Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But David Townsend , director of Croydon SSD , has complained to Herbert Laming , SSI chief inspector , that inspectors should wait a few months for the reforms to bed down . |
| 2 | In windy weather there will be a definite tendency for the fuselage to weathercock round into wind unless the tail-wheel or skid is chocked . |
| 3 | Turning on Mungo , Mr Cottle paused to blow his nose , a signal for the trees to edge in on all sides , shutting out the sky . |
| 4 | The extent of the surrender varies from one person to another , and the assumptions about the claim to privacy also vary — not only from one person to another within a given group or society , but from one society to another and from one historical period to another . |
| 5 | Among the restaurants is the Savini , Milan 's most prestigious , where opera-goers congregate after a performance to while away the rest of the evening in expensive surroundings . |
| 6 | This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did . |
| 7 | The rolling forest of Wensleydale that surrounded Bainbridge has gone now , with its deer and wild boar , but the horn that was blown at dusk every evening between Holyrood and Shrovetide to lead travellers out of the forest to safety still hangs behind the bar of the Rose and Crown , although it is blown now only at village weddings . |
| 8 | This is not the easiest region of the skeleton to sex especially if broken and fragmentary . |
| 9 | Women have been neglected in studies of the transition to retirement even though the proportion of women participating in the labour force , and therefore undergoing retirement from paid employment in their own right , has been growing steadily — an example of the patriarchal construction of retirement both in practice and in policy analysis and research . |
| 10 | THE rise in share prices that followed the return of the Tories to power sharply reversed the falls that occurred following the announcement of a General Election . |
| 11 | The installation of these CFC-free units is just part of a drive to phase out ozone-depleting refrigerants at head office |
| 12 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 13 | A KILLER stabbed three generations of a family to death then started three fires in their home . |
| 14 | It is , I think , also of interest to note that section 84 will normally come into play for the benefit of a defendant to action already begun by the local authority in the county court . |
| 15 | My staff tell me that the elderly people have sort of taken to it like a duck to water almost . |
| 16 | Blake was amazed at the discussion and how these men could talk about a whole planet in one conversation ; in his day it was not unusual for a conversation to centre solely on one part of London , and only in times of war was England ever considered as a single entity under threat . |
| 17 | The earlier plans of 1939 were considered inadequate and in 1951 Mr Robert Frater ARIBA was asked to provide plans for a church to seat about 386 . |
| 18 | The strategy is that it is difficult for a predator to home in on its target in the confusion which follows an attack on a shoal which scatters in all directions . |
| 19 | Until then an individual could obtain income tax relief for a gift to charity only if the gift was made under a Deed of Covenant . |
| 20 | Integrating primary care into the contracting framework of the health service will have advantages for patients , doctors , and managers but general practitioners could see it as a threat to independence rather than an end to isolation . |
| 21 | It is rather that the idea and ideal is always likely to function as a corrective to complacency rather than as a prop to It . |
| 22 | There was , for one thing , a strong tendency for writing to be used as a help to memory rather than as an autonomous and independent mode of communication ’ ( ibid. p. 40 ) . |
| 23 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 24 | Secondly , there is a need to facilitate the finance of other objectives of economic policy such as fulfilling the objectives of the SEA , and act as a handmaiden to growth both inside and outside the EC . |
| 25 | Thus , so soon after the pronouncement of the intention to restructure industry , through trade unionism , as national co-operatives and so in effect to deny labour to conventionally organised industry , reality compelled the unions to start fashioning themselves as a response to capital rather than as an alternative to it . |
| 26 | He or she will be interested therefore in the products of information technology as a means to communication rather than as a store of data . |
| 27 | are you going up the road to town then ? |
| 28 | In the middle of the night , the ruling party 's congress wound up its work with a resolution to hand back to the state all superfluous assets . |
| 29 | Chamfer the cut edges of pipe to allow easy fitting of the coupling — a few gentle taps with a hammer to chip away the edge is enough . |
| 30 | In this case you will probably join as temporary legal assistant with a view to establishment later . |