Example sentences of "to [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where any premises have been let as a dwelling under a tenancy which is not a statutorily protected tenancy and — ( a ) the tenancy ( in this section referred to as the former tenancy ) has come to an end , but ( b ) the occupier continues to reside in the premises or part of them , it shall not be lawful for the owner to enforce against the occupier , otherwise than by proceedings in the court , his right to recover possession of the premises . |
| 2 | That a topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as the same is an analytic proposition setting out part of what " topic of discourse " means . |
| 3 | If you go to for a few days . |
| 4 | I do n't really want to go on to for a few minutes . |
| 5 | it comes to about the same |
| 6 | Unfortunately , he decided to side with Detroit on the day , so that he might be as comfortably partisan as usual , but he did so among a group of Pittsburgh supporters , whom he referred to throughout the same as Pitts-buggers , which did nothing to improve inter-City relations . |
| 7 | the most expedient course to consult the architect who had already been employed to prepare plans for the particular office now to be built , and who from his official position in connexion with the Board of Works might be resorted to with the least invidiousness to the professional public . |
| 8 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 9 | Leading to within a few yards of it was a public right-of-way . |
| 10 | The abundance of records enabled Hipparchus to use the properties of similar triangles and sine tables to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy , to within a few miles of today 's agreed figures . |
| 11 | At dawn they were well hidden in a cave and the following night they were able to march to within a few miles of the beach where they were to be picked up . |
| 12 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 13 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 14 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 15 | With five horizontal and vertical fan bladed thrusters , it is capable of turning completely on its axis of moving helicopter-like in any direction to within a few centimetres of where it is directed . |
| 16 | Thirdly , the semiconducters used as infrared detectors must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero , and they can measure the brightness of only one small patch of sky at a time , rather than ‘ photograph ’ a whole region of sky at once . |
| 17 | Infrared telescopes must be cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero to prevent their own heat radiation from swamping the faint signals from space : hence the liquid helium cooling systems which make infrared satellites complex and expensive . |
| 18 | During a match against Parr 's XI Felix was fielding at point for Sampson 's batting and he persisted in approaching to within a few feet of the batsman . |
| 19 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 20 | These decelerations look reasonably realistic to me , and consistent stopping positions are obtained to within a few cms . |
| 21 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 22 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 23 | I have , on more than one occasion , managed to entice a badger to within a few feet , simply by scratching my head , the inquisitive animals searching for this new ‘ badger ’ grooming in the shadows . |
| 24 | Over the three days that Forester had been observing , his schedule had been consistent to within a few minutes either way . |
| 25 | Only when she was on the other side of the car could she gain a clear view of Maurice and only then by closing to within a few yards . |
| 26 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 27 | Large grocery multiples and the oil companies have led the way in retail modelling , and some now reckon to be able to predict new store or site performance to within a few percentage points . " |
| 28 | Excluding the cold tundra , deserts range from 50 degrees North in Central Asia to within a few degrees of the equator in South America , with the result that temperature conditions vary considerably . |
| 29 | Consequently , the surface is peppered with impact craters , many of which date back to within a few hundred Ma of the Moon 's formation . |
| 30 | Signals from orbiting satellites forming the Global Positioning System ( GPS ) can be used to pinpoint the location of objects on the surface of the Earth to within a few centimetres ; a computer mapping system carried within a car ( and receiving the car 's position from GPS ) could , given suitable software , be capable of displaying a map showing the car 's location and suggesting alternative routes , such as the shortest , fastest , most economical or most scenic route . |