Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very hard not to put your own views on to other people 's lifestyles . |
| 2 | Spoon blobs of the choux pastry on to wet baking sheets and bake in a pre-heated oven for 15 min . |
| 3 | Not all surveyors have the same ambition and aptitude , and unless training is the reason for putting appropriate surveyors on to certain jobs , it is advisable to select those individuals who have experience relevant to , and interest in , the particular project in hand . |
| 4 | Pipe outlines of sixteen lifebelts on to non-stick paper — inner and outer circles , with a hole about 2·5cm ( 1inch ) in diameter . |
| 5 | The man in the light-brown coat spooned the henna powder on to fancy scales with tiny brass weights , then folded it into a sheet of brown paper tied up with string . |
| 6 | There are only three ways of controlling phylloxera : by grafting on to phylloxera-resistant rootstocks , the accepted method ; by planting into ‘ phylloxera-proof ’ soil of at least 85% sand content ; or by submersion ( flooding the vines ) for a period of sixty days in slightly permeable soils and ninety days in very permeable soils , sufficient to kill phylloxera but hardly practical for a working vineyard , especially when there is every likelihood that the parasite will return . |
| 7 | Grafting on to American rootstock led to a much needed rationalisation , whereby only the best sites in the classic regions were replanted and only noble vines were cultivated . |
| 8 | ‘ They spray the laminated surfaces on to small electrical equipment . ’ |
| 9 | The trouble had started in March when Mohawks on the Kahnesatake reservation in Oka , Quebec , 33 km south-west of the city of Montreal , erected a barricade on a highway to prevent the town council from extending a golf course on to sacred burial land . |
| 10 | There was even less money available for education after September , when many new famine duties and financial burdens were shifted from Moscow on to local authorities . |
| 11 | So you 'll all learn how to divert your phones , and camp on to other people 's and all sorts of things like that , which are rather jolly , so you 'll do that later on . |
| 12 | The next stage was to transfer this jumbled narrative on to A4-sized cards . |
| 13 | In Britain , caste is not really relevant in the same way , it usually gives rise only to petty jealousy ( except where intermarriage is concerned ) . |
| 14 | In pure strength , apart from their flexibility , the lashings , sewings and bindings used by primitive peoples , and by seamen down to recent times , are more efficient than metal fastenings , indeed sledges are still made in this way . |
| 15 | Heather puts the loss of the money down to pure bad luck . |
| 16 | But then she did n't usually sleep so soundly out of doors , and she put her reactions down to recent stress . |
| 17 | Stop schooling sessions three months from foaling , resort only to gentle ambling . |
| 18 | Brig Cumming said a key element of the plan was to ‘ picket the people ’ in other words to set up communications lines so that all levels of the factions from top commanders down to local warlords and the actual troops manning barricades were aware of the nature of the convoys and when they were planned to pass through a specific area . |
| 19 | The company is second in exports only to British Aerospace , which were worth £3.1bn last year . |
| 20 | For example , we could , as an experiment , allocate similar child care cases randomly to different interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other . |
| 21 | Leaving aside the unresolved problem that this raises , the significant fact from the point of view of the present discussion is that bituminous coals with ranks down to medium volatile grade occur in South Wales and Kent , and as low as high volatile grade in South Wales and Somerset immediately to the north of the Variscan Front , and appear to be disappearing beneath it . |
| 22 | Transfer the 3rd and every following 5th stitch on to adjacent needles at left and right at centre 0 , that is , with four stitches for cable at centre . |
| 23 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 24 | Place some royal icing in a piping bag with a medium writing nozzle and pipe small trellised squares on to non-stick paper . |
| 25 | Pipe ladders on to non-stick paper , and leave them to harden . |
| 26 | Several downlights angled close to a wall of paintings ( say 60 cm [ 2 ft ] out from the wall and 60 cm [ 2–3 ft ] apart ) will give a dramatic effect by splashing light on to various surfaces with contrasting shadows in between . |
| 27 | The buckled roof of the modern , brick-built warehouse threw light on to ruined bundles of clothing . |
| 28 | copy any programs or data on to removable media without the owner 's permission and proper regard to licence and copyright ; |
| 29 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 30 | Unlike cane furniture , Lloyd Loom is made from strong spun kraft paper , wrapped round wire and woven into a firm weave , upholstered by hand by Lincolnshire craftsmen on to strong beechwood frames . |