Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Follow right edge of sixth field on defined track to gate in far righthand corner ; turn left in seventh field downhill to farm in bottom corner . |
| 2 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 3 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 4 | And of Katherine Hepburn : ‘ She ran the gamut of expressions from A to B. ’ One-liners that catch the eye include : The best play I ever slept through ; I 've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella ; I saw the play at a disadvantage — the curtain was up ; The scenery was beautiful but the actors got in front of it ; When Mr Wilbur calls his play Halfway to Hell , he underestimates the distance . ’ |
| 5 | It explicitly reversed the accepted Catholic teaching which related freedom only to truth and not to persons , claiming that error had no rights . |
| 6 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
| 7 | A speck on a rock halfway to heaven was the top cablecar station , I was told . |
| 8 | A blitz baby hungry for love tries to get her hunted German lover away to safety in Canada ; an actor , taunted by his wife for being still soft and weak , replies he 's been ‘ toughened ’ by military service and proves it by strangling her , and a conductor plans to elope with his pianist mistress . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure the fans will take this defeat more to heart than me , but it 's only three points down the drain . |
| 10 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 11 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 12 | The tooth , for example , is a living organ , at equilibrium with a complex biological environment and set in the mouth close to blood vessels , nerves , sense organs and salivary glands . |
| 13 | E Company of the London Irish Rifles was standing-to in Close Order — bayonets fixed and gasmasks on , every officer and man stock still to attention , silent as grotesque dummies in Madame Tussaud 's . |
| 14 | Hydro-electric power , though renewable , has a finite limit to its development potential unlike some of the other renewables and will never contribute a great deal more to world energy supply than it does at present . |
| 15 | There is a great deal more to time than meets the eye , or has , in fact , ever been ‘ explained ’ by that unprincipled scoundrel , A. Einstein , Esq . |
| 16 | prepare for entry both to employment and higher education |
| 17 | In a speech to mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Mohammed Siyad Barre , on Jan. 26 , Farah Aydid stated his readiness for a truce , but reiterated his implacable opposition both to Mahdi Mohammed and to the idea of an international peacekeeping force , which he said would serve only to protect the " self-appointed " interim President from the Somali people . |
| 18 | The celesta is incapable of forceful delivery , but its cool , clear , limpid , yet luscious notes add a feeling of opulence and luxury even to music of a thoroughly commonplace cast . |
| 19 | Layering suspense element upon suspense element , the episode builds up tension almost to breaking point as audiences ponder the big question : ‘ What lives in that city ? ’ |
| 20 | Such a mental health ‘ sus law , ’ invoked on the basis of unreliable predictions of dangerousness , will bring psychiatric practice closer to policing and will undermine the attempts to achieve cure or care , both in hospitals and community settings . |
| 21 | The importance of doing courses at an institution closer to home is not surprising when one considers adults are likely to have commitments which limit their ability to travel long distances or stay away from home . |
| 22 | Ford makes the Joad family spring vividly to life . |
| 23 | Susan Cole-King from Burcott has already been ordained ; it was into the Episcopal Church in the United States four years ago , but Mrs Cole-King , who works as a deacon for the Oxford diocese at Dorchester , is looking forward to the day she 'll be able to act as a priest closer to home . |
| 24 | In his view , in the 1970s the drop in children available for adoption led adoption pressure groups to advocate a kind of fostering closer to adoption , with the natural parents having fewer rights to intervene in the foster placement . |
| 25 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 26 | ‘ So Damon 's giving all his money away to charity , ’ retorts Marlon sardonically . |
| 27 | Generally the results from these studies can be interpreted in terms of Easterbrook 's hypothesis , however , before applying the hypothesis indiscriminately to memory results it is necessary to remember the limitations of the hypothesis with regards to task performance generally . |
| 28 | Sam dropped his gaze thoughtfully to Midnight 's teeth tearing at his grass , and knew that his dear old bike was doomed . |
| 29 | In America it is the most common fatal form of cancer , in Britain it is second only to cancer of the lung . |
| 30 | The results , in a health and beauty magazine , show over-45s fear Alzheimer 's Disease second only to cancer . |