Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] to [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can still argue , as I have argued myself in connection with the correlation of the north-west European Trias , that major events , such as marine transgressions on to one part of a continent , are likely to have more widespread effects in the rest of that continent . |
| 2 | A strong wind tore through the trees whipping the branches fiercely to one side while the rain swept across their faces . |
| 3 | But then again I 'm not trying to put that defeat down to one person . |
| 4 | He decided to attack right down the landing path , diving from behind them , and he nudged his throbbing aircraft slightly to one side . |
| 5 | Dot did n't want to hurt its face so she placed her knees carefully to one side of the lamb so that they pressed into the sewn field of flowers on the edge . |
| 6 | Insulation up to 3 clo units ( p. 177 ) is effective for active people , and up to 4 units for sedentary work ( Brotherhood , 1973 ) ; additional thickness of clothing tends to be cumbersome and counterproductive , requiring more energy to carry it about . |
| 7 | The lady 's bid now to eighty pound . |
| 8 | The instant fitzAlan was free of the doorway he was through it , shoving Ellen roughly to one side and racing into the street . |
| 9 | More importantly , by reforming the tax structure , the Tories have brought down marginal tax rates further still , even compared with 1979 ; for example for the average earner the marginal rate including VAT has fallen from 49 p.c. then to 45 p.c. today . |
| 10 | Rory began brushing her thick mane of rippling wheat-coloured hair over to one side , eyeing the other girl with mild interest . |
| 11 | He invented a machine which made the job quicker and easier by providing a separate needle for each loop , so as to make a whole row of stitches at one operation instead of casting all the loops on to one needle . |
| 12 | And another one moving the chaff away to one side . |
| 13 | Students should be given experience of steering the glider off to one side so that they learn how to use the controls independently instead of co-ordinating them . |
| 14 | Either replace with larger size wallplugs and screws , or move the bracket slightly to one side and refix . |
| 15 | Individual veins are up to 100 m long and 2–3 m wide within zones up to one kilometre long and 100m wide . |
| 16 | Cross and turn right on footway back to Hundred House . |
| 17 | In some regions the concept of zoning — designating areas exclusively to one type of user — has been tried to solve problems about who can go where . |
| 18 | In general the dinners must extend over two years , but there are certain exemptions , and in particular students who are exempted from the ‘ academic ’ stage of the Bar examinations ( as most are ) can cut their dining period down to one year by double dining , i.e. by dining 24 times that year instead of the usual 12 . |
| 19 | In those days the artificial leg you were given did n't meet the skin ; you had to wear thick woollen socks over the join where the artificial leg met your own leg , and a metal belt to hold it in place , which pulled your body over to one side . |
| 20 | Moving through a confined space , for example if the glider is too large to go through the door , it is always wise to go nose first , swinging the glider right round and out with its nose close to one door . |
| 21 | Auden indicated a room off to one side . |
| 22 | Then a flicker of movement caught his eye off to one side of the clearing , and he saw the two youngsters were still hovering there uncertainly . |
| 23 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |
| 24 | According to Chandrasekhar 's analysis the parent star collapses completely to zero radius , and we shall generally take this to be the case . |
| 25 | Tired by her journey from the north of England and the heat , she had decided to defer unpacking until the next day , standing her cases temporarily to one side of the curtain that divided her cabin from the small galley . |
| 26 | But British bikers can continue registering bikes up to 125 brake horsepower for at least another five years after that . |
| 27 | She lifted her multi-petticoated skirts and walked down with as much grace as she could manage , playing the part of Cinderella at her first ball , prevented from any sudden movement by the flattering silken wig whose curls were interlaced with pearls and fell in tumbling ringlets on to one breast . |
| 28 | Place a little of this in a piping bag with a medium writing nozzle , and pipe a green branching tree on to one end of the stable . |
| 29 | I noticed that when Pyke was about to talk he put his head thoughtfully to one side and looked away into the distance . |
| 30 | When there was water in the pond behind the hut , Goshai used to go fishing , damming the pond in the middle and scooping the water over to one side , leaving little fishes panting on their sides in the mud . |