Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He intended to build terraces of houses right up to the Head but only the new Park Road was slowly completed , chiefly because of the steep hill . |
| 2 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 3 | Green Believers are now pressing the priests of rich-world industry to scan supply chains right down to their poor-world beginnings . |
| 4 | Discourse can be anything from a grunt or single expletive , through short conversations and scribbled notes right up to Tolstoy 's novel , War and Peace , or a lengthy legal case . |
| 5 | In a special feature , Graham also flicks through the seed catalogue from Victorian times right through to the present day and comes up with some very interesting results . |
| 6 | From the filament in the fog lamps right down to the washers on the wipers . |
| 7 | Yet the government 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory has tested roads only up to 20 million standard axles . |
| 8 | They lowered their voices right down to the floor . |
| 9 | A beautiful demonstration of the importance of calcium loading in priming RYRs was described in sympathetic ganglion neurons , where the rapid removal of external calcium could prevent the caffeine-induced spikes right up to the onset of the all-or-none phase ( Fig. 4c ) . |
| 10 | From the primitive algae of the Archaeozoic era , which ultimately would continue as mosses and fungi right up to the present day , there was a branching off of the lycopodiates , early ferns , cycladals and filicales . |
| 11 | A wide range of information has been supplied , ranging from details about local walks right through to the opportunities for work in rural areas . |
| 12 | There was clearly an increase in population from probably the ninth and tenth centuries right through to the troubled fourteenth century , but there are several ways in which extra people can be fed and accommodated on the land . |
| 13 | As he did so , he kept darting his eyes nervously back to his little room and the manuscript on the desk ; but when he got back in , puffing a little , he was smiling and giving little mutters of pleasure : ‘ Well , this sure is nice of you , real friendly … ’ |
| 14 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 15 | They led 5–2 at half time and always had a safe cushion of at least two goals right through to the final whistle . |
| 16 | Imagine a source at B on the collapsing surface , S , sending light waves radially out to the remote observer at A , who is stationary with respect to the centre of the object . |
| 17 | In its place , service stations were to be required to install vapour traps directly on to petrol pumps . |
| 18 | He lifted her , tender-clumsy , keeping the shiny covers chastely up to her shoulders . |
| 19 | With his approval ratings now up to 40% , Mr Florio leads the Republican candidate , Christine Todd Whitman ( who almost upset Senator Bill Bradley in November ) , by nine points . |
| 20 | The recent cuts in the mortgage rate — with the cost of borrowing on homes now down to around the 7–8% level — will also fuel a wave of spending in the high street . |
| 21 | In a little while the waiter was back , bowing , smiling , leading them up two flights of steps then through to a table at the centre of the house . |
| 22 | The death on May 4th of Haruyuki Takata , an unarmed policeman in Cambodia , also led the Japanese government to order all its people working for the United Nations there back to the capital , Phnom Penh . |
| 23 | Rostov took two paces forward on to the matting . |
| 24 | We could just see the hazy point where , in that August of 1883 , the Dutch administrator of south Sumatra and his family had observed the tidal wave rise inexorably 150 feet right up to the veranda of his residence , pause , and withdraw again , taking some of his flowerpots , half the hillside , and the entire town with its population of some 800 people . |
| 25 | Overhead arm stretching exercises : these help to stretch the body from the feet right up to the neck . |
| 26 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 27 | A sprung-edge base has springs right up to the edges , giving greater comfort and causing less wear on the mattress |
| 28 | Instead , a now very fat Halima would be found at all times of day , demanding oats , by standing deep in the fence with wires right up to her armpits ! |
| 29 | Because of this , boxing remained the major sporting area for blacks right up to and beyond the World War II period , though it was not until 1948 that they were allowed to contest a British title . |
| 30 | Both Doherty and Stephen Beatty fired in decent crosses early on to test the Tbilisi keeper and then Johnston almost get on the end of a long punt upfield by Dornan . |