Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli army issued new orders on Feb. 2 , apparently in response to pressure from Israeli settlers , easing the circumstances under which soldiers in the occupied territories were authorized to open fire . |
| 2 | However , the watering down of a basic and principled commitment , within Labour or any other libertarian party , especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality , could prove deeply discrediting . |
| 3 | Employers ' preference for various categories of older workers reflects , in part , the importance of on-the-job training and experience over that of formal education ( especially in relation to recruitment within the firm 's internal labour market ) . |
| 4 | How the different pairs respond will indicate to her whether any of them are mature enough in drama to structure for themselves . |
| 5 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 6 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 7 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 8 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 9 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |
| 10 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 11 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 12 | There are great difficulties in assessing health effects , however , since exposure varies greatly from house to house within small neighbourhoods . |
| 13 | There will then be taboos against appearing " naked " in inappropriate situations , though just what counts as either naked or inappropriate varies greatly from place to place for no very obvious or logical reason . |
| 14 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 15 | However , productivity differs less from country to country for non-traded goods than for tradables . |
| 16 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 17 | So in order to sort of effect effective change , you really need to do it very slowly and incrementally . |
| 18 | If you are going to try to convince a reader that something wildly unlikely has taken place then one useful tool at your command is to produce a story that sweeps the reader along from incident to incident in a headlong tumble . |
| 19 | The cab hurtled along from pool to pool of the bleak , unnerving light , struggling over the large brown lumps that bulged like bubbles in the roadway . |
| 20 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 21 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 22 | Next , he sang about ‘ Wine Flowing in the Garden of Eden ’ and then got the audience swaying gently from side to side to the tune of ‘ My Jane , my Pretty Jane ’ . |
| 23 | When you are kneading , move gently from side to side in time with your hands . |
| 24 | The melt regimes under ridges and hotspots are usually modelled as regions that are zoned laterally and vertically with respect to degree of partial melting . |
| 25 | Their situation was similar to the well-known triangular struggle between the Barretts of Wimpole Street , Elizabeth colluding with her father in an illness which kept her tied to home until Robert Browning won her away from invalidism to health through marriage . |
| 26 | Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp say they will step up their production of 4M-bit memory chips shortly in response to recovery in the US market : Hitachi intends to boost monthly output by July to 8m from the current 7.5m and as it is near capacity will have to get more of them from Goldstar Co ; Toshiba said it would raise monthly output to between 6m and 7m by September from the 5m or so it is doing right now . |
| 27 | Thus in contrast to bilateralisation of language functions in this group spatial performance is more distinctly lateralised . |
| 28 | The French applied the tourniquet just in time to stagger to a winning start . |
| 29 | Several species , ( such as C. reflexa ) carry over from season to season by regenerating new vegetative buds from usually obscure remnants of the previous season still embedded in the host . |
| 30 | Measurements suggest that the crossing over from production to destruction of O 3 occurs at an altitude of 28km . |