Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the Regulations refers to the possibility of translations into Braille or on to cassette to facilitate access to information by the many people who have a sight impairment . |
| 2 | In East Anglia people either in the on their pub lunches they either throw themselves on to that or on to treacle pudding . |
| 3 | These are called trans-shipment points , where extra costs are involved if goods have to be loaded on to other types of transport , such as from ships on to lorries , or on to railway waggons to go further inland . |
| 4 | Nolan and Sam Yaeger often bed the same girl , more or less to spite each other , it seems . |
| 5 | ( Eligible liabilities are sterling deposits with two years or less to maturity held by UK residents , plus a number of other items . ) |
| 6 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 7 | The contrast between the view that moral distinctions are detected by sense and feeling and the view that they are revealed as necessary truth to reason was a central theme in the moral philosophy of David Hume ( 1711–76 ) , whose philosophy is recognized as empiricism brought more or less to perfection . |
| 8 | From this point , individual circuit cables wend their way around the house , crossing ceilings and floors , and running up or down to light switches and socket outlets at convenient points . |
| 9 | Parsys does n't expect to have the SN9000 ready until ‘ late 1992 ’ — it will take three months or so to bed the new chip in when it does arrive . |
| 10 | They may take a week or so to work , but can kill most deep-rooted perennial weeds without being persistent . |
| 11 | Half an hour or so to dinner . |
| 12 | Then Macbeth seems to have a change of heart and says he is leaving whether he becomes king or not to chance . |
| 13 | The young people had gone upstairs , to bed , or not to bed : strains of music drifted from the upper regions plaintively . |
| 14 | In deciding whether or not to relist an appeal , it could be said that the Court of Appeal is not hearing an appeal but is exercising an autonomous jurisdiction relating to its own procedures . |
| 15 | Also reviewable are decisions of prosecuting authorities whether or not to institute proceedings , although the available grounds of review may be limited . |
| 16 | The Social Services Department is now deciding whether or not to discipline them . |
| 17 | Come down to haggle or just to window shop , and bring your own mystery guitars for identification or valuation . |
| 18 | ‘ The wind of change ’ , that phrase coined by Harold Macmillan in 1960 , grew to have amore general application than just to Africa , or just to politics . |
| 19 | In these rural parts it was usually a case of potter in the garden , or off to church or chapel . |
| 20 | Significant works which have appeared in Latin America have not yet been translated ; and the Asian studies published are still provisional and have thus not contributed either substantively or ideologically to communication studies in the South . |
| 21 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 22 | The reason I have chosen these two books for a comparison is because I always prefer to read books that are either true or close to reality as they bring out more emotions in my reading and at leat I know my feelings towards certain situations in the books have been felt by someone before , whether it may be another reader or the character himself , but in more depth . |
| 23 | I joined it at Donnington Bridge and walked downstream , past Iffley Lock and under the by-pass to Radley , or up to Folly Bridge and through the back-streets of Osney to Port Meadow and Godstow . |
| 24 | If a particular dimension ( usually left to right or up to down ) indicates a time scale as well as sequence this is called a time-line diagram . |
| 25 | These will be tradable : those who are most efficient at reducing pollution would have surplus licences which they could then sell either to those less efficient , or back to government . |
| 26 | The text flow can be interrupted at any time by clicking the mouse or the flow method can be altered to semi-automatic or back to manual by clicking in conjunction with the Command or Shift keys . |
| 27 | Such disputes are allocated to courts , tribunals or even to government ministers , who , increasingly , exercise functions of a judicial nature . |
| 28 | Instead of reacting against the bias in their chosen paper , readers tended ( at the margin ) to defend their paper ( if it was biased against their party ) or even to glory in its bias ( if it was biased in favour of their party ) . |
| 29 | Should they necessarily be restricted to electoral variations , or even to activity around state institutions such as local government ? |
| 30 | His failure to do so has been attributed to his association with the ( to some ) dubious professions of wine merchant and journalist , to his supposed Jewishness , his lack of a university education , or even to anti-Surrey bias . |