Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reproachfully , Rosa dipped into the deep pot of olives and served a scoop of the waxy jade pebbles on to a dish and set it near Tommaso . |
| 2 | The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved . |
| 3 | At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface . |
| 4 | The speed of transmission varies from 6 minutes down to a matter of seconds per A4 page , depending on the type of fax machine used . |
| 5 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
| 6 | The payback on Visa and Access is growing as people try to keep running debts down to a minimum . |
| 7 | Star ratings , based both on equestrian and accommodation standards , run from a white one where there are well kept horse and ponies only to a purple one which offers farmhouse fare of a high standard , and where riding facilities include an indoor and outdoor riding school . |
| 8 | The boxcar , one of ten , had been parked in the marshalling-yards at Tobolsk for nearly twenty-four hours when the railway workers had come along to feed the sheep and hitch the cars on to a new engine . |
| 9 | The Joint Security Group takes intelligence about possible forthcoming terrorist attacks — usually provided by MI5 or BfV — and puts Army and RAF units on to a higher state of alert . |
| 10 | Pin the angled offcuts from the legs on to a scrap piece of wood to make an excellent cradle for planing and also for clamping blocks . |
| 11 | At lunchtime , when everyone was brewing up , the navigator plotted all those little legs on to a map . |
| 12 | Lift the triangles on to a baking sheet . |
| 13 | Other than irritating wooo-wooo , the predominant noise was a ceaseless 140-beats-per-minute boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi which seems to drive the skaters on to a higher and wilder plateaux of whirling and circling . |
| 14 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 15 | Having first transferred the shapes on to a piece of tracing paper , I find it easiest to almost trace the designs on to the cake , piercing through the outlines into the icing at regular intervals with a special cake scriber , or a sharp pin . |
| 16 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |
| 17 | Since it may be appropriate to vote funds piecemeal to a project in order to control the financial risk involved , several columns for estimates should be provided . |
| 18 | Since it may be appropriate to vote funds piecemeal to a project in order to control the financial risk involved , several columns for estimates should be provided . |
| 19 | They unloaded their trays on to a table . |
| 20 | He frequently gives interviews , and has got television performances down to a fine art . |
| 21 | Bombay-based Anil put India 's failure to exploit its manpower and mind power and its lack of excellence in sport , economics and the arts down to a ‘ Learn what is there and do n't question it ’ attitude . |
| 22 | At least you 'll have enough light to return , even if you 've worn your legs down to a stump . |
| 23 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 24 | There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform . |
| 25 | To reach the sea below guests can take the lift , footpath and flight of 177 steps down to a small private beach . |
| 26 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 27 | In the end , I never quite mastered the backhand , but I got the tantrums down to a tee ( you can not be serious ! — Ed ) . |
| 28 | They stretch from aero-engines and power stations to the NBC national-television network to electric lighting to plastics to medical-diagnostic gadgets through to a huge near-bank , General Electric Financial Services . |
| 29 | Mr How had set up a property firm called Prosperpoint , and transfered cash from his clients investment funds through to a bank in the Isle of Man , then on to Switzerland , then back to Prosperpoint . |
| 30 | DAVID FEHERTY played what he considered to be the best golf of his life in the BMW tournament in Munich yesterday , thanks largely to a tip from a friend . |