Example sentences of "[adv] to [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , it was the sort of autonomy that Dustin had already won on his last two pictures , and would retain , much to many directors ' displeasure , in most of his future ventures . |
| 2 | Factoring itself is not a term that means much to many outsiders , although invoice discounting has the virtue of describing what it does . |
| 3 | The subtle qualities of Hartley Wood glasses , their colours , such as liney gold pink which contains real gold , and their irregular , seedy , striated effects , own much to these discoveries . |
| 4 | Mrs Gould who I am happy to say is quite well has been fully occupied in making drawings of the soft parts of the birds together with appropriate plants flowers berries etc. which will be introduced into my work and I trust from the fund of information I shall be enabled to add that the book will not be void of interest especially to all lovers of ornithology … |
| 5 | Visibility Especially to those bosses with more power . |
| 6 | Given the increasing difficulty which the local authorities are experiencing in offering financial help to their institutions , especially to those polytechnics in urban areas where their parent authorities are under greater pressure from the Department of the Environment to keep rate increases down , it may not be possible for the public sector institutions , try as they may , to keep up their student numbers . |
| 7 | Newton 's law of gravitation has no explicit time dependence , implying that gravitational effects are transmitted instantaneously to all parts of the Universe ; however , it is a basic postulate of SR that signals travel no faster than the speed of light . |
| 8 | Please or thank you , or complimenting someone on their effort , does n't seem to come naturally to many managers or supervisors . |
| 9 | Please or thank you , or complimenting someone on their effort , does n't seem to come naturally to many managers or supervisors |
| 10 | It is the structural proteins which are of real interest , as they go about the business of actually modifying cells ; the immediate early gene mechanism is a piece of molecular biological housekeeping , which probably seems arcane not merely to most non-biochemists but to biochemists as well . |
| 11 | ‘ Within the hearing or sight of a person ’ This point means that the offence must be near enough to another person(s) for it to be heard or seen . |
| 12 | In doing this you will probably find that you have become concerned , not simply with the particular task they have to carry out , but with their relations with other officers carrying out other tasks or involved with other aspects of the investigation you are writing about , even down to such matters of internal etiquette as how high does an officer have to rank before he can go into the office of a superior without knocking ? |
| 13 | Such rhetoric was backed by a proper concern for the freedom and order of the House , down to such details as a successful motion ( 16 December 1606 ) that the adjournment of a committee on a bill should be announced in the House . |
| 14 | The band 's popularity is down to many things ; a mega line-up that can muster three fiddle players , a flute hero in Frankie Kennedy , and some brill , floaty singing from Maread Ni Mhaonaigh . |
| 15 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 16 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 17 | When you get down to these groups of people , you have to work with each individual , if you , you 'll know , and find somewhere where you can capitalise on their strengths and hopefully get away with whatever disabilities they had . |
| 18 | runs down to these versions underneath . |
| 19 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd best be getting down to those hens of the old lady 's , ’ he said to Philip . |
| 21 | But there will be an opportunity for members to look at the present programme which will need pruning to get it down to those guidelines , and they can obviously make any comments they wish to , or any advice they wish to give the P A G in terms of individual schemes or the detail . |
| 22 | D. Often you will find another vertical pipe down to more caverns at a lower level . |
| 23 | He could see the long walkway below him , the small iron gates at each end with steps leading down to both sides of the house . |
| 24 | Well that takes us on nicely to more interviews , this time I 'm coming down to meet members of the audience . |
| 25 | Well that 's very impressive and encouraging obviously to any housewives who may be listening . |
| 26 | I went along to some services and again I saw how happy people were . |
| 27 | Before declaring a dividend , the trustee must give notice of his intention to do so to all creditors of whom he is aware or who are identified in the statement of affairs who have not proved their debts ( r 11.2(1) ) and advertise his intention to declare a dividend unless he has previously invited creditors by advertisement to prove their debts ( r 11.2(1A) ) . |
| 28 | A collective resolution of this sort of worry was at one time to employ someone to patrol the streets all night , calling out " Three o'clock and all 's well ! " or whatever , at regular intervals , providing reassurance to the sleeping citizens in their beds and even more so to any insomniacs . |
| 29 | More and more money from public taxation has been put in to such services one way or another , yet the services still do not work in a foolproof way , for a number of practical reasons . |
| 30 | The farsighted and Strong minded PRO will not give in to such pressures and will try to explain the pitfalls of such a course to the powers that be . |