Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb pp] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Most vehicles have a chassis/frame number either stamped on or fixed to the body shell with a plate .
2 These sections make it compulsory to have the company 's name painted on or affixed to the business premises and mentioned on all business documents and negotiable instruments .
3 11.2 In relation to commercial exploitation the Non-academic Parties and the Academic Parties agree that the terms and conditions for exploitation of and licenses granted under intellectual property rights in results deriving from the Academic Parties shall have regard to the extent to which such results are incorporated in or applied to the manufacture of commercially exploited products ( particularly where there had been substantial product development outside the project ) and to the SERC guidelines which are set out in a letter from SERC dated 13 August 1984 , together with its attachments .
4 He found them quickly enough and returned to the pub .
5 A modern spacious terminal , situated alongside and integrated to the railway station just inside the main harbour entrance , provides passenger and car booking offices for P&O European Ferries and Sealink British Ferries , a travel centre for Northern Ireland Railways and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board , bookstall , buffet , currency exchange and car hire facilities .
6 ‘ He 'd be irradiated if he 'd turned the bribe down and gone to the freight car . ’
7 On the day I spoke to him , his wizened granite-faced skipper Kepler Wessels ( who is almost the antithesis of Rhodes ) had sat down and spoken to the 22-year-old from Natal about his game .
8 Bass players of the time were most unhappy about the situation , though ; their instrument , the double bass , was exceedingly bulky , very fragile and did not take at all well to the rigours of touring , especially if strapped to the roof of a car , as many were .
9 They may be made from aluminium , fibreglass or plastic , and can be anything from a simple pair of flexible aluminium or plastic bars to a complicated collection of alloy pieces riveted together and linked to the harness .
10 What I shall be arguing is that this is not simply because the kids are so difficult , nor because teachers are intrinsically powder-kegs of suppressed rage , but because the way most decent people view the world — their implicit personal philosophy if you like — breaks down when pushed to the limit and delivers misguided answers to difficult questions .
11 The consequently enlarged margins , especially when tied to the acquisition of operations shed by their rivals in peripheral territories , open up new avenues of growth unsuspected by ‘ rational ’ calculations of advantage .
12 The system allows doors to be assembled separately and fitted to the car at a late stage , to improve access to the car as it proceeds along the line .
13 Vincent turned away and staggered to the wire and hung limp across it , his body trembling .
14 She pulled away and returned to the dining room to find her cigarettes .
15 Once this is achieved the flysheet is draped over and pegged to the ground .
16 The outer is then draped over and clipped to the base of inner .
17 The boys thanked her politely and returned to the rest of the royal party grinning and clutching their gifts .
18 To make a transfer , you simply start both machines together from off play-pause and record-pause respectively and run to the end of the recording — synchro-edit facilities make this easier to manage .
19 Normally , I get my flowers on Oxford Street just after 7.0 p.m. when the barrowboys have knocked off and gone to the pub , leaving loads of blooms for the Westminster Council rubbish collectors later on .
20 I stayed home and read to the shark .
21 They were secured in deep water some distance offshore and connected to the beach by a system of floating pontoon bridges , many of which were built in Scotland .
22 We are still as committed to the leukaemia unit as we always have been . ’
23 When I slept I would dream that one came , and drove on past without knowing I was here ; then I would wake up and run to the road looking for a tail light disappearing .
24 As soon as the show was over her dog would get up and run to the kitchen ready to receive his daily rations .
25 When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street .
26 Benstede got up and crossed to the bed in the far comer .
27 Merrill got up and crossed to the stationery cupboard .
28 As a result various sites of former industrial activities have been taken over , cleaned up and displayed to the public in order to show what a real industrial area was never like .
29 An alternative explanation , however , is that rhythms with a 24-hour period are received from the external world — but that these are picked up and transmitted to the body clock less effectively in premature babies .
30 To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood .
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