Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file . |
| 2 | Towers of brick reach up to the sky , |
| 3 | I dropped each denomination of Cayman coin on to the sand to see how the machine responded to them . |
| 4 | Anthropologists have continued to employ participant observation as their major method of data collection up to the present day but , from about the 1930s onwards , sociology and anthropology grew further and further apart . |
| 5 | Arrangements such as joint market research , and the joint execution of research work up to the stage of industrial application , were stated to be compatible with Article 85(1) , provided that participating companies did not restrict their freedom of action . |
| 6 | She drooped miserably into the farmhouse , dropping her bag of rehearsal clothes on to the floor . |
| 7 | A German crew belonging to Elektro Thermit of Essen are welding a strip of manganese steel on to the rail to extend its life . |
| 8 | I turn from this rather convoluted erm aspect of cash flow back to the balance sheet . |
| 9 | It would be cheaper for the government to subsidise the employment of widget makers up to the cost of having that person registered unemployed , rather than the company using automated technology . |
| 10 | I watched the first flood of water race down to the sea , muddy and littered , then turned to head for home . |
| 11 | The Millend area formed a detached part of Leonard Stanley up to the 19th century . |
| 12 | Hydra sprawls from the boundary of Canis Minor through to the south of Corvus and Virgo . |
| 13 | This set the pattern for all later accounts of El Cid up to the seventeenth century , when medieval sources were frequently questioned as to their ultimate accuracy . |
| 14 | Indeed , rebellion was intrinsic to the growth of State power up to the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | By far the most effective way of changing the cubic capacity of the ocean basins is to vary the volume of the mid-ocean ridges ; increase in volume will cause a displacement of sea water on to the continents and vice versa . |
| 16 | She saw prisoners being hauled out of squad cars up to the doors . |
| 17 | An autonomous Kurdish region had existed from 1923 to 1929 in the area extending west of Nagorny Karabakh up to the Armenia-Azerbaijan border . |
| 18 | On the shoulders of these characters would rest a final responsibility for conveying four of the six principles of TV drama out to the audiences at home . |
| 19 | It was noted that linking with the Roman Catholic Education Commission had causes problems of communication since the latter was mainly concerned with schools , and that it was to be hoped that putting the promotion of house groups on to the agenda of the Bishops ' Conference would prove more fruitful . |