Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 In summary , Owen and Roger present fundamentally different approaches to the similar situation in which they find themselves .
2 This serves to ensure moderation and contain political conflict to manageable proportions , and it also sustains the legitimacy of the system of rule so enabling law to be enforced with only limited policing .
3 I cull , in the only possible order : the 10 subscribers to London 's first telephone exchange , why golf courses have 18 holes , the 36 metre tower which rounds up Germany 's highest mountain to a neat 3000 metres , the 47 teeth of the mosquito , the 79 men kissed non-platonically by an ‘ average ’ woman in the US prior to marriage , the 159 hack SF books written by Britain 's R. L. Fanthorpe in 13 years , the 163 villages erased by Krakatoa , the 380 kg of Moon rock still unexamined thanks to Senator Proxmire 's money-saving efforts …
4 UPVC secondary glazed replacement side windows , stainless steel single drainer , single bowl inset sink unit , range of base units , cupboards and drawers with laminated working tops , range of fitted wall cupboards , plumbed for washing machine , wall mounted gas boiler , cooker point , power points , cork flooring , aluminium double glazed doors to garden .
5 We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks .
6 Happy birthday dear Dot Dot tomorrow happy birthday to you .
7 As the decade concluded the Mark 4 coach arrived ( at first on the East Coast newly electrified service to Leeds ) .
8 No , the luck would run out against in-form Ards at Ballymena Showgrounds and Ian Bustard 's tremendous opening goal for Paul Malone 's side certainly added fuel to that theory .
9 Instead they can occupy the left- and right-hand portions of a single 2n-bit register After a multiplier bit has been examined , it is dropped by shifting the partial product and multiplier together one position to the right .
10 In three of the schools the project proposals and spending plans were the product of consultation and debate ; in the fourth , the teacher-librarian merely allocated sums to departments reflecting her perceptions of likely use .
11 The course will nestle among hills and will boast some of the finest scenery in the country coupled with some ideal golf terrain long flat stretches to hilly parts and natural lakes which could come into play on some holes .
12 Cadets from Forres , Lossiemouth and Aberdeen Airport decided to research the accident and erect a cairn and plaque commemorating the crash exactly 50 years to the day after the accident .
13 The session also approved changes to the Sino-Foreign Joint Venture Law to attract foreign investment .
14 When he hung on to the ball there was a strange , self-assured almost narcissistic side to his game .
15 On the one hand , the Act tries to encourage judges and magistrates to sentence more petty offenders to punishments in the community rather than to custody ; but on the other hand , the Act allows people convicted of violent or sexual offences to receive harsher sentences than hitherto .
16 The amusement in his voice as he acknowledged her quick , telling point merely added fuel to the flames of her simmering anger .
17 Mums pay fourteen pounds a week for their two to five year olds to be cared for by trained nursery nurses in a sunny room just next door to the main factory .
18 The meeting also approved changes to voting arrangements , abolishing certain procedures first employed in 1988 party elections [ see p. 36137 ] , including the controversial queue-voting system ( whereby voters in primary elections queued publicly behind a picture of their preferred candidate ) and the rule under which candidates obtaining 70 per cent of the votes in such primaries were entitled to go forward unopposed .
19 A number of songs accompanied on the piano also added variety to the evening .
20 We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command .
21 My Old Dobbin syndrome , aided and abetted by friendship with Albert Rhys Williams , was the basic incentive for hitch-hiking about 12,000 miles to and from the interior of Russia during the holidays that summer .
22 You may recall the brief reference by the Secretary of State for Social Security earlier this afternoon to today 's meeting between Ministers and the Council of Mortgage Lenders on the subject of mortgage repossessions .
23 There were moments during the war when popular hostility to ‘ profiteering ’ came close to providing a mass basis for pacifist politics .
24 The measure also restored citizenship to 175 cultural figures stripped of their citizenship on emigration , and to those who had joined the Russian emigration to Israel .
25 To fill fuel tanks of the F4U-7 costs on average £1,000 , which probably explains , along with other overheads like , insurance , hangarage , maintenance , why it costs airshow organiser so much money to ‘ book ’ warbird type aircraft for display appearances .
26 Such qualities illuminate every page of Papillons , from the opening teasingly inconclusive question to the final fading of this miniature Carnaval with its distantly chiming bells and syncopated waltz memories , a true ‘ melting into air , into thin air ’ .
27 The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals .
28 The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI .
29 That 's right yes and th the Corporation had to sewage out four ways to s supply 'em .
30 However , by August , when it was obvious that there was no family accommodation to be found in town , I was forced to take on a croft cottage about seven miles to the north of Stornoway on the Eye Peninsula , known locally as the Point district .
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