Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the argument was refined in the course of the hearing , it emerged that the rival contentions came down to a narrow but difficult issue . |
| 2 | That brings it down to a hundred and ninety six for the first year . |
| 3 | For Labour supporters , 1931 was the election when the party went down to a cataclysmic and catastrophic defeat , betrayed by MacDonald and deserted by its working class supporters … |
| 4 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 5 | By the time they sat down to a light but elegant dinner , a warm rapport had grown between the two women . |
| 6 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 7 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 8 | On the ground their scudding shadows dappled the hills , hills that tumbled down to the ragged but level line , where the uplands ended and the deep gorge-like valleys began . |
| 9 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 10 | Kalchu went down to the stable and selected a he-goat . |
| 11 | Just as the marine terrace represents the abandoned sea floor , so do river terraces represent valley floors abandoned by the rivers as they start to cut down to the new and lower base level . |
| 12 | It was also found that C-terminal flanking sequence down to the 127th or 165th amino acid residue slightly stimulated the activity of clone 1–110 . |
| 13 | They 'd finished their show and were coming back down to the damp and squalid cellar the management refused to redecorate because of its ‘ classic atmosphere ’ . |
| 14 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | Then fall down to the left and shift right ; the ghost should follow you down and scare the blue guard away . |
| 16 | But in the end , at that last hour , it comes down to the 15 and everything we do is focused down on that last hour . ’ |
| 17 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 18 | Nor was she going to give in to the warm and leaping sensations being generated in her by the slow , rhythmic stroking of his fingers . |
| 19 | By then you will have become tuned in to the driving and will be better able to judge if it is safe to go a little faster . |
| 20 | In the matter of level , these needs range from the relatively simple requirements of undergraduate students , through to the wide and unpredictable needs of researchers and faculty . |
| 21 | A wide range of people throughout much of the country — from the local gentry , through to the professional and mercantile classes , down to the middling and lower sorts of town and countryside — were actively caught up in the partisan controversies of the time . |
| 22 | I accompanied her during house visits , at day and night , during surgery , and various other sessions with ages ranging from the newborn right through to the elderly and retired . |
| 23 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
| 24 | He went over to a flowerbed and felt around in the mud . |
| 25 | Ritchie 's Eighth Army had gone over to the offensive and Rommel was in retreat towards Agheila . |
| 26 | over to the right or left ? |
| 27 | ‘ If there ever was anywhere given over to the normal and the expected , it 's a disco at Hadleigh . ’ |
| 28 | Eastcote was handed over to the military and the German seamen , after a temporary stay at the Alexandra Palace , were condemned to live behind barbed wire and fixed bayonets ; Alton Abbey had already been closed . |
| 29 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 30 | When the aircraft is more that 10° off the bearing , the needle will be stationary , full over to the left or right of the OBS dial . |