Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spoon blobs of the choux pastry on to wet baking sheets and bake in a pre-heated oven for 15 min . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Body position and movement also play an important part — although the fact that turns latch on to each other successfully in telephone conversations seems to suggest that these factors , like gaze , are perhaps not as important as might at first appear . |
| 6 | They moved their stand on to 79 , the second best of the first wicket this season , before Kellett was caught behind off Jon Ayling for 37 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No , no , look I must ring here , we have a bit on to that behind the tree , you can let that happen . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The next stage was to transfer this jumbled narrative on to A4-sized cards . |
| 11 | In Britain , caste is not really relevant in the same way , it usually gives rise only to petty jealousy ( except where intermarriage is concerned ) . |
| 12 | Heather puts the loss of the money down to pure bad luck . |
| 13 | ‘ Owners complain about low prize money but there is no point in our executive putting up £25,000 with prize money down to fourth for a non-sponsored race if they wo n't support it . |
| 14 | With visibility down to 25 yards in places , three motorists were killed in the M1 in Derbyshire . |
| 15 | With visibility down to 15 yards , rescue teams struggled to reach the man , but a doctor pronounced him dead . |
| 16 | Stop schooling sessions three months from foaling , resort only to gentle ambling . |
| 17 | Once , as she was heading towards the gate ( thus walking in the direction opposite to that which Agnes was to take somewhat later , followed by the gaze of her unfortunate schoolfriend ) , the secretary turned , smiled and lifted her arm out in the air in an unexpected gesture , easy and flowing . |
| 18 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 19 | However , tachistoscopic half-field studies with normal subjects suggest that for sinistrals the presence of familial left handedness reduces perceptual asymmetry for non-verbal as for verbal tasks ( Gilbert , 1977 ; Albert and Obler , 1978 ) or shifts the asymmetry in the direction opposite to that for dextrals ( Schmuller and Goodman , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | Within each handedness group the difference between female inverters and non-inverters was in the direction opposite to that predicted by Levy and Reid but , for males , the difference was in the predicted direction . |
| 21 | As usual , I felt that , on taking leave , I ought to proceed in a direction opposite to that which he was taking , because there was a mystery as to where Eliot lived , and I did not want to appear inquisitive . |
| 22 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 23 | Visibility Especially to those bosses with more power . |
| 24 | THE Queen , rather pre-occupied these days , has nevertheless found time to quash attempts to strip Sir Walter Raleigh of his title for introducing the dreaded weed in to this country . |
| 25 | In enacting a liberal abortion law Maryland pursued an course opposite to that being followed in much of the rest of the country . |
| 26 | With regard to Eadmer 's emphasis on the negotiations between the king and the pope , it is important to remember that , although the material for the Historia Novorum down to 1100 was collected in Anselm 's lifetime , the final text belongs to the years after Anselm 's death . |
| 27 | As an economic system , Europe , in spite of its internal contrasts and competition , remained a unity down to 1914 . |
| 28 | In February 1912 the majority was down to fifty or sixty ; in June the Unionists made their first real attempt to " snap " the government and got the majority down to twenty-two . |
| 29 | The resignation of Bryan Portman , corporate finance director , earlier this year had slimmed the company 's board down to three — James Gulliver , chairman , Eddie Dayan , managing director , and David Tibble , finance director . |
| 30 | Still descending , I started a left-hand orbit down to 800 feet , than carb heat off . |