Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps non-clinical legionellosis follows exposure to small numbers of bacteria alone , the clinical form occurring as a result of exposure either to a large dose of bacteria or to legionellae packaged in amoebae . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When within binocular range it may be seen on the side of Theta opposite to the 6.5-magnitude star . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If it is possible to put your point of view frankly to an impartial and sympathetic individual , it may be that the difficulties that have arisen can be resolved without the need for drastic action on anyone 's part . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By changing the adjective discreet into an adverb , this would have lost some of the force of the original , which attributes the behavioural quality of discretion metonymically to the door , an inanimate object which can not , in literal actuality , possess it . |
| 19 | In true Ruskinian fashion Whiteley castigates contemporary classical revivalists who wish to appropriate the authority of tradition exclusively to the classicism which Ruskin abhorred . |
| 20 | The tramway carried sacks of grain directly to the mill 's main entrance . |
| 21 | The commandos had been able to keep up their grenade-throwing sorties because civilian volunteers from the town carried sacks of grenades forward to the men in action . |
| 22 | ‘ Sex was a means of access both to the life of the body and the life of the species . ’ |
| 23 | Another sign of attachment is the revival of the art of cameo-cutting , beginning with the commissions bestowed by popes , prelates and connoisseurs at the time of the Renaissance , persisting through the period of bourgeois dominance and continuing into the present age of enfranchisement even to the point at which resort has had to be made to substitute materials like shell or paste to satisfy a greatly enlarged market . |
| 24 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 25 | The long , low island of Lismore away to the east was Campbell ground , and the great fortress of Dunstaffnage out of sight beyond it on the mainland . |
| 26 | Such deposits would normally earn a rate of interest close to the equivalent of the average rate of discount at the most recent Treasury bill tender and would be called in amounts set as a percentage of eligible liabilities . |
| 27 | dropped its skirts of branch almost to the lawn , |
| 28 | The papers say there has been shooting in the centre of Tripoli far to the north . |
| 29 | A variety of modes of transmission are provided for : the diplomatic channel ; communication to the ministry of justice or other relevant authority of the state of destination , or to a particular tribunal in that state , directly by the tribunal in the state of origin ; such communication via a diplomatic or consular agent ; by a diplomatic or consular agent of the state of origin directly to a national of that state ; by an agent appointed by the tribunal in the state of origin ; by an agent appointed by a party to the proceedings . |
| 30 | For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east . |