Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backpackers need to keep the weight high and close to the back , but ski-mountaineers and climbers need the weight to be kept lower to increase stability , although weighty things should be kept close to the back . |
| 2 | As the right leg is lifted on the turn , it should remain high and close to the body . |
| 3 | The inedibility of the early land plants to animals and , apparently , fungi led to the great Coal Measures of the Carboniferous and thus to the fuel of the Industrial Revolution and thence the technology for the destruction of those forests ' successors . |
| 4 | Cases may be transferred from one family proceedings court to another and also to a county court care centre and ultimately the High Court in certain circumstances . |
| 5 | Europe has voted for something new and something greener and closer to the community . |
| 6 | Quantum mechanics may be peculiar but not to the extent of allowing one to obtain the square root of minus one as the result of an experiment ! |
| 7 | Unit six and up to the end of unit six . |
| 8 | However , a number of United States courts have considered cases in which service has been effected by registered mail upon defendants in Japan , a state which has objected to the other modes of service listed in Article 10 but not to the use of the postal channel . |
| 9 | Once through it bear slightly right and uphill to a kissing gate and a lane where you turn right . |
| 10 | Immediately Alec 's eyes filled with sweat again and he strained to hold the delicate balance of the bucket of fire as it moved lower and closer to the shape carved out of the ground . |
| 11 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 12 | To control the power keep the sail low and close to the water to decrease its effective area and slide one or both feet into the straps whilst lying in the water . |
| 13 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |
| 14 | By following the punchcard instructions you will be moving the lace carriage sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right . |
| 15 | The loose-boxes were set around three sides of a square and away to the right , half-hidden , was a neglected-looking dwelling . |
| 16 | Danzig was a party to the Treaty of Paris of 1920 but not to the Treaty of Versailles , which was held to be the source of the rights conferred upon Poland and the organic limitations on Danzig . |
| 17 | For example , an employer who , without any attempt at an individual medical assessment , inaccurately pre-judges epileptic applicants for positions as being unable to perform the job , will have treated those applicants as disabled , even though in fact their impairments might not limit their major life activities at all or only to the extent that others react adversely to them . |
| 18 | and what that means that if an organization which has not sponsored something in the arts before decides to do so the government will give a similar amount of money er at a lower ceiling of a thousand and up to a maximum of forty thousand was it ? |
| 19 | There were electric rings in most of the studies , and the official meals were somewhat Spartan and not to every boy 's taste . |
| 20 | This is because the least common multiple of 584 and 260 is 37,960 , which is equal to the product of 65 and 584 and also to the product of 146 and 260 . |
| 21 | They take it in turns to crouch in a cardboard box — edging it closer and closer to the track . |
| 22 | Macbeth , short and severely to the point , is not a play onto which you can get much spin , but what we are given here is a treatment devoid of ambiguity . |
| 23 | Since acquisition by the Atlantic Group , the Miaco operation has been streamlined and refined and up to the FlyPast visit had overhauled 25 Pratt & Whitney engines . |
| 24 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 25 | He noticed that Venus displayed phases like the Moon , that is , Venus varied from a thin crescent to full and back to a crescent again . |
| 26 | Decision-making and prioritizing therefore fall more and more to the kind of people whose forte is attending meetings and getting the support of those present . |
| 27 | By 1804 Wordsworth had embraced an attitude usually described as Stoical — his poems refer more and more to the virtue of endurance in the face of suffering , age and death ( Michael , The Small Celandine , Resolution and Independence , Ode to Duty ) . |
| 28 | Mr Collum felt that implementation of international standards in the future would fall more and more to the Accounting Standards Board , although ideally he felt leadership should come from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US and , ‘ if it can ever get its act together ’ , the European Commission . |
| 29 | The Chiefs in both areas — cryptography and intelligence — were distinguished from the Indians because they were fewer , preponderantly male and had better jobs — better because they were more responsible and closer to the brush of real events . |
| 30 | Hitherto , it had been achieved by the male cells swimming through water , a process which demanded that the sexual generation be small and close to the ground . |