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 | Once through it bear slightly right and uphill to a kissing gate and a lane where you turn right . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By following the punchcard instructions you will be moving the lace carriage sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right . |
| 11 | The loose-boxes were set around three sides of a square and away to the right , half-hidden , was a neglected-looking dwelling . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They take it in turns to crouch in a cardboard box — edging it closer and closer to the track . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He must be both desperate and close to the end to take such an enormous risk . |
| 23 | To the Jew first and also to the Greek , the Spirit of the Messiah is available through the preaching of the good news of what the Messiah has done . |
| 24 | This design was not popular with the boatmen as it gave a less comfortable steering position — it was noisier and closer to the exhaust . |
| 25 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 26 | Engholm , entered the Bundestag in 1970 , was seen as more centrist , northern and closer to the trade union movement than his rival Oskar Lafontaine , who stood unsuccessfully for Chancellor in 1990 and declined the leadership of the party at that time [ ibid . ] . |
| 27 | It is kinder and easier to the skin to freshen up your existing make-up , highlighting and exaggerating for the artificial light of night . |
| 28 | All first year pruning should be harder and closer to the base than in subsequent years . |
| 29 | Its a bit naff but close to the ground and good for parking . |
| 30 | It does give an insight into the nature of the American but also to the value , indeed the commercial value , of head-to-head play . |