Example sentences of "to [det] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , bits are taken in most significant to least significant order in each byte , and in ascending address order . |
| 2 | Sir , I invite you attach no importance at all to that ridiculous concept in relation to this highly important piece of land . |
| 3 | What he omits to say is that new station is south of the River Wharfe and there are no bridges over which anyone can get to that new station from the area f search . |
| 4 | But now I want to win and win and win. , Salim , too , wants to win , and his affair with Yvette is a victory : All my energy and mind were devoted to that new end of winning the person . ’ |
| 5 | One of the implications of the argument , which there is not space to develop here , is the suggestive qualification which is offered to that familiar figure of cinematic theory , the Symbolic Father — Nom du Père , figure of the Law , administrator of knowledge and prohibition — by the determining centrality for television of the concepts of flow and nourishment and their symbolic association with the providing , mediating Mother . |
| 6 | Still in the realm of half-backs , the original conclusion from the post-match inquest into who had called the back-row move which led indirectly to that heartbreaking injury to Craig Chalmers — that it had come from half-back — was subsequently rescinded . |
| 7 | When the meal is over you 'll be perfectly free to return to that absorbing book of yours . ’ |
| 8 | The one exception to that doleful list of Labour Governments who doubled unemployment during their term of office saw unemployment increase by 50 per cent . |
| 9 | I become attached to that firm slab of practical mattress and look upon it as a sort of lily-white oasis cloud in a world of cold and sterile air . |
| 10 | More professionally , you can lighten them to that bleached-bone look by staining them with a white stain , thinned down with fifty percent white spirit . |
| 11 | In Nuria II , Alec sailed back to that distinct world of high oceans . |
| 12 | With regard to Easingwold , well of course Easingwold is at present outside the area of search , erm but again I do agree with what Mr Courcier has said , it would be a doubling the size of Easingwold , Easingwold is a small market town of high environmental quality , the existing form and pattern of development within Easingwold , erm exercise constraints over the scale of future development , the central area is of a certain size , of a certain quality , it 's got a certain amount of capacity to accept further development , and I do n't believe that a a erm grafting a fur further fourteen hundred houses could be fitted in to that existing infrastructure without serious harm . |
| 13 | My father , the one scholar in a large family , had caught the eye of the village schoolmaster and been coached by oil-lamp in the evening for an examination offering access to that rare privilege for the children of the poor , a secondary-school education . |
| 14 | Looking at them in this light it is natural to turn to that Elizabethan model for letter-writing , Angel Day 's The English Secretorie ( 1586 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ To that vile city of yours ! |
| 16 | At any rate he applied his tongue to the wood , and then went through all the motions of an expert tea-taster — even to that final feat of expectorating through the clenched teeth with precision and gusto . |
| 17 | We 're running out of time as usual , so if I can just come to that final line to you to consider and give me some views on them before you go . |
| 18 | He was referring to that curious mixture of kings , lords and commons which have been the essential elements of Britain 's unwritten — and until now unchallenged — constitution . |
| 19 | There were a number of objections to that simple call of justice . |
| 20 | Also led to that famous shot in the video with the bloke leaping onto/into the crowd as the 4th rattled in . |
| 21 | Seems a good idea on the whole , but whatever you do , do n't go writing to that ruddy man at the tax office any more or you 'll get his back up . ’ |
| 22 | Meditation is holding on to that silken thread throughout life . |
| 23 | She was desperate for more of him ; her body ached for fulfilment , for the feel of his need and strength inside — so that when he entered her , when she felt that first wondrous thrust , which brought both pleasure and pain , it was as she 'd always dreamed , and as his urgent rhythm continued , bringing them both to that glorious peak of exhilaration , Robyn cried out his name , held him close to her for a moment and wished things could be like this forever . |
| 24 | He was referring to that glorious trio of cliffs , Ramshaw Rocks , Hen Cloud and the Roaches . |
| 25 | Accept her cold rebuffs without anger or impatience ; be there for her as best he might in the fond hope that this dreary rain must cease , that Spring must come again , and she might wake one day to that glorious span of light across the water-meadows . |
| 26 | I stare at it , thinking down the depth of years to that frozen day by the river . |
| 27 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 28 | Since those relations were daily growing in importance with the increase in trade , it was becoming more and more essential that all should try and give life to that necessary fiction of government that every man knew the laws of his country . |
| 29 | She reached to the gap between back and seat where years ago she had stuffed a cushion that made all the difference to that small problem with her spine . |
| 30 | It is clear that what is necessary in such a case is research , not dogmatic and perfectly arbitrary claims , based on analogies to that small part of the experimental literature in which one happens to be interested . |