Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they broke out of the covert on to the open parkland the bright sun made them squint . |
| 2 | And I put that down to the biggest contribution . |
| 3 | If I stretch my imagination , I can admit to feeling a little tired lately , but put that down to the ageing process . |
| 4 | However , because of the serious recession of the early 1990s , especially in the South East , the government decided in its Budget of 1992 to keep the increase for 1992/3 down to the current inflation rate of only 4.1 % , instead of the 24.1 % which would have been the maximum ‘ phasing in ’ amount payable . |
| 5 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 6 | ‘ And I take it you want me to pass this on to the investigating team ? ’ |
| 7 | I passed this on to the assembled crowd — Lisabeth in her dressing-gown constituted a crowd by herself — and held up my hands to silence the chorus of ‘ what'll-we-do-now ? ’ |
| 8 | When they reach the source of the drumming they climb up one ladder and then another on to the top roof of the house . |
| 9 | Re-fix the plastic rose direct on to the exposed timber noggin below the plaster . |
| 10 | A woman — your mother — had been flung clear on to the soft shoulder . |
| 11 | My instinct is to put all this down to the vitiating effect of the Thatcher years , when proper provisionalism , breadth , pluralism and doubt were banished and the harsh , amoral glitter of ends attained-by-whatever-means held sway . |
| 12 | By far the rarest type of post-medieval coffin is the gable-lidded tapered shape ; this is frustrating , especially as they are so well known in contemporary art from the fourteenth through to the seventeenth centuries . |
| 13 | On one final sweep with the binoculars , however , I saw a clearer patch of water to the south , with the waves breaking further inshore , some of which were rolling clear up to the low rocky cliffs . |
| 14 | The distress of leaving them no doubt contributed to the ‘ sudden & severe indisposition of Mrs Gould … which inducing the utmost fears for her safety , rendered it very doubtful up to the last moment whether they would be able to go or not … ’ |
| 15 | The gradualist emphasis was explicit and virtually universal up to the mid-1820s . |
| 16 | Let's spin this out to the last possible second . |
| 17 | Then your grand total was right over to the left hand side . |
| 18 | Er would you not say that this has shifted the onus of responsibility very much on to the financial institutions , the banks and others who had dealings with Mr Maxwell , and is n't the judge in effect saying in your interpretation er of that , that these institutions er really have got to show they were whiter than white in their dealings and actually went in and investigated him thoroughly ? |
| 19 | Under Alexander III up to the 1905 revolution , particular efforts were made to Russify the European peoples of the empire , to stretch , in Seton-Watson 's evocative phrase , ‘ the short , tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire ’ . |
| 20 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 21 | It truly was a parochial effort as children from the age of six up to the oldest members took part . |
| 22 | When I think of it nowadays and I see children so very going round to the various churches that when people used to say about ministers well . |
| 23 | Cross these two over , placing the two stitches from the left on to the two empty needles at the right , finally place the remaining two stitches on to the two needles at the left . |
| 24 | I would like to end with a plea to all those out there of similar mind to keep alive the trivial names , the odd stories , the quirky characters and the strange anecdotes , and to pass these on to the next generation with a simple message . |
| 25 | Similarly on deck and on the navigational side we had all that was necessary but everything was very basic down to the manual anchor winch . |
| 26 | A linear ramp velocity profile is only optimal if the pull-out torque of the motor is constant up to the maximum required operating speed . |
| 27 | The maximum penalty for the offence is now three years ’ imprisonment or a fine , or on summary conviction , imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine up to the statutory maximum . |
| 28 | He followed the match on the 6th up to the green players , caddies , referee , steward and camp followers . |
| 29 | The rise of Class War , who have no distinctive ideology apart from rabid anti-authoritarianism , represents an obvious reaction to the marxist-leninist model of political organisation which prevailed on the left up to the early 1980s . |
| 30 | It is always my hope and belief that by alerting social workers to the danger for children and parents of the passage of time and requiring them to point these out to the natural parents , that one would be avoiding that sort of drift , and collusion with parents of ‘ Oh do n't worry , you get yourself together and then we 'll think about him coming home . ’ |