Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | In terms of social importance , festivals contribute greatly to cohesion within the community and provide welcome sources of entertainment . |
| 6 | So to stay in the frame is Virgin going to have to get in there and |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In America it is the most common fatal form of cancer , in Britain it is second only to cancer of the lung . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Surely you have learnt by now that care of equipment comes second only to care of the patients ! ’ |
| 14 | The question of widening or deepening is relevant not only to membership of the Community , but also to the powers of the Community . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Just to starboard of the companion is the navigating station . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet probably The Rock relies on a form too close to extinction at the time for it to bring the whole revue to life . |
| 21 | Twice eighteen month old Pickle dragged himself home close to death with the noose pulled tight around his neck |
| 22 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 23 | Jesus looked to material close to hand for the subject matter of his parables . |
| 24 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 25 | Lithuania was admitted formally to membership of the IMF on April 29 , as the 157th member country . |
| 26 | These thoughts lead quickly to avoidance of the feared situation and include , ‘ I 'll be OK if I run home now ’ , ‘ Get away and you 'll be all right ’ . |
| 27 | The Mexican stock market reacted calmly to news of the agreement , reflecting a general belief that the treaty was a hostage to Bush 's political fortunes and that many obstacles remained before NAFTA became law . |
| 28 | The naming of tunes in Gaelic dancing has as much to do with the whim of the moment as with anything portentous : ‘ Upstairs in a Tent ’ , or ‘ The Clock on the Dresser ’ , or ‘ The Walls of Limerick , owe more to whimsy in the kitchen on the night than to any attempt by the musician to give his tune immortality . |
| 29 | Cultural evolution is many orders of magnitude faster than DNA-based evolution , which sets one even more to thinking of the idea of ‘ takeover ’ . |
| 30 | Group production reached a new peak , encouraging oil and gas discoveries were made , new fields were brought on stream and material progress was made in development activities which will add further to production in the short and medium term . |