Example sentences of "or [adv] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a couple of miles from San Gimignano on the road to Certaldo , a turning on the left leads on amidst fields , olive groves and vineyards for a further mile and a half or so to the tiny hamlet of Pancole . |
| 2 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 3 | He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’ |
| 4 | In any event , we have stressed that the perceptions relate as much or more to the informal context within which teachers and advisory staff work as to formal procedures . |
| 5 | Rather than travel a mile or more to the medieval church , many Thurlstoners turned to Nonconformity . |
| 6 | Erm and you see people frequently charging across the middle or even to the right-hand side of them because they do n't believe that you know that that they have to you know er be observed and gone round and erm whatever . |
| 7 | Holywood have already used the Valley synthetic pitch twice during their run to the semi-finals , and may consider going there again , or even to the new pitch at Jordanstown . |
| 8 | The ethic of abstinence and effort could hardly be applied to the success of the American millionaires of the 1860s and 1870s , or even to the wealthy manufacturer , retired to a life of country-house leisure , still less to his rentier relatives ; to those whose ideal was , in Ruskin 's words : |
| 9 | In the nineteen hundreds , he was concerned with the foundations of mathematics , and then for the remainder of his life , roughly between nineteen-ten and nineteen-fifty , or indeed to the very end of his life , he was concerned with two sets of knowledge , erm problems in the theory of knowledge , and problems about social organization and personal conduct . |
| 10 | In both cases Nizan is carefully detached from any real ideological involvement in the party , with the result that he can be conveniently presented as a precursor of a non-communist New Left , in opposition either strategically or naively to the totalitarian oppression of the party itself . |
| 11 | possession and enjoyment of the property is not bona fide assumed by the donee at or before the beginning of the relevant period ( in theory therefore , if the donee assumes this late , the provisions will be offended ) ; or 2. at any time in the relevant period the property is not enjoyed to the entire exclusion , or virtually to the entire exclusion , of the donor and of any benefit to him by contract or otherwise then the provisions of Finance Act 1986 , s102 will apply . |
| 12 | Secondly , at any time in the relevant period the property given to the donee must be enjoyed by the donee or it seems any other person to the entire exclusion or virtually to the entire exclusion of the donor . |