Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Neat fields slope down to the still water . |
| 32 | Whether time permits or not , a detour should be made along the A.881 from Broadford to its terminus at Elgol , there going down to the colourful beach of pebbles and wild flowers and low cliffs : a beautiful foreground to a classic view , the finest in Britain , of the Black Cuillin across the wide waters of Loch Scavaig , a picture that would defeat a Constable or a Turner . |
| 33 | A day to unwind and slow down to the leisurely pace of a Greek Cruise . |
| 34 | On the other side of the road the cobbled slopes of West Brook Place rushed down to the walled beck before the land swept up again , steep and thickly wooded , to the terraces of Old Ashfield . |
| 35 | He took the letter and the envelope out of his office and down to the abandoned area at the end of the corridor . |
| 36 | Go right and push the crate onto the button , go up on the lift and to the left , push the crate off the edge of the platform , go up on the lift and right , climb up six platforms and push the crate left , fall left and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , jump onto the ledges on the wall and go up , go right , up , left , up , push the crate right , fall down , push the crate right into the button , go right and duck down to go along the conveyor belt , drop down to the stationary lift , go left then up , push the crate down , right , right , left , right and right onto the button . |
| 37 | Issues of class conflict within the group were to remain largely subordinate , as the matter of the nature and defence of loyalism itself was to dominate the scene right down to the present day . |
| 38 | The Canadian model has a curious corollary , which was to have an unhappy future , extending almost down to the present day . |
| 39 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 40 | It subsequently evolved into a lower-case ‘ Roman ’ face , and with the capital lettering mentioned in the preceding paragraph is still employed by printers down to the present day . |
| 41 | While revolutionaries may condemn such temporizing , this was an orientation which continued to inform the approach of most peace activists , including socialist ones , down to the present day . |
| 42 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 43 | Though ( except for the definition of the bodily Assumption of Mary in November 1950 ) none of these declarations fell into the formal category of infallible as defined at Vatican I , none the less Catholics came to expect authoritative guidance from Rome on all manner of issues — a strong tendency within the Church down to the present day . |
| 44 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
| 45 | Such reasoning can be traced down to the present day , although there are variations on the theme . |
| 46 | But the idea — current indeed in Anglican circles until the last century — that Jesus ‘ ordained ’ twelve men ( who became the first ‘ bishops ’ ) , who subsequently laid their hands on the heads of others , and so forth down to the present day , can certainly not be allowed to stand . |
| 47 | Despite the salutary scepticism of David Hume this scholastic convention has survived right down to the present day and is perhaps best explained by saying that when intellectuals who have the mental habits of university professors are invited to specify the distinguishing criteria of human beings they end up by producing a self-image of themselves . |
| 48 | Apart from this unfortunate monarch , a good deal of interest has always been shown in the site , with a long sequence of systematic excavation from 1906 down to the present day . |
| 49 | In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation . |
| 50 | Because it is inexpensive , burning incense-sticks to tell the time continued to be used down to the present century . |
| 51 | Several varieties of chalcedony , a silica in crystalline form , translucent and sometimes transparent , waxy to the touch , hard and extremely enduring , were treasured for jewellery , amulets and seal-stones from the earliest civilizations of the Old World down to the present time . |
| 52 | Beyond the tower a narrow path led down to the rocky shore below . |
| 53 | It has over four hectares of terraced gardens leading down to the rocky shore where you can swim in the sea or swimming pool . |
| 54 | but that 's down to the professional expertise of dis departments . |
| 55 | Its proposals are workable and provide a framework for services which can be applied at all levels from the government at the top right down to the professional worker in direct contact with the recipient of services . |
| 56 | We slipped and slithered out of the stable courtyard where horses moved and snickered , past the Templar church and down to the gleaming lakeside . |
| 57 | Her dramatic new figure , they say , is all down to the magical properties of the Secrets body she 's seen wearing here . |
| 58 | In part it 's down to the sheer dullness of the directing . |
| 59 | Some put it down to the sheer popularity of the winner Nigel Jones — others to the alleged racism of would-be Tory voters , unwilling to endorse the party 's official candidate , the barrister John Taylor . |
| 60 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |