Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Agriculture and Fisheries Minister , John Gummer expressed outrage over the feast , claiming that " the world knows perfectly well that whalers have attacked stocks almost to extinction " . |
| 2 | Where Land 's theory differs from previous models of colour vision is that , instead of relating colour directly to wavelength , he argues that colour experience is related to the relative outputs of these three classes of receptor in different parts of the visual field . |
| 3 | For the sake of convenience future references to article 10 in this judgment should be deemed to include reference also to article 19 . |
| 4 | ICAS welcomed the review but also said it was a timely reminder of archaic and unnecessary burdens in the UK tax system and urged an independent examination by a working party of all interested bodies to tackle problems close to home . |
| 5 | This strategy was possible because they have sold mainframes mostly to computer vendors in the country concerned rather than through direct sales channels . |
| 6 | Hundreds more were injured when police attacked the demonstration and Clarence Baker spent weeks close to death . |
| 7 | But although Darwinian natural selection seems plainly to deny primacy either to egoism or to altruism , it is interesting to notice that nearly everyone has preconceptions which hinder him from coming fully to terms with the evidence . |
| 8 | Now is the time to take rubbish to the dump , to give things away to charity shops and jumble sales . |
| 9 | Hodgskin saw a shameless deception at the centre of Ricardian economics and British capitalism : both pretended that capital was productive and the essential spring to greater prosperity , but , Hodgskin argued , capitalists were always parasitic , holding wages close to subsistence levels and diverting the fruits of labour 's productivity to unproductive and anti-social consumption . |
| 10 | Repeat as 1 but , when dropping arms , continue movement to extend arm sideways to shoulder height . |
| 11 | When sending employees abroad to work , employers must consider : the selection of employees for the job ; the importance of briefing them before going ; and the contents of the compensation and benefits package . |
| 12 | In effect , this level of service would have brought authorities close to self-sufficiency , an objective which most experts now agree is unrealistic in view of the very large numbers of titles now published ( 60,000 annually in the BNB alone , compared with the 24,000 of Bourdillon 's day ) , and the speed and efficiency of national interlending services in developed countries . |
| 13 | Without bending elbows , raise arms forward to shoulder height ; drop to sides . |
| 14 | We fly backwards , retracing old tribal routes — dreamed up , or remembered — and into a city walled with honey-coloured stones , where the sage Hanina sends demons home to Hell with their putative tails between their legs , and where King Solomon outwits mighty Ashmodai , Duke of the Underworld , and makes him do the royal bidding like any human flunkey . |
| 15 | In one way I would n't expect to find any witnesses — since what happened took place close to dawn . |
| 16 | Stories of the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and his life in Brazil arouse feelings close to affection , for example . |
| 17 | Admitting that it was ‘ impossible to ignore the fact ’ that the defendant was ‘ in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to have to try ’ and was acknowledged to be ‘ a man of high ideals and of noble and even saintly life ’ , he took Gandhi gravely to task for his failure to anticipate that violence would be the ‘ inevitable consequence ’ of his acts . |
| 18 | The users have given IBM a bloody nose and IBM , in learning the lesson , is making changes both to marketing pitch and technology . |
| 19 | It is that which binds man indissolubly to Truth . |
| 20 | While a point puts City closer to safety , a point slows Wednesday down and allows Arsenal to move within three points of them in fourth . |
| 21 | Whilst learning to take the rough and the smooth of rugby fortunes with a philosophic air , Townsend has already reacted to criticism with refinements to his play that have been a factor in his selection for Australia : ‘ I tend to pay heed more to criticism than to praise . |
| 22 | The horror gave way slowly to self-pity , the blue eyes filled with tears and she began to weep , the tears making runnels down her heavy makeup . |
| 23 | Given SAAB 's very positive experience with line-out , it is surprising that BL did not consider emulating it in that it appeared to offer benefits both to management and workers . |
| 24 | I favour a long-reaching front guard because it has less distance to travel before it strikes the opponent , and it is able to intercept attacks closer to source . |
| 25 | They could sometimes persuade those allies to attack or threaten people closer to home with whom the family was prescriptively at peace , actually in direct and continual competition ( Peters , 1967 ) . |
| 26 | And pushed Islam close to Christianity . |
| 27 | In the past , Scotland 's architects might find commissions close to home — such as England . |
| 28 | Now some of them could find fame closer to home . |