Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 32 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 33 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 34 | In the period leading up to the actual fight , first-time fighters are suddenly stricken with nervous tension . |
| 35 | He analysed local government spending and labour-force figures in the post-war period leading up to the late 1970s . |
| 36 | Karrimor had made two special rucsacs , the bike 's top tube clamping on to the reinforced cover flap so that the whole bike sat across your back . |
| 37 | Such testate protozoans have a record extending back to the Cambrian . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The chemical ( 2,4-diamino-5- ( 3,4,5 trimethoxybenzyl ) pyrimidine ) acts as an inhibitor locking on to the active site of the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase ( DHFR ) which catalyses the reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate in microbial and eucaryotic cells ( see figure ) . |
| 40 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 41 | Packets of sugar leaking crystals , biscuits , flour seeping on to the scrubbed surface , plates with the remains of a meal . |
| 42 | Science and The Church are caught in a bloody feud dating back to the 14th century . |
| 43 | Everybody did 10 laps with the winners of each race going through to the next heat . |
| 44 | He had been a loyal supporter for many years , his business relationship stretching back to the 1900s when he booked John 's touring pantomimes . |
| 45 | er he wants money coming in to the central fund er if has in two years time to face a , a trial , these allegations so be it , but meanwhile he wants the money to come in to the central fund for the reason he 's outlined |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | ‘ There will be deaths ! ’ the old woman proclaimed , one bony finger streaking up to the grey clouds . |
| 48 | O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’ |
| 49 | While these discoveries illustrated remarkably well the period of the greatest renown and prosperity of Aphrodisias ( between late Hellenistic times and the early Byzantine era , i.e. , first century BC to the seventh century AD ) , archaeological evidence for a long prehistory dating back to the fifth millennium BC was recorded in excavations of two habitation mounds , or höyük , located at the heart of the Roman city . |
| 50 | The lift leading down to the diving area was only twenty feet away . |
| 51 | The tusks branched , one limb reaching up to the leafy mass on the head , the other reaching down , becoming tendrillar , tendrils curling round the torso and the arms , then down the spindly legs , supplying lobate oak-leaves as a covering for the scored , scoured , bark-like flesh below . |
| 52 | I could hear their feet on the stairs , then a voice shouting down to the blind man in the road outside : ‘ Pew ! |
| 53 | ( The little road going off to the left here , towards Host a , I certainly do n't advise ; it scared the wits out of me one afternoon , so steep , narrow and broken was it ) . |
| 54 | However policy-makers ' overriding concern with inflation and the calculations about likely reactions of financial markets to inflation-risking economic policies ( notably in Britain in 1976 , France in 1982 — 3 , and Australia in 1984 ) have forced advocates of state spending on to the defensive . |
| 55 | Bicester is also a well known hunting centre with a hunt dating back to the late 1700s . |
| 56 | This is a very special 14-night tour which has only one departure on 19 June — perfectly timed to give a limited number of our customers a chance to attend the opening night of the Verona Opera Season : Verdi 's Don Carlo , performed in the 20,000 seat Roman Arena amphitheatre dating back to the 1st century . |
| 57 | They have had a substantial number dating back to the abortive anti-British campaign of the 1950s . |
| 58 | The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate . |
| 59 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 60 | Prest ( 1967 ) concluded that this system was successfully grounded in procedural tradition dating back to the 1860s . |