Example sentences of "[noun] to the [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title dates back many centuries to the days when the Speaker was the King 's representative in parliament and when MPs wanted to debate raising money they formed themselves into a committee with an MP in the chair so that they could discuss the subject away from the prying ears of the Palace . |
| 2 | The title dates back many centuries to the days when the Speaker was the King 's representative in parliament and when MPs wanted to debate raising money they formed themselves into a committee with an MP in the chair so that they could discuss the subject away from the prying ears of the Palace . |
| 3 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 4 | Consideration there must still be but in my judgment the courts nowadays should be more ready to find its existence so as to reflect the intention of the parties to the contract where the bargaining powers are not unequal and where the finding of consideration reflects the true intention of the parties . |
| 5 | Story-tellers have revitalised the tradition of verbal gossip to the point where a juicy item that happened late one night in Annabel 's for instance , can have been chattered right around the world in a matter of 24 hours without it ever going into the newspapers . |
| 6 | Arbitan gives each of them a ‘ Travel Dial ’ , a wrist-watch shaped device that permits instantaneous teleportation to the zones where the keys are hidden . |
| 7 | She sent a glance to the corners where the shadows still lay , thick and clotted and sinister , but nothing moved . |
| 8 | Devotees of the Hitchcock film will be gratified to hear that Buchan 's book is even more chock-full of incident , cross-country chases , gung-ho and derring-do : a stirring monument to the days when a man of action might still be possessed of a stiff-upper-lipped charm and accomplishment . |
| 9 | Some precedents also provide for the tenant to assign the unexpired residue of the term to the guarantor where the guarantor has been required to make any payment under the guarantor 's covenants . |
| 10 | On April 3 the US State Department spokeswoman , Margaret Tutwiler , said after talks between Kurdish leaders and a high-level US delegation that the administration would " urgently consider " humanitarian aid to the Kurds once the UN ceasefire resolution had been agreed . |
| 11 | R to the continuum then every atom would move to a well defined new position . |
| 12 | Faldo is asking for less hype and a return to the days when the biennial encounter was a friendly , usually won by the Americans . |
| 13 | We did find the Hall that was to be home for the next couple of nights , with a note pinned to the door giving directions to the pub where the rest of the Society had gathered . |
| 14 | This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use . |
| 15 | He was prepared to run a conveyance to the links twice a day at 6d. a head or 1s. 0d. for a single passenger . |
| 16 | If Company A receives payment for supplying defence equipment to the government then the payment results in an increase in Company A's bank account , without a decrease in any other M4 private sector bank account . |
| 17 | She burst out of the cupboard , stumbled across the dining room and felt her way down the hall to the cupboard where the mains switch was . |
| 18 | Using the machine logs of searches on EXP and CTL , we classified responses to the situation where the system can not find a word into " good " or " bad " . |
| 19 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 20 | For transfection , 100μg plasmid DNA was mixed with 25μg Lipofectin in a total volume of 50μl and administered to mice by tracheal instillation in two loads by insertion of a metal applicator , adapted from a 25-gauge blunted syringe needle , through the mouth and into the trachea to the point where the main bronchi branch off . |
| 21 | After ingestion , and hatching in the small intestine , the L2 travel by the bloodstream via the liver to the lungs , where the second moult occurs , the L3 returning via the trachea to the intestine where the final two moults take place . |
| 22 | At first Emma had taken Ruth to the school twice a day , and fetched her home at midday and at night . |
| 23 | It seemed that she was not impressed for , having completed her examination , she turned ostentatiously away to follow Anthony to the table where the wine stood . |
| 24 | But whereas aesthetically the transformation and revitalization of conventions may be motivated ultimately , even in its classical forms , by a desire for a verisimilitude guaranteed by ‘ public opinion ’ , the need of the industry for new exploitation angles may exceed this aesthetic impulse , going beyond verisimilitude to the point where a series takes its significance not from an agreed or conventionalized similarity to the world , but from its difference to other series . |
| 25 | The monkey gingerly ran its fingers along wires to the point where the electrodes had been inserted in its brain . |
| 26 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 27 | In fact , we were beginning to pack the place to the point where the landlord was extremely worried because there were far more people in than should have been . |
| 28 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 29 | Seb had grown used to gipsy ways by now — especially Boz 's ways — but Dolly muttered angrily about ‘ gipsy ingratitude ’ and returned with Carrie to the room where the badly injured girl lay . |
| 30 | The clear lines leading the eye to the altar where the focus of the Christian life is celebrated in the Eucharistic Sacrifice tells you a great deal about Bishop Harris . |