Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without Stannard , Essex failed to convert any of 14 short corners in the final and with him back in the team , they can go purposefully to Cannock on April 17–18 . |
| 2 | Having talked sensibly to Anna about her chosen course of study , I am certain she is aware of the demands it will make on her . |
| 3 | Such compromise would , he suggested , lead inexorably to censorship to ‘ protect Muslim sensibilities against gratuitous provocation ’ . |
| 4 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 5 | It says that the discharges from the plant , which is run by British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) , are carried upstream to Preston on the incoming tide and deposited in mudflats used by children to play . |
| 6 | The ego , as says , is open to the outside world and furthermore to stimulations from inside , from inside the body , that reach it through subjective sensations like hunger when you need food , or fear when something threatens you , and cognitive er awareness like er okay you realize that before you have your lunch you 're gon na have to go to the bank to get some money to pay for it . |
| 7 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 8 | Substantial memory melted suddenly to consciousness of present loss . |
| 9 | Surely a few minutes in my arms is n't going to mean much to Harry at this stage , one way or the other . |
| 10 | This owed much to analyses of the labour market by H. Llewellyn Smith , of the Board of Trade . |
| 11 | It was a beginning , but 1815 was reached with not much to acclaim in day-school provision for working-class children and with no national policy as yet in prospect . |
| 12 | They are not much to look at but they may contain oil , which is why the Philippines keeps a garrison there . |
| 13 | Public ownership was perceived as a means whereby the state elites could direct the Francoist strategy of economic autarchy launched in the 1940s , which in turn owed much to concerns with national security . |
| 14 | He has contributed much to music in the Farnham area during the last 20 years and the many supporters of the Tilford Bach Festival will no doubt want to hear what will be only the second performance of his work . |
| 15 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There ca n't be much to farm around Caldbeck , can there ? |
| 17 | Terry and Middleton have become one of the country 's most reliable opening partnerships , so it was something of a surprise when , in the 19th over , Middleton was leg-before to Hooper for 27 with 68 on the board . |
| 18 | This situation was in blatant breach of Article 13 of the European Convention , which requires that anyone whose rights ( eg to freedom of expression ) are violated should have an " effective remedy " . |
| 19 | In the same case Lord Scarman , at p. 186 , referred approvingly to observations of Harman L.J . |
| 20 | The corporate approach demands , as Bains outlined , a central focus in both departmental and committee structures , and John Stewart has argued that this does not lead necessarily to domination by officers or to policies favourable to any particular groups in society . |
| 21 | Marshall ( 1987 ) follows Mandel ( 1975 ) in relating long waves to major shifts in the wider economy , and especially to movements in the rate of profit , but goes beyond Mandel in trying to make the theory less deterministic . |
| 22 | Well , Gain has reportedly just snared a porting pact with IBM to move its software to the RS/6000 and once it 's ready IBM will apparently co-market the stuff worldwide especially to users with mission critical distributed applications . |
| 23 | I commend them , and the area over which they preside , to adventurers and explorers of all ages , and especially to sufferers from urban depression for which they are the perfect tonic . |
| 24 | Road junctions are few and they are of importance to travellers and especially to tourists on a first visit . |
| 25 | I hope that my own account will encourage other people to reflect on their own perceptions of mathematics and the way it is taught , especially to pupils with learning difficulties . |
| 26 | Other potential sources of injury in hospitals may be faulty electrical equipment , excessively hot water ( especially to patients with poor sensation or those who are confused ) and excessive exposure to X-rays . |
| 27 | There is a peculiar appropriateness , especially to readers of today , in the use of the Glasgow grocer to reconcile the mixture of Ruritanian romance and political forecast in this late Buchan thriller , whose emotional direction is never entirely clear . |
| 28 | Apply once or twice a week , especially to backs of arms and thighs , your feet , elbows and knees . |
| 29 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 30 | The John and Ceridwen Hughes Uwchaled award is given annually to individuals in recognition of outstanding service through the Welsh language , to young people over the age of 11 outside formal education . |