Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This can be seen as a system for design in which the mapping of function on to the geometric domains is raised to the next level in which the requirement to manage and control the process is mapped on to the sub-processes or departments .
2 It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day .
3 Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter .
4 Secondly , it is of course up to the individual credit granter to decide whether or not to enter into a transaction requested by an individual customer .
5 This is , by definition , neither a penalty clause , nor a limitation of liability up to a certain amount , because it is supposed to be a genuine pre-estimate of the damage .
6 The revenue gained from this reform should be used so that contributions rise by single percentage points over bands of income up to the upper earnings limit .
7 Look out for products from companies such as Marshalls who have an attractive range of paving from the rugged , riven-faced textures of Heritage through to the seven shades of the brick-sized Keyblock system .
8 At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies .
9 He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival .
10 payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter .
11 She took a couple of steps on to the damp surface , lost her balance and collapsed to her knees .
12 There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform .
13 Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade .
14 Use a little royal icing to cement the two pieces of roof on to the sloping sides of the house , propping up the eaves with toothpicks too if necessary .
15 Heroic efforts alone could lift a poor man and woman , or even their children , out of the slough of demoralisation on to the firm plateau of respectability and , above all , define his position there .
16 She slammed the saucepan of potatoes on to the draining board .
17 And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression .
18 You arrange to draw Bills of Exchange up to an agreed limit payable at a stipulated future date — the minimum for each individual bill is £50,000 .
19 The concept reared up fully formed : the sparkling snowflake of Steel City fragmenting from the hub of fire , spilling bodies into vacuum , the debris plunging flaming spears of fall-out on to the dense towns of Earth .
20 Procedures for preparation of tax computations will have to be reviewed to ensure easy transfer of figures on to the new returns .
21 I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire .
22 A crash of musketry off to the right flank betrayed that the farms to the west were under attack , but here in the centre , where the road led enticingly to the crossroads , the enemy was still hidden .
23 ( D ) That this Agreement shall not apply in any case where a policy is underwritten on the basis that the Insured is responsible for the payments of sums up to a predetermined aggregate amount .
24 Hold this left transfer tool in your left hand and take the three stitches at right of centre on to the second transfer tool in the same way .
25 Put as simply as possible the hypothesis is : — From the start of life up to a certain time which is designated the Dawn of Civilisation , ‘ goodness ’ was being created from one source only , that source being the endless stream of infinitely small but favourable evolutionary changes or events , producing an infinite number of minute units of what , by virtue of its favourable nature , has been termed ‘ goodness ’ , the outcome of each favourable event being regarded as one unit .
26 ‘ It is his mother , ’ Mrs Ames was saying later , dropping a blob of cream on to a warm scone , ‘ she is seventy-four .
27 As it was , alongside the battering ram of Scottish public opinion came the well-directed arrows of Charter 88 's Democracy Day to force the key questions of liberalising and decentralising the governance of Britain on to the political map .
28 To step out of bed on to the cold lino , and to begin dressing and shivering , took considerable courage .
29 A small amount of excavation down to a new lower-level concrete floor slab then provided sufficient height for two habitable storeys in the central zone of the building ( Fig 42 ) .
30 Today synthetic diamonds are commercially available in a range of sizes up to the present maximum , the de Beers ‘ Synthetic Rotary Dresser ’ stones , which have a weight of 2 milligram , ( equivalent to a cubic diamond of 0.8 mm edge ) .
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