Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file . |
| 2 | Towers of brick reach up to the sky , |
| 3 | I dropped each denomination of Cayman coin on to the sand to see how the machine responded to them . |
| 4 | Anthropologists have continued to employ participant observation as their major method of data collection up to the present day but , from about the 1930s onwards , sociology and anthropology grew further and further apart . |
| 5 | Arrangements such as joint market research , and the joint execution of research work up to the stage of industrial application , were stated to be compatible with Article 85(1) , provided that participating companies did not restrict their freedom of action . |
| 6 | She drooped miserably into the farmhouse , dropping her bag of rehearsal clothes on to the floor . |
| 7 | A German crew belonging to Elektro Thermit of Essen are welding a strip of manganese steel on to the rail to extend its life . |
| 8 | I turn from this rather convoluted erm aspect of cash flow back to the balance sheet . |
| 9 | It would be cheaper for the government to subsidise the employment of widget makers up to the cost of having that person registered unemployed , rather than the company using automated technology . |
| 10 | I watched the first flood of water race down to the sea , muddy and littered , then turned to head for home . |
| 11 | The Millend area formed a detached part of Leonard Stanley up to the 19th century . |
| 12 | Hydra sprawls from the boundary of Canis Minor through to the south of Corvus and Virgo . |
| 13 | This set the pattern for all later accounts of El Cid up to the seventeenth century , when medieval sources were frequently questioned as to their ultimate accuracy . |
| 14 | Indeed , rebellion was intrinsic to the growth of State power up to the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | By far the most effective way of changing the cubic capacity of the ocean basins is to vary the volume of the mid-ocean ridges ; increase in volume will cause a displacement of sea water on to the continents and vice versa . |
| 16 | She saw prisoners being hauled out of squad cars up to the doors . |
| 17 | An autonomous Kurdish region had existed from 1923 to 1929 in the area extending west of Nagorny Karabakh up to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border . |
| 18 | On the shoulders of these characters would rest a final responsibility for conveying four of the six principles of TV drama out to the audiences at home . |
| 19 | It was noted that linking with the Roman Catholic Education Commission had causes problems of communication since the latter was mainly concerned with schools , and that it was to be hoped that putting the promotion of house groups on to the agenda of the Bishops ' Conference would prove more fruitful . |
| 20 | This was in use for flour milling up to the 1930s , and records show a mill on that site since at least 1376 . |
| 21 | Durham police are taking the war against solvent abuse on to the streets and into local shops . |
| 22 | The canal can be readily followed from the river near Canonica d'Adda through to the Central Station where it peters out beside Via Tirano . |
| 23 | Dakotas were used to support the operations in South West Africa against SWAPO insurgents up to the peace settlement of 1989 . |
| 24 | The track from Dent Town up Flinter Gill on to the " Ocky " , as locals call it , is an old green lane , with rough boulders and stones paving the steep way out of the dale used in former days by packhorse trains and coal-carts coming over from Ingleton and Barbondale . |
| 25 | There are now nine regional councils ( ranging from Strathclyde with 2.3m inhabitants down to the Borders with 101,000 ) and fifty-three district councils ( ranging from 744,000 in Glasgow to 10,000 in Badenoch and Strathspey ) . |
| 26 | Accordingly , payments made in consideration or in consequence of , or otherwise in connection with , the termination of the holding of an employee 's office or employment , or any change in its functions , may be eligible for relief from income tax up to the first £30,000 , provided such payments are not otherwise chargeable to tax under Schedule E ( see ss148 and 188 TA 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Garden criminals range from gnome-snaffling pranksters to professionals who swoop on country houses at night armed with a crane and a lorry , ready to snatch everything from £20,000 orchids down to the last £700 Koi carp in the pond . |
| 28 | ‘ An English beggar dressed in tatters swaggers up to the abbey gates , asks for a casket to be handed over , and the monks cheerfully comply . ’ |
| 29 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 30 | Once the early morning jobs were done there was a relaxing of discipline , and when the family returned from church everyone on the staff , from Mr Priddy down to the newest domestic , was invited to the second-best parlour to receive a small present . |