Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the child is n't in for the mark prior going to the doctors at ten o'clock they 're absent even if they have a note . |
| 2 | Early PC-based software was both expensive and fairly awful ; Studio Software , who produced the first desktop publishing program for the PC recently went to the wall as a direct result of being unable to keep up with the new leaders . |
| 3 | The next day we were put in a different room and found brackets for the chains already attached to the wall . |
| 4 | ‘ Mind you look after the tarts , Bailey , while I collect some roses for the gel here to take to Miss Mates . |
| 5 | In the pension scheme there are typically three groups of members , the existing pensioners er those people who are still working for the company , the employees and the third group of er members who work for the companies generally referred to as deferred members . |
| 6 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 7 | Given the essentially privatised nature of the American health care , a vast consumer/patient demand for the product soon led to its widespread prescription as an excellent anti-ageing treatment . |
| 8 | Strips for the handlebar unfortunately have to be thinner , just under ⅛in , because of the tighter radius bends . |
| 9 | It is not sufficient for the plaintiff merely to refer to his affidavit to the statement of claim or statement of special damages for the calculations of special damage . |
| 10 | The other part of the explanation for the initiative tacitly granted to generals is the need for confidentiality and secret co-ordination between geographically separated forces . |
| 11 | As you looked at her more and more insects swarmed on to her ; then , as the weight grew too much for the insects underneath to cling to her smooth skin , great black cakes of them flaked away and fell fizzing to the ground . |
| 12 | Iranian crude production during the war never returned to anything near the 6 million b/d level , and although the level fluctuated throughout the 1980s , the original OPEC production quota assigned to Iran in 1982 of 1.2 million proved a reasonably accurate estimate . |
| 13 | As the ruling only applies to the institutions named , SPUC intends to get further banning orders made against other groups and named individuals as and when it becomes ‘ necessary ’ ( Irish Times , 30 Dec. 1986 ) . |
| 14 | The negotiations took place over the course of a year between autumn 1990 and summer 1991 , and could be characterized as the centre progressively conceding to the demands of the republics for more independence . |
| 15 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 16 | Shall we dance some more ? ’ he asked as the record finally came to an end . |
| 17 | Julius growled under his breath as the traffic almost ground to a halt . |
| 18 | Some time between then and now the unit commonly referred to as the family gradually shrank to a membership of two parents and their own children only — the nuclear family . |
| 19 | 20.1 In the case of any dispute or difference arising between the parties hereto relating to this Agreement or any matter arising therefrom or incidental thereto the same may be submitted to the arbitration of a single arbitrator in accordance with the provisions of the United Kingdom Arbitration Act 1979 or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in force . |
| 20 | Great rivalry between the boats sometimes led to angry words , or even sea battles , and when smoke over Downderry signalled a shoal along the coast , an exciting race would ensue . |
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| 22 | And given the extensive fear of denunciation for critical or defeatist comment , it is hardly surprising that negative remarks about the speeches rarely came to light . |
| 23 | So we 've cleansed off the cleanser now going to tissue dry Now toner is in a spray bottle , so we 're going to gently use the spray over Molly 's face . |
| 24 | ANGLO-Pakistani cricketing relations were strained again last night after the Pakistanis formally objected to Tom Graveney — the match referee for their Test series in the West Indies , writes Giles Smith . |
| 25 | A visitor to the village just after the war once remarked to me that he was amazed at the interest and knowledge of the local men on the subject of horse racing , as we had no race course . |
| 26 | With Kosovo and Vojvodina under his belt and Montenegro to come ( perhaps after a referendum there leading to that republic 's formal incorporation into Serbia ) , he could have a respectable country to run . |
| 27 | If you have not already done so , please lodge 6 copies of the papers previously sent to you on not later than 7 days before the above date . |
| 28 | The edginess of the others only added to his opinion of his own rectitude . |
| 29 | It was true that the members of the court sometimes seemed to be in competition in their attempts to gratify Artai 's vanity . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ Despite the national outcries that Cathy and other films engendered , the scale of the problem today seems to be greater than ever — if only by the sight of the homeless we see camped in the streets of our cities . ’ |