Example sentences of "and [adv] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They to and fro to a chirping tap |
| 2 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 3 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 4 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 5 | Without waiting to be shown , she walked through the primitive kitchen and on to a small balcony perched perilously above the red-tiled roofs of the houses below . |
| 6 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 7 | Nonetheless he ordered the San Antonio and the Concepción into the headwaters of the bay — only to be horrified when he saw them being swept by unsuspected currents and winds into a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift , and on to a wicked-looking spur of black rock . |
| 8 | He directs Rainbow into a side road , and on to a semicircular driveway before a handsome villa — probably late Regency , perfect of its kind . |
| 9 | A commitment ideologically and professionally to a holistic assessment of need and risk , rather than the assessment of eligibility for service , is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for effective assessment practice . |
| 10 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 11 | Also , and perhaps to a greater extent , a man is what he has smelt : later in the novel Raskolnikov gives the police-station smell as the reason for the suspicious circumstance of his fainting , which is neither the whole truth nor a straight lie but the blending of the guilty man with the Poison of the city . |
| 12 | Absorption is commonly used as a method of odour abatement where odour nuisance is the result of a gas stream becoming contaminated with low concentrations of mixtures of compounds such as fatty acids , ammonia , amines , sulphur dioxide , and perhaps to a lesser extent sulphides and organic sulphur compounds , i.e . |
| 13 | Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view . |
| 14 | Jakobson 's poetic analyses are mostly concerned with establishing the mere presence of relationships of equivalence , and only to a small degree with discussing their significance . |
| 15 | He once wrote : ‘ I am not fond of writing about myself and only to a less degree about my work . ’ |
| 16 | The following remarks apply particularly to the roundhouse kick and the side kick and only to a lesser extent to the front kick . |
| 17 | I , I , I think Chairman that on the , the case to which you refer as , as I recollect it was very much on the specific wording of the er restriction which erm was found to fail , because it applied to a number of houses and not to a specific property and er clearly care will have to be given by the districts that happens in imposing conditions to make sure that it will erm appertain to each individual property within a development so that the occupancy condition can be can be informed . |
| 18 | People who own a property have more freedom to engage in the ‘ all-American leisure style ’ if their house belongs to them and not to a public or private landlord . |
| 19 | We must sustain the infrastructure of the arts in this time of recession by spreading the funds available to all forms of the arts and not to a select few with a special clout . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) That the prohibition in regulation 143 on the making of orders ‘ forthwith ’ applied only to an order which was to take immediate effect , and not to a suspended order which took effect after a lapse of time in the absence of objection by the Board ; and that , accordingly , a suspended order did not contravene the regulation ( post , pp. 199G , 202B–C , H — 203A , B–D ) . |
| 21 | This indicates that the politics of local government do not just respond or react to the local environment , but crucially that they also help to mould this environment , and thus to a certain extent help to shape the local political agenda . |
| 22 | The boxes sent signals to the loops and thus to a central computer which clocked them up as tolls . |
| 23 | The case hinged , however , on whether the administration of the drug caused the death , and thus to a large extent , the pathological evidence . |
| 24 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |
| 25 | ‘ But we will go and look just the same , ’ he decided , and , taking her by the arm , he guided her to the front of the building and over to a high parapet . |
| 26 | A Christian authority on eastern religions , Patrick Sookhdeo said , ‘ I have seen that whenever a person uses yoga , he makes a shift from a monotheistic view of God , to a pantheistic view ( God identified with nature ) , and finally to a monistic view ( God as an impersonal IT , without form , personality and essence ) . |
| 27 | From there to a lawn , another pond , then another lake known as the canal and finally to a gothic temple . |
| 28 | Writing an opera for the 1994 Edinburgh International Festival , Scotland , says Tan is his second musical home ; and home to a dear friend — the composer , Eddie McGuire , who shares Tan 's love of cross-cultural exploration and like him , deeply influenced by John Cage . |
| 29 | Water is a major issue in the area of Western Siberia which LASMO is interested in ; it is a huge area of fragile wetlands and home to a large variety of wildlife . |
| 30 | Then it 's group shots and off to a hired room for buffet lunch , more lager , TV interviews and an assessment of the day 's events . |