Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 2 | Lost John 's Cave is found very easily by rounding the end of the wall on the right and walking back alongside for 180 yards to a hollow where a small stream enters a black cavity in a low cliff ; a few yards further over a small rise is another less obvious orifice . |
| 3 | After 45 minutes to an hour , the mixture will have frozen to the consistency of thick slush . |
| 4 | After his education , he was apprenticed to his father 's coach-building premises , graduating after three years to an office position which he retained until his father retired in 1890 . |
| 5 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 6 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 7 | In 1989 a BGS engineer was seconded for six months to the Ocean Drilling Program ( ODP ) in Texas to work on the development of a downhole vibropercussive corer . |
| 8 | I wanted specifically to address myself to one rumour which seems to be a circulating dilemma , a great deal of enthusiasm and I heard that at er Chichester Railway Station today erm the staff at Chichester Railway Station seem to be under the impression that the erm the emergency planning authorities er have imminent proposals to breach the railway line south of to allow the flood water to escape to the sea , with the result so I was quite earnestly and er without any doubt that the railway will be closed for six months erm the , the Chairman of the County Council just raised this issue with the Emergency Planning , I understand that this is er an unsubstantiated rumour and er that there be a an immediate er destruction of the railways is not imminent but er I think perhaps it shows that erm probably due to the the great media interest and all sorts of stories are er doing a round but it goes without saying of course that the railway was n't closed for six months to the railway , but I do n't think there is any er any prospect to that , but I think the Chairman Council feels that . |
| 9 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 10 | Harry , Lord Monchensey , has returned after an absence of eight years to the family home of Wishwood where his mother and other relatives are waiting for him . |
| 11 | Of course that 's if you exchanged money at the regular exchange rate of 12 lei to the pound . |
| 12 | A detour of 2 kilometres to the left is worthwhile for a visit to The Binns , a National Trust for Scotland property which is the former home of the Dalyell family . |
| 13 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 14 | Checks carried out in Leeds after the fire gave a dose of 0.15 rems to the thyroid with an initial ground concentration of 320 nanocuries per sq . |
| 15 | Six teams of experts are going to Russia and two to Ukraine for placements of six months to a year ; each team consists of between four and six engineers , who will install computerised protection systems and leak detection devices . |
| 16 | A car built by students in the Mechanical Engineering Department achieved an average of 764 miles to the gallon in the annual Shell Mileage Marathon . |
| 17 | Sailing in a direction across the wind , with the wind blowing at or near an angle of 90 degrees to the board 's course . |
| 18 | Leg furnishings are also best groomed daily with a metal comb , using downward strokes at an angle of 90 degrees to the leg . |
| 19 | On this first morning we planned to practise the ‘ reaching ’ — sailing at an angle of 90 degrees to the wind . |
| 20 | Odd to give the spiritual leadership of three villages to a man about whom you knew nothing , who appeared to have received minimum training , whose fitness no one seemed concerned to have established , whose career was n't even recorded . |
| 21 | From a hurried clearance , I think , Wallace picked up the ball and went past 4 defenders to the bye-line . |
| 22 | Malvern Girls ' College in Worcestershire has forwarded the names of 6 parents to a debt collection agency because they have n't paid fees averaging £3,000 . |
| 23 | The sailors are timed over a course of 500m , which needs to be flat water with an optimum sailing angle of 120–130 degrees to the wind . |
| 24 | At his death in 1917 , he bequeathed his entire collection of 1,279 artworks to the City of Philadelphia , stipulating that they be exhibited in his home . |
| 25 | Miller ( 1981 ) acknowledges that the published report ( Cmd. 9191 , 1918 ) reflected Unwin 's concepts of housing design , garden suburbs , site selection and survey : ‘ the fragmentary experimentation of Letchworth and Hampstead crystallized into statutory house types and area standards , and a density of twelve houses to the acre , paving the way for an unprecedented municipal intervention into the provision of housing ’ ( Miller , 1981 , p. 89 ) . |
| 26 | People have been very generous in the parish and the village , obviously they think a lot of their church , but one suggestion that was put forward was if every man , woman and child gave the equivalent of twelve pounds to the fund then it would be raised easily , and I think that it 's quite likely that people will come forward er in a generous way I 'm sure . |
| 27 | In his will , Barnes gave Lincoln , a small black institution in rural Pennsylvania , the power to name four out of five trustees to the foundation board . |
| 28 | With manufacturing companies throughout the country reporting falling industrial orders , the US dollar fell steadily during January , towards two dollars to the pound sterling . |
| 29 | With voting legally compulsory , 67.2 per cent of the Buenos Aires province 's electorate ( of over 7,500,000 people ) rejected a joint Peronist and Radical Party ( UCR ) package of 98 amendments to the province 's constitution , designed to give more autonomy to local councils ; 32.8 per cent voted in favour of the changes . |
| 30 | And it is a Scot who is credited with using the first ‘ cady ’ on the golf course , namely the Marquis of Montrose , who played on that delightful east-coast course in the 1620s and wrote in his accounts , ‘ payment of four shillings to the boy who carried my clubs ’ . |