Example sentences of "to the [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been impressed by the view , the quite breath-taking view , from the headland of Posillipo round to the curiously named Egg Castle , a box of brown stone on its rocky promontory in the Bay and on farther to the Sorrento Peninsula beyond . |
| 2 | Benjamin Britten overshadowed the whole of Britain 's post-war operatic scene , from the revelatory first performance of Peter Grimes at Sadler 's Wells in June 1945 , to the desperately achieved premiere of Death in Venice , three years before his own death in 1976 . |
| 3 | Formal paved areas in the garden provide a nice contrast to the freely curving growth of the plants but , however well laid the paving stones , tiles or bricks , sooner or later weeds sprout through the cracks , and it is either a case of weedkiller , not popular with organic gardeners , or constant weeding , which scrapes fingertips and breaks nails . |
| 4 | Proceeds will go to the previously announced redemption of AT&T 's $1,750m in long-term debt ; Morgan Stanley & Co Inc was lead manager . |
| 5 | The principle of local interpretation however , will guide us to construct a limited context in which ‘ the mother ’ is the mentioned baby 's mother and the expression it is used to refer to the previously mentioned baby . |
| 6 | The Finance Ministry estimated that this was likely to add between 40,000 million and 50,000 million forint to the previously estimated cost of 100,000 million forint . |
| 7 | DH numbers used refer to the previously described hypersensitivity sites which are present during all stages of B cell development ( 26 ) . |
| 8 | Match your vocal chords to the best singing bird in the world , the Water Slagger . |
| 9 | Not much danger of course , but there must be a shade of guilt attached to the best repossessin' season . |
| 10 | For his work , Kanthan has returned to the best known Sanskrit grammarian , Panini . |
| 11 | The ever-present potential lawlessness of the Weald was married to the strongly expressed parochialism of small farmers to resist both King and Parliament . |
| 12 | They first describe the work of love as a double edged activity with positive and negative effect — purging sin and kindling the heart , clearing the soul and removing anger and sloth , wounding in love and fulfilling with charity , chasing off the devil and extinguishing fear — and then level out to the strongly stressed affirmation which defines the positive potential of the negative statement in chapter one " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 85.19 – 21 ) for he that has " Jhesu " grows through prayer to the fulfilment of human potential : heaven is open to him and he is made a " contemplatif man " . |
| 13 | The pope was father in God to the Romans , and to all men ; he was St Peter in person , the earthly representative of the apostle on whom the fame and fortune of the city most depended ; but he was also a petty tyrant — one of the ancient rulers who had failed to go away ; the symbol of all that was alien to the new found liberty so loved by the Italian city dwellers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 14 | The inspiration of his reports always moves in the narrow circle of subjects dear to the ecclesiastically minded Englishman of the eleventh century . |
| 15 | In saying this , I subscribe to the generally held view that the creatures are of extra-terrestrial origin . |
| 16 | Gas prices in the Netherlands are linked to the price of heating oil and have fallen due to the generally over-supplied nature of the oil products market . |
| 17 | Yet for all this newfound hostility to the most lickspittle Press in the ‘ free ’ world , what did Dave Mellor do on his first day out of the Cabinet ? |
| 18 | This activity led to a consideration of the flexibility of the language items used ; structures which can be used in more rather than fewer contexts have obvious attractions to the economically minded language user . |
| 19 | They feared that , unless they settled their differences , further disclosures could cause permanent damage to the already scarred image of the nuclear industry . |
| 20 | ‘ But it 's too cold in here , ’ she said , nodding to the already whirring air conditioner . |
| 21 | When the injunctions are triggered , and their verdicts are accepted without appeal , another crucial demand is added to the already overlong list . |
| 22 | After a trawl through its shortlist , a further three prospective sites were added to the already chosen Elstow . |
| 23 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 24 | It remained there until moving to the just described shop in the late 1920s . |
| 25 | The ability of narigenin and catechin to inhibit histamine synthesis and therefore acid secretion is the closest that plant drugs get to the well known dictum ‘ no acid , no ulcer ’ . |
| 26 | Mucosal injury is often ascribed to the well established ability of NSAIDs to inhibit synthesis of prostaglandins , as prostaglandins stimulate mucosal defence mechanisms such as secretion of mucus and bicarbonate and enhance mucosal blood flow . |
| 27 | Taking care to keep to the well trodden dirt path between the growing vegetables , she crossed the last field on to the riverbank . |
| 28 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 29 | Seymour Mullings , hitherto Minister of Finance , became Minister of Agriculture , replacing Horace Clarke , who moved to the Ministry of Mining and Energy , hitherto held by Hugh Small , who was moved to the newly organized Ministry of Industry and Commerce . |
| 30 | With arms about each other 's shoulders and Seb singing a different song from Nahum , they followed an erratic course from the forest to the newly made road . |