Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 2 | The calculation of depreciation for tax purposes is governed by the tax authority 's rules and is not necessarily related to the amounts actually charged in the business accounts . |
| 3 | The calculation of depreciation for tax purposes is governed by the tax authority 's rules and is not necessarily related to the amounts actually charged in the business accounts . |
| 4 | ‘ He could , of course , from the son 's own appearance , have deduced that the father must be at least in his late sixties or seventies and he could , of course , have called in to talk to the father personally when he drove round to have a look at the property . |
| 5 | Failure to do so leads to the speaker rapidly drying up . |
| 6 | She rose , ran across the room , unlocked the door , and then swiftly retreated to the bed again — not to lie on it , but to sit on it , huddled against the end , one shoulder against the iron railings of its head , hands primly in her lap , feet side by side , her whole posture defensive . |
| 7 | However , there were a few outliers with values of over 0.4% , and so marking to the market occasionally had an important effect on arbitrage profits . |
| 8 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 9 | Diana rarely came to the house more than twice a year . |
| 10 | The cream eventually came to the surface yesterday in the Four Nations under-16 and under-18 men 's youth tournament at Aberdeen when England produced their best form to crush Ireland 4–0 in both matches and win the sections . |
| 11 | Cloke said his instructions on Vaguely Artistic were to sit upsides the favourite , Market Leader , and not to go to the front too quickly . |
| 12 | In contrast , in smaller and more informal gatherings such as house Masses , the power this can release has often been experienced so impressively that one wonders whether the new liturgy was not given to the Church prophetically , with a view to new circumstances which were to come , but which till now have been realized only unevenly . |
| 13 | Given the central objective of this category of public interest immunity as ‘ the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force , ’ given the grave public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice on the part of some at least of those who served in the now disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , given the extensive publicity already attaching to the documents here in question following the appellant 's successful appeal , it seems to us nothing short of absurd to suppose that those who co-operated in this investigation — largely other police officers and court officials — will regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses will withhold it , were this court now to release the documents to C.N.L. to enable them to defeat if they can an allegedly corrupt claim in damages . |
| 14 | And some of the painful medicine required — like plant closures and unemployment — will not appeal to the workers either . |
| 15 | I am sorry that I so rattled the Prime Minister with my question at the previous Prime Minister 's Question Time that he has not come to the House today . |
| 16 | ‘ I have not come to the North-East just to play in the FA Cup , ’ he said . |
| 17 | … ’ The implication that St Theresa reads the Scottish Catholic Observer is perhaps mischievous on my part , but it does raise the question of why the petition was not addressed to the saint directly and required publication to make it more efficacious . |
| 18 | The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari . |
| 19 | The problem is not confined to the stream however . |
| 20 | The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth . |
| 21 | ‘ Th 'd best see to the port then , instead of blowing about under my feet , ’ Salt snapped . |
| 22 | Just going to the toilet alright ? |
| 23 | After a year 's planning and several weeks preparation , this year 's Chelsea Flower Show finally opened to the public today . |
| 24 | ‘ If you do not return to the line now , Mahmud , ’ he said , ‘ I am going to cut off your knackers ! ’ |
| 25 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 26 | On not speaking to the press before , Ralph says : ‘ What could we say before ? |
| 27 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 28 | But you 've decided why you , you 're just rising to the bait then are n't you , if these arguments are between you , and you 're coming out with all this , it just makes you look stupid because you 're , you 're into , are n't you ? |
| 29 | We 're not coming to the UK strictly to sell 200 cars ; we 're coming with that as our stating point . |
| 30 | Recovery operations continued and hundreds of items were finally brought to the surface so that the plane could be painstakingly pieced back together again . |