Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backpackers need to keep the weight high and close to the back , but ski-mountaineers and climbers need the weight to be kept lower to increase stability , although weighty things should be kept close to the back . |
| 2 | As the right leg is lifted on the turn , it should remain high and close to the body . |
| 3 | The inedibility of the early land plants to animals and , apparently , fungi led to the great Coal Measures of the Carboniferous and thus to the fuel of the Industrial Revolution and thence the technology for the destruction of those forests ' successors . |
| 4 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 5 | To control the power keep the sail low and close to the water to decrease its effective area and slide one or both feet into the straps whilst lying in the water . |
| 6 | By following the punchcard instructions you will be moving the lace carriage sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right . |
| 7 | The loose-boxes were set around three sides of a square and away to the right , half-hidden , was a neglected-looking dwelling . |
| 8 | The major step in agriculture was the opening-up of the rich lands of the Ukraine as Russian rule was consolidated against Turks , Crimean Tatars , and Cossacks , while the establishment of outlets to the Baltic and then to the Black Sea greatly expanded foreign trade . |
| 9 | Macbeth , short and severely to the point , is not a play onto which you can get much spin , but what we are given here is a treatment devoid of ambiguity . |
| 10 | Since acquisition by the Atlantic Group , the Miaco operation has been streamlined and refined and up to the FlyPast visit had overhauled 25 Pratt & Whitney engines . |
| 11 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 12 | The Chiefs in both areas — cryptography and intelligence — were distinguished from the Indians because they were fewer , preponderantly male and had better jobs — better because they were more responsible and closer to the brush of real events . |
| 13 | Hitherto , it had been achieved by the male cells swimming through water , a process which demanded that the sexual generation be small and close to the ground . |
| 14 | If a well-structured book is the answer then we have gone full-circle and back to the benefits of a systematic text-book . |
| 15 | He must be both desperate and close to the end to take such an enormous risk . |
| 16 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 17 | Replies are coming in thick and fast to the invitations , and as yet there have been no refusals — the charm of McBride and his way with words will undoubtedly see that there will be a full quota on parade . |
| 18 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 19 | By the beginning of this century Ayrshires were being exported in large numbers to Finland , Sweden and Canada in particular and also to the USA , Australia , New Zealand and Japan . |
| 20 | Engholm , entered the Bundestag in 1970 , was seen as more centrist , northern and closer to the trade union movement than his rival Oskar Lafontaine , who stood unsuccessfully for Chancellor in 1990 and declined the leadership of the party at that time [ ibid . ] . |
| 21 | With Felbrigg left behind the route continues to Hanworth then over Thwaite Common and on to the village of Erpingham . |
| 22 | A women 's team was launched at her university and this season they seem destined to be the top student side in the UK as they are currently unbeaten and through to the semi-finals of the students ' cup competition . |
| 23 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 24 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |