Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please thank Renata very much too for doing one ; her point about the reference count being on the small side for usefulness even to the general learner is a crucial one ; likewise yours about the belt-and-braces reassuringness of the transitive/intransitive label . |
| 2 | This can be seen as a system for design in which the mapping of function on to the geometric domains is raised to the next level in which the requirement to manage and control the process is mapped on to the sub-processes or departments . |
| 3 | Secondly , it is of course up to the individual credit granter to decide whether or not to enter into a transaction requested by an individual customer . |
| 4 | They will be accountable , these political nominees will be accountable of course not to the local community , but to the politician in London of whatever political persuasion . |
| 5 | There is plenty of resistance both to the American investment banks and to their book-building technique . |
| 6 | The revenue gained from this reform should be used so that contributions rise by single percentage points over bands of income up to the upper earnings limit . |
| 7 | Use a little royal icing to cement the two pieces of roof on to the sloping sides of the house , propping up the eaves with toothpicks too if necessary . |
| 8 | Heroic efforts alone could lift a poor man and woman , or even their children , out of the slough of demoralisation on to the firm plateau of respectability and , above all , define his position there . |
| 9 | The melody of the Adagio from Dvořák 's ‘ New World ’ Symphony owes its air of peace largely to the static harmony , which begins to move beat by beat only when there is a climax . |
| 10 | The concept reared up fully formed : the sparkling snowflake of Steel City fragmenting from the hub of fire , spilling bodies into vacuum , the debris plunging flaming spears of fall-out on to the dense towns of Earth . |
| 11 | I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire . |
| 12 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 13 | The resultant parse is of only minor interest , being of use only to the semantic component in reaching its decision . |
| 14 | A crash of musketry off to the right flank betrayed that the farms to the west were under attack , but here in the centre , where the road led enticingly to the crossroads , the enemy was still hidden . |
| 15 | When within binocular range it may be seen on the side of Theta opposite to the 6.5-magnitude star . |
| 16 | Thus , from a national view , only the University of Cambridge through its Board for Extra-Mural Studies was undertaking a significant volume of new Chapter III activity and it was a matter of concern both to the National WEA and the District that its encroachment into the established and defined sphere of provision should be limited to the two counties in which earlier and exceptional arrangements had been agreed . |
| 17 | To step out of bed on to the cold lino , and to begin dressing and shivering , took considerable courage . |
| 18 | Its fellowships are designed to help scientists , engineers and mathematicians to move , on a temporary secondment basis for between six months and two years , either from an academic institution into industry , or vice versa , to undertake an agreed project of significance both to the academic department and to the company concerned . |
| 19 | Basically , the levy will bring the price of food up to the level set for that product by the agricultural policy of the EEC , a price the EEC will pay European farmers . |
| 20 | Involvement varied from the informal exchange of information through to the detailed organisation of local visiting programmes . |
| 21 | Involvement varied from the informal exchange of information through to the detailed organisation of local visiting programmes . |
| 22 | Every fifty years there was a redistributions of land back to the original owners . |
| 23 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |
| 24 | Two were already straining from the hands of their masters , neck ruffs erect as they waited for the moment of release on to the sawdust-strewn pit floor . |
| 25 | Over a range of Rayleigh number ( probably dependent on Prandtl number ) , the thermals penetrate right across the layer , generating transient stable blobs of fluid close to the opposite boundary . |
| 26 | The Chieftain attribute identifies the lexicographer who is permitted to approve the transfer of material back to the main archive , and to reallocate ‘ ownership ’ of bundles of entries . |
| 27 | That particular proposal was of interest only to the limited number of countries which have huissiers de justice , which prompted Professor Graveson when the issue was discussed in 1960 to express the traditional preference of the British Government for bilateral conventions , but the topic attracted more general interest and it was decided to re-examine the whole range of possibilities . |
| 28 | Collections of dried plants are of interest only to the dedicated or desiccated botanist ; and much the same applies to systematic collections of beetles or of fleas . |
| 29 | Like many men of the muirlands and remote districts of Ayrshire in the 17th century , John was a fervent opponent of the imposition of Episcopacy on to the Scottish Kirk . |
| 30 | However , the vendor company may prefer a share sale preceded by an extraction of dividends to depress the value of Target down to the net value of its assets less liabilities . |