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

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1 Turn left on road then after 30 yds turn right on to enclosed path up steps by National Trust sign for Stockham 's Hill .
2 Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) .
3 But , as her stomach gave another helpless rumble of hunger , she sank down weakly on to one of the chairs and unceremoniously began ripping off the tin foil .
4 A large , empty room with high , narrow windows through which the bright day filtered slowly on to various shades of brown .
5 Right down to that eight
6 Most are for three months or less , right down to over-night or at call .
7 The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down .
8 It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences .
9 But it must never be forgotten that the political , economic , cultural transformation of the world by European influences went on right down to 1945 and beyond .
10 From there they go right down to northern Spain .
11 Well that takes us on nicely to more interviews , this time I 'm coming down to meet members of the audience .
12 The reason for an indemnity is that such a covenant does not automatically pass on each transaction ; the burden of it needs to be handed down expressly to each subsequent buyer .
13 In summary , a 30 second delay in cord clamping with the infant held 20 cm below the introitus gives a higher initial packed cell volume and higher arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratios ( implying less right to left shunting of deoxygenated blood at cardiac or pulmonary level ) on the first day .
14 Yes , we are living in Hard Times ; but no , let us not go gently on to that good ledge .
15 Nor for those others that came so rarely to this place .
16 He had dropped down on to one knee and with head bowed seemed to be pushing at the trolley before him , which for some reason had taken on an obstinate immobility .
17 A quick but careful briefing would , in most cases , prevent incidents such as someone lifting a wing without first checking that the other wing will not come down on to another glider 's canopy .
18 Unless the wing-tips are weighted down with a tyre , one wing lifting off the ground means that the other will come down on to another glider with expensive results .
19 The slaves swung the axes low , with one accord , and the boy 's feet were cut from his legs , so that he fell suddenly on to bleeding stumps of leg .
20 Now there 's one thing that I have to alert us all to the rest may not have been important , perhaps only to some of the larger churches but groups are advised and churches are advised to make sure that in buildings that are used ah , for many different groups that young children under the age of eight do not come into contact with any casual people who may be using that building .
21 But police say that was only down to good fortune and not good driving .
22 Eligible for reduced rates , he spent his time riding round Australia , stopping only long enough to dry-clean his clothes and to buy another rail ticket .
23 Some gay men are out to their colleagues , especially perhaps to heterosexual women , while remaining in the closet with the young people with whom they work .
24 In salaries or joint finance funding , so where there are differences it is almost entirely down to those two factors .
25 I thought I would go and take one of the head ones and journey along down to that place and so , you know , is there any chance you slipping me down a good four long ones and if he says no , think again ?
26 The crowd were settling in nicely to this when Ray ‘ Preston ’ joined John for a few numbers .
27 The maximum , I think we 've ever let at any one time is three of the six units , we 're currently down only to one unit there at Alberney .
28 It is not justified by viewing his work comprehensively , even to 1967 ; still less so to 1978 when Scobie wrote .
29 This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill .
30 Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government .
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