Example sentences of "to [noun] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 35 companies offer PMI from £85 to £1,800 a year for a couple , depending on age , health and extent of cover . |
| 2 | Expect to pay about £50 to £60 a case for English wines , which will never be cheap because crop levels are seldom high and most vineyards are small . |
| 3 | A scheme the weekly earnings disregard from £15 for a man and dependent wife to £60 a week for six months , to encourage the over-50s to take on part-time work . |
| 4 | The forgeries are understood to be changing hands at up to £60 a time across the province in pubs and clubs . |
| 5 | You hav to hav a bit of patience but once the train moves out the little victims are YOURS You put them in the lugage rack with molesworth 2 . |
| 6 | On Feb. 6 the Cabinet approved and sent on to parliament a package of measures to tighten German export controls . |
| 7 | There was a more dramatic drop in refining margins over the past two years — from $5 to $2.88 a barrel in Europe and $2.71 to $1.75 in the US — reflecting competitive conditions in product marketing during the recession . |
| 8 | During the trial , Lord Maclean heard a taped confession where MacIver admitted that he suggested which lorry to hijack and drove to Inverness a week before the robbery to check the vehicle 's routine . |
| 9 | The results make startling reading — you can save up to £1,000 a year on a £100,000 loan , simply by choosing the right lender . |
| 10 | Borrowers of £100,000 can pay up to £1,000 a year over the odds if they chose the wrong lender five years ago . |
| 11 | The charges , ranging from £78 to £290 a year per wheeled bin , will earn the council £280,000 next year . |
| 12 | For the year ending Mar 31 , 1991 , we have made mainly useful progress with the herd average moving up 770kg to 7320kg a cow of standard milk ( ie corrected to 3.8% butterfat and 3.2% protein ) or 7400kg at 3.89BF and 3.03 protein uncorrected . |
| 13 | Converse seems to have taken to heart a wave of stories about the burgeoning 14 to 24-year-old market , dubbed ‘ Generation X ’ by Douglas Coupland , a novelist . |
| 14 | We will increase child benefit to £9.95 a week for all children with the full value going to every family . |
| 15 | Tata Elxsi ( India ) Ltd , part of the country 's largest conglomerate , will be reselling Netlabs network management pro ducts on several platforms on the subcontinent : Tata estimates the Indian networking market at $100m this year , predicting it will grow at 30% to 50% a year through ‘ 97 . |
| 16 | A 20-a-day man or woman has spent from £360 to £713 a year on fags over the past 10 years . |
| 17 | After some confusion over the numbering scheme , US sources say HP is preparing to debut a low-end with a box that will best the introductory price of Sun Microsystems Inc 's new Sunergy Classic by $10 . |
| 18 | The crisis began in October 1985 after the ITC 's buffer stock ran out of funds , leaving gross debts of £900 million and tin prices tumbling from £9,000 a tonne to £3,500 a tonne by the middle of 1986 [ see pp. 34518-20 ] . |
| 19 | At the finish the Hungarians outsprinted the Belgians while Ballard/Slater did the same to Williams/Martin a couple of minutes later . |
| 20 | Milk yields of up to 35kg a day in June were common , with an average of 25kg a day over the summer months , but the milk was not very creamy . |
| 21 | No such act of measurement could change what those spins already were ; it could only bring to light a state of affairs which had existed from the moment of separation . |
| 22 | Single crystal X-ray analysis of DNA oligomers has brought to light a wealth of structural detail within the double helix . |
| 23 | The spinning wheel display brought to light a number of names of spinning wheel makers , and a list was published in the former Scotland 's Magazine in 1963 ( Vol 59 No 7 ) . |
| 24 | A search of the Pennington Papers brought to light a declaration of sale of equipment & buildings at the mines above Tilberthwaite ( on Muncaster territory ) which had formerly belonged to Patrickson & Co . |
| 25 | As a result the farm worker is as likely to resent the high wages paid to workers in other industries for what often appears to him to be little skill and less hard work as to harbour a sense of grievance against either farmers in general or his own boss in particular . |
| 26 | Chiefly by digging the underlying marl and spreading it over the sandy top-soil he converted it into rich cornlands and raised the value of his Holkham estate from £5,000 to £20,000 a year within fifteen years . |
| 27 | Alan Milburn , candidate for Darlington , said youth training wages would fall from £31 to £28 for non-endorsed training and from £65 to £51 a week for other trainees . |
| 28 | WHEN Stuart Surridge led Surrey to the County Championship in 1952 , his first season of captaincy , Wisden , in choosing him alongside Tom Graveney , Fred Trueman , David Sheppard and Harold Gimblett as a Cricketer of the year , captured his salient qualities in a sentence : ‘ Though not always free from criticism as regards tactics and the manner in which he handled the bowling , he brought to Surrey a spirit of consistent enterprise and aggression such as they had not known since the days of P. G. H. Fender 's captaincy 20-odd years previously . ’ |
| 29 | HOW many readers are aware of the fact that they can save up to £20 a month for five years which , if left untouched , will attract an interest bonus equivalent to 14 months ' savings ? |
| 30 | While equilibration can be achieved by positive action , withdrawal is used to effect a balance at a more profound level . |