Example sentences of "to [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was where the nuns from Santa Clara Convent in Funchal fled to during pirate raids in the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | Sadly , some of the things we most look forward to during summer are just those which are likely to cause allergic reactions . |
| 3 | This species has been recorded from both sides of the North Atlantic : in the east from the Bay of Biscay south to off North Africa in depths of 994–2282 m , and in the west off Bermuda 1996 m . |
| 4 | H. duplicata is a widespread species recorded from the West Indies , Bay of Biscay to off North Africa , and from the East Pacific off Colombia and Ecuador with a bathymetric range of 125–2870 m . |
| 5 | Iceland and in the east from the Rockall Trough south to off North Africa , with a bathymetric range of 957–4829 m . |
| 6 | Er but we could have run assessments at peak times compared to off peak times probably got slightly different effects at peak times . |
| 7 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 8 | This is often referred to as pekoe , meaning the downy part of the shrub that is of the best quality . |
| 9 | But just from that little table which you 'll get used to as work through them , you can work what would happen . |
| 10 | Red is obtained from the roots of the madder plant ( rubia tinctorum ) and also from the crushed bodies of female insects of the coccus cacti genus , which produce a colour usually referred to as cochineal or carmine red . |
| 11 | If this was what Mandy happily referred to as romance , she decided that being an intern at a busy inner-city hospital was marginally less stressful . |
| 12 | For this reason the suspension capability of a detergent is sometimes referred to as rinseability . |
| 13 | She was sometimes referred to as Trivia and offerings of black lambs , honey and new-born puppies were left for her at crossroads . |
| 14 | Indeed , this is often referred to as waffle stitch and is used a great deal in garment pattern production , either alone or in combination with other tuck patterns . |
| 15 | Stretches of language treated only formally are referred to as text . |
| 16 | These are all traditional set operators and they require that all relations included in one operation have the same degree , that is , they have the same number of columns ( referred to as union compatibility ) . |
| 17 | Er , I , well , they 're referred to as instruction in one place and then processing specification in another . |
| 18 | Such schemes are sometimes referred to as paradise or ceremonial designs ( pl. 31 ) . |
| 19 | Long-term insurance is also sometimes referred to as life insurance , although it includes activity which is not strictly life-related , and the firms that specialise in long-term insurance are often called ‘ life offices ’ . |
| 20 | Port Salut is a washed rind cheese of a fairly mild flavour , originally made by Trappist monks when it was referred to as Port du Salut . |
| 21 | Sometimes they are referred to as Management Science , sometimes as O.R . |
| 22 | In this model , people who bring their ideas to the OI ( ideators and inventors ) are referred to as idea originators ; technology gatekeepers serve as consultants ; and champions and sponsors are designated in the traditional way . |
| 23 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 24 | A key concept is functional dependency , which is often referred to as determinacy . |
| 25 | Wendler has also assessed which application areas , or what Gartner refers to as middleware — everything between the hardware and what the user actually sees — are most appropriate for the near-term deployment of opens systems . |
| 26 | What I think you 'll be more interested in is its time-saving and intuitive approach to what will in the future be referred to as presentation spreadsheeting . |
| 27 | At this stage the healing area is reddish in appearance and is referred to as granulation tissue . |
| 28 | A low-level approach based upon the pixel information used to display a digital image , sometimes referred to as bit mapped , raster based , or image file . |
| 29 | In the process we should critically re-evaluate how we understand the relationship between research , policy and practice in childcare and research , policy and practice in what we refer to as child abuse and child protection work . |
| 30 | Some statements are so wild that no-one is expected to take them seriously ; these are sometimes referred to as salesman 's " puff " . |