Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ten years ago it was supposed that when the database was up and running it would be relatively easy to find additional funds from outside to cover the running costs . |
| 32 | The police have decided to deploy more than one hundred officers on what called a tidal flow operation , slowly shifting their attention from outside to inside the stadium . |
| 33 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 34 | It became increasingly difficult for assistance from outside to reach the nationalists , and their united front with the communists was no more than skin deep , but even so the Japanese could not extract a surrender . |
| 35 | This would satisfy demands by the Palestine Liberation Organisation for delegates from outside to underline the principle that the Palestinian issue deals with a whole people . |
| 36 | The City of London raised a loan of £100,000 , which was gratefully accepted ; an elderly duke volunteered to emerge from retirement to lead the fleet , an offer which was declined . |
| 37 | From there , no doubt , he 'd gone straight to Hell ; but there were times when he and his wicked mistresses were still to be seen walking here , their shades drawn back from Hellfire to visit the scene of their sins . |
| 38 | From day to day the dark shades of his shirts , ties , and high-buttoning suits subtly changed . |
| 39 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 40 | 632/3 when Eorpwald 's half-brother , Sigeberht , returned from Gaul to partition the kingdom with his kinsman , Ecgric . |
| 41 | They also performed cabaret shows with cameo acts ranging from Abba to Zorba the Greek . |
| 42 | Nor did Lord Salmon follow through the reasoning from Anisminic to reach the conclusions arrived at by Lord Diplock . |
| 43 | All the way from Kreuzlingen to Rorschach the road follows the lake almost as though they were happy partners in some holiday excursion . |
| 44 | Security in your status comes from learning to spot the control tactics of others , to resist them and to use them yourself where appropriate . |
| 45 | By exaggerating these postures the differences were obvious but as the paddle strokes were passed on from instructor to instructor the artificial distortions were slowly adopted into reality . |
| 46 | From planning to cutting the tape . |
| 47 | From start to finish the sketch took minutes , and whilst it amounted to no great work of art , it was nevertheless an agreeable experience and an insight into what the pastels could do . |
| 48 | From tail to mouth the fish measures 10 cm . |
| 49 | I want Zacco to invite four leading citizens from Famagusta to share the Feast of the Nativity with him , and to allow food and wine to be sent into the city between then and Epiphany . |
| 50 | So it is hardly surprising that the place has bred a line of hardy , taciturn beings who , accustomed from birth to fighting the elements simply to survive , are not given to public demonstrations of any kind of emotion . |
| 51 | But in using the Comtean notion of progress from superstition to science as the mental counterpart of Darwin 's physical progression from ape to man the Tylorians simply evaded the issue . |
| 52 | With some cunning too ; from floor to ceiling the walls were a mass of statues , gargoyles , bas-reliefs and fluted columns that cast weirdly-moving shadows when the dragon gave an obliging illumination at Twoflower 's request . |
| 53 | From nose-tip to tail the plane is packed with scientific instruments making it one of the world 's most sophisticated flying laboratories . |
| 54 | As the flow of water changed rapidly from summer to winter the streams and rivers deposited their loads again , leaving thin sheets of gravel or sand in some places and fine mud in other places . |
| 55 | In 1839 several townlands from Seagoe were joined with some from Tullylish to form the parish of Knocknamuckley . |
| 56 | However because of the different practices involved in defining mature student in relation to age the findings of this survey do not correspond to a body of mature students above a specific age , but only of mature students who were accepted in October 1976 as unqualified adults . |
| 57 | This openness also showed that in relation to science the consultative process revealed massive support for the working party 's view on the time to be devoted to science and on the position of balanced science but that the Council , with some reluctance , made recommendations in accordance with the Secretary of State 's different view . |
| 58 | A special draft letter is available from NDO to approach the administrators of specialised classes and where no money is available at source it may be possible to get recreational classes to sponsor a particular home or handicapped class . |
| 59 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 60 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |