Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 2 | Italy 's ills of corruption , maladministration and government irresponsibility are blamed on the extreme form of proportional representation brought in as antidote to Mussolini 's dictatorship . |
| 3 | Well I 'm vo involved in Crossline which is a a Christian run telephone helpline , erm , we off , also offer free counselling and they find that er , there 's more men will actually pick up the telephone , cos they 're not seen erm , whereas more women will actually come in for face to face counselling . |
| 4 | Traditionally the seven awards have always been deemed to have been of equal value , but the interesting possibilities suggested by all of these short listed designs is the building in of individuality to awards which will closely resemble each other without being formally identical . |
| 5 | Once he 's airborne bring him down into hand to hand combat once your cavalry have made contact . |
| 6 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 7 | Promoters are hoping the park will become the European centre for software development in multimedia , networking , graphics and simulation technology and will be offering low rents to start-ups along with access to computer platforms , databases and libraries . |
| 8 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 9 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 10 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 11 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
| 12 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 13 | We want to see wealth and security being passed down from generation to generation . |
| 14 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 15 | There were unpaid , unqualified ‘ nurses ‘ , usually senior ladies of the dale who possessed all the medical folklore and herbal remedies handed down from generation to generation . |
| 16 | Another is that as gooseberry growing is one of those traditions which are passed down from generation to generation , and fathers were still able to pass their bushes on to their sons . |
| 17 | Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . |
| 18 | What do they say , those bloody know-alls whose wisdom is handed down from generation to generation ? |
| 19 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 20 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 21 | TRADITION ( SOCIAL ) — refers to the values , standards , beliefs , sentiments and , in general , the ways of thinking in a social group , which have been handed down from generation to generation . |
| 22 | It is not surprising that the skills of Chinese herbal medicine handed down from generation to generation are viewed with scepticism by many outsiders . |
| 23 | That 's right , a family thing , you hand it down from generation to generation |
| 24 | In fact , the problem seems to be determined genetically , which means that the tendency to hyperkinesis is passed down from parent to child . |
| 25 | These massive constructions of bamboo and paper , often passed down from year to year and re-covered for the next May festival by a new team , were far beyond the capacity of any individual flyer . |
| 26 | They scrape me down from head to foot — my torn clothes , my hands , my broken knees , the nose on my face . |
| 27 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 28 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 29 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 30 | Songs and styles of singing are handed down from mother to daughter , unchanged over centuries or even millennia . |