Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 2 | The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse . |
| 3 | Another way into the interior is offered by a stalker 's path from Annat at the head of Loch Torridon ( closed in the later months of the year ) : this leads to the tarns at the foot of Maol Cheandearg with a branch turning off to An Ruadh-stac . |
| 4 | Doorways opened off this stone passage right and left , one to give access to the porter 's lodge , the other to a stairway leading up to the gatehouse itself , above the pend , from which the drawbridge and portcullis were managed . |
| 5 | A roadside gate opposite admits to a field sloping down to the river ( no path ; no right of way so seek permission to visit ) where , in a wild and impressive setting , the Dee , here flowing in a deep ravine , leaps in a waterfall into a deep pool beneath a high canopy of trees . |
| 6 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 7 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 8 | A clerk came up to the counter . |
| 9 | With just five minutes remaining Mathers tipped a Ferguson shot on to the post and Hateley bundled in the rebound from close range . |
| 10 | Halfway up , the stream poured out from some hidden source and fell in a silver smoke down to a pool . |
| 11 | Although the wall was originally orange , a brown shadow in the shape of a fan stretched up to the ceiling above the frying pans on the hob . |
| 12 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 13 | A figure climbed on to the roof and came towards them . |
| 14 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 15 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 16 | Have , in contrast , eliminates any reference to a tension leading up to the realization of the infinitive and represents the latter as being " already in the bag " . |
| 17 | A short distance up the road from the Hill Inn , a bridleway turns off to the right and , with Ingleborough looming directly in front , passes along an easy terrace to reach a gate in a cross-wall after half a mile . |
| 18 | A stranger coming in to the house that you 've never seen before |
| 19 | Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism . |
| 20 | Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all . |
| 21 | He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house . |
| 22 | A car pulled up to the fence . |
| 23 | A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing . |
| 24 | So there is a check built in to the , to the council procedures . |
| 25 | I continued to go off and on although I do have some special memories as a youngster running on to the Hillsborough turf to shake John Giles 's hand after beating Birmingham 3–0 in the Cup semi-final ( 1972 ) . |
| 26 | It then accepted a new structure in which a minimum standard of English and arithmetic qualified a child to go on to an intelligence test to measure its ‘ capacity ’ . |
| 27 | Most of us agree that it would be handy to turn the loft into a bedroom , or have a conservatory tacked on to an outside wall , but can you imagine what it must be like living in a church , a factory or a windmill ? |
| 28 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 29 | A cowboy sauntered over to the bar , and sidled up next to them . |
| 30 | Right on cue , a butterfly flew up to the plants we were looking at and landed ! |