Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The negotiations allowed Bouterse to adopt an increased political role at the expense of the civilian government , but on Feb. 14 , 1990 , he handed the mandate for negotiations back to the government claiming that the government was not supporting him fully . |
| 2 | Yes : I can help to write the script for movies yet to be made . |
| 3 | She slammed the saucepan of potatoes on to the draining board . |
| 4 | In 1326–7 he was not a king-maker ( or -saver ) , partly because a legitimate heir was to hand , but possibly because he could not muster the opposition of prelates generally to Edward II 's removal . |
| 5 | There has been a delegation of powers downwards to the Réunion and individual museums , and in 1991 the Réunion changed its statute to operate more like a private enterprise . |
| 6 | Unburden yourself , tell me all that has passed — and later we will speak with a clear mind of matters close to our hearts . ’ |
| 7 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 8 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 9 | He took the tin of sardines through to the lean-to , opened it and emptied the contents onto the cat 's dish . |
| 10 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 11 | There , the Hercynian striking ( trending ) iso-reflectance lines follow each other in dense succession with values up to 5% Rm around the centres of the massifs , the centres lying near Bramsche ( Fig. 3 ) and Vlotho respectively . |
| 12 | She bundled Dot on to the front seat with rugs up to the chin . |
| 13 | Returning to the main road , which is very good , we cross the plateau and pass a small reservoir on the left-hand side with views down to the south side of the island and the sea . |
| 14 | The commission charged on all three services ranges from $30 plus 1.7 per cent of the investment on sums up to $2,000 , to $255 plus 0.09 per cent of the investment for sums above $500,000 . |
| 15 | And they will make every individual employee on earnings up to at least £22,000 a year better off . |
| 16 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 17 | the arrangements it makes for the admission of students on to the Bar Vocational Course ; |
| 18 | Our case is that , while the nature of the social relations at the workplace is clearly an important differentiating characteristic of the Dukeries field , they are probably a necessary but insufficient factor to account for the response of miners there to the 1926 and 1984 calls to strike . |
| 19 | The Court had approved the payment of fees up to 15 April and since then , with the authority of the Court and the approval of the creditors ' committee , Touche has drawn on account fees that have not yet been formally approved . |
| 20 | A group of them are taking a truck of supplies out to Romania at Easter . |
| 21 | To hear it we travelled to Leighton Moss , that wonderful reserve belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds close to the shore of Morecambe Bay . |
| 22 | The variety of Christologies actually to be found in the New Testament is part of the fundamental witness to the nature of the gospel ; it points to the destination of the gospel in all the cultures of mankind . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Chapter 18 contains a checklist of terms normally to be found in contracts concerning computer hardware and software . |
| 25 | c The formula was calculated on average speciality costs which do not take into account the extra severity and complexity of referrals particularly to teaching hospitals . |
| 26 | But the long and very flat strip of vines immediately to your left , which extend back to the A4 motorway , are inferior to Verzenay 's poorest vines ; these are the vineyards of Sillery . |
| 27 | And with the new school term in full swing , parents should take advantage of free eye-testing for children up to the age of 16 . |
| 28 | And with the new school term in full swing , parents should take advantage of free eye-testing for children up to the age of 16 . |
| 29 | Laura Ashley has a particularly good spring and summer range for children up to the age of twelve , with styles that are attractive without being prissy . |
| 30 | Following a subsequent period of stability a fresh wave of poor immigrants arrived between 1631 and 1660 , bringing the proportion of labourers up to 31·2 per cent . |