Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] 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 | Heather puts the loss of the money down to pure bad luck . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | With visibility down to 25 yards in places , three motorists were killed in the M1 in Derbyshire . |
| 14 | With visibility down to 15 yards , rescue teams struggled to reach the man , but a doctor pronounced him dead . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As an economic system , Europe , in spite of its internal contrasts and competition , remained a unity down to 1914 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Still descending , I started a left-hand orbit down to 800 feet , than carb heat off . |
| 21 | Chidzero on July 27 , 1989 , announced a stringent budget for 1989-90 aimed at reducing by 11 per cent the previous year 's budget deficit , and bringing the deficit down to 9 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 22 | First cut away the damaged wood , then brush the special hardener on to all remaining soft fibres . |
| 23 | Transfer the 3rd and every following 5th stitch on to adjacent needles at left and right at centre 0 , that is , with four stitches for cable at centre . |
| 24 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 25 | Swiftly slip the numbered ring on to one of its legs . |
| 26 | Several downlights angled close to a wall of paintings ( say 60 cm [ 2 ft ] out from the wall and 60 cm [ 2–3 ft ] apart ) will give a dramatic effect by splashing light on to various surfaces with contrasting shadows in between . |
| 27 | The buckled roof of the modern , brick-built warehouse threw light on to ruined bundles of clothing . |
| 28 | Mr Chairman , this , in actual fact , I can put a little bit of light on to this , I mean , having had two of my children , erm , attended this , Air Training Corps . |
| 29 | He concluded that the liquidators ought not to make the transcript available to the SFO unless it undertook not to use the statements in the transcript in any prosecution against Mr Naviede ( otherwise than in accordance with s 2(8) ) , and that it would not pass the transcript on to any other authority without first securing a corresponding undertaking . |
| 30 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |