Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives also found bales of dried herbal cannabis from a previous crop and believe the isolated spot had been used to produce the drug for up to a decade . |
| 2 | The parents then feed the chick for up to a year . |
| 3 | Indirect Rule was not , as was claimed at the time , just a pragmatic response to circumstances , or a way of breaking the natives in gently to the rigours of civilized living . |
| 4 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 5 | To get the specimen from overseas to the artist was the normal practice , but sometimes it was possible to take the artist , or to send him , to the animals . |
| 6 | This digression is prompted by the experience of watching the Prime Minister trying to horrid to Neil Kinnock twice a week and occasionally trying to put the boot in elsewhere to the Labour Party . |
| 7 | Escort the interviewee at least to the door , again the behaviour at the parting point can be significant . |
| 8 | Charles knew it would be unprofessional to use the pass-door from backstage to the auditorium once the house had started to fill , so he went out of the Stage Door to walk round . |
| 9 | The stairs from here to the top floor stretch upwards around the dilapidated grandeur of the stairwell . |
| 10 | It was not until the crisis of late August 1939 , when the Nazi-Soviet pact was announced , clearly foreshadowing the impending attack on Poland , that the Labour Party and the movement at large shook off its hostility to the government at least to the extent of supporting , and in the crisis of early September demanding , an early declaration of war . |
| 11 | He only ever puts the gas on half-way to the first mark on the knob and in the winter keeps the central heating down to sixty degrees : " I sit with the blanket round me . " |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't be at all surprised if the road from here to the slopes is blocked by tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 13 | As the name suggests , there was once a ferry crossing the river from here to the village of South Ferriby on the south bank , probably from Viking times — about AD 876 until 1300 . |
| 14 | Calero passed the message on confidently to a rich supporter in the suburbs of New Haven , Connecticut : ‘ God wants freedom in Nicaragua . ’ |
| 15 | The lithium is stored in aluminium , stays in the reactor for up to a year where it is bombarded with neutrons . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're supposed to be able to walk all the way from here to the coast . ’ |
| 17 | The ascent from here to the summit looks fairly fearsome but it is not as bad as it seems . |
| 18 | There is one sentiment all the Glosters share from the soldiers of today to the troops who fought for their country 80 years ago . |
| 19 | The contribution of Ultra to the conduct of the war both in terms of grand strategy and in individual operations was incalculable ; and its real rôle is still being assessed . |
| 20 | A property developer is hoping to defy the recession by putting flats in a converted Mill on the market at up to a quarter of a million pounds a time . |