Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want a conventional light switch to control the new lights , run the sub-circuit cable to a four-terminal junction box first , and connect the new switch cable tin to it before running cable on to the new lights . |
| 2 | This can be seen as a system for design in which the mapping of function on to the geometric domains is raised to the next level in which the requirement to manage and control the process is mapped on to the sub-processes or departments . |
| 3 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 4 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 5 | Once I have finished knitting the first side of the neck it is very easy to replace the stitches for the second side on to the correct needles and knit on for a ‘ clean ’ neck every time . |
| 6 | Use a little royal icing to cement the two pieces of roof on to the sloping sides of the house , propping up the eaves with toothpicks too if necessary . |
| 7 | The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file . |
| 8 | In summer the reedbeds resound to the songs of reed and sedge warblers , and in spring up to a dozen bitterns boom mysteriously from the reeds . |
| 9 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 10 | It was a wonderful vision but over the course of centuries , the gardens became building plots , access to the new houses being obtained by demolishing part of the ground floor of a house to provide a passageway through to the new dwellings . |
| 11 | Look out for products from companies such as Marshalls who have an attractive range of paving from the rugged , riven-faced textures of Heritage through to the seven shades of the brick-sized Keyblock system . |
| 12 | We sat down and Harvey speared fried chicken on to the three plates . |
| 13 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 14 | The lighted shop windows threw a bleak illumination on to the empty pavements . |
| 15 | Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia . |
| 16 | And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression . |
| 17 | A more complete record of sequencing data specifically in the algal , protozoan and prokaryotic groups would be necessary to trace the evolutionary origin of this intron type back to the alpha-purple bacteria , the bona fide eubacterial ancestors of mitochondria and the suspected common origin of these introns . |
| 18 | As you begin to send your work around to the various publications , keep a record of which stories and poems have gone where . |
| 19 | It was n't until she had successfully launched The Body Shop on to the Unlisted Securities Market that she began to examine the direction in which the business was going and to start articulating its mission in a definitive way . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , Ross … ’ she sighed helplessly as he lowered her damp body on to the cool sheets . |
| 21 | Defries continued to shoot , locking her beam on to the diminishing targets and sending light-fast bursts of energy into the shadowy interstices of metalwork high above . |
| 22 | A mouth that trembled and opened to expose pointed thorns for teeth seemed to work to speak ; over all , the shape of the woodland creature was that of a wolf , but a bare boned wolf , its fur gone , its flesh shrunken on to the jutting bones of its body . |
| 23 | The concept reared up fully formed : the sparkling snowflake of Steel City fragmenting from the hub of fire , spilling bodies into vacuum , the debris plunging flaming spears of fall-out on to the dense towns of Earth . |
| 24 | The sum , the largest single components of which came from Japan and the USA , exceeded the $600,000,000 which earlier UN estimates had suggested would be necessary to fund the peace process through to the scheduled elections in 1993 . |
| 25 | He went through his entire gamut of the accents of Scotland , from his Hebridean fisherman through to the harsh tones of Glasgow . |
| 26 | My 100 metres win had set the team off to a great Championships . |
| 27 | It was our unclouded commitment to women , and greater insistence that the fundamentals of sexism should be tackled without compromise , that brought youth service attention back to the young women who for decades had been excluded by boys and men . |
| 28 | Luke had turned his attention back to the other women , and none of them had attention to spare for anyone but him . |
| 29 | Morrissey , still the object of scorn for his apparently traiterous move to London , was considering a move back to the plush surrounds of Hale Barns ( home of many a former Manchester City player ) in Cheshire . |
| 30 | Erm a and that has , that has led us from the group back to the individual tenants , and one |