Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved . |
| 2 | At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface . |
| 3 | The boxcar , one of ten , had been parked in the marshalling-yards at Tobolsk for nearly twenty-four hours when the railway workers had come along to feed the sheep and hitch the cars on to a new engine . |
| 4 | The Joint Security Group takes intelligence about possible forthcoming terrorist attacks — usually provided by MI5 or BfV — and puts Army and RAF units on to a higher state of alert . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He frequently gives interviews , and has got television performances down to a fine art . |
| 7 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 8 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 9 | There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform . |
| 10 | They stretch from aero-engines and power stations to the NBC national-television network to electric lighting to plastics to medical-diagnostic gadgets through to a huge near-bank , General Electric Financial Services . |
| 11 | The truth , since that seems to be the painful area we are now entering , is that when I was last measured , which was in the fifth form at school , I entered the official records at 5ft 8½in , thanks largely to a tempestuous hairstyle , and by the cunning device of raising myself onto my toes as the sports master lowered the wooden measure . |
| 12 | On the other hand , poorer residents , in spite of their organisation and activity , could often do very little to press their demands through to a successful policy outcome . |
| 13 | The eastern bank between Chepstow and Monmouth gets Offa 's Dyke walkers off to a flying start — there 's superb walking high above the river with sensational views . |
| 14 | In consideration of your agreeing to make an offer , on behalf of our customer , [ client name ] for the whole of the issued share capital of a company known to both of us under the code name [ ] ' , we , [ name of Bank ] London Branch , [ address of Bank ] , hereby guarantee that our customer , [ client name ] have available to them funds up to a total amount of £ [ ] . |
| 15 | Finally it will provide an indication of the incidence of special classes in HE to bring candidates up to an adequate level of attainment to cope on the mainstream course . |
| 16 | If he had let go , he would have fallen about thirty feet on to a narrow ledge , where boxes had been placed to break his fall . |
| 17 | Any idea what you do to make all of these other intervals in to a minor interval apart from those two ? |
| 18 | The clarity of the phrase is not advanced by the inclusion in Article 7 of the statement that ‘ courts in border areas of States Parties ’ ( meaning , presumably , areas close to a common frontier between states of origin and destination ) ‘ may directly execute the letters rogatory contemplated in this Convention ’ . |
| 19 | McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket . |
| 20 | Precisely for this reason [ the anarchic factor ] there may be errors up to a certain point . |
| 21 | Consequently , whereas computer networks used to be regarded primarily as a way of sharing expensive equipment — for instance , by hooking several sites up to a single mainframe — now the emphasis is increasingly on the sharing of information . |
| 22 | The trainers not only have to develop skills but also the professional maturity which enables the interpreter to use those skills responsibly to a defined code in the professional context and to confront and absorb in a positive way the inevitable stresses that come with the job — working in situations which may involve death , birth , bereavement , trauma or abuse . |
| 23 | Put the potato mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle and pipe 6 nests on to a greased baking sheet . |
| 24 | Where a taxpayer appeals successfully to an independent VAT Tribunal costs are generally awarded . |
| 25 | Where a taxpayer appeals successfully to an independent VAT tribunal costs are generally awarded . |
| 26 | If you 'd had all people come in and try to bring in new ideas on to an old system , I do n't think it would have worked . |
| 27 | While Ben went to get their luggage she led her guests over to a small building , separated from the main house by a large garage complex . |
| 28 | The tournament gets the club 's 40th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start and , with the season just a week away , represents the last chance for the clubs to test their form . |
| 29 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 30 | Grants to the colleges of advanced technology made at the time of their transition to university status brought the college library stocks up to a similar level . |