Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I had n't really thought about what I could write , just dashed eagerly to the word processor , my mind meandering enjoyably about the £200 prize .
2 Within a few minutes all the rigs had arrived and splashed in , and the earlier arrivals which had formed two- and three-rig rafts were crabbing across the river and pushing upstream to the bridge centreline .
3 She looked so forlorn , so utterly defeated , her head drooping like a snowdrop , her wonderfully lithe body clinging almost orgiastically to the tree trunk .
4 I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene .
5 I chose to visit London over other European cities , in part because I thought collectors back home would relate better to a city scene in which all the signs were in English , billboards , signs and marquees are often important elements in a city scene .
6 Er for example the ones that they fitted on the , the vertical boring mills , were round er in nature , bolted through the centre to a tool post and subsequently when they went into action , they were so hard you know , that they could outstrip the existing type of tip tool erm because the , the material itself stood up better to the cutting flow er er rather than the , the tip tool which was inclined to chip .
7 She peered over the edge of the bedstead and saw a cliff of bedcover stretching endlessly to the stone floor .
8 Guido slipped an arm around her and bent to kiss her , then reached out suddenly to the stone urn beside them and pulled off the stem of a red geranium .
9 The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons .
10 £82 may not be much to a Cabinet Minister , but it is a fortune to many of our clients .
11 The pre-tax outcome for the year to January was still a hefty £9.1m loss — down from a restated £11½m deficit — and the £10m drop in the interest bill owes much to the £30m equity injection from Japan 's Aeon Group .
12 But its success , as always , owed much to the presence right forward of Mayne , who received a third bar to his DSO .
13 At the moment of writing , they distribute Mute , Strange Fruit , Alternative Tentacles , Big Life , and various other labels that have contributed much to the Indie Chart over the years .
14 This one is well researched , but I question whether it adds much to the sum total of our knowledge about Wellington .
15 As an organisation the Trust owes much to the tourist industry and it welcomes the opportunity to work alongside the regional tourist boards and the travel trade .
16 Journal-to-journal co-citation analysis would not have added much to the journal list analysis described in Chapter 3 , because of the small number of journals involved , and the ease of identifying core journals by simple counts .
17 THE RISE in the Jaguar share price yesterday owes much to the no smoke without fire school of investment analysis .
18 Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage .
19 So if the lady was on fire , you 'd leave it basically to the Fire Brigade , obviously if you could help the lady , get a ladder up to the window to get her out of the room or something like that , you would do that , you would help in any way you can , but the real experts are the Fire Brigade so we leave all the er real technical stuff to the Fire Brigade .
20 She felt inside to the glass plate on the right and swept three switches upwards , blacking out one more cuddy of the past .
21 With 13 minutes remaining of a dull second half , John Morrissey knocked a pass inside to the midfield schemer .
22 - , and to applications ( such as PipeDream ) , but not necessarily to the filing system .
23 Maxim lifted him very gently to a sitting position .
24 That applies especially to the Arbroath batsman , George Salmond , who showed little signs of the bad calf cut , sustained during a recent football match and which necessitated 18 stitches .
25 At a superficial glance , the New Historicism can seem , especially to an Oxford graduate of my generation , rather like old-style historical scholarship .
26 Approaching from a direction opposite to the outbound leg , or at a large angle , will mean a procedure turn , or a parallel procedure .
27 After induction of acetic acid ulcerations and seven day administration of vehicle in rats of series A , the values of DNA synthesis and nucleic acid concentrations in the intact mucosa opposite to the ulcer area were not significantly different from the control values ( Table IV ) .
28 In this respect it must be borne in mind under the terms of our Lease , Service Charge can only increase annually to the percentage increase awarded to the National Old Age Pension in the Isle of Man .
29 Two guineas were to be subscribed annually to the Bedford Volunteer Fire Brigade in consideration of the Brigade 's inspecting the workhouse fire-appliances and instructing the staff in their use .
30 The legal aid scheme is kept under constant review by the Legal Aid Board , which is required to report annually to the Lord Chancellor on the discharge of its functions .
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