Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lend money secretly to whoever needs it but charge interest much higher than the Lombards or Venetians . |
| 2 | So he 's on the life support right to the end |
| 3 | Follow right edge of sixth field on defined track to gate in far righthand corner ; turn left in seventh field downhill to farm in bottom corner . |
| 4 | Start with a puddle and progress slowly to a small pool and shallow stream . |
| 5 | It 's much easier to get good marks on a short answer question than it is in theory to but most people do n't because they do n't apply the correct technique so to writing short answers . |
| 6 | Bob Champion had been advised by Fred Winter , who had twice ridden the winner of the Grand National , to take a pull halfway to the first fence in order to prevent his mount from rushing at it . |
| 7 | In Britain , caste is not really relevant in the same way , it usually gives rise only to petty jealousy ( except where intermarriage is concerned ) . |
| 8 | In Raman spectra totally symmetric modes are uniquely identified in that they give rise only to Q-branches , whereas vibrations of any other symmetry give , ± 1 and ± 2 branches . |
| 9 | However , where there is a breach of any term which is not a condition , that breach could be either repudiatory ( i.e. equivalent in effect to a breach of condition ) or a mere breach of warranty ( i.e. giving rise only to a claim to damages ) . |
| 10 | Advances of capital and determinations of interest during the life of the beneficiary which have taken place before 26/3/74 can give rise only to a claim for duty or tax in connection with the beneficiary 's death ( a ) If the death takes place before 13/11/74 any claim for estate duty must be made under Section 2(1) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , and all the present estate duty rules apply . |
| 11 | Similarly , Wolfson attributes her unsuccessful interview with the restaurant owner to a mismatch of age , sex and status in addition perhaps to the particularly low social esteem accorded to a young woman . |
| 12 | As a result , banks want to lend money only to the most creditworthy . |
| 13 | To such people the world abroad too often resembled a sewer down which credulous Americans were persuaded to pour money only to be surprised when it disappeared without trace . |
| 14 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 15 | In June his mother enquired about progress only to be told ‘ Why , he is not even thinking of it … so far we know nothing either about the cast or about the libretto ’ . |
| 16 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 17 | His breathing seems a bit better to Paul . |
| 18 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 19 | Stop schooling sessions three months from foaling , resort only to gentle ambling . |
| 20 | But all Anselm 's actions , both under Rufus and Henry I , suggest that he thought that too much importance was being attached to the disputed ceremonies , and that the real problems of religious life were at the level of personal attitudes and motives known in the last resort only to God . |
| 21 | This debate caused a reaction in the direction opposite to Frank 's . |
| 22 | Once , as she was heading towards the gate ( thus walking in the direction opposite to that which Agnes was to take somewhat later , followed by the gaze of her unfortunate schoolfriend ) , the secretary turned , smiled and lifted her arm out in the air in an unexpected gesture , easy and flowing . |
| 23 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 24 | However , tachistoscopic half-field studies with normal subjects suggest that for sinistrals the presence of familial left handedness reduces perceptual asymmetry for non-verbal as for verbal tasks ( Gilbert , 1977 ; Albert and Obler , 1978 ) or shifts the asymmetry in the direction opposite to that for dextrals ( Schmuller and Goodman , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | Within each handedness group the difference between female inverters and non-inverters was in the direction opposite to that predicted by Levy and Reid but , for males , the difference was in the predicted direction . |
| 26 | In light of the above discussion this indicates that GGGCCC is curved in a direction opposite to the curvature of AAAAA . |
| 27 | Approaching from a direction opposite to the outbound leg , or at a large angle , will mean a procedure turn , or a parallel procedure . |
| 28 | As usual , I felt that , on taking leave , I ought to proceed in a direction opposite to that which he was taking , because there was a mystery as to where Eliot lived , and I did not want to appear inquisitive . |
| 29 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 30 | ‘ You think it impossible that my father would drive his wife and mistress together to London ? |