Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study , ‘ Made in Britain : the true state of British manufacturing industry ’ , is a joint project by IBM Consulting Group and London Business School to test whether British manufacturers measure up to the best in the world . |
| 2 | Trains on different services pull in to the same platform , and turnouts are installed to enable them to move in and out and pass one another . |
| 3 | Just as words represent concrete things in the world and the relationship between words in an utterance refers to a relationship between concrete things , so cultural artefacts refer back to the history of culture . |
| 4 | Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II . |
| 5 | The quoted words point back to the privileged second existence which poetry had once promised Jaromil , and they point ahead : the old meaning has been reversed , with the claim that real life resides in a revolutionary solidarity . |
| 6 | Magnificent Georgian houses are clustered together while their large and colourful gardens sweep down to the river . |
| 7 | These liberal ideas date back to the 1880s , but it was the thirty |
| 8 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 10 | The Institute is made up of three departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured ; Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods live up to the claims made by manufacturers ; and the Consumer Advice Service , which answers your questions and produces GHI Information Sheets . |
| 11 | The origins of Coombe House lie in the 14th century ( the surrounding farms date back to the 10th and 11th ) ; today it is a Georgian building with an attractive garden , the perimeter of which has been left to flourish without the interfering hand of man . |
| 12 | And I can see this er this woman with her three children go off to the workhouse and er they was crying but they were waving and then all the neighbours was out waving to them . |
| 13 | In the BA and MA ( Religious Studies ) degrees the basic courses lead on to the Phenomenology and History of Religion , exploring in depth a wide range of issues across different religions . |
| 14 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 15 | When you have completed all three sections move on to the tie breaker . |
| 16 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |
| 17 | Exactly why is unclear as the origins of these vineyards go back to the days of the Knights Templars . |
| 18 | Stark black fingers reach up to the sky , |
| 19 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 20 | Today this city-state is a pleasant mixture of Chinese , Malay and Indian cultures — temples and mosques fight for airspace with skyscrapers , and wide tree-lined avenues with gracious colonial buildings look out to the sparkling sea . |
| 21 | Yet understanding where older customers fit in to the scheme of things is very important if discrimination is to be avoided , because it will influence both the products and the marketing approach . |
| 22 | Coloured eggs date back to the fourth century when it was forbidden to eat eggs during Lent ( the days leading up to Easter ) . |
| 23 | Neat fields slope down to the still water . |
| 24 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
| 25 | The City remains worried about the impact of the falling pound on inflation once higher costs work through to the shops later this year . |
| 26 | So you have the downstairs back and the the front stairs go up to the ca n't actually see That 's definitely the back door . |
| 27 | Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground . |
| 28 | From prehistoric times there have been fortifications of one sort or another on the great Rock which dominates the surrounding countryside , but the first records go back to the seventh century . |
| 29 | But what one means by ‘ the first LP ’ depends very much on your definition of LP ; long-playing records of various types date back to the 1900s , as we shall see later . |
| 30 | Once past the lower falls go round to the left on the north side of the Hepste , to reach the falls of Sgwyd yr Eira . |