Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When they had enough they presented the food to Debbie who runs the home and nurses lots of animals back to health .
2 To wit , the kind of speed on to man and ball and to the breakdown which would in itself render it a great deal more difficult for the All Blacks to make the Lions ' pack look heavy-footed to the point of statuesque .
3 In the last five partial responders prolongation of therapy up to week 38 led to a definite response and HBsAg seroconversion in three of the five patients .
4 Were the records of work up to date ?
5 More importantly John Sadler is credited with inventing a method of transfer-printing on to earthenware tiles .
6 Thousands of ships bore tens of thousands of troops out to sea .
7 The most obvious test of television 's ability to set the public agenda was provided by its massive shift of emphasis on to defence in the third week of the campaign .
8 Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate .
9 Often this has been done deliberately : factories and sewage works are built to discharge into seas and rivers , and ‘ honey barges ’ ferry cargoes of sewage out to sea .
10 It is well established that tension and stress can cause a variety of physical problems , ranging from attacks of influenza through to heart attacks , strokes and even cancer .
11 Yes , yes , I 've been to se I 've a couple of people up to sort of promise a hand
12 This organisation is an industry lead and awarding body that has developed national standards and assessment material to support vocational qualifications and SCOTVEC awards in engineering at a variety of levels up to technician .
13 The government 's aim is evidently to shift the taxation of motorists on to petrol ; this will link the tax more closely to vehicle use , and so provide a greater incentive to economise on fuel .
14 They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing .
15 All versions of Okapi up to Okapi '87 were written in Z80 assembly language and operated on a network of Apple IIe microcomputers connected to a Nestar PLAN/4000 file server .
16 The sun was shining but there was a bank of cloud out to sea ; no discernible movement anywhere .
17 Having been satisfied with the tool 's performance on the rafters , we used it to tack down sheets of fibreboard on to chipboard .
18 Buildings in Darwin shook but the centre of the tremor , which measured 7.3 on the Richter scale , was hundreds of miles out to sea .
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