Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] to [art] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 But just as crucial , if any new project is to avoid dereliction , engineers must investigate maintenance down to the most minute of details .
2 He took his car down to the actually !
3 Black jeans encased his tautly muscled legs , a black sweater outlined the breadth of his shoulders and drew her eyes down to the firmly tapering waist .
4 It has a thirty-five-foot living-room , with — mouth open — ’ Vitor ordered , and gave her another piece of chocolate ‘ — a flight of three steps up to a generously sized dining area .
5 If an employee trades up to a more expensive model and the employer makes a charge , an output tax liability arises on the value of that charge , except where the employee pays by way of deduction from gross salary .
6 You can also walk round the lake , or , more ambitiously , follow for a stretch up to the even higher Lacs d'Ayous , the red and white marked stones of the GR10 , the magnificent high path that leads from one end of the Pyrenees to the other and which you keep meeting up with at these altitudes .
7 That would probably do little to bring so-called advances on royalties back to a more sensible level , but it might give the publisher some added stability , and therefore a greater incentive to put sustained effort into an author 's career .
8 At last , in an effort to bring her mind back to an even keel , she went to the office , where she discovered a pile of farm accounts had been left on the desk .
9 I must get my mind back to the here and now .
10 Courses range from foundation courses for the complete beginner through to the most advanced qualifications from the Royal Yachting association ( RYA ) and Department of Transportation ( DTp ) .
11 ‘ It'a sport which can teach agility and movement at a basic level through to the very high skill levels required to compete at the top .
12 Rachaela turned the chicken on to a very low light .
13 Even so , a significantly bigger tank than before ( 14.3 against 12.1 gallons ) has pushed the range up to a very respectable 386 miles , based on a touring consumption of 27.0mpg .
14 It may be that the round tombs are a reference back to a very ancient and primitive type of house , long-since abandoned except for tomb architecture , or they may be an exotic , a design imported from a foreign land where both tombs and houses were round .
15 Inwards , it is expressed in a bid to lead the community in question back to a more meticulous observance of the canons of Islam according to which it is supposed to be living .
16 Still hats off to the both of them for agreeing to work as shop assistants for the day to raise money for AIDS charity , the Terrence Higgins Trust .
17 His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company .
18 If , on the other hand , the single market has the dynamic property of shifting the Community on to a permanently higher growth path , a more favourable judgement would be called for .
19 By blotting the gel containing amplified product on to a positively charged nylon membrane and probing ( or ‘ hybridising ’ ) this with a heterologous labelled strand of DNA the sensitivity of detection can be increased 10-fold .
20 If he ever needed such domesticated chores done , he 'd doubtless hand the job over to the most exclusive interior decorator in town .
21 Its use can be regarded as a move back to a more " managed " approach to the determination of interest rates .
22 Turn the dough on to a lightly floured surface and punch it down .
23 In this case he was carrying the task of soul renovation up to an altogether dizzier level of risk and aspiration than had hitherto been attempted .
24 Here are some of the most common queries and out suggestions for helping your hair back to the very best of health and condition .
25 ‘ What was needed to rejuvenate the industry was a reduction on excise duty to get beer on to a more equitable level with other drinks , ’ said Angus Meldrum , president of the association .
26 Wiping away the first drop , which might be contaminated by perspiration , she waited until a second drop formed , then pressed her finger on to the chemically treated reagent strip .
27 The reason why we differentiate between the south east and south west is also important because the southern of the bridges , the Skeldergate Bridge in York is by far the most heavily congested on the inner ring road and in particularly in going in the west to east direction , so the south west sector scores worse in that respect because it feeds traffic on to the most congested bridge of the inner ring road .
28 However , this is scant comfort as it simply brings the dates for payment of tax by the self employed such as partners on to a more current basis similar to that applicable to companies and PAYE employees .
29 On each occasion , however , the currents flowing in world affairs swung Defence policy back to a more balanced Maritime/Continental course .
30 There was another gambit too : to raise the Iran operation on to an altogether different plane , to make it a sort of crusade , as Nicaragua was .
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