Example sentences of "at the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As cementation proceeds in clean sandstones or grainstones , or the matrix in clayey-sandstones and packstones becomes lithified , pressure is transmitted through the whole rock and there is no excess of stress at the grain to grain contacts . |
| 2 | OUTSPOKEN Australian winger David Campese last night hit out at the decision to stage Saturday 's match between the world champions and the Barbarians at Twickenham . |
| 3 | He scuttled ahead of them , bunching himself up at the approach to turnings in case anyone was coming the other way , and skimming over pools of polished moonlight with the feverish agility of a small bat . |
| 4 | But Luke , she remembered , had been four years old , tall for his age but thin as a stick and pale with excitement , that day , at the journey to Manchester , the speeches , the exalted , psalm-singing atmosphere of the crowds . |
| 5 | Arthur Conway turned from looking at the man to Agnes as she quickly explained what she had sold the customer . |
| 6 | Formation stages are shown on the left , progressing from living animals at the top to museum collections of fossil bones at the bottom . |
| 7 | Do n't you have to do you no cos if you trim them at the top to bush out |
| 8 | Second Division leaders Stockton stretched their lead at the top to points after they beat Hebburn 4–1 . |
| 9 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 10 | Swinton jumped at the chance to film Orlando and was involved in the project virtually from the outset . |
| 11 | The emperor and empress had foreseen and tried to forestall resentment on Louis the German 's part at the grant to Charles . |
| 12 | The French guns were firing at the flanks of the Prince 's position ; aiming at the farmhouses to east and west . |
| 13 | • Independent Television were most recently at the ELR to film background scenes for the Aussie bodice-ripping soap , Families . |
| 14 | Another strategy which has been suggested is to attempt at the outset to ground comparative analysis firmly within the context of explicit and already well-formulated theoretical debate , such as ‘ convergence ’ theory ( Shalev , 1980a ) . |
| 15 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Lamont might also look at the threat to coal jobs from the new generation of power stations burning North Sea gas . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 18 | His benevolent brown eyes are looking at the floor to Shirley 's left , about five feet beyond her , and he appears to be thinking not about the flute as a career , but about the problems and opportunities of kitchen floor tiling . |
| 19 | But once you look at the £10 to £15 bracket , high street champagne is definitely a good deal more impressive . |
| 20 | The LHS gives the value of the investment in the bond on the maturity date , compounding at the yield to maturity . |
| 21 | The first coupon payment is reinvested for ( 2T-1 ) half-years at the yield to maturity , the second coupon payment is reinvested for ( 2T-2 ) half-years at the yield to maturity , and so on . |
| 22 | The first coupon payment is reinvested for ( 2T-1 ) half-years at the yield to maturity , the second coupon payment is reinvested for ( 2T-2 ) half-years at the yield to maturity , and so on . |
| 23 | I 'm greeted at the gate to Brad Pitt 's ageing West Hollywood bungalow by his melancholic red coonhound Deacon . |
| 24 | She had found him , seen him , shivered at the resemblance to Jacob , but he was as distant as he had ever been . |
| 25 | The trust , a capital-growth specialist in Far Eastern investment , excluding Japan , lifted its NAV from 26.26p at the year-end to 36.44p in the six months to 31 January , easily beating the performance of the comparable benchmark , the FT Actuaries Pacific Basin ex-Japan Index , which rose by 20.1 per cent in sterling terms over the same period . |
| 26 | The only proposed narrowing of the road in Lakeside will be at the junction to Hammond Drive , the purpose of which will be to filter the traffic using the junction . |
| 27 | He could not recall , when questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , how much time had been devoted at the meeting to Newton . |
| 28 | So angry was Ian Paisley at the affront to Carson 's memory that he increased his tirade of abuse against O'Neill , produced Carson 's son to contest the Westminster elections in March ( promising four Protestant Unionists in all ) and only withdrew when he realised how devoid of constituency organisation he then was . |
| 29 | In contrast to the first group , relations are conducted at the Party to Party as well as State to State level . |
| 30 | With this lot there were those who stayed at the end to tutt-tutt at some of the language and that . |