Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has contributed much to music in the Farnham area during the last 20 years and the many supporters of the Tilford Bach Festival will no doubt want to hear what will be only the second performance of his work . |
| 2 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | The neck pickup was warm and fat , the middle slightly brighter but still with lots of depth ( ideal for clean rhythm playing ) , while the bridge unit was sharp enough to create a nice shimmer through an outboard chorus , but warm enough to solo with the amp overdriving slightly . |
| 4 | As darkness begins to fall , the adventurers are ‘ lucky ’ enough to chance upon a path that leads upwards towards a rock-strewn side-valley . |
| 5 | Garlic cloves are cooked in their skins so they become soft enough to purée into a delicious sauce |
| 6 | There was no sign of either Ferdinando or Annunciata in the kitchen so she was bold enough to tip-toe towards the drawing room where she hesitated again and peered round the door . |
| 7 | In terms of social importance , festivals contribute greatly to cohesion within the community and provide welcome sources of entertainment . |
| 8 | So to stay in the frame is Virgin going to have to get in there and |
| 9 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 10 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 11 | Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses . |
| 12 | The research should contribute not only to knowledge about the degree and type of control over this area of professional practice but also provide information on aspects of general medical services which have given cause for complaint . |
| 13 | In America it is the most common fatal form of cancer , in Britain it is second only to cancer of the lung . |
| 14 | The new policy applies not only to purse-seining in the Eastern Tropical Pacific , but also to all tuna caught anywhere with gill-nets , whether drift-nets or set-nets . |
| 15 | He is ‘ loyal only to Nature in a vague way ’ ; he reads obscene books and then worries at frequent seminal emissions . |
| 16 | The disability discrimination provisions of the federal Rehabilitation Act 1973 were modelled upon the sex and race discrimination measures of Title VII in the Civil Rights Act 1964 , but applied only to employment by the federal government , by federal contractors and by employers in federally-financed programmes and activities . |
| 17 | Surely you have learnt by now that care of equipment comes second only to care of the patients ! ’ |
| 18 | The question of widening or deepening is relevant not only to membership of the Community , but also to the powers of the Community . |
| 19 | Coal imports will double in Japan over the next twenty years or so with coal becoming second only to oil as an energy supplier , at about one-quarter of demand . |
| 20 | As Joseph led his people away to winter in the Imnaha canyons , however , all the commissioners except Wood signed a report recommending the suppression of all Dreamer shamans , military occupation of the Wallowa and removal ‘ by force ’ of all non-treaty bands . |
| 21 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 22 | A copy of the booklet has been sent to Dave Hewis , and he 's gone away to pore over the Definitive Map for his area — we 'll let you know how he gets on . |
| 23 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 24 | Just to starboard of the companion is the navigating station . |
| 25 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
| 26 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 27 | This change arises from the differences in size between the components which would normally mean mole fractions close to unity for the solvent especially when dilute solutions are being studied . |
| 28 | Yet probably The Rock relies on a form too close to extinction at the time for it to bring the whole revue to life . |
| 29 | Southampton , who sent West Ham to the bottom of the division six weeks ago with a similar scoreline at The Dell , have hauled themselves close to safety with a run of one defeat in 13 matches . |
| 30 | In 1975 when Jock Stein was almost killed in a car crash , he lay in a Dumfries hospital dangerously close to death with a fractured skull . |