Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hear it we travelled to Leighton Moss , that wonderful reserve belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds close to the shore of Morecambe Bay . |
| 2 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 3 | Salt-laden winds also increase the salinity of lochs close to the west coast , and may raise the nutrient content and base status of coastal blanket bogs as in western Ireland ( Sparling 1967 ) , possibly explaining the presence of plants such as Schoenus nigricans , which grows profusely in some coastal peatlands in the Western Isles . |
| 4 | There has been a delegation of powers downwards to the Réunion and individual museums , and in 1991 the Réunion changed its statute to operate more like a private enterprise . |
| 5 | Hitchens Quality Homes has developed a number of properties close to the golf club , ranging from two bedroom detached bungalows ( £159,500 ) to three bedroom three storey houses ( £169,950 ) . |
| 6 | Those who took the decisions at the Fourth Lateran Council were a very small group of cardinals close to the pope and , on occasion , the pope himself , alone . |
| 7 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 8 | It would be clearly better for the UK , given its dismal failure on the inflation front , to be exposed to the discipline of the ERM irrespective of developments further to the East . |
| 9 | The more tightly bound , or closer , to the nucleus an electron is , the more energy is required to dislodge it ; thus radiation of short wavelength , that is , with more energy , produces photoemission of electrons closest to the nucleus . |
| 10 | Iro squandered a couple of chances close to the line at the start of the second half , but held on to Clark 's pass to make room for Edwards to score in the 50th minute , Phil Bancroft adding a touchline goal off the post . |
| 11 | Check the family 's hair weekly for eggs close to the scalp . |
| 12 | A bent metal coat hanger may work for blockages close to the trap but , unlike plumber 's snakes and curtain wire , it will not go round bends . |
| 13 | Dealing opened in lacklustre mood but managed to edge up thanks largely to a rise in manufacturing output between December and January . |
| 14 | With gunnels close to the water , much shouting and sharp warnings to sit still , Hussa and I dragged the boat back home . |
| 15 | The normal mouse has 40 chromosomes which are all acrocentric with centromeres close to the terminus and almost invisible short arms . |
| 16 | Ferranti continued with presentations yesterday to the group of more than 10 companies believed to have expressed an interest in bidding for the company or providing it with equity capital . |
| 17 | With engines close to the centre of the aircraft body there is very little asymmetric force being exerted when only one engine is producing thrust but with engines widely spaced in the wings , as they are on the Canberra , there is a great deal of thrust on one side and nothing on the other to counterbalance it . |
| 18 | ‘ She was going to him with letters right to the end . ’ |
| 19 | The colonial assemblies saw themselves as bodies parallel to the House of Commons and they felt they could use their authority over finance to control the royal governors . |
| 20 | The Royal Family led the massed veterans and onlookers in singing O God Our Help In Ages Past to the accompaniment of the bands of the Guards Division . |
| 21 | The relatively peaceful and well-governed " home counties " of the Duke of Aquitaine , from Poitiers westwards to the sea at Talmont , then down the coast to Bordeaux and up the valley of the Garonne as far as Agen , comprised an area as large as midland and southeastern England and included some of the most prosperous and commercially developed parts of the whole duchy . |
| 22 | Contamina-XXXX tion is highest in areas closest to the plant . |
| 23 | For example , in areas close to the sea the newcomers have been predominantly retired couples whose impact i n the local housing market has again caused resentment in those regions where they have become concentrated , such as Devon and Cornwall . |
| 24 | However , will my hon. Friend consider the impact on residents in areas close to the landing pads for helicopters providing such services ? |
| 25 | As can be seen in Fig. 18.4 , spots have a characteristic shape in planes parallel to the wall , something between a triangle and a heart-shape , with the narrower part towards the downstream end . |
| 26 | Vertical pitches descend 250 feet to an immense cavern , second in dimensions only to the chamber in Gaping Gill . |
| 27 | Both sexes produce their reproductive cells in glands close to the base of the second pair of legs . |
| 28 | It 's especially valuable to get comments on the modules which are in the Programme of Work for that year or the coming year because then we can feed comments from practitioners straight to the Module Development Group . |
| 29 | Further investigation is , however , encouraged by the pattern of coal ranks in coalfields just to the north of the Variscan Front , as shown for instance by National Coal Board maps ( Anon 1960 ) and summarised on Fig. 4 . |
| 30 | In The Guardian Robin Denselow touched on subjects closer to the heart of this book : ‘ The Smiths may be the most popular band in Britain but the contradictions within this tunefully doomy quartet seem ever more bizarre . |