Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative to post-production commentary addition is to record explanatory comments in the form of speeches straight to camera as you go along . |
| 2 | When they had enough they presented the food to Debbie who runs the home and nurses lots of animals back to health . |
| 3 | One chapter brings the complex biology of ferns vividly to life . |
| 4 | Thousands of ships bore tens of thousands of troops out to sea . |
| 5 | She declared herself to be " conscious of the differences in national parliamentary traditions across the Community " but said that " differences of style and opinion are insignificant against the background of the proven commitment of Europeans today to reconciliation and democracy " . |
| 6 | This organisation is an industry lead and awarding body that has developed national standards and assessment material to support vocational qualifications and SCOTVEC awards in engineering at a variety of levels up to technician . |
| 7 | The government 's aim is evidently to shift the taxation of motorists on to petrol ; this will link the tax more closely to vehicle use , and so provide a greater incentive to economise on fuel . |
| 8 | The exhibition , imaginatively divided into six ‘ worlds ’ , brings the famous Guinness Book of Records vividly to life . |
| 9 | Buildings in Darwin shook but the centre of the tremor , which measured 7.3 on the Richter scale , was hundreds of miles out to sea . |
| 10 | £44.99 Suitable for distances up to half-marathon |
| 11 | 9 RON HILL STREET RACER 230g EVA midsole , lightweight polyester upper makes it suitable for distances up to half-marathon or a marathon for the lighter runner £32.99–£37.99 depending on size |
| 12 | 13 NIKE DUELLIST PR 156g Ultra light shoe for distances up to half-marathon . |
| 13 | A racer for distances up to marathon £39.95 |
| 14 | ( Roughly , this involves averaging the usual periodogram in log-log space , giving unbiased independent estimates of known variance , and with distributions close to gaussian . ) |
| 15 | they 've got woo wooden poles with hooks on to hook people out cos they , you do n't , once you 're in that water you , you do n't stop you know , you ca n't decide not to go . |
| 16 | When dealing with landowners it is best to be known to be always fair , with offers close to market value , or an explanation made when this is not possible . |
| 17 | The race will take Mark and Philip 30 days and 8,000 miles deep into the Arctic Circle with temperatures down to minus 10 ; the focus of their ambitions ; to get into the winning frame . |
| 18 | Salter told the inquiry how his ‘ bobbing duck ’ device — a duck-shaped canister which , when installed in lines out to sea , would continually extract energy from the waves — had at that time ( 1982 ) been officially estimated to be capable of producing electricity at about 5 pence per kilowatt hour ( p/kWh ) . |
| 19 | In societies close to subsistence levels , there may be relatively little outside the ‘ world of work ’ , which occupies most of their individuals ' time and energy . |
| 20 | The Avon , Severn and Trent are all likely to feature in Denis ' matches for the rest of the season , although he is likely to stay away from events close to home where the meat has become the number one bait . |
| 21 | It invests in all the major points of change in the life of a company , from start-ups through to flotation . |
| 22 | So they , so do you think there 's a tendency for Americans still to kind of idealize Wilson , but for Europeans to be a bit more cynical . |
| 23 | After this highlight we cycled on roads back to base and to a cream tea in Dorchester . |
| 24 | Although he found much to admire in the oriental-megalomaniac architecture of Kim 's Korea or Mao 's China , in his quest for a style suitable for a monumental Bucharest he looked to precedents closer to home . |
| 25 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 26 | The latter included exhortations to consumers to switch off appliances , reductions in supply voltages by 5 per cent ( which was considered the maximum tolerable limit ) , and encouragement to industrialists voluntarily to stagger their factory hours away from peak times . |
| 27 | With an eye on recent developments in neighbouring Romania , trade union leaders appealed to strikers not to stage demonstrations , apparently fearful of a spread of unrest . |
| 28 | Taking age into account does not lead to estimates closer to unity , and hence the effects can not be attributed to confounding . |
| 29 | The result is a drama that remains more worthy than absorbing , despite the excellent performances of Michael Byrne as Roberto and Bill Paterson as Gerardo ( is his Irish accent meant to indicate an application to application to events closer to home , or descent from Bernardo O'Higgins ? ) . |
| 30 | In such circumstances , lending will be at rates close to market rates and will be designed to avoid any distortion to bill rates . |