Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 2 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 3 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 4 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 5 | This will mean £20bn-worth of sterling coming on to the market to buy foreign currency . |
| 6 | And that at least is true , he thought , because if I were a crippled old man living on an early pension filtered through the Secret Vote — and thus controllable — I would n't want any whisper of indiscretion getting back to the Service . |
| 7 | The sound of wheels turned in her ears again as she thought of Maman driving off to the railway station as if on some brisk pursuit . |
| 8 | It is also a good idea to secure the section of pipe running up to the ball-valve itself to a stout timber post fixed between the loft floor and the roof slope . |
| 9 | However policy-makers ' overriding concern with inflation and the calculations about likely reactions of financial markets to inflation-risking economic policies ( notably in Britain in 1976 , France in 1982 — 3 , and Australia in 1984 ) have forced advocates of state spending on to the defensive . |
| 10 | I gave one dose of Syphilinum 200 and 4 weeks later she had fear of cancer , stomach discomfort and a peculiar symptom of food going up to the back of the nose on swallowing . |
| 11 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 12 | Left : In the kitchen , Philip painted an impression of sunlight filtering on to the wall in a style reminiscent of a Hitchcock film |
| 13 | If doubt can conjure up images of heroism ( the David of Doubt standing up to the Goliath of Lies ) , it can just as easily represent what is most cowardly , indecisive and dictatorial in us all . |
| 14 | With Unix coming down to the desktop and moving into the commercial arena , Adobe feels their two paths are beginning to come together , even if Unix still represents only a tiny piece of its business . |
| 15 | Complete with provenance reaching back to the artist 's lifetime , and in the present owner 's family since 1690 , this painting 's attribution to Rembrandt has never been questioned . |
| 16 | In only moments the pursuers were in turn coming down to the ford , and in much more disciplined order , professional English cavalry-men , not mosstroopers . |
| 17 | ‘ It was hard in way handing over to the Prince of Wales Own Regiment — you wanted to carry helping to get aid through to people who so desperately needed it . |
| 18 | This case relied on law dating back to the 1870s . |