Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sogono and I sat on the dock beside the cargo — the crafty old Bugi way out to sea — before restoring ourselves on sticks of shrimp satay and bowls of turquoise ice , yellow maize , red beans , and syrup . |
| 2 | Survey evidence showed that although training is an important and effective way of helping some unemployed people back to work , it is not the only way or always the best way . |
| 3 | Let me take this opportunity to say what a wonderful thing it is that for almost fifty years now , the British government has spent huge sums of money to keep this unique library up to date . |
| 4 | Even a reference to some current event close to hand can offer a lead in to a topic . |
| 5 | David Fursdon , of Stags estate agents in Devon , where a six-bedroom farmhouse near Exeter with farm buildings and 144 acres is on sale at £290,000 , says : ‘ With agricultural land prices at 50 per cent down , there are some good buys closer to home . ’ |
| 6 | We used mauve Osteospermum ‘ Stardust ’ with fresh green ferns close to peach lilies and roses , and softened with the gentle silver foliage of fragrant lavender . |
| 7 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 8 | I turned to Jim , sitting in the back , to congratulate him on our effort , then , over his shoulder , caught sight of a larger than usual dark crest out to sea . |
| 9 | This will embrace applied ( including pharmaceutical and food chemistry ) as well as mainstream organic chemistry up to degree level . |
| 10 | Anchor Hotel Comfortable Licensed Hotel close to Promenade and Town Centre . |
| 11 | Piloted by Hoof Proudfoot , the Lightning flew with the undercarriage locked down for the 35 minute flight back to base . |
| 12 | Then topstitch through all layers front end of previous topstitching right down to hemline . |
| 13 | They had listed all of the places they would have to pass on their way to the Fire Court ; they had shown the tiny villages and the Wolfwood and the forks in the road and the long flat road down to Reflection 's country and the glittering decadent Fire Court . |
| 14 | With the summer upon us , the shaded walls of Kilnsey and Gordale seepage free and several major new lines close to completion , activity and controversy on Yorkshire Limestone has spluttered into life . |
| 15 | The Crown is one of Scarborough 's most outstanding properties , situated on the South Cliff , with beautiful panoramic views out to sea , taking in both the harbour and the Old Town . |
| 16 | A blitz baby hungry for love tries to get her hunted German lover away to safety in Canada ; an actor , taunted by his wife for being still soft and weak , replies he 's been ‘ toughened ’ by military service and proves it by strangling her , and a conductor plans to elope with his pianist mistress . |
| 17 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
| 18 | The project should be an important original contribution both to history in a larger sense and to the theory and practice of intellectual history . |
| 19 | The overall cost of bringing 57 former Soviet stations up to world standards has been put at US$9,000 million . |
| 20 | Moreover , other geographic areas closer to home take priority ( Blasier : 1983 , p. 54 ) . |
| 21 | Two German boats away to port challenged them but could not report the intrusion as these harbour patrol boats had no wireless . |
| 22 | Michael White of the Guardian likened Amaranth to Venus rising from the foam , Bruce Anderson to the spirit of enterprise , while Lord Wyatt of Weeford , who had been sent to Brighton for the Telegraph , wrote that he had been ‘ captivated ’ by a performance which by its daring and originality had brought an otherwise dull Tory conference startlingly to life . |
| 23 | Just then one of Father 's secretaries , who was standing right behind me , said , ‘ Such purity of line , do you notice , even when she 's only showing that sweet child how to curtsy . ’ |