Example sentences of "have [adv] [subord] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |
| 2 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 3 | In the past year the number of catalogued CD-ROM titles has more than doubled to more than 2,000 and looks likely to continue to grow just as fast . |
| 4 | And in the same period the government 's tax revenue has more than doubled to S$12.1bn . |
| 5 | Since then , the population has more than doubled to 300,000 ( see BBC WILDLIFE , February 1989 ) , but the RDC has never used its compulsory control powers . |
| 6 | Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 . |
| 7 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 8 | The figure for 1992 has more than doubled to 1,100 . |
| 9 | Even Father had all but stood to attention at the very mention of the pucca angrez saab . |
| 10 | Now that preparations had been completed for Artai 's enthronement there was very little to do , and the normal business of the court — administration , legislation , taxation — had all but come to a halt . |
| 11 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 12 | When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons . |
| 13 | By 1987 the number accepted as homeless had more than doubled to 118,000 . |
| 14 | His own analysis of government figures suggested that the number of prescriptions for the treatment of asthma had more than doubled to 27 million a year over the last decade . |
| 15 | During 1930 the total of unemployed had more than doubled to 2,600,000 . |
| 16 | Net operating profits before abnormal items have more than doubled to A$216.1m ( £98m ) and gains have been notched up by virtually all businesses from TV to newspapers and magazines . |