Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Quality Scotland Foundation , of which Scottish Nuclear was one of the earliest members , will shortly announce the launch of the Scottish Digital Quality Award for presentation annually to the company operating the best total quality management scheme . |
| 2 | Disregarding his work as Member of Parliament for Abingdon almost to the point of neglect , he helped Amy with every decision and chore . |
| 3 | Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content . |
| 4 | Please thank Renata very much too for doing one ; her point about the reference count being on the small side for usefulness even to the general learner is a crucial one ; likewise yours about the belt-and-braces reassuringness of the transitive/intransitive label . |
| 5 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 6 | Over a range of Rayleigh number ( probably dependent on Prandtl number ) , the thermals penetrate right across the layer , generating transient stable blobs of fluid close to the opposite boundary . |
| 7 | There has been a delegation of powers downwards to the Réunion and individual museums , and in 1991 the Réunion changed its statute to operate more like a private enterprise . |
| 8 | When within binocular range it may be seen on the side of Theta opposite to the 6.5-magnitude star . |
| 9 | My favourite tale , comes from Corner Pool , when Rob was fishing one cold March day : ‘ I was about to start at the top of the pool when I happened to spot a flicker of movement close to the north bank . |
| 10 | Our case is that , while the nature of the social relations at the workplace is clearly an important differentiating characteristic of the Dukeries field , they are probably a necessary but insufficient factor to account for the response of miners there to the 1926 and 1984 calls to strike . |
| 11 | To hear it we travelled to Leighton Moss , that wonderful reserve belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds close to the shore of Morecambe Bay . |
| 12 | ‘ The [ Bull ] case figures among the most urgent , even before that of Thomson SA , ’ the article says , citing a source at the Ministry of Industry close to the minister . |
| 13 | Second , changes in genes can alter the responses of cells locally to the inducing chemical : different genes could be switched on by the same stimulus . |
| 14 | The Queen 's Way , which ran at right angles to the King 's Way , was to have a massive terminal station at its head , dominating Connaught Circus and second in importance only to the Viceroy 's palace on the Raisina Acropolis at the head of King 's Way . |
| 15 | The Royal Family led the massed veterans and onlookers in singing O God Our Help In Ages Past to the accompaniment of the bands of the Guards Division . |
| 16 | However it seems that the slowest time constant represents only a subset of the GC sites since we observe dissociation from some GC sites at rates closer to the faster species . |
| 17 | The availability of work at terminals just to the north led to a much greater increase in construction workers ( 82% compared with 18% ) in the western sector ( KW14.7 ) than in the eastern sector ( KW 14,8 ) , so that by 1981 their levels had become similar . |
| 18 | In this study a 400-element array was used to represent a rectangular plate in plane strain , loaded only at its four corners by forces parallel to the longer dimension of the plate . |
| 19 | In mid-May the government , in a largely symbolic gesture , awarded rights to 800 plots of land close to the capital Managua to re-armed right-wing " contra " rebels recontras and re-armed left-wing Sandinista recompas . |
| 20 | Three major divisions can be recognized ( Fig. 3.11 ) ( 1 ) the Southern ( Patagonian ) Andes , extending from Tierra del Fuego northwards to the Gulf of Penas at latitude 47°S where the actively spreading Chile Ridge extends westwards into the Pacific ; ( 2 ) the Central ( Chilean-Peruvian ) Andes reaching from the Gulf of Penas northwards to the Amotape cross structure at the Peru-Ecuador border where the northwestern trend of the mountain belt changes to a northeasterly orientation ; and ( 3 ) the northern ( Colombian-Venezuelan ) Andes , extending from the Amotape cross structure northwards and then eastwards to eventually link with the Caribbean Arc . |
| 21 | Clinton made it his first post-victory order of business to send messages of reassurance both to the world at large and to the financial and business communities . |
| 22 | Those who took the decisions at the Fourth Lateran Council were a very small group of cardinals close to the pope and , on occasion , the pope himself , alone . |
| 23 | It appeared that Armenian militia had attacked a convoy of refugees from Khojali to Agdam ( a town in Azerbaijan close to the Nagorny Karabakh border ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll beam you up to a point in space close to the centre of a galaxy . |
| 25 | A footpath leaves here on a lonely clifftop walk to Red Point for Gairloch , a magnificent trek with views across to the Outer Hebrides : see also p. 58 . |
| 26 | First , it was reformulated in theories of political development and modernization which were , however , more restricted in their scope in several ways ; by confining the notion of development largely to the ‘ developing countries ’ , and at the same time taking as their model of a ‘ modern ’ developed society the existing Western industrial countries , as if these countries had reached the limit of their historical development . |
| 27 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the defence is now firmly part of the law and brings the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher closer to the tort of negligence . |
| 29 | A genuine one always has three tiny depressions one-quarter of an inch in diameter close to the centre-hole . |
| 30 | In contrast , in the USA the development of large-scale steel production both weakened the craft basis of unionism and correspondingly enhanced the power of individual firms in relation both to the unions and product market . |