Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 2 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 3 | On 24 November , the Ministry presented designs by Prado architect Francisco Rodriquez Partearroyo which detailed three new underground floors and an entrance ramp leading in to the Prado 's ground level . |
| 4 | In the example given , the College 's close relationship with the catering industry , covering conventional day-release , specialist courses and demonstrations , and extensive work experience dating back to the 1960s had given the mutual confidence and understanding which made an unconventional pattern worth trying . |
| 5 | Visitors can see an extensive collection of textile machinery dating back to the 18th century along with an exhibition tracing the development of Wales ' woollen industry from the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | He had been a loyal supporter for many years , his business relationship stretching back to the 1900s when he booked John 's touring pantomimes . |
| 7 | According to Professor Midwinter of University College London , optoelectronics research is instead becoming increasingly focussed on communications and switching applications — from fibre optic cabling through to the internal structure of microchips . |
| 8 | Guinness has a long standing tradition of community involvement dating back to the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | Span wire construction of the overhead suspension was used throughout ( except in Oak Grove leading down to the depôt ) . |
| 10 | Opening the door a crack she saw John lying in bed , unshaven and tousled , his pillows tumbled and the blue rayon eiderdown slipping on to the floor . |
| 11 | The leasing agreement , ending a border dispute dating back to the partition of Bengal into Indian and Pakistani sections in 1947 , had been formally concluded between India and Bangladesh in 1974 [ see p. 26572 ] . |
| 12 | It is 2130 and the EOD team are grouped around the television set again , cigarette smoke spiralling up to the ceiling . |
| 13 | The ground plan normally consisted of three main rooms , the baggage room and the waiting-room at each end , with the office between , usually with a bay window projecting on to the platform to afford the station agent a view up and down the tracks . |
| 14 | Crocodiles and lizards have a fossil record extending back to the Triassic , snakes to the Cretaceous . |
| 15 | Some important groups , like the mosses and liverworts , have a sporadic fossil record extending back to the Carboniferous , but they are not likely to be encountered without a special search . |
| 16 | There was a lot of emotive talk about the UK 's only helicopter company selling out to the Americans , but in the event the Sikorsky-Fiat minority involvement won the day and Heseltine resigned from the government . |
| 17 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 18 | Not only does it not produce much wheat , as we well know , but , in fact , it is not creating as much energy output as energy input going in to the system . |