Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 2 | Athelstan picked up his leather bag , marched out of the tavern , collected Philomel and made his way slowly through the empty streets to London Bridge . |
| 3 | It was far enough from anywhere to be unnoticed , far enough for the loudest sounds to be muffled and lost to passers-by . |
| 4 | Disgusted by his own conceit , Maxim drifted out to the steps down to the lawn — the night was still warm enough for the big windows to be open-flanked by two huge , discreetly floodlit magnolia trees . |
| 5 | A heavy south easterly swell rolling in through the wide sounds to the north of Bressay threw Venturous on her beam ends several times , so much so that fuel oil spilled over through the deck breather pipes . |
| 6 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 7 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 8 | This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes . |
| 9 | They refuse to go along with the current vogues to which the impressionable Continentals pander . |
| 10 | As the centre of Paris moved west , masses of workers were evicted from the city centre , some to move along with the new factories to the banlieue . |
| 11 | A list follows of all the possible errors reported when a Transaction Failure occurs , along with the necessary steps to be taken to recover . |
| 12 | But Boiotia was not a major colonizing state because — and this is the fundamental fact about her — her soil was good , something which strikes any traveller who crosses Mt Kithairon into Boiotia from Attica , and there was plenty of it , especially in the two plains to north and south controlled by Orchomenos and Thebes respectively . |
| 13 | The institutes which began to open in London in the late 1850s appear to have recruited from among the lower-middle class , though Waldo McGillicuddy Eagar , a young Edwardian club worker ( later to be a leading figure in the National Association of Boys ' Clubs ) claimed that ‘ as anxiety about the working classes was intensified , some Youths ’ Institutes reached down from the middle classes to the poor , and increasingly diluted their formal educational programmes with recreational activities . |
| 14 | The ‘ great divide ’ has been re-established , by the appeal to literacy , apparently on a ‘ scientific ’ basis and apparently without the offensive appeals to inherent cultural and intellectual superiority that discredited its early phases . |
| 15 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 16 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 17 | From here , a turn down to the left leads to High Birkwith and then two miles of uneventful tarmac , heading south to the starting point of the walk at Horton . |
| 18 | Nevertheless he seemed willing enough to accompany the Finnish detective in the dangerous climb down over the tumbling rocks to where his cousin and his cousin 's pretty , peroxided fiancée lay . |
| 19 | The towering cliffs , rising to a vertical 350 feet below the lighthouse and to 800 feet in places to the east , are the highest in mainland Britain and are virgin , just as they were sculptured , and explored only by the countless seabirds to which they are home . |
| 20 | For twenty paces you can feel your way along by the low walls to your right . |
| 21 | To the north narrow valleys rise steeply through the craggy passes to peaks and mountain lakes . |
| 22 | For the asymmetric T-section shown in figure 9.14(a) , the two iterative impedances are given by and which readily rearrange into the quadratic equations and Thus Of the two solutions to each of the equations ( 9.68 ) , those having positive components of iterative resistance are appropriate and these normally correspond to taking the positive root in each case . |
| 23 | The red and green of the Aztec necklace links it compositionally with the indigenous plants to the ‘ south ’ of the painting , the pink colonial-style dress tonally blending with the skyscrapers to the ‘ north ’ . |
| 24 | So , the result should move in the direction of an open information society and away from the oligarchic tendencies to be seen in much political party management of local discussion . |
| 25 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 26 | Yeah , well they 're obviously more distance away from the key employers to they are n't so well located . |
| 27 | We shuddered in the lurid light and turned away from the brooding peaks to north and east . |
| 28 | We agree that the centralising of elected representatives away from the national boards to the UKCC will improve the accountability of the UKCC . |
| 29 | The grey eyes behind the spectacles wavered perplexedly from the denuded twigs to the caterpillar and hence to my face : ‘ But what can I do about it ? |
| 30 | Was lying beside dustbins and boxes of waste paper , just inside the locked gates to the yard . |