Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 8 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ It is his mother , ’ Mrs Ames was saying later , dropping a blob of cream on to a warm scone , ‘ she is seventy-four . |
| 19 | To step out of bed on to the cold lino , and to begin dressing and shivering , took considerable courage . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Basically , the levy will bring the price of food up to the level set for that product by the agricultural policy of the EEC , a price the EEC will pay European farmers . |
| 22 | Involvement varied from the informal exchange of information through to the detailed organisation of local visiting programmes . |
| 23 | Involvement varied from the informal exchange of information through to the detailed organisation of local visiting programmes . |
| 24 | This reportedly brought Germany 's level of contribution up to a level similar to that of Japan . |
| 25 | Every fifty years there was a redistributions of land back to the original owners . |
| 26 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |
| 27 | Two were already straining from the hands of their masters , neck ruffs erect as they waited for the moment of release on to the sawdust-strewn pit floor . |
| 28 | The Chieftain attribute identifies the lexicographer who is permitted to approve the transfer of material back to the main archive , and to reallocate ‘ ownership ’ of bundles of entries . |
| 29 | Like many men of the muirlands and remote districts of Ayrshire in the 17th century , John was a fervent opponent of the imposition of Episcopacy on to the Scottish Kirk . |
| 30 | However , the vendor company may prefer a share sale preceded by an extraction of dividends to depress the value of Target down to the net value of its assets less liabilities . |