Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets . |
| 2 | I fall asleep hours later to the sound of their engrossed murmuring on the night air . |
| 3 | Pain in the lower right chest through to the back ( like Mercurius ) worse ( < ) lying on the painful side , ( Opposite to Bryonia ) |
| 4 | The need for wood for fuel , building materials and tools would have required extensive woodland close to the settlement . |
| 5 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 6 | Now , as you all know , we 've got a big job on , and we 're going to have to work every hour there is to get The Hooded Owl up to the standard I know it can reach . ’ |
| 7 | Having located the spot , which had to be served by a nearby airstrip , they rang Anthony Marangos in Paris and told him to call back in half an hour with the largest houses closest to the spot . |
| 8 | Most East Anglican villages had a working windmill up to the beginning of this century , and many mills continued to grind corn until recent years . |
| 9 | Melinda waded out after me and we climbed up one of the mooring ropes on to the deck . |
| 10 | Throwing mooring ropes out to the Continent to balance Britain 's over-strong anchor cables to America made sense to many people . |
| 11 | Reminding Management of diurnal enuresis has been attempted with initially asking the parent to remind the child regularly when to go to the lavatory and gradually pass that responsibility on to the child . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | The late-fourth century rebuilding at Chedworth , with the use of stones from the nymphaeum , and associated coins up to the House of Theodosius , clearly indicates a continued occupation of the site , presumably as a small farm . |
| 14 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 15 | One by one , he put the drowsy birds on to the top perch . |
| 16 | In this , as in his support for the elaboration of monastic customs , Anselm 's expansiveness stands in striking contrast both to the intimacy and austerity of his personal devotion , and to the new trend towards simplicity and severity which this type of devotion stimulated among the Cistercians . |
| 17 | ‘ But it is more important than anything else to bring parental responsibility back to the centre of the stage . ’ |
| 18 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
| 19 | It had a strange and thrilling resonance , as if the singer were standing in a large room or a courtyard built of stone in one of the ancient palaces left by the Mogul emperors further to the west . |
| 20 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 21 | He hurried up the narrow steps on to the parapet of the curtain wall . |
| 22 | Remember on that day we went on that minibus down to the |
| 23 | Organizations for linking , such as those which many LEAs provide for the primary-to-secondary move , have also done much to encourage the pooling of detailed information about the curriculum up to the age of 16 and the curriculum either in the technical or vocational context up to the age of 17 or 18 or in a tertiary college up to the age of 18 . |
| 24 | For a square or rectangle , just press each side on to the cake . |
| 25 | ‘ Promise , ’ she said , adding with more urgency , ‘ Get that tray along to the study , or there 'll be murder to pay . ’ |
| 26 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 27 | They 're only paying from the top branch up to the last branch on the tree . |
| 28 | Swivelling round in his chair , he dropped a pile of X-rays and accompanying notes on to the desk beside him . |
| 29 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 30 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |