Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plumage varies from pale to dark , but with many intermediates and no two birds exactly the same Pale form like Hobby but with upperparts more grey-brown and more rufous on heavily streaked underparts . |
| 2 | Many insects can detect ultraviolet light , while the vision of the common goldfish ranges from ultraviolet to far-red : achievements that we have only been able to equal in recent years with the development of sophisticated electronic equipment . |
| 3 | Rebecca West referred in 1913 to health visitors as an ‘ inadequate and slightly offensive substitute offered to the poor woman for the skilled service the rich can command ’ . |
| 4 | In 1912 , C. D. Paterson of Manly in Australia returned from Hawaii with a heavy redwood board which a few local bodysurfers tried in vain to ride . |
| 5 | It had a breathless untidiness , with an underlying stratum of solid good things : expensive carpets and curtains in dark plain colours , antique furniture ranging from valuable to junk , but having in common a charm or whimsicality that had made each piece claim her attention originally . |
| 6 | If this approach tends to proximate to idealism in seeing linguistic forms as closed , self-referential systems without any manifest acknowledgement that they are located in distinct socio-economic structures , this is not to deny its potential in interpreting political forms . |
| 7 | as we walked , sunshine seeped through the canopy of branches , bathing the forest in clear pools of light , and women raking in the distance would be suddenly spotlit , their pine-needles turning from tawny to amber . |
| 8 | Dr William Glasser 's own model for addiction and recovery in alcoholism ( outlined in the manuscript of a forthcoming book on alcoholism ) is that the sufferer tries in vain to gain unconditional acceptance from other people . |
| 9 | Mind is synonymous with information in two categories ; that governing instructions for operations and the raw information operated upon prior to decision-making . |
| 10 | There appears to be a tendency to go from oral-only to speech with speech-supportive means such as fingerspelling or cued speech ; from those there is a movement in the direction of these of sign to better disambiguate the spoken word ; next comes a signed version of the spoke , language either with speech or without it depending on the circumstances ; and finally . |
| 11 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |
| 12 | Pressure to limit unplanned high-density urban sprawl was the more acute because , in the fifteen years before 1908 , 500,000 acres of land passed from agricultural to building use , mostly on the fringes of existing urban areas . |
| 13 | On the western seaboard of Lewis and Harris from Great Bernera to South Harris , there are extensive areas of very rocky land comprising dissected lowlands and hills with rock morphology ranging from crenellated to pavement . |
| 14 | Follow-up MRP investigations in the Benglog area of North Wales , near Dolgellau , showed barium enrichment in Ordovician sediments associated with subaerial to submarine bimodal volcanism ( MRP 63 ) . |