Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent shortage at auction of outstanding examples of Victorian painting is put down to vendors ' unfounded fears that prices for even the best must have suffered . |
| 2 | Armed thus , and in the mood for , erm , fun , Mr Mooncult stormed down to Paris ' notorious Pigalle red light area and proceeded to lob his ‘ ammunition ’ at puzzled transvestites . |
| 3 | All kinds of hand tools , ranging from picks , mattocks and shovels down to builders ' pointing trowels and even teaspoons and paintbrushes , are used . |
| 4 | The King addresses him in verse to start with , but then comes down to Parolles ' level in prose , the medium in which Lafeu and Diana also address him , recognizing his inferior ethos ( All 's Well that Ends Well , V.iii.238ff . ) . |
| 5 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
| 6 | Fitting in to others ' expectations , e.g. spouse , friends or colleagues . |
| 7 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 8 | Over the coming months , the cuts in interest rates since last September will be filtering through to homeowners ' pockets , and this should help to lift consumer confidence , Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's distributive trades panel , said yesterday . |
| 9 | The use of such tests is a controversial issue , with on the one hand , anti-abortion lobbies arguing that life begins at conception and that therefore all abortion is wrong , through to womens ' groups who believe that such tests should be available to all pregnant women of all ages , so that those who do not wish to take the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child may take the appropriate actions to prevent it . |
| 10 | ‘ What reason did he give you for coming all the way over to Otters ' Bay when he could perfectly well have slept in his boat ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Come over to Otters ' Bay again and beg for shelter . |
| 12 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 13 | For him it meant a brief wait until he was of the appropriate age of 21 , in December 1807 ; barely a month later he was off to Doctors ' Commons in St Paul 's Churchyard to sign an allegation ‘ … that he is of the Parish of All Hallows , Barking , London , a bachelor … ’ and ‘ … that there is no lawful impediment … ’ before being issued with a licence by the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Faculty Office . |
| 14 | The research will try and determine users needs in terms of open systems and this year , for the first time , supply-side research will also be conducted to determine how vendors ' offerings measure up to users ' stated requirements . |
| 15 | Only a pilot project , he insists , will determine whether or not the technology lives up to suppliers ' promises . |
| 16 | THE 1980s was the decade when the sleeping giants of the High Street banks tried to wake up to customers ' needs before competitors stole accounts from under their noses . |
| 17 | Read on to see how well each pair measures up to makers ' claims . |
| 18 | With the tax-inclusive price on the vertical axis , the demand curve DD is unaffected , but the supply curve shifts up to SS ' ; . |
| 19 | The first ran up to Strauss ' Life of Jesus , and struggled with the question whether the supernatural and miraculous elements in the gospels should be accepted . |
| 20 | Struggling backs not up to forwards ' standard |
| 21 | At this , Golding decided they should be driven back to Swans ' Meadow , accompanied by Finch and a lugubrious detective sergeant called Barrett . |
| 22 | At Vergina , later in the fourth century , the quality of recently discovered fresco-painting suggests an established tradition which might go back to Archelaos ' time ; and continuity is also suggested by Pliny 's statement ( Natural History xxxv.62 ) that Zeuxis gave Archelaos a painting of Pan , who was to be patron deity of the third-century Macedonian king Antigonos Gonatas ( see the coin illustrated as frontispiece to W. Tarn ( 1913 ) Antigonos Gonatas ) . |
| 23 | How in this context are they to be drawn back to Jesus ' people ? |
| 24 | This strange mood seemed to leave her then , and she turned and hurried back to Sikes ' house . |
| 25 | ‘ It follows , said Karelius slowly , ‘ that I ca n't go back to Sanders ' place . |
| 26 | to move excess stocks on to retailers ' shelves ; |
| 27 | Prior to the launch of Compaq 's DeskPro/M series he upgraded from 286s to 386SX computers by shuffling the older machines on to secretaries ' desks . |
| 28 | German companies typically hang on to employees ' contributions and write pension liabilities on to their balance sheets . |
| 29 | What will happen when Jerry Rubin gets around to Physicists ' , Engineers ' , and Molecular Biologists ' Night ? |
| 30 | We were almost round to Otters ' Bay now . |