Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 2 | Clearly , part of that under-reporting comes down to the fear of victimisation . |
| 3 | There is nothing what actually says , only when that cheque goes back to the bank , there 's nothing anywhere apart from the bank who says that cheque is actually made out to . |
| 4 | Progressive assessment relates directly to the principle of credit accumulation in that passes in individual modules are built up progressively towards a final award . |
| 5 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 6 | The ace cyclist went along to the Glover 's Lane Surgery in Netherton to start a week of Health Promotion events . |
| 7 | The head of each specialty reports directly to the top , and there is little middle management . |
| 8 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |
| 9 | When something of that kind comes on to the market it creates a storm . |
| 10 | It was black under the trees and a white mist of dislodged snow hung close to the ground . |
| 11 | Nor did the general public have a very high regard of embalming , believing it to be another unnecessary luxury meted out to the corpses of the rich . |
| 12 | Thus , the marked advance of women in education and in the professions in the seventies was a notable , if belated testament to social advance , even if some of this progress owed much to the belligerent assertiveness of the feminist movement as well . |
| 13 | The arguments concerning the social nature of scientific progress relate also to the product of that progress — technology . |
| 14 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 15 | He began by taking the wrong road out of Burford , then tried this lane to get back to the A40 . |
| 16 | Hopes of this kind owed much to the influence and example of the Physiocrats in France ; but their power in the English-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic was considerable . |
| 17 | The more time another male spends close to the Female , the more the courting male pecks at the cloaca . |
| 18 | The money announced today would be a one-off payment made automatically to the victims which would not imply any acceptance of liability on the part of the Government . |
| 19 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |
| 20 | His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down . |
| 21 | A claim for group relief will be accepted outside the statutory two-year time limit where one of the following can be demonstrated : the Inland Revenue contributed materially to the failure to submit a timely claim ; for reasons beyond his or her control , a person vitally concerned in the making of a claim was not available at a crucial time ; for reasons beyond the claimant company 's or its agent 's control , the need for the claim could not have been perceived before the time limit expires , and the claim was made as soon as reasonably possible in all the circumstances . |
| 22 | This action led directly to the Suez Crisis of that year ( CORE , pp. 141–3 ) . |
| 23 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 24 | At the end nearest the tube station was a block of shops containing a small supermarket run by Pakistanis , a Greek restaurant run by Cypriots , a triple-fronted emporium given over to the sale of motor-cycle spare parts and equipment and a paper shop run by people who when asked where they came from ingenuously replied that they were Cape Coloureds . |
| 25 | Few of the constraints identified in this chapter apply solely to the cities . |
| 26 | The issues discussed in this chapter relate mainly to the second and third options and in particular to proposals to replace a large ‘ proportion of them with some type of negative income tax system broadly defined . |
| 27 | This chapter looks forward to the ‘ new wave ’ and the new decade , but it would be imprudent to plunge into precepts without dwelling on the departing decade of the 1980s . |
| 28 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 29 | All this light spilling on to the driveway , it just was n't like him . |
| 30 | This figure conforms closely to the experience of others . |