Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They therefore travel daily from town to country to do seasonal work as agricultural labourers . |
| 2 | This should be conducted soon after admission to hospital to assess the effect of commonly consumed alcoholic beverages on gastrin release and gastric acid secretion and the results should be compared with gastric histology . |
| 3 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |
| 4 | She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable . |
| 5 | Although the sun had risen it was still dusk between the trees , and Allen was able to move quickly from cover to cover keeping the Waste in view . |
| 6 | It rested on the myth that the peasantry were instinctively socialist and that it was possible for Russia to bypass capitalism , moving directly from semi-feudalism to socialism based on the peasant commune . |
| 7 | Partly in response to concern caused by the iodine tablets incident , partly because of Chernobyl , the new Alliance-led Somerset County Council took two important initiatives . |
| 8 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
| 9 | The Council may also from time to time promulgate Codes of Practice if it is of the opinion that such codes will further the objects of the Council . |
| 10 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 11 | Either : place the pears in the saucepan with the boiled wine mixture and simmer for 10–15 minutes , turning the pears carefully from time to time to ensure even colouring . |
| 12 | Inside we were greeted by the sight of a gaggle of top-heavy Sikhs energetically bopping around the hall to 1970s disco music ; beautiful Hindu ladies lilted delicately from side to side trying to avoid stepping on each other 's saris . |
| 13 | For Beccaria 's conception of punishing purely in proportion to harm done failed to distinguish between ‘ crimes ’ committed intentionally , under duress or provocation , or even by accident . |
| 14 | The top drape is made up from a 150 cm square of fabric cut across diagonally from corner to corner to make two triangular shapes . |
| 15 | Andrea Whitcombe led almost from start to finish to retain her title at the Women 's National Cross-Country Championships at Birkenhead . |
| 16 | They are precise in detail yet from time to time break away from the formal patterns of Petipa 's well-ordered conventions . |
| 17 | All monies shall be kept with the Society 's Bankers , unless and until otherwise from time to time resolved by the Society in General Meeting , and all cheques shall be signed by one member of the Executive Committee and countersigned by the Treasurer or Secretary . |
| 18 | ( c ) All monies shall be kept with the Society 's Bankers , unless and until otherwise from time to time resolved by the Society in General Meeting , and all cheques shall be signed by one member of the Executive Committee and countersigned by the Treasurer or Secretary . |
| 19 | All monies shall be kept with the Society 's Bankers , unless and until otherwise from time to time resolved by the Society in General Meeting . |
| 20 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 21 | Such a move is only a matter of time , but the time-scale will vary considerably from authority to authority depending on the phasing-in of their delegation schemes and the speed at which they restructure the various service departments to meet the new role which has to be created within the strategy and time-scale set down by the legislation . |