Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a permit , which might cost £75 a year for cars and up to £750 for heavy lorries , would cost all motorway-users the same . |
| 2 | A panel of judges will read all the entries , and the chosen one will win the tank they need , plus cabinet and hood from AQUARIUMS , CABINETS AND HOODS and up to £150 worth of fishkeeping equipment to complete their dream set-up . |
| 3 | They were asked to make a mouthwatering meal for four using two ducklings , a savoy cabbage , potatoes and up to 3lbs of other ingredients . |
| 4 | The interesting nine-hole golf course affords beautiful views of the mountains and out to Ponta do São Lourenço . |
| 5 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 6 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 7 | ‘ Thompson at your service , ’ said the landlord coming to meet him with a welcoming smile which disappeared quickly as he saw Midnight — his glance sliding from the metal collar to the handcuffs and on to Jess 's flushed face . |
| 8 | Whilst it has been assumed that these charges were fabricated by Musgrave ( and perhaps by Thomas Cromwell , q.v. ) , there is evidence to suggest that Dacre did indeed have private arrangements with the Scots which served to divert their raids away from his estates and on to Bewcastle . |
| 9 | After reaching this stage there are still opportunities for movement from small houses to large houses and on to Travel Inns which are often attached to a Beefeater Restaurant . |
| 10 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 11 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 12 | This points to shifting the emphasis away from direct tax on people 's incomes and on to taxes on wealth or on spending . |
| 13 | This legislation had been hailed as a powerful weapon with which to seize drug barons ' fortunes but up to May last year police and Customs investigators had only been able to confiscate £11 million . |
| 14 | Behaviour therapy , Gestalt therapy , Art Therapy , Music Therapy , Transactional Analysis , Psychotherapy , Psychosynthesis , Psycho Drama and any number of other techniques may help some people who have problems with the process of moving rationally from thoughts to feelings and on to actions , even though these techniques have nothing to offer to the specific recovery process from addictive disease itself . |
| 15 | The initial public offering of 10m shares , about a quarter of the enlarged equity , is expected to be priced in the range of $18 to $20 , raising between $150m and $250m — some $100m for executives and up to $150m in new money for the company . |
| 16 | I used the analogy of a family that goes from rags to riches and back to rags in three or four generations . |
| 17 | But soon it was on with those famous upside-down glasses and down to business . |
| 18 | Almost all the stock work was carried out by wives and up to 60% of all work on some farms was probably carried out by wives . |
| 19 | There is no advantage in pricing lorries off the highways and on to by-ways . |
| 20 | Those who bought the Cabinet Cyclopedia therefore got a rather odd view of zoology , conservative in its types and symbols but up to date in its appreciation of J. V. Thompson 's work , and rarely dull . |
| 21 | ‘ The fastest part is the fourteen miles to Ilkley , then there is a quiet stretch along the river towards Otley , before a three mile climb to the Dyneley Arms and on to Yeadon Moor , where there can be strong cross-winds . |
| 22 | Back to the train for the spectators and on to Ilkley to see how the walkers were progressing . |
| 23 | The Calibra 16v gets from rest to 60mph in 8.1secs and on to 100mph in 22secs , but the Corrado G60 can manage only 8.9secs to 60mph and falls a disappointing two seconds behind by 100mph . |
| 24 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 25 | In spite of the 190bhp power output capable of taking the little car from standstill to 60mph in under seven seconds and on to double the UK speed limit , it is that smoothness and flexibility that impress rather than the muscle . |
| 26 | A spokesman at the store , which had knocked £70 off £220 cameras and up to £8 off computer games , said : ‘ We have been overloaded with people . |
| 27 | Maybe , thousands of years ago , birds and reptiles from continental South America had reached the Galapagos , ferried on the rafts of vegetation that float down the rivers and out to sea . |
| 28 | x Unix operating systems and on to Solaris 2. x and naturally does n't want to share all the goodies it has in 2. x with 1 . |
| 29 | Thus could pangenesis unify all Darwin 's generation theorizing from gemmules to organisms and on to species , and beyond them the whole tree of life . |
| 30 | They come in a great many varieties and can be mounted straight on to a ceiling , on to walls or on to tracks , and then pointed towards whatever needs special lighting . |