Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 2 | Substantial memory melted suddenly to consciousness of present loss . |
| 3 | This owed much to analyses of the labour market by H. Llewellyn Smith , of the Board of Trade . |
| 4 | This situation was in blatant breach of Article 13 of the European Convention , which requires that anyone whose rights ( eg to freedom of expression ) are violated should have an " effective remedy " . |
| 5 | In the same case Lord Scarman , at p. 186 , referred approvingly to observations of Harman L.J . |
| 6 | There is a peculiar appropriateness , especially to readers of today , in the use of the Glasgow grocer to reconcile the mixture of Ruritanian romance and political forecast in this late Buchan thriller , whose emotional direction is never entirely clear . |
| 7 | Apply once or twice a week , especially to backs of arms and thighs , your feet , elbows and knees . |
| 8 | • Media work has a particular significance , leading naturally to discussion of how spoken language and visual accompaniment are interpreted ; this leads to an understanding of the processes of selection , omission and editing which take place when any programme is prepared . |
| 9 | If , by agreement with the continuing partners , the personal representatives , themselves duly authorised by provisions in the will or otherwise , are content to leave the deceased 's share in the continuing firm by way of loan , for example to help the firm over some temporary financial difficulty , they do not on that account become entitled to any account of the profits of the firm , merely to payment of interest at the agreed rate . |
| 10 | They , they gave you enough to sort of live on . |
| 11 | Aeromagnetic surveys over the United Kingdom and the North Sea provide plentiful data on the intensity of the crustal anomaly field down to wavelengths of about 1 kilometre , but not on its direction . |
| 12 | It is no use putting these accidents down to acts of God . |
| 13 | I 've no wish to see the hungry rafters sitting down to plates of burnt offerings . |
| 14 | By 1957–58 only a quarter of male students were manual workers and men were down to 42% of the total student body . |
| 15 | It was on just such a dais as this above the feudal retainers , he supposed , that the Saxon thanes would have sat down to trenchers of roasted wild duck and suckling pig . |
| 16 | In the Cup , so much is down to luck of one kind or another and one flash of individual brillance can settle it . |
| 17 | If the stall occurs above about 500 feet , the accident can be put down to lack of awareness and poor stall and spin recovery training . |
| 18 | Poor attendances were put down to lack of big names . |
| 19 | So what of Councillor claim that it 's all down to lack of Government cash . |
| 20 | They 'll of course attempt to claim that any future cuts in schools ' budgets are down to lack of government funding . |
| 21 | Mm and they should n't be ca n't , rather it ca n't be down to lack of contact I would n't have thought . |
| 22 | WinPad includes a Windows-like operating system scaled down to 1Mb of ROM and a highly integrated two- or three-chip set encompassing the system 's essential logic . |
| 23 | When An Teallach passes from sight behind foothills , the road turns down to scenery of a very different character , to the beautiful trees and parklands of Dundonnell and vistas of sylvan charm . |
| 24 | If your camcorder is one of the new low-light models which can take pictures down to levels of 2 lux , you could simply switch on the normal top lighting in your lounge and start recording some perfectly adequate pictures . |
| 25 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
| 26 | And the Midland actually goes down to sort of the top of erm Cambridgeshire , |
| 27 | ‘ No , I mean , ’ says Howard , waving his arms about , ‘ I mean , is n't it perhaps just that the writers you deal with sort of live down to sort of your expectations ? |
| 28 | All at the end you do is losing your voice and , and if you do n't get your way , then you it up louder and louder and louder and if you do n't get your way you may have to back down then and the aggressive person backing down to sort of a submissive does n't always hold very much credibility . |
| 29 | I do n't know maybe it may just be come down to sort of the individual theatres I suppose |
| 30 | I s I was still only down to sort of eleven stone , but if I get to like ten stone |