Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funding will contribute towards an increase in the sample fraction from its usual 10% to 50% giving a total ( target ) sample of about 35,000 . |
| 2 | He took to it like the proverbial fish to water . |
| 3 | But , despite the slump , profits in the six months to September still grew by a theoretical 5% to £10.26m ( true comparisons are impossible post-float ) . |
| 4 | for a couple of nights , when she was on , she asked me if I thought Ken would baby sit a couple of nights , if he could you know perhaps ask different people to baby sit you see , so I said well I did n't like the idea of that anyway |
| 5 | Last night , the 12 heads of state and government were discussing a text on the situation in Eastern Europe which gave unambiguous but qualified support to the right of the German people to self-determination — and by implication to some form of unity . |
| 6 | ‘ Run general courses for all departments from , for example , supervisory duties for clerical staff to management training-courses infrequent ’ … |
| 7 | Erm the ratio of clerical staff to management and the amount of time managers spend on central management activities . |
| 8 | Unacceptable practices which have an abusive component , such as tying old people to commodes , are much more likely to arise when there are insufficient numbers of staff to complete the ascribed tasks . |
| 9 | As the stock market finished a depressing account on an uncertain note , Rothmans improved 21p to 666p . |
| 10 | Community Linking is direct people to people contact which leads to equal , mutually beneficial relationships across cultures . |
| 11 | Somerville 's procedure subjects would-be MPs to argument , interview , drafting tests and debate , and has some similarities with the selection tests for the Foreign Office or civil service : where the Foreign Office once had a country house , the Conservative party has a motel . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly the most interesting works to surface in the two sales were a group of drawings by Louis Carrogis ( called Carmontelle ) , an artist who pursued a brilliant career at the Court of Orleans . |
| 13 | He 'd come to the conclusion that he was of a completely different species to Leila and her people . |
| 14 | If you do n't have fresh fruit to hand , just use an equal weight of canned or frozen fruit instead . |
| 15 | Such was their passion that they tore the hapless Pentheus to shreds in an orgiastic fury . |
| 16 | This would involve raising an extra £1.2bn to £1.6bn . |
| 17 | Eurotunnel , which is already in default of its credit agreement with the synidcate of 200 banks , is seeking an extra £1.2bn to £1.6bn on top of the £6bn raised so far . |
| 18 | Cavaye recommends that caterers buy an extra 10% to 15% more than the number of covers on main items like knives , forks and spoons , double the number for teaspoons and a little over half for fish knives . |
| 19 | In Devon in 1796 female farm servants earned an annual £3 to £3 5s ( £3.25 ) over their board . |
| 20 | For the rest of the year , Dataquest counts on recession to put a damper on growth , and it forecasts that shipment growth rates will slow to an average 13% to 14% for the full year , while total revenue increases very slightly . |
| 21 | Owners ' shares fell 12p to 126p , while Airtours ' lost 11p to 327p . |
| 22 | But everyone says he 's an absolute swine to nurses . ’ |
| 23 | RELOCATING INDIVIDUAL STAFF TO BRITAIN |
| 24 | Metal which has been purchased and committed to future sales to customers or hedged in metal markets is valued at the price at which it is contractually committed or hedged , adjusted for unexpired contango . |
| 25 | It may not be charged on similar sales to purchasers outside the EC . |
| 26 | Thanet wing attracts additional staff to Maidstone Prison , especially for the Psychology Department , of which more will be said later . |
| 27 | It is not a mere means to X + Y , since it is a part of it , but still the 90 degrees of value are not its value . |
| 28 | The American-owned burger chain will give a slice of its profits from the extra sales to cathedral funds . |
| 29 | More particularly the jury 's verdict in the Ponting trial may be seen then as the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong . |
| 30 | It is both ‘ the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong ’ and a preference for ‘ the theory of what the constitution ought to be to the practice of what it is ’ . |