Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CCG HAS soared to new heights by securing the catering contract for the tallest building in the City of London , the National Westminster Tower . |
| 2 | Since the US Navy pulled out a year ago , Dunoon and Cowal has suffered a £10 million drop in its economy and unemployment has soared to 18 per cent . |
| 3 | In her book on Jewish feminist theology , Standing Again at Sinai , Judith Plaskow has pointed to this paralleling of the impurity of gentiles and the impurity of ( Jewish ) women in biblical and rabbinic thought . |
| 4 | Since John wrote , Wrigley and Schofield 's calculation of the consumption — production ratio has pointed to this period before the industrial revolution as having been " very fortunate " in that the age structure meant a smaller dependency burden of non-working children than was to become the case in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 5 | Difficult though it is to evaluate , the evidence of the receptivity to the portrayal of Hitler 's image which we have examined has pointed to seven significant bases of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ . |
| 6 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 7 | Excluding the volatile food , drink and tobacco sectors , which are influenced by Budget changes , the rate of inflation has fallen to 3.8 per cent . |
| 8 | The average for all exhibits is down to twelve days , and the blood alcohol has fallen to 1.2 days . |
| 9 | It will question NAB 's assertion that the value of the brewery operations has fallen to such a level that asset-backed loans are in jeopardy . |
| 10 | In 1990 the level of manufactured exports destined for the Soviet Union has fallen to such an extent that it no longer features in Scotland 's Top 40 markets . |
| 11 | Britain 's aid budget has fallen to 0.32 per cent of gross national product , less than half UN 's target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 12 | Last year , there were 215 such properties ( 1.35 pc of total stock ) , but this year that has fallen to 119 ( 0.75 pc of total stock ) . |
| 13 | ICI , in sixth place last time , has fallen to 12th : still heavily dependent on commodity chemicals , ICI 's restructuring has not made it as immune to the industry 's boom-bust cycles as it had hoped . |
| 14 | On Merseyside , thefts from cars are down to 16,251 and the number of cars stolen has fallen to 12,992 an overall drop of 9% . |
| 15 | By the beginning of spring , the column amount of HNO 3 has fallen to 1.6 x10 16 moleculecm -2 , about half the value at the end of autumn . |
| 16 | Since then the rate offered has fallen to 7.6 per cent gross . |
| 17 | It has fallen to salaried professionals in universities , public record offices , the Business Archives Council , corporate bodies themselves — and the ‘ vanity press ’ — to salvage and conserve the tons of old papers explaining the historical context of what tumbled off the production line . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman has clearly not observed that in the last year inflation has fallen to 4 per cent . |
| 19 | During the year 1976 , 452 monuments were scheduled : since then the annual number scheduled has fallen to 46 in 1984 and 74 in 1985 . |
| 20 | However , by the end of day 3 , the futures price has fallen to 1050 and the buyer has to pay 150 over to the seller . |
| 21 | Industry estimates show Remington 's market share has fallen to 28 per cent from a peak of 40 per cent in 1986 . |
| 22 | Inflation has fallen to three point nine per cent . |
| 23 | With new mid-range models , NWS5000TF and the NEWS5000TG in its News workstation line , based on the R4000 RISC chip , Sony Corp is mounting a new offensive in the Japanese workstation market , where it has fallen to fourth place from third , deposed by NEC Corp as the number three player behind Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 24 | On an index scale based at 100 in 1975 , the average sale price for a freehouse and inn had risen by 1989 to 622 , but since then the index average has fallen to 521 ( 1991 ) . |
| 25 | The National Health Service and Community Care Act ( 1990 ) has assigned to local authority social services departments the lead responsibility for the co-ordination and production of community care assessments of individual older people and the process of development of criteria , mechanisms , and models of assessment is underway in most social service departments . |
| 26 | It is disheartening to come to terms with the fact that your metabolism has adjusted to such a small calorie intake , and as a result your weight is unlikely to change . |
| 27 | Paula Rego 's sequence of prints , inspired by nursery rhymes , actually seizes on language itself as a female domain , originating with the mother , in the nursery , and extended through play and gossip , as depicted in her etching ‘ Secrets and Whispers ’ , and the one she has given to New Hall , ‘ Encampment ’ , which appropriately has been hung in the Senior Common Room , a place to gather and talk , tell stories , exchange ideas . |
| 28 | Zuckerman has enabled Roth to deal with the question of the offence he has given to righteous Jews , and to come to terms with the rebellious , psychedelic , philo-Semitic Sixties , when Roth 's writing went , with the times , derisive and fantastic . |
| 29 | I believe that they certainly exist because history has given to each contemporary people a cast of mind , a set of habits and attitudes in their conduct of their own affairs , in the state of their minds , in their attitudes towards others , which make them individual and peculiar . |
| 30 | Our President has referred to many of the problems we currently face and will continue to come up against in the future . |