Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ 13 ] showed that although the dissociation from poly(dG-dC) is completely described by a single exponential , the time constant varies according to the starting ratio of drug to DNA so that the dissociation becomes slower at higher occupancy . |
| 2 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 3 | b ) This permits the blade to be moved from side to side so that it can be made parallel with the sole . |
| 4 | Also , they come of a class of person frequently on the move from household to household so a great deal of time was wasted by officials seeking to interview relatives who were in fact temporarily with other members of the family in another part of the country , where , of course , the authority I am representing has no jurisdiction . |
| 5 | Our aim is to transport goods from site to site so that requirements are fulfilled from the stocks available at other sites . |
| 6 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 7 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 8 | the change in manufacturing employment during the 1970s and 1980s is a move from Frostbelt to Sunbelt so long as ‘ frost ’ and ‘ sun ’ refer to the social conditions for profit making … . |
| 9 | The royals take an obscure pride in their penny-pinching , details of which are leaked to the press from time to time so as to suggest that they are , in fact , just like us . |
| 10 | They wear these muzzles from time to time so that they become accustomed to the restrictions imposed upon them . |
| 11 | At its simplest the didactic element is shown in the way action is halted from time to time so that the author can explain , in plain , precise detail , a point of navigation , ship 's structure or deck organisation . |
| 12 | It has always been my belief that a class of our type needs to review its rules from time to time so as not to become outdated . |
| 13 | Indeed fashions in specifying cause of death change from time to time so that the entry may even depend on when the doctor was trained ! |