Example sentences of "[adv] to a [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bush objected fiercely to a decision by the House of Representatives on Aug. 2 , 1989 , to halve the funding available for mobilizing the missiles on the rail network . |
| 2 | Buskers played in the streets ; hawkers shouted their wares ; women met and gossiped ; kids played , as I had done when younger ; and of course nothing could , or would stop Glaswegians going to a match on Saturdays , especially to a game between the ‘ old firms ’ — Rangers and Celtic — either at Hampden Park or Parkhead . |
| 3 | It is due to a more far.reaching failure — the failure to conceive the full meaning and possibilities of national education as a whole , and that failure again is due to a misunderstanding of the educational values to be found in the different regions of mental activity , and especially to an underestimate of the importance of the English language and literature . |
| 4 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 5 | However , as we saw in the final sections of that chapter , a consideration of single word identification leads naturally to a consideration of the larger linguistic units in which words normally occur ; and hence we concluded the previous chapter with a discussion of contextual effects on visual and auditory word recognition . |
| 6 | This leads naturally to a comparison of the two methods . |
| 7 | This leads naturally to a review of the nature and potential of collective actors and the field of action in which they might be engaged . |
| 8 | I am not quite sure from the map where Presteigne station was , but it looks as if the PCBCR would not have run into it directly , merely to a junction outside the town . |
| 9 | It has long been established that a defendant may be required to discover documents under his control but situated abroad ; in the early cases , the fact that relevant documents were in Calcutta or in Tobago led merely to an extension in the time allowed for their production . |
| 10 | ‘ We needed it to dry off , but now ‘ t is dangerous if we 're near enough to a castle for the smoke to be noticed . |
| 11 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 12 | Cleared with the security guards at the desk he went into the lift that would take him down to a depth below the level of the Thames . |
| 13 | In the end , we went down to a chum in the country . ’ |
| 14 | ( Years later , he came down to a jam with The Pistols when I thought we needed a keyboard player . |
| 15 | The heavy material was carted down to a quay on the lake shore , adjacent to Coniston Hall , which had been specially constructed by the company . |
| 16 | The theoretical difference between the categories may well come down to a question of the burden of proof , though in practice a party seeking to uphold the validity of the restrictive covenant — usually the employer — has to make all the running . |
| 17 | Before settling down to a tour of the old quarter ( and Stein is almost entirely an old quarter ) , it is a good idea to face the climb to the Burg Hohenklingen , from the battlements of which there is a breathtaking view of the Rhine winding its way through flat green pastures and dense woodland , and of the closely clustered pointed roofs of Stein itself . |
| 18 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 19 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 20 | Did it really not come down to a fear of the knife ? |
| 21 | After dodging the evil Sheriff 's men and their deadly arrows , try your hand at archery before settling down to a feast under the ‘ Greenwode Tree ’ . |
| 22 | The surveyor who had carried out the inspection had seen the water during his survey , but had put it down to a leak in the central heating system . |
| 23 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 24 | On Sunday diners are sitting down to a meal at the Garden of India restaurant in Bondgate . |
| 25 | The subject is dealt with in great detail in the more substantial books on heraldry as being one of great formality — a label for the eldest son , down to an octofoil for the ninth son . |
| 26 | Later that month Alistair went along to a reading at the Screenplay Society in Earl 's Court . |
| 27 | They took me along to a service at the North Shore Christian Fellowship on the Sunday after the Night of the Great North Wind . |
| 28 | Anyone wanting to make their pet a star should go along to an audition at the theatre on March 16 at noon . |
| 29 | She 'd booked in to a hotel on the Place Gambetta , had a leisurely bath to iron out the kinks of the journey , then followed the receptionist 's directions to the old part of the town , a maze of narrow streets where old timbered buildings leaned amiably towards each other . |
| 30 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |