Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When within binocular range it may be seen on the side of Theta opposite to the 6.5-magnitude star . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In true Ruskinian fashion Whiteley castigates contemporary classical revivalists who wish to appropriate the authority of tradition exclusively to the classicism which Ruskin abhorred . |
| 10 | The tramway carried sacks of grain directly to the mill 's main entrance . |
| 11 | ‘ Sex was a means of access both to the life of the body and the life of the species . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | dropped its skirts of branch almost to the lawn , |
| 16 | The melody of the Adagio from Dvořák 's ‘ New World ’ Symphony owes its air of peace largely to the static harmony , which begins to move beat by beat only when there is a climax . |
| 17 | The major problem at this water is boats and the inconsiderable few who seem to use the 10 — 15 metres of water closest to the bank . |
| 18 | Its fellowships are designed to help scientists , engineers and mathematicians to move , on a temporary secondment basis for between six months and two years , either from an academic institution into industry , or vice versa , to undertake an agreed project of significance both to the academic department and to the company concerned . |
| 19 | a reorganisation of the agency involving increased delegation of functions to area level , bringing the delivery of service closer to the public |
| 20 | Consider providing the participating member with the opportunity to report on results of contact directly to the client , in order to ensure effective communication . |
| 21 | The satellite pictures shows a lot of cloud just to the east of us , but you 'll see that it is moving away . |
| 22 | Teachers will wish to use local examples near at hand , in order to relate the themes and issues of history directly to the pupil 's own area , and also because encouraging appreciation of the built heritage is a key objective of history teaching ( appreciating history all around us ) . |
| 23 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 24 | Thus , from a national view , only the University of Cambridge through its Board for Extra-Mural Studies was undertaking a significant volume of new Chapter III activity and it was a matter of concern both to the National WEA and the District that its encroachment into the established and defined sphere of provision should be limited to the two counties in which earlier and exceptional arrangements had been agreed . |
| 25 | As skin cancer frequencies increase latitudinally towards the equator , correlating with increasing UV-B exposure , this projected increased incidence in skin cancer is equivalent in terms of exposure to the population living several degrees of latitude closer to the equator . |
| 26 | It says … , ’ he held the fluttering sheet of foolscap firmly to the table , … we have to lie down against an inner wall — under the table if possible . |
| 27 | Unable to practise , he turned to teaching at Cheltenham School of Architecture close to the home he had designed and substantially built at Malvern , despite his affliction , and became deputy principal . |