Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the cylinder rotated , it was carried slowly from right to left under the mouthpiece by a screw mechanism , so consecutive lines of undulations were left in the tinfoil . |
| 2 | Earlier sections of this chapter have indicated the existence of recent , major changes within manufacturing in the UK economy , in the geography of manufacturing and in uneven development more widely ( for uneven development can not be considered only in relation to manufacturing — and later chapters will add to this wider picture ) . |
| 3 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
| 4 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 5 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 6 | At Esgair Moel Woollen Mill all the processes of woollen manufacture are carried out from fleece to flannel |
| 7 | The massive amount of activity by developer builders after the mid-1960s , which continues to this day , can not be described as unplanned , given that it was carried out in relation to land-use planning and the provision of infrastructure . |
| 8 | Although the WHO has called for a worldwide effort to stop AIDS , responses to the epidemic have varied considerably from country to country . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , they were able to continue the art classes ( to Leonard 's chagrin , a Saturday morning event ) alongside needlework and other crafts , which were exhibited locally from time to time . |
| 10 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 11 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 12 | The single parameter that we manipulated was whether the landmarks and feeders occupied fixed locations across trials ( group fixed ) or were moved randomly from trial to trial ( group varied ) . |
| 13 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 14 | German political ambitions would then be turned away from nationalism to Europeanism , and Western European co-operation would also prevent Germany being lured into the Soviet camp . |
| 15 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wallace saw the great northern continents of Eurasia and North America as the chief focus of progressive evolution from which higher types had radiated out from time to time . |
| 18 | Erm in some ways they 're persecuted bu , but they tend to get pushed around from post to post . |
| 19 | Because models were moved frequently from rock to rock throughout an immense colony , we believe no individual 's response was scored more than once . |
| 20 | The census returns show that the majority of Camberwell 's population at any one time had been born in London — 65 per cent in 1861 ; 76 per cent in 1911 — but many families had moved frequently from district to district and from street to street . |
| 21 | The family may well have moved around from street to street , but by 1785 they were settled in Fountain Lane , that most familiar of Titford haunts . |
| 22 | After Wandsworth Nicholson had moved around from prison to prison , serving his time as surely as any of the inmates in those institutions . |
| 23 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 24 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 25 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 26 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 27 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
| 28 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 29 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 30 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |