Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] raise to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this background , the Wells Committee , the following year , recommended that , as from 1962 , the minimum academic entry requirement for the Institution 's examinations should be raised to five O levels at one sitting the previous standard of five O levels with at least three at one sitting having been established in 1951 . |
| 2 | Above all , the school-leaving age should be raised to sixteen , and this , if an early decision were taken by the Minister , could be achieved in the year 1969/70 . |
| 3 | ( b ) This value should be raised to 2000 if CDD/Plus is used . |
| 4 | In the event , it recommended that the age of transfer should be raised to twelve , with the first school ( 5–8 ) followed by middle schools ( 8–12 ) . |
| 5 | Progressive taxation must be outlawed for all time ; educational qualifications for jurors must be introduced ; the voting age must be raised to 21 and suffrage extended to dogs of three years or more , subject to simple intelligence tests . |
| 6 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 7 | The total time in work could be raised to four days for someone aged between fifteen and sixteen . |