Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
| 2 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 3 | ‘ It looks as if it is probably down to the two of us , ’ said Grindley . |
| 4 | Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely . |
| 5 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 6 | With the Sky Blues set to overtake the Canaries if they win at Highfield Road , Gould took his team down to the local for pint of two of Guinness ! |
| 7 | And there will come amongst you one who will pop down to the local for a pint with the lads . |
| 8 | Some experienced foilers hold onto the spar end of a Flexifoil , shaking it while nearly vertical then when air-filled , it is brought down to the horizontal for the assisted launch . |
| 9 | ‘ I can sing along to every one of their songs . |
| 10 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 11 | Do the wages of these two great manufacturing centres indicate , along with the evidence from northern and Midland coalfields , that in the dynamic " industrialising " regions , nominal wages were buoyant enough to maintain or even improve real earnings from mid century through to the 1780s despite the burden of rising prices ? |
| 12 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 13 | He walked bravely over to the nearest of the shapes . |
| 14 | Guy urged the horse over to the largest of the mean shelters and dismounted . |
| 15 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 16 | Everyone in London was wondering why Guy left his fiancée on her own , and flew off to the Caribbean on the spur of the moment … ’ |
| 17 | Much of Piffetti 's work is still to be found in the royal palaces of Turin , but several superb pieces , including two exquisite pedestals , drifted off to the Quirinal in Rome , and an altar-frontal of unbelievable complexity is in the Vatican . |
| 18 | The thumb da , da , yes , but , if you 're in it 's a cord of G , you 'll put a two on the B , final note , and then go up to a five on a G , not a one , it 's better to do that , see if you can try . |
| 19 | The figures which I have given , I hope , add up to a total for new accommodation of seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds . |
| 20 | Fortune seekers , up to a million of them , have inflicted terrible damage upon the environment , on public health and law and order . |
| 21 | Both driver ants and army ants have exceptionally large colonies , up to a million in army ants , up to about 20 million in driver ants . |
| 22 | A carbon plasma is created in an electric arc struck between two graphitic electrodes ; up to a fifth of the carbon vaporized ends up as buckminsterfullerene . |
| 23 | It absorbs up to a fifth of its dry weight of water without feeling damp , she says . |
| 24 | ‘ We are always on the look-out for promising pups because every year up to a dozen of our most experienced dogs retire when they are eight years old , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 25 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 26 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 27 | The Cancer Research Campaign said yesterday that if a trial , to begin next year , is successful , up to a third of 15,000 victims a year could be saved . |
| 28 | In Rowntree 's examples of typical streets in 1900 , in the poorest streets up to a third of the householders were widows , in contrast to less than 5 per cent in the best working-class districts . |
| 29 | Few report writers invest up to a third of their time on follow through which is why their efforts so often arrive on death row ; the shelf in someone 's office where doomed reports await transfer to the waste bin or shredder . |
| 30 | A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God . |