Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn right off the road to Nairn , by the castle , then past woods by a duck-thronged mere , turn to the west , that is , left , off the lane into a similarly tight by-road and , around a corner , stands Macbeth 's Hillock . |
| 2 | The Commander rubbed his chin vigorously as an aid to thought . |
| 3 | The second paragraph goes on about the report to council Environmental Services Committee by the District Chief . |
| 4 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 5 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 6 | In the latter part of Elizabeth 's reign Burghley began a reform of the system of purveyance , partly perhaps as a response to criticism , partly in an effort to direct the profits of purveyance away from the officials and towards the Crown . |
| 7 | Fuel tanks were drained , leaving only enough for the pilot to taxi to the Queen Mary loading point where any surplus fuel would then be completely drained . |
| 8 | Paddlers are then faced with the choice of going upstream for a mile to Broomhill Bridge or downstream 3 miles to Grantown-on-Spey to lift out . |
| 9 | She represented it quite literally as a call to God 's service . |
| 10 | It is built on the shape of the letter ‘ E ’ , not necessarily as a compliment to Queen Elizabeth but for the satisfactory symmetry it afforded to the most important east-facing front which the world and his wife could view as they passed by . |
| 11 | Whether a compiler is a quality product soon becomes evident , and with some there is the suspicion that they were cobbled together as a response to opposition product innovations . |
| 12 | He is a very beautiful person to look at when he is shaven , about 25 I should think [ he was just 30 , as she probably knew ] , always laughing or quarrelling à la Rotonde … he horrifies some English friends by tubbing at two-hour intervals in the garden and occasionally lighting up all after midnight , apparently as an aid to sculpturing Babel . ’ |
| 13 | The genesis of employers ' associations , however , was not only as a response to trade union growth and militancy because to some degree it was , in addition , a reaction to economic pressures . |
| 14 | But , as Stanyer ( 1976 , p. 55 ) has observed : ‘ It is necessary to understand what a local authority is in legal terms in a particular governmental system only as a prelude to understanding what all local authorities are in behavioural terms ’ . |
| 15 | Rather , they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit . |
| 16 | A basic knowledge of oriental carpet design is essential , not only as an aid to identification , but also as an important means of gaining insight into the rich and infinitely varied religious and cultural heritage of the weavers themselves . |
| 17 | In the theatre , stage lighting varies in brightness , but it is often sufficient for video recording purposes , even if only as an aid to rehearsals . |
| 18 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 19 | In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock 's Gorton factory in Manchester , recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives , and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer , Peacock & Co. until his death . |
| 20 | She also found herself naturally in tune with Laura 's taste and , although her job specification was to oversee the entire design structure for clothes , Laura advised her that she ‘ had been brought in as a flanker to Moira ’ . |
| 21 | Sara suddenly understood why James might have been brought along for the week-end to Moorlake . |
| 22 | They were preparing to check in for a flight to Tokyo . |
| 23 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 24 | He was heading for the North Sea coast , which he would cross near Terschelling then follow for a while before turning in for the approach to Aalborg . |
| 25 | As a result of these problems , it is our preferred policy to use the specimen letter set out below as an alternative to confidentiality letters generated by clients ' Solicitors . |
| 26 | As a result of these problems , it is our preferred policy to use the specimen letter set out below as an alternative to confidentiality letters generated by clients ' Solicitors . |
| 27 | Day Three : After an overnight berth in Bad Schandau , your cruise continues at 6.00am for the cruise to Usti , arriving around 4.00pm . |
| 28 | It was only after a trip to Italy in early 1932 , to see how fascism operated there , and with the support of Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail , that Mosley renewed his efforts to form a new party designed to instil discipline into the nation , to generate a ‘ classless brotherhood ’ and to meet the challenge of communism . |
| 29 | It was possible to dissent from all that , especially after a visit to New York . |
| 30 | ‘ The speed humps will be built in a special way which makes them less of an inconvenience to buses , ’ said Mrs Standing . |