Example sentences of "reaches [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |
| 2 | Because the heart is the seat of all our emotions , affections and willpower , this means that the impact of being blessed by God eventually reaches down to the very core of our persons . |
| 3 | ‘ A sweeping white beach fringed with date palms and oleanders … a sea so blue , you 'll think it was made in Heaven … luxury five-star accommodation , with a bar that reaches down to the water 's edge , and an internationally-famed restaurant where the food is as sensational as the setting … |
| 4 | The ego reaches down to it in its ‘ lower ’ portions , and the repressed merges with the id . |
| 5 | In a bureaucracy such as a pollution control agency , the organizing principle is administrative efficiency — ‘ an orientation to the expeditious attainment of the given objectives ’ ( Blau , 1963 : 264 ) — which reaches down to the field officer in the form of a number of imperatives about getting the job done in certain ways that have profound implications for his exercise of discretion . |
| 6 | That reaches down to the floor as I understand it . |
| 7 | The play reaches through to the insight that Ferdinand 's nuisance value is also his protection against the state . |
| 8 | In an earthen-floor restaurant a young girl reaches up to the hatch to bring bowls of strongly coriander-flavoured potato soup to a rickety trestle table . |
| 9 | Andy reaches up to the iron grating and pulls at it . |
| 10 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 11 | The left hand reaches up to the forehead , urging the brain to confirm a score line that , in years to come , will rank amongst the most shocking we have ever had to endure . |
| 12 | There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis . |
| 13 | The old woman reaches out to her , but the child turns and runs for the sanctuary of her mother 's arms . |
| 14 | The vision is to see a ministry established that reaches out to working girls . |
| 15 | Rather than locking himself in his bedroom staring mournfully out of the window , Lemn reaches out to his audience , grabs them by the lapels , rapping and ranting his bitter sweet rhyming couplets . |
| 16 | The man who can live here is the one who reaches out to his fellows . ’ |
| 17 | Whereas we are encouraged to remember the pre-war years as the home of traditional discipline and common sense , we can hardly fail to notice the sympathy which reaches out to Hatton 's bad boys or to Butterworth 's hyperactive little terror — a sympathy , what is more , that nowadays would often be slapped down as a sentimental , modern , postwar ‘ permissive ’ fad . |
| 18 | Its taint reaches out to family life , where religion turns to rivalry , brotherly love becomes murder , and justice degenerates into blood-lust ( Genesis 4 ) . |
| 19 | It reaches out to other Europeans — the new democracies who want to share the benefits we already enjoy . |
| 20 | So you see ee God does n't leave things for chance , he does n't leave people on the scrap heap he reaches out to them all the time . |
| 21 | With regard to galleries , then , we aim to support a number of strategically placed centres in , say , Brighton , Farnham , Canterbury , Folkestone , St. Leonards and Eastbourne , sufficiently for them , each doing their own thing , in due course to be able to service a touring exhibition network , made up of themselves and the other regional galleries , be able to offer the artist whose work they exhibit or promote a fair deal — that means paying them for their transport , insurance , publicity costs and perhaps a fee for exhibiting their work in public — and finally to organize appropriate marketing and education back-up to their own exhibitions programmes , which both pulls people in to the gallery and reaches out to them in , for example , schools and industry . |
| 22 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 23 | They tell a story that reaches back to neolithic man some 5,000 years ago , to the Roman occupation , to the many religious and military influences and the continuing threat of invasion over the years . |
| 24 | Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave . |
| 25 | There remains here a certain sense of uneasiness in the face of the " desert " of contemporary culture which reaches back to Dyson 's account of the " younger " universities published in Critical Quarterly almost a decade earlier . |