Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett was just about to leave to collect his cob from the stables when he remembered something and hurried back to the ferrymaster . |
| 2 | The British banana company , Geest , has been accused of illegal felling of areas of rainforest in north-east Costa Rica , next to the Tortuguero National Park . |
| 3 | As a young doctor in Leiden he paid a seminal visit to the neuroanatomist WJH Nauta , at that time developing a revolutionary anatomical technique for investigating the nervous system by staining degenerating fibres cut off from their parent cell-bodies . |
| 4 | Insurers usually require a Statutory Declaration as to the solvency of the transferor husband at the time of the conveyance so the practitioner must consider whether or not it is practical to ask for this at the time of the conveyance ( see further Chapter 10 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The Prince did not care what promises had been made to the Englishman ; forcing Sharpe to dance would demonstrate to the Rifleman that the Prince commanded this headquarters . |
| 6 | The constellation of behaviours : pointing , vocalising and checking may be closely tied to the acquistion of language . |
| 7 | The quiet , controlled voice filled her with relief and she scrambled out on to the jig to join David . |
| 8 | When she left the centre a good hour later it was to find dozens of people in little groups strolling around the factory floor and climbing the stairs to the jig platforms . |
| 9 | Following municipal law agency principles a third party could claim that it was bound with respect to the protectorate provided the agent had acted within the scope of its express , implied , or apparent authority . |
| 10 | As the threat of a military coup increased he rallied to the Protectorate . |
| 11 | A wise precaution was to send out a party equipped with bundles of brushwood to sweep away the tracks leading to the encampment . |
| 12 | Eleven days after he had taken Estabrook to the encampment in Streatham , Chant realized he would soon be having a visitor . |
| 13 | Yet common sense — and Melody — constantly told Seb it would be not only futile but foolhardy to go to the encampment just now . |
| 14 | As a result of Seb 's visit to the encampment a gipsy woman called to speak to Anna later that same day . |
| 15 | The concept of the power inherent in knowledge ensures the sharing of this power and the magical skills to guarantee victory to the warrior , abundance to the herdsman and agriculturist , and fecundity to women , etc. , the role of a spiritual teacher . |
| 16 | On arrival at the farm Edward introduced her to the herdsman then went on to his house , promising to come back shortly . |
| 17 | Trying not to show that she was completely at a loss , Sophie made a careful examination , then , taking out her stethoscope , she gestured to the herdsman to hold the calf steady while she listened to her patient 's lungs . |
| 18 | Taking off the stethoscope , she turned to the herdsman . |
| 19 | As the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair ( 10–20 June ) opens to the fanfare of 500 years of American Patronage , The Art Newspaper 's American in London asks leading dealers , do themes really help fairs to sell ? |
| 20 | It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ . |
| 21 | According to the Lanercost Chronicle , the Bishops of Winchester and Hereford were sent to Renilworth to ask the king to come to parliament , but on 12 January they returned to Westminster and it was announced that the king refused to do so . |
| 22 | But when the tabloids come knocking on your front door , harassing your girlfriend , when you spend some time making headlines than music , when you 've developed a habit that 's hard to break when you 've pissed your best mates off to the max , something 's got to give , right ? |
| 23 | Right now , those hip hop beats have been taken to the max and they 've got to be real careful it does n't become like Muzak |
| 24 | At a point with ‘ Arc ’ I said ‘ OK , we 're off and we 're flying , this is distorted and grunged out to the max ’ . |
| 25 | If Painkiller were to dump John Zorn 's sax squawk and turn their Marshalls to the max then they might just be edging close to what Zeni Geva and Albini have cooked up here . |
| 26 | It 's easy but sneaky ; you ferry a dump of fuel , shielding , a nuke and a missile , load up on fuel and a nuke , fly out and up eight clicks , drop the nuke at the foot of the mountains , power-dive back down to base , load the shielding , fuel to the max with just one missile aboard ( meanwhile the nuke explodes , shaking the ground ; you do n't want to be fuelling at this point ) , then you climb like fuck , get to ceiling and then hover in the air above the rising mushroom cloud ! |
| 27 | To the max . |
| 28 | Richard Baxter 's tender devotion to his wife gives the lie to the caricature of the Puritans as being cold , unemotional and joyless . |
| 29 | However , it is not suggested , pace Fuller , that the internal morality of law is inherent in the most efficient methods of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules , although there is more strength than has been generally granted in the view that government can only be compatible with the dignity of man if Fuller 's eight requirements for making law are satisfied ( Nicholson , 1973–4 ) . |
| 30 | Through its involvement in astrology it could also contribute to the governance of the Church , proving the truth of Christianity , forecasting the future , and predicting the course of disease . |