Example sentences of "[verb] to [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These procedures will need to tailored to each specific sale but a common theme will be a guideline for the submission date for indicative offers rather than a deadline . |
| 2 | Pulse rates , which stood at 70 to 80 before that moment in the bar , and rose to 90 to 100 during the earlier phases of arousal , now stand at around 130 . |
| 3 | ‘ Obviously , what has to demonstrated to the court is that the delay complained of has produced genuine prejudice and unfairness . |
| 4 | The thermonuclear warhead has a yield of 150 to 200 kilotons , equating to 150000 to 200000 tonnes of TNT , compared with 20 kilotons for the Hiroshima bomb . |
| 5 | The Elwood Glover referred to graduated to CBC national network status from the announcers ' staff of CHAB , Moose Jaw . |
| 6 | We hear a wide range of noises all day and every day but we only listen to those to which we wish to pay attention . |
| 7 | You would think that Ipswich came to United to be happy going home losing only 2–0 . |
| 8 | Instead of accepting what may appear to many to be a cynical bribe , Radnorshire must deliver a clear message that it will not sell its beautiful countryside or the quality of life of its residents for cash . |
| 9 | By noon , the swell at the Bay had built to eighteen to twenty feet . |
| 10 | The newer constructions , however , are being built to six to eight stories high of ferro-concrete ; may of them having central air-conditioning and western-style toilets and private bathrooms . |
| 11 | Yeah , have a word with her and perhaps she 'll like to listen to that to the er words sort of that , and then make her own comments , it 's nice to get the opinions you know , the , the many of the family as you can |
| 12 | It is a good idea to list the positive and negative consequences of dieting on an index card , which you can then carry around and refer to prior to eating , or exercising . |
| 13 | His initial appointment was for just two Tests , a demonstration of lack of faith that can not have helped his confidence and seemed to many to be ludicrous . |
| 14 | At that time a woman-centred politics , culture , and sexuality seemed to many to be a useful tactic , or even the only worthwhile long-term goal . |
| 15 | In the later part of the decade , its theories and campaigns seemed to many to be the only active and innovative part of the western feminist movement , and affirming or rejecting it occupied an enormous proportion of feminist writing and talk . |
| 16 | Uncertainty and the reinterpretation of crucial pieces of work were not yet necessary in physics in the 1870s and 1880s , as they seemed to many to be in the human sciences and in the sphere of religion under the pressure of evolutionary theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 17 | The young men she rustled up as marriage candidates seemed to Algy to be all one person with different haircuts , well-born dullards on their way into industry who exclaimed ‘ I say , how jolly enterprising ! ’ when they heard that Algy was a scene painter , and who surprised her by still dancing foxtrots and rumbas that she thought extinct . |
| 18 | Although it was probably inevitable that whatever the political flavour of the government of the day some form of national pattern of cash limits would have had to applied to expenditure on public sector higher education , 4 the practical effects of this political decision turned out to be both complex and capricious , and had two important consequences . |
| 19 | If this approach tends to proximate to idealism in seeing linguistic forms as closed , self-referential systems without any manifest acknowledgement that they are located in distinct socio-economic structures , this is not to deny its potential in interpreting political forms . |
| 20 | Yeah because I do n't think anything will will work unless it 's what the people who are living in the circumstances and living in the situation erm , if it 's not going to relevant to their lives then , you 're wasting the money . |
| 21 | ‘ Our 175hp Ford 6700 goes into the row of grass at 2,600 to 2,800revs , but once you drop it on to the row , the revs soon drop to 2,000 to 2,000rpm . |
| 22 | Aruba plans to break away from the rest of the Netherlands ' West Indies , because it does not like to yoked to Curacao . |
| 23 | It grows to 150 to 200 cm |
| 24 | Grows to 2 to 3 m |
| 25 | Now what are you 're going now what are you 're going to do On your er way home er you can pop to the college give to the er caretaker give to this to tonight . |
| 26 | Well I think that I , I think most of us when you get to this to , well not to my age , to your ages , we 've experienced that I think . |
| 27 | The costs of Mossadeq 's policies had come to seem to high to too many people and there was already widespread dissatisfaction with his rule , The CIA and M16 provided a spark , but the dry tinder was Iranian . |
| 28 | Although efficiencies are tiny compared to solid state solar energy systems ( unc per cent compared to 12 to 18 per cent ) it is the best yet for biomimetic devices . |
| 29 | In 1971 , for example , there were about 224,000 births to fathers in non-manual groups , compared to 469,000 to ‘ manual ’ fathers — a ratio of 1 : 2. 1 . |
| 30 | I shall take great pleasure in saying to those to whom the hon. Gentleman wishes me to speak — here comes the opportunity that I mentioned earlier — that , as the chairman of Ford in Britain observed yesterday , Labour 's economic policies would prove suicidal for our economy . |