Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There the Shah worked in a large salon that looked out through tall windows on to the city below . |
| 2 | Jupiter can be seen radiating mainly through narrow bands parallel to the equator , in particular through the band running just below the centre , where there are gaps in the upper cloud layers . |
| 3 | The modules are structured into five levels , from Module 1 which is designed for complete beginners through to Module 5 , in which students attain a level of competence some way above that required for a pass at SEB Higher Grade . |
| 4 | Sometimes they may end with one side going extinct , in which case the other side presumably stops evolving in that particular progressive direction , and indeed it will probably even ‘ regress ’ for economic reasons soon to be discussed . |
| 5 | Reorganizing the lay-out of the production process can therefore permit the much greater automation of final assembly processes if robots , for example , can be programmed to perform different operations for different models almost to the exact moment the components arrive . |
| 6 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 7 | Second , there was a marked trend for ( female ) referrals by GPs subsequently considered to be primarily about social relationships not to be sectioned . |
| 8 | Turn right on coastal path and follow for 2 miles back to Crackington Haven ( avoid any paths leading inland ) ( b ) . |
| 9 | One can still argue , as I have argued myself in connection with the correlation of the north-west European Trias , that major events , such as marine transgressions on to one part of a continent , are likely to have more widespread effects in the rest of that continent . |
| 10 | Althusser actually says that an ideal explanation would map out the relations between different factors down to and including individuals , and thus outlines a programme for a perfect social theory which would account for the parts played by individuals in social organisation and change . |
| 11 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 12 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 13 | The second of the new partners engaged in 1909 was Geoffrey Hobson , a brilliant scholar , who had gone deaf after passing exams both to the Bar and the Foreign Office . |
| 14 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 15 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 16 | Since 1971 , 1280 kg of plutonium produced in the UK has been exported for civil purposes principally to Belgium , France , the Federal Republic of Germany , Switzerland , Japan and the United States . |
| 17 | Passing through humid cornfields back to town brings the mind around to separation . |
| 18 | Thus it is possible that , as a result of letting out contracts for individual services possibly to different suppliers , the aggregate cost of the individual contracts ( each of which would have to be independently viable ) will exceed the combined cost of the original integrated services . |
| 19 | During the afternoon , he accompanied a clutch of lazy Ixmaritians out to the gardens where they sat in the sun and gossiped . |
| 20 | This means you can ascend at 18 metres/minute from a ( maximum ) depth of 75 metres up to 18 metres . |
| 21 | He turned yet another corner and saw in the distance a rare copse of evergreen trees close to the road . |
| 22 | The rationale behind this was our conviction that , first , it would be consistent with the public and professional interest to extend the membership criteria to allow specialist work and , second , that it would be unrealistic , not to say unhelpful , to restrict the training of chartered accountants rigidly to a single route . |
| 23 | A bibliography of earlier publications by the Durham team was included , and the Flora was followed by a succession of further papers up to 1957 , either adding to the Flora or dealing with specific localities . |
| 24 | Robyn breathed a weary sigh of relief , and threw the carrier of wet clothes on to the floor . |
| 25 | This substantially overturned the original interpretation of the Act and placed the ‘ rights ’ of fishermen to kill dolphins above the rights of marine mammals not to be harassed and destroyed . |
| 26 | The day was bright enough , a quick breeze sending a fleet of light clouds across to the east , the sun warm but not hot , dry underfoot . |
| 27 | They have published a list of recommended hotels close to AEA sites and beyond , organised corporate rates with hotels and negotiated preferential rates with Eurodollar for hire cars . |
| 28 | First , neither the development of the ‘ visible hand ’ in coordinating ‘ vertical ’ flows from the extraction of raw materials through to final sales , nor the rise of the diversified corporation carrying out a planned allocation of resources between different product divisions , abolishes competition between capitalist enterprises . |
| 29 | The aim of LCA is to draw up an environmental balance sheet for a product or process by identifying its effects on the environment , from the winning of raw materials through to final disposal . |
| 30 | The principles of stressing and testing aircraft have remained much the same from the days of wooden biplanes down to supersonic fighters although there are many differences in practice . |