Example sentences of "to [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the security and long-term attractions of many of the investor/developers , as opposed to the property traders which hold on to little of what they develop , makes many of the downgradings a nonsense . |
| 2 | Sandy Lane , we 're now erm , we 're down to eleven of the eighteen units occupied at Sandy Lane . |
| 3 | It 's called Lynx because up to eight of the machines can be linked so you can play with friends . |
| 4 | This is a series of related pictures — six to eight of them — on a chart . |
| 5 | ‘ It lacks but ten minutes to eight of the clock , ’ it snarled . |
| 6 | Death sentences were handed down to eight of the accused . |
| 7 | Five vertical strikes of the print-head are needed to produce a character ; each strike uses up to eight of the nine available pins . |
| 8 | Gall bladder emptying was restored to eight of 10 patients managed with an acutely inflamed gall bladder and to 11 of 13 patients with non-function because of a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch ( Table II ) . |
| 9 | Deepening concern that Labour could form the next government at Westminster provides a potent message for the billboards which other parties , with links to neither of the two main protaganists , can not match : ‘ Vote Kennedy to keep Kinnock out . ’ |
| 10 | Prussia however had access to neither of these as a way of financing industrial change . |
| 11 | ‘ That you ca n't , because I 'm mother to neither of you . |
| 12 | Simply to say that postnominal attributives are reduced relatives gives an answer to neither of our questions ( p. 43 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ No artist I have ever known has ever felt to assured of the immortality of her work — or of the salvation of her soul , ’ |
| 14 | Not only will you burn off up to 300 calories walking briskly at 4 miles an hour for 45 minutes , but up to 180 of these calories will be fat calories . |
| 15 | End-labelled restriction fragment probes used for DNA binding analyses on the HSV-1 IE-3 promoter and the VZV gene 62 promoter regions were prepared as follows : - The UP6 probe , including the gene 62 mRNA start site at nucleotide -287 proposed by Felser ( 12 ) was isolated as a SalI-RsaI fragment , spanning nucleotides -409 to -188 of the gene 62 promoter , from the plasmid p140 ( 28 ) . |
| 16 | The shareholders are treated as having received a distribution of £100 on which tax of £20 has been paid and , assuming they will be liable for income tax at the higher rate , will have a further £20 of income tax to pay ( see s14 TA 1988 and sections 77 to 79 of the 1993 Finance Act ) . |
| 17 | Early today polling institutes forecast the opposition could win 440 to 476 of the 577 National Assembly seats after next Sunday 's run-offs . |
| 18 | Examination in this connection of the provisions of regulations 143 to 147 of the Regulations of 1989 , which reproduce identical provisions in the Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1980 ( S.I . |
| 19 | In the fastest class for the 250cc Formula E machines the champion of two years ago , Colin Menary , from Bangor drove to .05 of a second off the lap record , and in so doing took won a fantastic final . |
| 20 | When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses . |
| 21 | Efforts are now being made to reduce it to two-thirds of its level now by 1985 . |
| 22 | Wordsworth produced quantities of verse in the next forty-three years : I stress the exact number of years because it amounts to over half his lifetime , and certainly to two-thirds of his poetic existence . |
| 23 | The unique feature is that social workers were given authority to spend up to two-thirds of the cost of a place in residential care in order to support an old person in his or her own home , who would otherwise require such a place . |
| 24 | It should be noted that Optimus say the tank should only be filled to two-thirds of capacity — a little over a tenth of a litre . |
| 25 | These employ close to two-thirds of IBM 's 300,000 strong workforce : remember that Dell Computer Corp 's success has come from engineering the best , lowest-cost distribution strategy , not to a better product . |
| 26 | To most of Mongolia 's population , close to two-thirds of whom are under 24 , their economic plight , like the weather , has never been worse . |
| 27 | They provide up to two-thirds of the party 's money ( though Michael Pinto-Duschinsky , of Brunel University , calculates that in 1981 this was 90% ) . |
| 28 | Overall it would appear to have accounted for less than a tenth of the income of spiritualities ; in seven Norfolk parishes in 1658 the glebe varied from one-eighth to two-thirds of the living , though the average scarcely exceeded a quarter ; acreages ranged from one to fifty-two with a median of twenty-four in these and three other parishes . |
| 29 | A count made in 1971 showed that one-parent families on supplementary benefit amounted to two-thirds of all the unmarried mothers , more than half the separated mothers , one-third of the divorced and one-fifth of the widows in this country . |
| 30 | The average duration of use of heroin by clients of the three agencies is about one to three years , a habit length which accounts for about half to two-thirds of the users known to each agency . |