Example sentences of "[adv] to the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems clear that the labour needs of the growing mining and manufacturing districts were not significantly met by long-distance migration , although by the end of the period Irish immigrants were contributing , especially to the factory towns of the North . |
| 2 | James Lisney stresses their closeness to Western origins , especially to the genre pieces of Mendelssohn and especially Schumann . |
| 3 | The open-ended activities relate especially to the process aspects of mathematics . |
| 4 | and they confirm that Dreadnought has been officially classed as a wreck , and what 's worse , I 'm afraid , is that she 's lying near enough to the shipping channels for them , to quote their letter , to exercise their statutory powers and remove her by means of salvage craft . " |
| 5 | One way would be for the letter detector for , say , Y-in-the-fifth-position to have inhibitory links not only to the word detectors for words which have any other letter in that position , but also to those detectors for words which have no fifth letter . |
| 6 | You pushed it away to the back recesses of your mind , but it crept and crawled about and then annoyingly broke through the surface again . |
| 7 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |
| 8 | But I do know that when times were bad , the people in the dale had to use the wool off the backs of the sheep themselves instead of sending it away to the wool merchants of Bradford after shearing . |
| 9 | Together , most of the bodies lost ground in the fifteenth century , and were often forced to ‘ appropriate ’ neighbouring parish churches in order to swell their incomes from the tithes due from the laity ; this frequently became a source of bitter dispute locally , and lay patronage shifted away to the parish churches in the fifteenth century . |
| 10 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 11 | During the development of the qualification package consideration should be given not just to the training needs of assessors and internal verifiers , but also the way in which the person responsible for the day to day management of the scheme ( the central contact ) could be assisted in the planning of the implementation of the qualification in the organisation . |
| 12 | Aberdeen District Council , represented on the EMS board , have contributed generously to the core costs of the company . |
| 13 | The simplest adequate interpretation of the evidence suggests that a driving circadian oscillator in the optic lobe is coupled electrically to the leg muscles via the protocerebrum , nerve cord connectives and thoracic ganglia , the whole system being modulated by sensory inputs which are integrated with the circadian oscillator output in the corpora pedunculata . |
| 14 | A week later , however , when Branson walked into the shop close to the Virgin offices in Portobello Road where Joan worked , selling Victorian advertising ephemera , and invited her to lunch , she accepted . |
| 15 | King George V unveiled the ‘ Cenotaph'-the war memorial in Whitehall , close to the parliament buildings at the Palace of Westminster , also to Downing Street , in 1920 , and an ‘ Unknown Warrior ’ was ceremoniously Buried in Westminster Abbey . |
| 16 | There are no critical layout requirements although it is suggested that the decoupling capacitor , C1 , be placed close to the supply pins of the microcontroller IC1 . |
| 17 | However , will my hon. Friend consider the impact on residents in areas close to the landing pads for helicopters providing such services ? |
| 18 | This combination of uses is suggested by the existence of a dormer-roofed pitching hole close to the roof eaves at the north end and the two high-level square ventilation openings which are closely associated with it ( Plate 6 ) . |
| 19 | They were his mother 's people , they had an old weathered brick house close to the harbour moorings at Annapolis , Maryland . |
| 20 | We must also try to direct support much more to the specialist producers of high-quality British beef . |
| 21 | However , if you really hanker for a return to the glory days of kit design , look no further to the glory days of kit design , look no further than Arkwright , the Leeds-based company who reproduce classic old designs from the Fifties to the Seventies in 100 per cent cotton . |
| 22 | Adding insulation to the inner face of exterior walls involves either fixing thermal board ( plasterboard with a rigid foam backing and a built-in vapour barrier ) directly to the wall surfaces with a panel adhesive , or putting up a framework of battens with blanket insulation between them , and adding a layer of vapour-check plasterboard on top . |
| 23 | A third branch of the communications flowing out of EUCOM goes over landlines to the European headquarters of the US Air Force at Ramstein , Germany , from here the messages split up , going directly to the control centres in the convoys and to main operating bases such as Greenham Common . |
| 24 | This , of course , relates directly to the plate histories of the two continents . |
| 25 | Much sympathy went Jackman 's way as many felt that he had been humiliated ; and went also to the cricket fans of Guyana , deprived of a Test match and also , because of the weather , of any game against the tourists apart from a one-day international . |
| 26 | This applies to both the major components which the craftsman deliberately mixed together to form the final product , and also to the trace elements of which he was probably ignorant , but which can indicate the likely source of some of the materials , thus enabling us to distinguish the genuine from the spurious . |
| 27 | Everyone began to listen carefully to the news bulletins on the wireless and to buy newspapers as soon as they were printed , yet people found it hard to believe that war could really happen . |
| 28 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 29 | The homology at the nucleotide level between the human and Drosophila cDNAs is 54% over their entire length , a similarity confined mainly to the coding regions of the sequences . |
| 30 | And the language of Ulysses is noticeable in countless ways , taking now to the staccato bursts of signal flickering half thoughts , or the ebb and flow of daydream , now to extended disputation , now to pastiche , now to grotesque imaginings , now to the flattest or the sharpest of conversational exchanges . |