Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] 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 This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise :
6 Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme .
7 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 .
8 They have caught on to the right idea , by saying ,
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task .
13 This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as
17 Fairfax — Fahfakhs — who was a big man in the government had come down to the little town where Tepilit was held .
18 She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum .
19 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 ) .
20 Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project .
21 an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting .
22 Here , everyone had been friendly , and the difference carried through to the whole club .
23 These sorts of books have such an excellent hardback sale which is not always carried through to the same extent with the paperback .
24 It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade .
25 First built at the time of Edward I , it has been occupied through to the present day .
26 Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets .
27 Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans .
28 This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships .
29 The foil packs have a flat bottom so that they can stay upright when water is being added up to the measuring mark on the pack .
30 This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI .
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