Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some bizarre quirk led Newman to take a route back to London past the bell tower where Sandy had died . |
| 2 | A base up to 3m ( 10ft ) long can be cast in one slab . |
| 3 | No doubt Smith , the Oxford University Australian , who won five caps for the Wallabies , will feel a bit closer to home facing the All Blacks twice in the next 11 days . |
| 4 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 5 | No doubt Sir David is off on another of his trips to an exotic location soon — but for now he 's happy to settle for a spot of exploration a bit nearer to home . |
| 6 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 7 | The magazine will continue to cover American painting , drawings , prints , and sculpture from the Colonial period to 1960 , with occasional attention to decorative arts and architecture , and a bit more to photography . |
| 8 | We needed something to go round the various workplaces in Northumberland that actually appertained a bit more to Northumberland than the stuff we 're going to get from national level . |
| 9 | Cos presumably there must be an awful lot of wealthy old age pensioners about as well who , who could do with a bit less er , from the state because they 've got plenty of their own , er and give a bit more to people who do n't ? |
| 10 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 11 | His breathing seems a bit better to Paul . |
| 12 | Resistance to the price rise resulted in a reduction back to 6d in 1933 ! |
| 13 | There was formerly a ford across to Erth Barton near Saltash , which can still be defined at low tide , and probably also a ferry . |
| 14 | Investigators had found that fragments of a detonator recovered from a field close to Lockerbie were identical to those in a radio cassette bomb seized from two Libyan agents arrested in Dakar , Senegal , in February 1988 . |
| 15 | There was also a link through to Archie McIndoe , one of the finest plastic surgeons of his day , who was based at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead , where badly burned pilots were sent for treatment . |
| 16 | Before we go a look ahead to Monday , when we begin a four part series filmed in the desert of southern California . |
| 17 | perhaps a cow about to shit |
| 18 | I agreed , and next day they sent a photographer along to West London Stadium and I was pictured wearing my ‘ Pure Talent ’ tee-shirt with ‘ No Additives ’ inscribed on the back . |
| 19 | In ‘ Adieu vieille Europe ’ the legionnaire is on a boat off to Algeria : |
| 20 | Mann , though in possession of an official permit to hold meetings on trade unionism in Hamburg , was nevertheless put on a boat back to England ; on returning six weeks later , he was again expelled and various activists served short periods in prison . |
| 21 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 22 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 23 | A classified Landsat TM image ( Chapter 5 ) can be used to derive boundaries of spatial classes such as cropland , woodland and water , and remote sensing provide a means of keeping the data concerning land-surface cover that are stored in a GIS up to date . |
| 24 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 25 | Reflecting such thoughts , Mr Oleg Bogomolov , a reformer close to Mr Gorbachev , said in February , ’ If Hungary chooses to be a neutral state , then it will not be a threat just because of that . ’ |
| 26 | Susan Cole-King from Burcott has already been ordained ; it was into the Episcopal Church in the United States four years ago , but Mrs Cole-King , who works as a deacon for the Oxford diocese at Dorchester , is looking forward to the day she 'll be able to act as a priest closer to home . |
| 27 | A speck on a rock halfway to heaven was the top cablecar station , I was told . |
| 28 | performance also improves if the evaluation stems partly from the employee and is a prelude not to recrimination , but to further goal setting . |
| 29 | It might perhaps have done so had Franco not delayed his assault in order to make a detour eastwards to Toledo . |
| 30 | This was followed by a lurch back to civility and a fast-knotted signature , hard to unravel . |