Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 When compared with the standard reference values accordinly to the patients ' age group , the individual serum total cholesterol values for men and women were seen to have a propensity to fall within or below the lower end of the normal range .
2 Subcutaneous injections can be in the scruff of the neck close to the handler 's thumb while holding the mouse firmly on a surface that it can grasp .
3 Our thanks also to the College 's Drama Group .
4 The order is in the opinion of the Secretary of State such as to give effect either to the Director 's proposals or to his proposal as modified by the Advisory Committee ; and
5 These would include such features as : allowing the child to initiate a high proportion of interactions : providing conversational bridges — " turnabouts " as Kaye and Charney ( 1980 ) call them — which both respond to the child 's previous utterance and invite him or her to say more ; making reference predominantly to the child 's or to joint activities ; and responding to the child 's utterances with extensions , which both confirm the acceptability of his or her contribution and help them to pursue the topic further .
6 I would suggest that , leaving aside permanence achieved by return home to the child 's natural parents , relatives or close friends , and permanence in some cases achieved by residential care ( and I think we should look very carefully at the work of the Children 's Family Trust and at the Ockenden Venture , where results are extremely promising ) , there are sixteen different routes to achieving permanent family placement with substitute families .
7 Then the infant school the first class of the infants we had in a hut on Netteswell Road and then we went , they came from that hut there to the servant 's quarters of Mark Hall .
8 NVQs represent the most fundamental change ever to the industry 's education and training system .
9 The Queen 's Way , which ran at right angles to the King 's Way , was to have a massive terminal station at its head , dominating Connaught Circus and second in importance only to the Viceroy 's palace on the Raisina Acropolis at the head of King 's Way .
10 According to the leading proponent of this view , John Herz , the nation state was being undermined by four factors : its susceptibility to economic warfare ; the rise of international communications and the consequent permeability of national frontiers ; the development of air warfare , which could take war directly to a nation 's population ; and nuclear weapons , which threatened the very survival of states and their populations .
11 In 1954 Eyre became senior English master at Bromsgrove before moving two years later to the schools ' drama department at the BBC .
12 ‘ Only two weeks now to the mistress 's confinement , ’ Mrs Peterson reminded her .
13 Tomorrow Gooch is due to bequeath the bat with which he made 333 against India in the Test here two years ago to the Lord 's museum .
14 It was the rear gable , but in any case the Greeks seem to have been less concerned than we should expect to relate the decoration closely to the temple 's deity .
15 ‘ I suppose so , ’ clearly weighing up the chances of Auguste 's swimming underwater to the women 's bathing machine section and drowning his beloved daughter .
16 The tramway carried sacks of grain directly to the mill 's main entrance .
17 For example , in the rattlesnake the upper end of the tooth near the jaw has a large inlet for venom ( the basal orifice ) , and a smaller outlet close to the tooth 's tip ( the distal orifice ) .
18 The forests tumble down the mist-shrouded valleys right to the water 's edge .
19 The demonstrative pronouns are perhaps more clearly organized in a straightforward proximal-distal dimension , whereby this can mean " the object in a pragmatically given area close to the speaker 's location at CT " , and that " the object beyond the pragmatically given area close to the speaker 's location at CT " ( Lyons ( 1977a : 647 ) suggests the derivative glosses " the one here " , " the one there " , respectively ) .
20 The demonstrative pronouns are perhaps more clearly organized in a straightforward proximal-distal dimension , whereby this can mean " the object in a pragmatically given area close to the speaker 's location at CT " , and that " the object beyond the pragmatically given area close to the speaker 's location at CT " ( Lyons ( 1977a : 647 ) suggests the derivative glosses " the one here " , " the one there " , respectively ) .
21 For a while there was a friendly silence between them , then Mr Bumble moved his chair closer to the widow 's .
22 A local authority has the same powers and duties under an interim care order as it does under a final order subject only to the court 's power to limit the duration of the order and make directions for examination and assessment .
23 The appropriate forum for the correction of the Court of Appeal 's errors is the House of Lords , where the decision will at least have the merit of being final and binding , subject only to the House 's power to review its own decisions .
24 The 14 March 1988 order recorded that accounts had already been supplied to the plaintiffs and that those accounts had discharged the first defendant 's accounting obligations ‘ subject only to the plaintiffs ' rights under Ord. 43 , r. 5 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 and their rights to require vouching of the said accounts . ’
25 The terms of the contract are not usually negotiable and offers are made subject only to an accountant 's report .
26 On the floor close to the captain 's hand was a little round piece of paper , blackened on one side .
27 Subject always to the judge 's discretion in individual cases , a dialogue of that kind which was clearly admissible in part should go in in toto in the ordinary case .
28 THE Treasury is expected to give the go-ahead soon to the RUC 's plea for more manpower and resources .
29 He cut the bandages close to the man 's chin and began slowly unravelling them , pausing every now and then to lift the man 's head .
30 That both kinds of Camphill therapeutic communities , schools and villages , increased in number in several countries both in and after König 's lifetime — by 1987 there were over seventy centres in eighteen countries — is testimony to their success in answering a need , albeit continuously in pioneering mode and therefore not without mistakes ; testimony also to the founder 's vision , dynamic personality , and restless energy .
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