Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 It is also fairly essential to ensure that your desktop publishing package has a route through to high quality output devices such as typesetting systems .
2 Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards .
3 Whilst our schools and colleges are offering some of these courses , traditionally the bulk of such courses are to be found in the county Colleges of F.E. They can be of one year duration or provide a route either to higher education or more advanced professional qualifications .
4 They decided to cut across the coastal plain and head for a wadi that would provide a route back to the top of the escarpment .
5 Some bizarre quirk led Newman to take a route back to London past the bell tower where Sandy had died .
6 The duty imposed by RSC Ord 22 , r7 and CCR Ord 11 , r7 not to disclose a payment in to the trial judge until all questions of liability and damages have been decided is extended to the Court of Appeal by Ord 59 , r12A .
7 Even in these situations , however , first generation Caribbeans are more likely to use a variety close to the local Standard English of their birthplace than the Creole , while the second generation are much more likely to use London English than a form of Creole .
8 A base up to 3m ( 10ft ) long can be cast in one slab .
9 It was a wonderful vision but over the course of centuries , the gardens became building plots , access to the new houses being obtained by demolishing part of the ground floor of a house to provide a passageway through to the new dwellings .
10 Chlorophyll a values up to 170 mg m -2 were recorded in spring and up to 40 mg m -2 in summer .
11 ‘ The best defence for our colonies , as well as for our coasts , ’ he had argued the previous year , ‘ is to have a squadron always to the westward … [ which ] may in all probability either keep the French in port , or give them battle with advantage if they come out . ’
12 As an economic system , Europe , in spite of its internal contrasts and competition , remained a unity down to 1914 .
13 Fifteen years after the incident the issue was again before the Privy Council in a case inevitably to be known as The Wagon Mound ( No 2 ) [ 19671 1 AC 617 .
14 My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really .
15 It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ .
16 The cases below demonstrate that adverse possession usually concerns either existing landowners who gradually add a bit on to their gardens ( " boundary cases " ) or city homeless ( the " threat to law and order " cases ) who resort to squatting as necessary for living as well as , perhaps , for ideological reasons .
17 No , no , look I must ring here , we have a bit on to that behind the tree , you can let that happen .
18 No doubt Smith , the Oxford University Australian , who won five caps for the Wallabies , will feel a bit closer to home facing the All Blacks twice in the next 11 days .
19 Let us get a bit closer to the new clause .
20 I 'm a little bit surprised Stone has n't tried to get a bit closer to him although I think he 's been given the job of tracking Agnew who 's more of an attacking midfield player .
21 wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound
22 Erm , but what I wanted us to do is to start getting some discussion going and , so that you 're actually getting a bit closer to one another .
23 Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family .
24 Caroline Morrell , from OCADU , do you want to press your button , Caroline , so that everybody will please sit down normally and naturally , and maybe moved a bit closer to you , they 'll pick up what you 're saying .
25 No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level .
26 But if we alter the length of the sleeves and the shape of the neck we are getting a bit nearer to our own design .
27 No doubt Sir David is off on another of his trips to an exotic location soon — but for now he 's happy to settle for a spot of exploration a bit nearer to home .
28 as we got a bit nearer to the library .
29 The magazine will continue to cover American painting , drawings , prints , and sculpture from the Colonial period to 1960 , with occasional attention to decorative arts and architecture , and a bit more to photography .
30 We needed something to go round the various workplaces in Northumberland that actually appertained a bit more to Northumberland than the stuff we 're going to get from national level .
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