Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 2 | One by one , he put the drowsy birds on to the top perch . |
| 3 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 4 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 5 | The College maintains close and constant links with the other seven Welsh colleges which run courses in agricultural education and students who obtain a National Certificate in Agriculture at one of them can transfer to the Welsh Agricultural College on to an Ordinary National Diploma course . |
| 6 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 7 | According to On Location ( January 1985 ) , a trade paper , they achieved 130 seconds of film at a resolution of 3000 x 1620 pixels ( that is , nearly five million ‘ bits ’ of picture information ) in mapping flat still-picture data on to a simulated sphere and programmed in movements from a map of wind-currents on Jupiter . |
| 8 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 9 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 10 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 11 | Ybreska vaulted over the low , crumbling wall surrounding the old churchyard on to the rough pitted track which led towards Tbilisi . |
| 12 | SAVE 's proposal was to transfer the ‘ air rights ’ of the old building on to the lorry-park site . |
| 13 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |
| 14 | Moreover , MacDonald was in principle in favour of an election , but unable to secure agreement upon a formula which could reconcile protectionists and free traders up to the very last moment . |
| 15 | I use a 300gsm Arches rough cotton watercolour paper , and brushes ranging from a no3 for detailed work through to a one inch for broad colour washes . |
| 16 | Despite a lingering tendency to see the Chinese cult of the dead as a simple and direct projection on to the mystical plane of the strict code of filial piety controlling the behaviour of sons towards their fathers , recent studies by Sinological anthropologists are increasingly adopting a wider cosmological perspective which places the dead , where they naturally belong , among the other spirits and forces of traditional Chinese religion . |
| 17 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 18 | They appointed their own French administrators down to the lowest levels , leaving the Annamese powerless and humiliated in their own land . |
| 19 | We sat down and Harvey speared fried chicken on to the three plates . |
| 20 | Could I also say that erm again going back to Strathclyde that there is a , a social , there is a subsidy for those services erm where there is a social need up to a certain point and that is governed by the finance available , but its not as though , this is just the commercial network , in fact , er I think its erm something in the order of ninety two per cent of services in Strathclyde are commercially operated and it is Strathclyde region that fills the gaps . |
| 21 | In so far as they secured a satisfactory response then they succeeded in lifting their own fiscal crisis up to the central level of the state . |
| 22 | Although the Germans had used a warning radar since before 1939 , the Bruneval station included a new Würzburg set with its 20-foot ( 6m ) dish aerial able to range guns and direct planes on to a single aircraft . |
| 23 | Its proposals are workable and provide a framework for services which can be applied at all levels from the government at the top right down to the professional worker in direct contact with the recipient of services . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , Ross … ’ she sighed helplessly as he lowered her damp body on to the cool sheets . |
| 25 | Miss Fergusson , on the other hand , had merely been put into a temper : first by the attempt to thrust some foolish meaning on to the scriptural verse ; and secondly by the priest 's brazen commercial behaviour . |
| 26 | According to the PLO 's sources , the Toshiba radio-cassette bomb used to destroy Flight 103 had been built by Khaisar Haddad , also known as Abu Elias , a blond , blue-eyed Lebanese Christian member of the PFLP — GC , who passed the completed device on to an Iranian contact in Beirut . |
| 27 | Having forced the Old King on to the defensive , Philip was able , in subsequent negotiations , to demand that Richard stop his harassment of Toulouse . |
| 28 | Titmuss 's famous book The Gift Relationship ( 1970 ) used the example of donating blood to raise the whole discussion about giving and social welfare on to a philosophical level . |
| 29 | Through his maternal grandmother , Jones fancied he could trace a distinguished ancestry back to the Norman conquest , but he grew up in straitened circumstances , and money remained a problem throughout his life . |
| 30 | Dessie … one of the greatest of all the Gold Cup winners was in town to get the racing week off to a flying start … |