Example sentences of "to the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , we know it were him , ’ said a woman as she added another bunch of flowers to the hundreds piled on the embankment . |
| 2 | The three men assigned to the inflatable waited in the cockpit . |
| 3 | This compared services to the elderly delivered by teams exemplifying some of the more prominent organizational types . |
| 4 | In the steady-state analysis of the life-cycle model in the previous section , we showed that an increase in debt is equivalent to a lump-sum transfer to the retired financed by a lump-sum tax on the younger generation . |
| 5 | The attraction of Indonesia to the Taiwanese lay in its cheap labour , plentiful land for development , and the easy availability of raw materials . |
| 6 | However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more . |
| 7 | INTRODUCTION TO THE 1992/3 GUIDE TO STEAM TRAINS |
| 8 | When Bromhead contributed the article on Differential Calculus to the 1819 Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica he emphasized Woodhouse 's influence . |
| 9 | For a long time that night too he had not slept , had lain thinking , wondering what to do , listening to the delicate sounds like tiny bubbles breaking — and then hearing them no more . |
| 10 | Having secured the deanship of Wells in 1379 by royal request and the prestigious archdeaconry of Canterbury in 1380/1 , Fordham secured election on 30 May 1381 to the mighty see of Durham . |
| 11 | Surely , however , the women who do make the transition from the grant-aided sector to the mainstream bring with them a history of political and creative experience which must make itself felt in the long run ? |
| 12 | In due course many of these became great barons in their own right ; but their origin was not quickly forgotten , and served as a constant reminder that royal patronage and service to the great counted for as much as blood and status . |
| 13 | Intermittent warfare from the 1620s to the 1750s ended with the incorporation into the Russian Empire of many tribes speaking Turkic languages . |
| 14 | I think that the whole business was just another gimmick to add to the many introduced to the Church over these last 20 years . |
| 15 | The televised ceremony was attacked by army troops and over 40 people killed , to the irrevocable discredit of the regime . |
| 16 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 17 | On the night of their escape , Moses had commanded the Jews to sacrifice a lamb and smear the blood on the doorposts of their homes as a sign that they were to be ‘ passed over ’ by the Angel of Death , who was to bring death to the first born of every Egyptian family . |
| 18 | It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something . |
| 19 | For example , the number of books currently in print in the United Kingdom and North America is 650,000 , in addition to the millions published since the invention of printing . |
| 20 | Tallis went outside quickly , alert for the boy , her own heart racing in response to the awful wailing from the woods . |
| 21 | It does n't compare to the recent find by Suffolk farmer Eric Laws , which is estimated to be worth millions . |
| 22 | Today , thanks to the recent finds in Antarctica , the Macibini stone is no longer unique , and plenty of polymict eucrite samples are available to scientists around the world who are examining the genetic relationships between these and other meteorites . |
| 23 | They are proud of their contribution to the essential safeguarding of our country . |
| 24 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 25 | The fighting spread from the two helpless ships to the third rammed behind them , now cramped fast with a grappling-iron and rocking with incomers from the two dying vessels ahead . |
| 26 | It lists the revenues due to the apostolic see from the patrimonial estates and the tributes and payments from various European secular rulers and religious houses . |
| 27 | They will lay the foundations for the creation of yet more jobs , in addition to the 800,000 created since 1979 and the 2.6 million created since 1983 . |
| 28 | Pressplan Travel has also arranged a one-day visit to the fair departing from Stansted on Wednesday 6th October . |
| 29 | The PostScript interpreter is claimed to outperform systems using clones of PostScript interpreters and provides 51 Type 1 PostScript fonts compared with to the 35 offered by competitors . |
| 30 | She is seen at the National Cemetery in Seoul paying her respects to the thousands killed in the Korean War . |