Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 2 | The sight of the brigade turning out to a call , pulled by magnificent black horses , drew every child within half a mile of the Works main gates when the warning hooter sounded . |
| 3 | Introduced last summer to bring stock car racing back to a more affordable level , their early outings showed promise , with the Christmas meeting at Foxhall producing 30 starters and some excellent racing . |
| 4 | Either course of action leads to a constricted ledge and , to its right , a horizontal break leading out to a stance on the crest of Froggatt Pinnacle — yes , a two-pitch out-crop route ! |
| 5 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 6 | If the stimulus conditions start with a spectrally pure red light shining on to a red area the cell will fire even though the area looks like a washed-out red to a human observer . |
| 7 | Artist Janet Margrave has created a window opening on to a scene of flowers , ivy-clad trellis , a rush fringed pool and trees . |
| 8 | The struggle between these two classes was for Marx the key to understanding modern society and its likely future , which he envisaged as the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat leading ultimately to a classless communist society . |
| 9 | She had a vague impression of a small room , of stone walls and light from a narrow window falling on to a table . |
| 10 | Her descriptions tell of a village changing slowly to a motorcar age , and perhaps forecasts the future in references that smithies have been replaced by garages and advertisements for petrol from the ‘ golden pump ’ . |
| 11 | Such children should not be working in conditions where there is glare , such as bright light from an unshaded window streaming on to a child 's face . |
| 12 | ‘ Presumably they must have to pay for all the preparation leading up to an operation of this sort , and pay the staff who are waiting around . |
| 13 | Another way into the interior is offered by a stalker 's path from Annat at the head of Loch Torridon ( closed in the later months of the year ) : this leads to the tarns at the foot of Maol Cheandearg with a branch turning off to An Ruadh-stac . |
| 14 | Obviously , it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process . |
| 15 | The Treaty went on to state : ‘ This Treaty marks a new stage in the process leading gradually to a union with a federal goal ’ . |
| 16 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 17 | No woman feels her best during the period leading up to a period . |
| 18 | The FDR , and more particularly the DFDR , have enabled the accident investigator to establish in considerable detail exactly what happened in the period leading up to an accident . |
| 19 | This type of system works by pumping pond water through a quartz tube running parallel to an ultra violet germicidal lamp . |
| 20 | ‘ Drop the gun ! ’ screamed Liz Spalding , her body dropping slightly to a crouch , the gun she held coming instinctively up to the fire position … |
| 21 | It was simply grey water in a steady stream falling on to a sea the colour of metal , on to a grey town . |
| 22 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |
| 23 | For there can be no doubt that Expressive behaviour as understood by Tormey — a state of emotional arousal in a person relating prepositionally to an object ( or person ) outside that person — is seen by the Stanislavskian School as a proper way for an actor to behave on stage . |
| 24 | This will be immediately preceded by the dispatch from the tail-gate of the aircraft of a ‘ wedge ’ , a platform containing up to a ton of stores . |
| 25 | It was a short whip tapering quickly to a fine tip . |
| 26 | He saw Antony standing talking animatedly to a rather bewildered looking police constable who looked relieved to get away . |
| 27 | One woman writing anonymously to a women 's magazine told of her distress at a particularly dehumanizing gynaecological examination . |
| 28 | Her complexion was sallow , with lines of bitterness running down to a mouth pinched in discontent , and she looked at Theda out of a pair of lacklustre eyes , with patent contempt . |
| 29 | Hours on , a patch of green deep in a valley : and the valley opening on to a maze of broken fields . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes — bedroom , bathroom , a door opening on to a section of enclosed veranda , and an open veranda beyond that , looking down on to a rather beautiful tropical garden . |