Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the pattern of Japan 's postwar history owes much to Occupation policy . |
| 2 | We 'd alighted at Kirkby Stephen 's spruce little station , 19 miles down the line , especially to bag supper at the Horseshoe . |
| 3 | He accepted the original challenge from Technology plc and said : ‘ I 'd like to express my appreciation to Walsall FC and especially to Technology plc , who arranged the coach for the CMS team 's 15 spectators who travelled down to Walsall and for organising the match officials and buffet in the evening . ’ |
| 4 | The sensor will react instantaneously to body heat and bring on a light outside your home whenever anyone approaches . |
| 5 | They calculate that the ageing population is adding 1 per cent annually to health service costs . |
| 6 | The main point , however , is that this alternative way of analysing profit seems to lend itself more naturally to business thinking and can be linked in with conceptual thinking about strategy . |
| 7 | Posters , magazines , even songs , held out the prospect of Arcadia within travelling distance of the metropolis — a detached house in leafy seclusion , but close enough to golf club , tennis club , and railway station . |
| 8 | Too much attention was paid to low-damage but high-publicity cases like oil spills and the famous toxic waste in Love Canal , not enough to habitat loss and global warming . |
| 9 | Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ? |
| 10 | I 'm not stupid enough to risk taking hold of your muddy paw now ; you 'll pull me in too ! ’ |
| 11 | so that was n't strong enough to shovel coal ? |
| 12 | The orders came from Command right down to squadron level ; the preparations started about mid-morning as soon as this vast sheet of paper from the teleprinter indicating every facet of the job ahead arrived . |
| 13 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 14 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
| 15 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
| 16 | Quite a few of us from used to go down to cricket match . |
| 17 | Seemed to be going down to south coast of the river |
| 18 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 19 | I took them down to Paradise Park for sexing . |
| 20 | After twenty minutes or so , turn the oven down to gas mark 4 , 180°C/325°F and roast for a further twenty minutes per pound . |
| 21 | Austria has 10 resorts with skiing down to valley level . |
| 22 | When it returns to surface daylight , it flows quietly down to valley level at Ribblehead ; here it adopts the name of River Ribble and turns south on its long journey to Preston and the Irish Sea . |
| 23 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 24 | With dye terminators , 96 templates can be sequenced in a single microtitre dish and excess dye terminators are removed 24 samples at a time by gravity chromatography using a perspex block of microcolumns scaled down to microtitre format ( 12 ) . |
| 25 | The ‘ political officer ’ ( zampolit ) , posted down to company level , is the linchpin of political control , charged with overseeing military-political training and the enforcement of Party policy . |
| 26 | After that we 're down to emergency lighting , just the aisle lights and not much else for about four hours , then we 're in the dark . ’ |
| 27 | One of the early theories about the causes of hyperkinetic syndrome put it down to brain damage , but research has failed to find any evidence of this . |
| 28 | " I believe in the instinctive wisdom of our well-tried democracy , " declared Churchill in 1945 — shortly before going down to election defeat . |
| 29 | ‘ Shall I bring them down to Water Gypsy this evening , or will you come up to Chimneys to see them ? ’ |
| 30 | I am beckoned , ‘ You must take this down to desk number twenty-three . |