Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 2 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 3 | It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper . |
| 4 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 5 | My brain adjusted slowly to the Russian language and to Victor 's hair . |
| 6 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 7 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 8 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 9 | some proteins are exposed only to the interior surface of the cell . |
| 10 | some proteins are exposed only to the exterior surface of the cell . |
| 11 | Japan has taught much to the Western business world . |
| 12 | Even if it is possible , the individual may be assigned only to the broadest concept of ‘ racial stock ’ . |
| 13 | No District Court accepted the exclusivity argument , many relying on a superficial reading of Article 27(c) of the Convention , which allows Contracting States to permit ‘ by internal law or practice , methods of taking evidence other than those provided for in this Convention ’ ; the better view is that this freedom is given only to the requested country and does not refer to the country from which the discovery request originates . |
| 14 | At the end of it , just before Myeloski had given in to the rough flight conditions , Duncan had come to realize how sharp the policeman was , how through his individual approach he had put together clues that most others would have missed . |
| 15 | They have caught on to the right idea , by saying , |
| 16 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 17 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 18 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 19 | His cool , shuttered gaze had dropped slowly to the open neck of her blouse , and , suddenly tingling with self-consciousness , she lifted a casual hand to her throat , fingering the silky collar , her skin warming under that overtly masculine scrutiny . |
| 20 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 21 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 22 | But you can see if this lot gets converted to carbonate and then that water then gets mixed down to the deep water , it will be replaced at the surface with water which has a low carbonate concentration which will suck more C O two out of the atmosphere . |
| 23 | Indonesia and Malaysia have responded belligerently to the European parliament 's resolution calling for a ban on imports of tropical hardwoods . |
| 24 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
| 25 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 26 | Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held . |
| 27 | This homology is not confined only to the kinking proline residues and the long basic side chain of arginine but also includes the hydrophobic amino terminal valine or alanine . |
| 28 | Tending to follow market values , heriots might form realistic death duties , but other seigneurial perquisites , such as profits of the court , rarely added much to the total income . |
| 29 | She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum . |
| 30 | The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) . |