Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Initially , the checks are performed at the model domain level , filtering down to a local geometric or primitive level wherever necessary . |
2 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
3 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
4 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
5 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |
6 | The front flap of the drawer drops down to a fixed horizontal position to complete an outside yard , stencilled to represent red brick . |
7 | But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name . |
8 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
9 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
10 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
11 | Crakehall village hall , in Coronation Road , is an impressive building with , upstairs , an Arthur Daley room dedicated not to a nice little earner but to a much missed late resident . |
12 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
13 | There was his dear head , bent close to a tousled blonde mop over a pile of papers . |
14 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
15 | The review model came with a colour SuperVGA display , a low-radiation CTX monitor , plus a 1Mb Trident VGA card which all adds up to a fine non-dedicated server . |
16 | Their business , a factory making patio doors for the trade , was initially based in Newton Abbot because of economical site and labour costs ; now Peter Aldam looks forward to a mere 30-minute commute there along the soon-to-be finished A30 extension . |
17 | A rectangular coil is located parallel to a long straight current-carrying wire as shown in Fig. 4.19 . |
18 | However , as suggested at the beginning of this chapter , the target group for the intervention should be particularly vulnerable in some way , that is , be predisposed biologically to a major psychiatric disorder , or be low in self-esteem , poor in coping skills , or low in support . |
19 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
20 | The movies had broken through to a vast new public and everything was on a different scale . |
21 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
22 | The United Kingdom has now taken the first step towards European Monetary Union which is intended to lead eventually to a single European currency . |
23 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
24 | The nature of time in the British Civil Service as changed , cut up into small blocks covered by forward-looking three year corporate plans , rather than looking backwards to a living corporate tradition . |
25 | ‘ Barns to the right , grooms ’ quarters to the left , Alejandro 's straight ahead , ’ said Luke as he drove up to a large ugly mulberry-red house with flowerbeds full of clashing red tulips , primulas and wallflowers , and a water tower completely submerged in variegated ivy . |
26 | The question , though , remains : given these differences , is there any sense in which we can still refer today to a single academic community ? |
27 | If there are no personal letters , my identity submits meekly to a brief dual eclipse , the first at eight-thirty and the second at noon . |
28 | The black velvet dress she was wearing — the weather had changed at last — set off her pale skin and blonde hair , and she was looking forward to a new academic year . |
29 | Now she is looking forward to a valuable contrasting experience in Denmark . |
30 | It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens . |