Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , as she was heading towards the gate ( thus walking in the direction opposite to that which Agnes was to take somewhat later , followed by the gaze of her unfortunate schoolfriend ) , the secretary turned , smiled and lifted her arm out in the air in an unexpected gesture , easy and flowing . |
| 2 | However , tachistoscopic half-field studies with normal subjects suggest that for sinistrals the presence of familial left handedness reduces perceptual asymmetry for non-verbal as for verbal tasks ( Gilbert , 1977 ; Albert and Obler , 1978 ) or shifts the asymmetry in the direction opposite to that for dextrals ( Schmuller and Goodman , 1980 ) . |
| 3 | Within each handedness group the difference between female inverters and non-inverters was in the direction opposite to that predicted by Levy and Reid but , for males , the difference was in the predicted direction . |
| 4 | As he will be aware , for the most part attacks have been going in the direction opposite to that to which he drew attention . |
| 5 | Iron the interfacing centrally to wrong side of the one tie-back piece . |
| 6 | It would be dead easy to reform the CAP at our farmers ' expense and simply shovel the money across to other farmers , which appears to be the Labour party 's proposal , but we do not share that view ; we must ensure that it is a balanced proposal and that in the United Kingdom , where we have efficient agriculture , the efficient farmer has a long-term future . |
| 7 | The resistance then to black families adopting makes it likely that successful selections in the 1960s and 1970s depended heavily on identification and involvement with white society , with the neighbourhood , the school and friends being predominantly white . |
| 8 | ‘ To constitute an appropriation of goods to the contract , the parties must have had , or be reasonably supposed to have had , an intention to attach the contract irrevocably to those goods . ’ |
| 9 | One of the projects close to commercial realisation uses optical fibre to sense a current flowing in a conductor . |
| 10 | When satisfied with his progress he gave the products away to any whom the doctors thought would benefit from them . |
| 11 | I was ruled out of order , I erm I there were point out then that twenty five new councillors and I understand it was n't legitimate if I wanted to restrict the vote only to those twenty five so that the rest of you would actually realise that this has gone on far too long , I only put that as a I think it is very , very important erm that we break new ground . |
| 12 | The rotation of the key brings the check and the hammer closer to each other . |
| 13 | A strong wind tore through the trees whipping the branches fiercely to one side while the rain swept across their faces . |
| 14 | Switching the fan overhead to full speed , Rachel unpacked , put everything in her heated wardrobe . |
| 15 | To retrieve data the logical track and sector is passed to the drive which translates the data automatically to physical tracks and sectors . |
| 16 | Thomas son of Adam , who had held the manor of Hutton-in-the-Forest by the serjeanty of keeping the king 's hay of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest , had by 1244 alienated the manor entirely to several tenants . |
| 17 | By the time she had , they 'd moved the girl away to another ward . |
| 18 | Either replace with larger size wallplugs and screws , or move the bracket slightly to one side and refix . |
| 19 | And another one moving the chaff away to one side . |
| 20 | Good Lord , I remember the scene well to this day . |
| 21 | However , the characteristics of police occupational culture in Easton and the question of informal rules and control will be addressed in later chapters , to allow the focus here to narrow towards an outline of the nature of routine policing and its accomplishment . |
| 22 | A few Boards , seeing this as an essential part of their electricity service , expanded their contracting activities enthusiastically , while others left the business largely to private contractors . |
| 23 | Space the wires about 230mm ( 9in ) apart , and either tie the plants directly to these , or tie canes to the wires for additional support . |
| 24 | Usually found around the edge of the forest close to open countryside , you are more likely to hear the loud laughing call of the green woodpecker than see it , as it is quite a shy bird . |
| 25 | Central to these were the sterling balances which were liabilities which had accrued during the war largely to poorer countries within the Commonwealth . |
| 26 | His perspectives led the eye obsessively to some place out of reach , that he could long for but not have . |
| 27 | To limit the right only to those investors who trade directly with insiders , as strict logic dictates , would make a successful action very unlikely , given that privity would be virtually impossible to prove . |
| 28 | The main competition for the Royal Oak comes from the Black Bull , an old coaching inn also located in the town centre , and from the Leofric , a two-year-old motel located on the outskirts of the town close to both motorways . |
| 29 | These references , which were given over the period continually to 1984 , undoubtedly had an effect on the ability of Berg to engage in large scale bill discounting transactions with other banks . ’ |
| 30 | A united Germany acceded on Oct. 3 , reducing the membership again to 159 countries . |