Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 2 | November 2 , 1978 The solicitors successfully appealed to the House of Lords and the third party notice was restored . |
| 3 | This notice does not constitute an admission either that the Act applies to this hotel or that liability thereunder attaches to the proprietor of this hotel in any particular case . |
| 4 | But other oil producing countries have claimed such taxes only contribute to the state revenues of rich , oil-consuming countries while reducing the earnings of developing countries dependent on oil exports . |
| 5 | Two religious groups swiftly manoeuvred to the front of the pack : the Roman Catholic church , led by Cardinal John O'Connor , and the Christian Coalition , a group of fundamentalists loyal to Pat Robertson . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) The purpose of the subsection is to make it clear that the extension of the permitted hours only applies to the part of the premises set apart for the consumption of main meals by a person having a table meal there . |
| 7 | I was reassured that the nonsense would stop , and that people would use the bikes merely to get to the base of mountains , where the walk in was prohibitive of completing the hill in a day without some means of transport . |
| 8 | The implications of ‘ story ’ have hardened to the extent that Federman constantly refers to the narrative as a ‘ recitation ’ , as if he were writing over earlier texts such as Beat novels . |
| 9 | Quilted or ostentatiously functional — the Swiss army penknife of the trouser kingdom — with a thousand pockets , clips , keyrings and a thing for getting stuff out of horses hooves all attached to the waistband . |
| 10 | The winner seems to be determined by how strongly the extension adheres to the wall , and the cell eventually moves to the site where the attachments are strongest . |
| 11 | Not only were the values of other currencies effectively pegged to the dollar ( formally speaking , to gold ) but dollars had to make up the greater part of the other countries ' official holdings of reserves . |
| 12 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 13 | The strain on the pound only adds to the pressure on interest levels . |
| 14 | This form of characterisation greatly contributes to the enjoyment of this novel . |
| 15 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 16 | That perception only added to the urgency with which he threw himself into new international initiatives . |
| 17 | Conversations between agricultural workers on the edge of subsistence constantly refer to the city : a city that exists nowhere but which continually transmits promises ' . |
| 18 | Rex suddenly sobered to the rifle butt which struck him between the shoulder blades . |
| 19 | Neil get out of his aircraft obviously to go to the telephone . |
| 20 | As Bloch has commented , ‘ To us accustomed to live with our eyes constantly turning to the clock , how remote from our civilization seems this society in which a court of law could not ascertain the time of day without discussion and inquiry ! ’ |
| 21 | The eyes all swung to the speaker . |
| 22 | One sector is designated ‘ prime user ’ of a section of track , for example , and the other sectors only contribute to the extent that they cause additional ‘ avoidable ’ costs . |
| 23 | … but in my opinion there can not be a general rule of universal application that the rules of the courts of equity as to confidential relationships necessarily apply to the relation of husband and wife . |
| 24 | In the presidential elections no candidate gained an overall majority ; the choice between the two leading candidates thus passed to the parliament at its first session on Oct. 5 . |
| 25 | But today the eyes were vibrant with an anticipatory light and Lady Merchiston sat up against her pillows , her glance alternately flicking to the window and following her companion as she moved about the room , tidying up . |
| 26 | Soon the summer revels of BB at the then uncrowded , unchic little port of St Tropez , with a succession of young actors and guitar players ( Trintignant soon withdrew to the peace of Army service ) , were spied on and peeped at by the photographers and published in countless magazines and newspapers . |
| 27 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 28 | The Hoskyns Group have developed a range of computers specially tailored to the hotel industry . |
| 29 | Hari quickly moved to the foot of the stairs , her head bent to hide the blush that warmed her cheeks . |
| 30 | A decorative horizontal panel of fabric usually attached to the top of the window frame , or just above , to hide rods and provide added interest . |