Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and that I think , the response therefore to your position on financial figures for the contingency fund is if you sort the government out we might be able to . |
| 2 | If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation . |
| 3 | Kim 's parents Carol and Denis Brockwell from Waterstock in Oxfordshire each took the stand briefly to be questioned by the judge . |
| 4 | A chimney led from the side of the boiler away to the end of the shed . |
| 5 | 1773 " To be levied for finishing the Church yeard Dyke of Kilchoman and the Remainder thereof to be applied towards building the Church yeard Dyke of Kildalton with future collections , till the same be Completed . " |
| 6 | 1773 " To be levied for finishing the Church yeard Dyke of Kilchoman and the Remainder thereof to be applied towards building the Church yeard Dyke of Kildalton with future collections , till the same be Completed . " |
| 7 | This debate caused a reaction in the direction opposite to Frank 's . |
| 8 | Once , as she was heading towards the gate ( thus walking in the direction opposite to that which Agnes was to take somewhat later , followed by the gaze of her unfortunate schoolfriend ) , the secretary turned , smiled and lifted her arm out in the air in an unexpected gesture , easy and flowing . |
| 9 | However , tachistoscopic half-field studies with normal subjects suggest that for sinistrals the presence of familial left handedness reduces perceptual asymmetry for non-verbal as for verbal tasks ( Gilbert , 1977 ; Albert and Obler , 1978 ) or shifts the asymmetry in the direction opposite to that for dextrals ( Schmuller and Goodman , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | Within each handedness group the difference between female inverters and non-inverters was in the direction opposite to that predicted by Levy and Reid but , for males , the difference was in the predicted direction . |
| 11 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 12 | A gate onto the ice was opened and we all began the trek across to the ‘ royal box ’ on the opposite side . |
| 13 | This leads some to claim it for immediately after the return , but it can as well be immediately before the flight , and in any case it dates the change securely to the time around 480 . |
| 14 | be , breathing problem is the allergy either to the dust in the air or the mites |
| 15 | Arthurton , who had profited through glorious square-driving in his top-score of 59 after twice being caught at slip off no-balls , essayed the shit once to often against Pringle . |
| 16 | Also , in memory of each member of Thomas 's crew , we knelt and laid one of the five red roses on each grave , including one behind the roundel opposite to the ‘ Peace ’ rose . |
| 17 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 18 | A has used his back foot to pull the board closer to him , thereby making it far easier to pull himself up . |
| 19 | If the wall is reasonably flat you can fix the board directly to it . |
| 20 | They can be tightened to bring the top of the sack closer to the back , spreading the load over the shoulder harness and enabling the wearer to keep an upright stance , thus improving the stability . |
| 21 | Backpacking sacks have additional straps between the main body and the top of the shoulder straps which can be tightened to bring the top of the sack closer to the back and thus more upright . |
| 22 | Now , in late 1993 , the England manager , Graham Taylor is destined for the sack much to the joy of the England supporters and press . |
| 23 | Iron the interfacing centrally to wrong side of the one tie-back piece . |
| 24 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 25 | Not for the money just to be , just to see how they go on |
| 26 | I checked her out with the FBI and she raised funds for the IRA in the United States — not illegal at that time — and carried the money across to her IRA contacts every month . |
| 27 | It would be dead easy to reform the CAP at our farmers ' expense and simply shovel the money across to other farmers , which appears to be the Labour party 's proposal , but we do not share that view ; we must ensure that it is a balanced proposal and that in the United Kingdom , where we have efficient agriculture , the efficient farmer has a long-term future . |
| 28 | What areas When I say , What areas , I mean what mean c what erm would you like the money actually to be used on ? |
| 29 | Such agreements are likely to be unrestricted-use credit although this may not always be the case , for example where a financier who has no arrangement with the seller insists on paying the money directly to him ( s13 ( a ) ) . |
| 30 | The resistance then to black families adopting makes it likely that successful selections in the 1960s and 1970s depended heavily on identification and involvement with white society , with the neighbourhood , the school and friends being predominantly white . |