Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the sea anemones sticking limply to the rocks exposed at low tide , there are , almost everywhere in the world , rather different lumps of jelly . |
| 2 | The calls come via three sources : personal requests made by members of the public at the station 's enquiry desk ; telephone calls made directly to the station ; and messages relayed from BRC , the central communications network . |
| 3 | ‘ I need a few hours to report back to the office , then my time can be my own . |
| 4 | Times to go down to the pits and the sun came out . |
| 5 | The book becomes gripping once allows his own interests and opinions to come closer to the surface . |
| 6 | During Charles 's reign , lay-abbacies contributed significantly to the maintainance of royal power . |
| 7 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 8 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 9 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 10 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 11 | Although her poetry often speaks of ill health and many times looks forward to the poet 's early death , she died of measles , a sudden illness which she was too weak to withstand . |
| 12 | As they are about competence at work , they will include not only competences relating directly to the funeral service but also competences to do with working relationships or health and safety . |
| 13 | Porter , quoted by Hall , suggests that these IRCs are removing from the research councils money which should be allocated to ‘ responsive mode funding ’ ( researchers applying directly to the councils for research grants ) and basic research , because they were set up to foster research areas thought to have potential economic importance . |
| 14 | Adjusters reports should be carefully checked and any omissions or queries referred back to the Adjuster . |
| 15 | Trotskyists drew closer to the ILP again in opposition to the war , making full propaganda use of the Communists ' rapid change in policy in September 1939 and June 1941 . |
| 16 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 17 | My first real fear came only when I caught sight of Tandri 's face watching his five strongest crewmen hanging miserably to the mainstay of our rotten mast . |
| 18 | Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue . |
| 19 | As expected , having had both a spell of registered unemployment in the last 12 months and also no full time job in the last 12 months contributes adversely to the individual 's chances of obtaining an offer . |
| 20 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 21 | Steps led down to the banks of the river , and from the water 's edge , the ruins of the castle dominated the skyline . |
| 22 | A short flight of stone steps led down to the entrance . |
| 23 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
| 24 | The kind of farcical spectacle pop has n't provided for a while , it had everything from Radio 1 getting in a tizzy about whether to ban it to TOTP carrying drug warnings , from ageing DJs singing along to the chorus to ageing rockers ( Francis Rossi of Status Quo ) crawling out of the woodwork to condemn it . |
| 25 | In presence of cAMP-CRP , however , the two proteins bind cooperatively to the DNA and the cooperative DNA binding is mediated by direct protein-protein interactions between the cAMP-CRP and CytR ( 6 , 10 ) . |
| 26 | It must follow , therefore , that the way man keeps animals contributes significantly to the environment and has a consequential effect on wild flora and fauna . |
| 27 | During the 1960s and 1970s interest in the language of Caribbeans in British schools led eventually to the publication of specialised teaching materials and the implementation of policies in the light of two Commissions of Inquiry ( Bullock 1975 ; Rampton 1981 ) . |
| 28 | The flesh and bones of words rose again to the salvation of their etymologies . |
| 29 | A report by a Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food provided the first official acknowledgment that lead fall-out from cars contributed significantly to the lead content of food . |
| 30 | His eyes flickered down to the gondola . |