Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government is sponsoring a proposal for a European Community ban on the import of tropical wild birds because of the high death rates they suffer during transport to Europe after their capture in the forests of Africa and South America . |
| 2 | Continue around side of Woodbury Hill ( d ) on overgrown track and descend with path to stile and into field next to house . |
| 3 | Then head from side to side , muttering , moaning . |
| 4 | ‘ I redrew it to what fitted our site and what I needed in terms of accommodation for the children and grannies who appear from time to time — mindful of the fact that Edwina and Michael were two and four , but were n't going to stay that size for long . ’ |
| 5 | To what extent will business shift from banking to other types of lending ? |
| 6 | Only then can the emphasis switch from confrontation to co-operation , the attitude shift from apathy to enthusiasm . |
| 7 | fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ? |
| 8 | SPANNING four continents and 70 countries , it is hardly surprising that the causes , and hence solutions to tropical forest destruction shift from region to region . |
| 9 | Among the threats to temperate forests identified by the report are logging of native forests , the treatment of trees as crops in a market shift from timber to pulp and paper production , air and water pollution , cutting for firewood , and forest fires . |
| 10 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 11 | In his speech yesterday Mr Lawson dismissed sterling 's troubles as ‘ turbulence ’ of the kind that grown-ups like him , who have seen a thing or two over the years , expect from time to time . |
| 12 | Many animals leap from bough to bough , and sometimes fall to the ground . |
| 13 | Monkeys leap from branch to branch through the trees and need to know exactly how far to jump . |
| 14 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 15 | There they introduced escrima to eager young American martial artists and the last five years have seen escrima and kali grow from strength to strength . |
| 16 | ‘ We searched that place from top to bottom . |
| 17 | From Dale Head Tarn it is possible to cut across the top of High Scawdel to Honister Pass and then descend by road to Buttermere , partly across open fell and partly on footpath ( 1 mile ) . |
| 18 | Request for attention to road subsidence at Baberton Avenue West Side near junction of Lanark Road . |
| 19 | Request for attention to road subsidence at Baberton Avenue West Side near junction of Lanark Road . |
| 20 | Integrate it again it gives you the distance you integrate with respect to time . |
| 21 | Though quick to qualify it , people with a taste for economics usually react with delight to Mr Coase 's insight . |
| 22 | The individual close-ups should be shot from the same side of a line connecting the two characters so that the eyelines match from shot to shot in the way they do in the master two-shot . |
| 23 | Researchers have discovered that periods of dreaming during sleep are related to times of rapid-eye movement ( REM ) during which the eyes flick from side to side under the eyelids . |
| 24 | Scottish Borders Walk from Traquair to Yair along an ancient drove road |
| 25 | Pedestrian precincts enable the customer to shop in safety , and walk from shop to shop to compare prices ; they are particularly helpful for parents with small children ( possibly in prams or pushchairs ) and the disabled . |
| 26 | It is quite amazing how much the human eye actually misses when we walk from place to place . |
| 27 | The demands arise from the particular tasks that lexicographers undertake from time to time , and are predictable only in overall terms . |
| 28 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 29 | Support from grandparent' to grandchild is rather more straightforward , although again rather little evidence exists . |
| 30 | These range from archivist to VDU ( visual display unit , or computer screen ) operator . |