Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli army issued new orders on Feb. 2 , apparently in response to pressure from Israeli settlers , easing the circumstances under which soldiers in the occupied territories were authorized to open fire . |
| 2 | However , the watering down of a basic and principled commitment , within Labour or any other libertarian party , especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality , could prove deeply discrediting . |
| 3 | Employers ' preference for various categories of older workers reflects , in part , the importance of on-the-job training and experience over that of formal education ( especially in relation to recruitment within the firm 's internal labour market ) . |
| 4 | How the different pairs respond will indicate to her whether any of them are mature enough in drama to structure for themselves . |
| 5 | There are great difficulties in assessing health effects , however , since exposure varies greatly from house to house within small neighbourhoods . |
| 6 | There will then be taboos against appearing " naked " in inappropriate situations , though just what counts as either naked or inappropriate varies greatly from place to place for no very obvious or logical reason . |
| 7 | However , productivity differs less from country to country for non-traded goods than for tradables . |
| 8 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 9 | So in order to sort of effect effective change , you really need to do it very slowly and incrementally . |
| 10 | Next , he sang about ‘ Wine Flowing in the Garden of Eden ’ and then got the audience swaying gently from side to side to the tune of ‘ My Jane , my Pretty Jane ’ . |
| 11 | When you are kneading , move gently from side to side in time with your hands . |
| 12 | The melt regimes under ridges and hotspots are usually modelled as regions that are zoned laterally and vertically with respect to degree of partial melting . |
| 13 | Their situation was similar to the well-known triangular struggle between the Barretts of Wimpole Street , Elizabeth colluding with her father in an illness which kept her tied to home until Robert Browning won her away from invalidism to health through marriage . |
| 14 | Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp say they will step up their production of 4M-bit memory chips shortly in response to recovery in the US market : Hitachi intends to boost monthly output by July to 8m from the current 7.5m and as it is near capacity will have to get more of them from Goldstar Co ; Toshiba said it would raise monthly output to between 6m and 7m by September from the 5m or so it is doing right now . |
| 15 | Thus in contrast to bilateralisation of language functions in this group spatial performance is more distinctly lateralised . |
| 16 | The French applied the tourniquet just in time to stagger to a winning start . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may adjourn any meeting held by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above from time to time during the period of one month next following the first day of such meeting , but no longer . |
| 18 | As in his previous adventure , the weed helped save him ; he made his way laboriously from tuft to tuft of the blackened reeds that thrust their way through the mud and ice . |
| 19 | Keane , in County Monaghan yesterday preparing with the Irish squad for tomorrow 's Group Three World Cup qualifier , is still under contract to Forest until the end of October . |
| 20 | The atmosphere of bonhomie was suddenly gone , and in the frosty silence that followed , Harry Pascoe swayed deliberately from side to side in his chair , as if he were in his cabin aboard the Russell and a gale was blowing . |
| 21 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 22 | The exact movements vary from species to species but in a typical finch such as the chaffinch the body is turned towards the owl , the crown-feathers are raised , the legs are bent , the wings are slightly raised , and the body is jerked quickly from side to side in a crouched , bent-leg posture , while the tail flicks up and down . |
| 23 | High up on the other side of the square is a sign on which words pass rapidly from right to left across a bank of lights . |
| 24 | Izzie sat at his head and Gabriel at his feet , while the sun moved gradually from shoulder to shoulder of the stained-glass saints in the window of the gallery , and cast a variety of colours across the scales of Lucie 's costume . |
| 25 | But plants left to seed have their own beauty , the seed-heads turning gradually from green to orange to rusty brown , sometimes reaching a height of 5ft , tracing delicate patterns against the sky . |
| 26 | He raised a hand with abrupt , convulsive passion and stroked her cheek , long fingers smoothing eloquently from temple to chin in a gesture of helpless apology . |
| 27 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 28 | In plant production there appears to be little concern over the techniques involved in breeding new varieties , except possibly in relation to breeding for herbicide resistance . |
| 29 | Yes , well , owing to the fact that we moved home from Street to Road in , which was roughly just under a mile from town , meant a change of school then . |
| 30 | GHI verdict : The clip-on grater and citrus press allow food to drop straight into the jug , avoiding spills and waste , and the jug and bowl can be taken directly from freezer to microwave for reheating . |