Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many legitimate reasons for pupils not to be in school , the most obvious being ill-health , medical or dental appointments . |
| 2 | The cost of cover is £10 for properties up to £250,000 and £20 for properties up to £500,000 . |
| 3 | The negotiations allowed Bouterse to adopt an increased political role at the expense of the civilian government , but on Feb. 14 , 1990 , he handed the mandate for negotiations back to the government claiming that the government was not supporting him fully . |
| 4 | A travelling exhibition has been assembled , containing books for children up to the age of seven , and this visits health centres , teachers ' centres , colleges of education and community associations . |
| 5 | The Education Act of 1870 set out to provide elementary schools for children up to a minimum age of ten throughout the country . |
| 6 | Yes : I can help to write the script for movies yet to be made . |
| 7 | On Tuesday the eighth of February as I understand it that meeting then will report to a Council meeting of the Council , so I would not wish to put forward the suggested resolutions that are on the order paper , er I think I would want to suggest to you ladies and gentlemen for decisions today to whether you wish or not and then I would suggest that the appropriate decision is to await the of the City additional Council and therefore bring this matter forward to our Committee on March the twenty ninth . |
| 8 | Others such as the improvement in the status of women , or educational followed by enhanced employment opportunities for children particularly to disadvantaged and poor sections , are much more difficult to achieve ( Cassen 1980 ) . |
| 9 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 10 | And how do you know for a fact that they intend to bring these sorts of techniques in to Britain ? |
| 11 | In Scandinavia the root used to be eaten as bread , and the strongly flavoured seeds had all sorts of applications especially to alcoholic drinks . |
| 12 | She slammed the saucepan of potatoes on to the draining board . |
| 13 | In 1326–7 he was not a king-maker ( or -saver ) , partly because a legitimate heir was to hand , but possibly because he could not muster the opposition of prelates generally to Edward II 's removal . |
| 14 | There has been a delegation of powers downwards to the Réunion and individual museums , and in 1991 the Réunion changed its statute to operate more like a private enterprise . |
| 15 | Unburden yourself , tell me all that has passed — and later we will speak with a clear mind of matters close to our hearts . ’ |
| 16 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 17 | Areas where substantial industrial growth will be allowed and where the increase in concentrations of pollutants up to federal standards will be insignificant . |
| 18 | The superb hotel is set in 9 acres of grounds close to Cheltenham 's town centre . |
| 19 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 20 | He took the tin of sardines through to the lean-to , opened it and emptied the contents onto the cat 's dish . |
| 21 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 22 | The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring ! |
| 23 | More modestly , the same agents are offering six new apartments at Kingswear with views across to Dartmouth . |
| 24 | There , the Hercynian striking ( trending ) iso-reflectance lines follow each other in dense succession with values up to 5% Rm around the centres of the massifs , the centres lying near Bramsche ( Fig. 3 ) and Vlotho respectively . |
| 25 | She bundled Dot on to the front seat with rugs up to the chin . |
| 26 | The RSPB buys land for nature reserves — and now has over 115 reserves including sites close to urban centres ( including Glasgow , Manchester , Birmingham and north London ) , accessible and beautiful woodlands and marshes , and vast , remote areas of moorland , mountain , forest and coastal cliffs . |
| 27 | Returning to the main road , which is very good , we cross the plateau and pass a small reservoir on the left-hand side with views down to the south side of the island and the sea . |
| 28 | But I am convinced — from what I have seen and what my commonsense tells me — that more often than not they simply tilt towards the bait at a slight angle and suck it to their lips from distances up to nine inches , a process of vacuuming which they may repeat several times before attempting to swallow the bait . |
| 29 | The commission charged on all three services ranges from $30 plus 1.7 per cent of the investment on sums up to $2,000 , to $255 plus 0.09 per cent of the investment for sums above $500,000 . |
| 30 | And they will make every individual employee on earnings up to at least £22,000 a year better off . |