Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he bravely put his grief to one side last night and donned his funny hat for the fans . |
| 2 | They sat at their favourite table overlooking a pond to one side , covered with clusters of red and white water-lilies in full bloom , and the sea on the other . |
| 3 | They also took the opportunity to fit a Packman to one side of the sprayer to end the chore of filling the sprayer manually for ever . |
| 4 | Once it had had a lawn and trees and borders but except for a small area , testament to one chap 's enthusiasm for vegetables , it was , says Mrs Hewer , ‘ quite ungardened ’ . |
| 5 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 6 | They tend to favour a minimum of two or three reporting to one man at a level above them . |
| 7 | Crueller still is the fact that a loss to 16 fight challenger is likely to rob McKenzie of his last chance to make the big money he richly deserves after 10 years of sterling service . |
| 8 | Backbench rebels put the defeat to one side and vowed to continue their battle to scupper the controversial Euro treaty . |
| 9 | In reply to one question , ‘ In track it 's the legs that go first , would you say … ’ , she interrupted with a modest , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 10 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 11 | During next five years leads Ibrox club to three League titles and four Skol Cup wins . |
| 12 | Rout or spokeshave the 45° angle on the underside and put the seat to one side until the shaped parts are ready . |
| 13 | Having constructed a working model , as it were , he left his conscious mind to one side and relied upon his ear — what he described as the interdependence of rhythm and diction , or the recognition of meaning when it is embodied in cadence . |
| 14 | I found a niche below a roof to one side and sat and ruminated while the sun rose and filled the upper valley with light . |
| 15 | Yes , you only link one cell to one cell . |
| 16 | If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other . |
| 17 | After much detective work I traced the fault to one push-on connector on the lead from the power supply unit which was not tight enough . |
| 18 | More would be cumbersome and you are probably wise to restrict library study to one topic at a time . |
| 19 | There is , incongruously , an open car to one side of the market . |
| 20 | Facts : pleaded guilty on one indictment to one count of theft , one of false accounting and one of obtaining by deception , and on a second indictment to seven counts of theft . |
| 21 | Claudia was at last putting her unhappiness to one side and was ready to concentrate on the all-important show . |
| 22 | The neodymium glass laser , nicknamed Vulcan , provides pulses of intense laser light to two target laboratories . |
| 23 | The new $12 million museum , which opened in May , is more a monument to one man . |
| 24 | Put a small piece of the peel to one side . |
| 25 | Sir Jeffrey , who has acted as unpaid and part-time special adviser to six trade and industry secretaries , yesterday added a seventh to his belt . |
| 26 | The reduction in VAT from 22 p.c. to 18.6 p.c. from next Monday will bring car prices down by about 2.8 p.c . |
| 27 | Rivals pointed to the 35 p.c. to 44 p.c. market share chalked up by Ford in the closing days of March to support their arguments . |
| 28 | But operating margins widened from 6.6 p.c. to 7.1 p.c. as the group strove to raise efficiency through initiatives such as wastage reduction and automatic re-ordering , made possible by the growth of scanning at checkouts . |
| 29 | Already , General Portfolio has dropped the rate on its one-year bond from 9 p.c. to 8.4 p.c . |
| 30 | Annual charges range from 0.5 p.c. to 1 p.c . |