Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 2 | I 'm happy for not to have a change . |
| 3 | Fire crews were called out to Farmway at Piercebridge in the early hours of yesterday to tackle a blaze involving animal feed . |
| 4 | There was enough of both to provide an organisation and there would be paid officials . |
| 5 | Something else that interests Roles is the authority of the photographic image , our strong conventions of how to view a photograph . |
| 6 | It also asks the more general question of how to choose a strategy in uncertain and changing conditions , in particular the trade-offs between a single-minded policy and a more diversified one . |
| 7 | Sparcle is a professor 's notion of how to create a multiprocessor CPU based on Sparc . |
| 8 | The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep . |
| 9 | Not really my idea of how to spend a holiday . ’ |
| 10 | Across the room , nursing the remnants of his coffee , warming himself , the tall , thin creep was greatly impressed by the delicacy and decorum with which she had reacted to the West Indian 's vulgar demonstration of how to ruin a piece of pie . |
| 11 | Now he was faced with the problem of how to promote an airline which was forbidden under US law to sell tickets or advertise its service until the CAB and Federal Aviation Authority had given their approval . |
| 12 | It is a problem , rather , of how to offer an interpretation of them which neither assumes the original unitary self of the humanist paradigm , nor ignores the needs of women . |
| 13 | Most of the children … had a verbal knowledge of how to select a book and how to find what they wanted in the right book once they had located it . |
| 14 | Military training provided androids with a range of survival skills including the basic knowledge of how to make a shelter and a parachute . |
| 15 | For details of how to make a box and where to place it , write to the RSPB . |
| 16 | Last week , Joanne wrote down the method of how to make a bridge . |
| 17 | A major focus was the problem of how to resource a strategy for new local services . |
| 18 | First , however , we must come back to the question of how to read a contingency table when one variable can be considered a cause of the other . |
| 19 | This is a good game for teaching budding soccer players some of the finer points of how to head a ball without them being frightened of hurting themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ Ken was such a brilliant bloke that if he had an idea of how to deliver a line , he 'd try to find a way to block it . |
| 21 | He comes in with ninety-nine ideas of how to approach a scene . |
| 22 | To achieve this , the manager needs a knowledge of the record industry , music publishing , concert promotion , tax and of how to run a business ; as well as how to keep the act 's family happy . |
| 23 | And the newspaper itself could provide a stunning example with its own employment practices of how to run an organization on correct Right-On lines . |
| 24 | I felt that this conversation was adding little to my , or my listeners ' , knowledge of how to buy a coffin , so I thanked him kindly for his time and said goodbye . |
| 25 | All three types of pattern , ( written , diagrammatical and digital or Form ) , are based on a tension , or gauge , swatch ; without this , the pattern would not exist at all in any form , because all knitting patterns are basically a notation of how to knit a shape with a given yarn and stitch type , mathematically calculated from the original swatch . |
| 26 | The girls in her class , who had hitherto regarded her as relatively plain , and as a non-starter in the fashion stakes , with no notion of how to twist a school beret or hitch a school skirt , quickly reconsidered their assessment of her , and she found herself elected to an honorary membership of the fastest , smartest slickest coterie . |
| 27 | Under conditions of a clear parliamentary majority , the choice of when to hold an election lies with the Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Knowledge of when to make a convention explicit is culturally learnt , and use varies according to context . |
| 29 | Grandmaster Chess offers nine levels of play and a special level for board analysis or postal chess but , like most chess sims of its day ( it first was released in 1982 ) , the higher levels take for ever to make a move — Level Nine takes up to two hours ! |
| 30 | We all experience what it is like not to have an iris diaphragm , when we are momentarily dazzled by oncoming car headlights . |