accounts of consent . |
| 19 | In fact , other writers within the corporatist tradition seek to go beyond this emphasis upon the structure of interests in order to suggest that this new pattern of interest-group politics has itself served to contribute to more extensive state intervention in economy and society . |
| 20 | But Gary Marsh , head of research with the Halifax , the UK 's biggest building society , says it is inevitable that the modest improvement seen in the market over the last couple of months — especially in the South , where sellers have started to adjust to more realistic levels — will be damaged and the date of its recovery put back . |
| 21 | Airtours — perhaps best known for cheap Mediterranean holidays — has begun to fly to more upmarket destinations such as Florida , Kenya and the Caribbean . |
| 22 | The owners of Shetland 's 500,000 sheep are being urged to switch to more expensive , more environmentally-friendly products . |
| 23 | ( Apart from the last 2 bleak and miserable years , where I 've only managed to get to about 10 games because of my new secret life as a student . ) |