Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Koreans went voluntarily or forcibly to Japan , mostly to engage in the most menial of jobs . |
| 2 | Reports come from Sudan , where the harshness of nature is compounded by man 's inhumanity to man — or rather to women and children ; and from Zimbabwe , where drought is putting many lives at risk , especially , as usual , those of young children . |
| 3 | She 'd leave early and go to Les Eyzies as Mademoiselle Lavaux had suggested , or perhaps to La Roque-Gageac , said to be the most beautiful village in France . |
| 4 | Last year small river craft were brought in by air or overland to Kalewa and driven down the Chindwin to the Irrawaddy . |
| 5 | Nolan and Sam Yaeger often bed the same girl , more or less to spite each other , it seems . |
| 6 | ( Eligible liabilities are sterling deposits with two years or less to maturity held by UK residents , plus a number of other items . ) |
| 7 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 8 | This observation corresponds more or less to Jacobsson 's list ( pp. 60-2 ) of the ten types of context where need can be used as a modal : Type 1 Need I be present ? |
| 9 | The contrast between the view that moral distinctions are detected by sense and feeling and the view that they are revealed as necessary truth to reason was a central theme in the moral philosophy of David Hume ( 1711–76 ) , whose philosophy is recognized as empiricism brought more or less to perfection . |
| 10 | Parsys does n't expect to have the SN9000 ready until ‘ late 1992 ’ — it will take three months or so to bed the new chip in when it does arrive . |
| 11 | They may take a week or so to work , but can kill most deep-rooted perennial weeds without being persistent . |
| 12 | The Iznik pottery from Turkey dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth century explodes with colour on more sophisticated white grounds ; Iznik is now highly sought after by Turkish yuppies and prices run from £2,000 or so to £15,000 . |
| 13 | He sat in the back with him , for company , and chatted soothingly of nothing as the driver did the eight miles or so to Kirton , and swept into the riding-school yard . |
| 14 | Half an hour or so to dinner . |
| 15 | The official plan is for oil 's share of consumption to rise from its present 50% or so to 60% in 1990 , then to drop back to 40% by the year 2000 through increased use of natural gas both in the home and for electricity generation . |
| 16 | Or only to people . |
| 17 | Come down to haggle or just to window shop , and bring your own mystery guitars for identification or valuation . |
| 18 | ‘ The wind of change ’ , that phrase coined by Harold Macmillan in 1960 , grew to have amore general application than just to Africa , or just to politics . |
| 19 | The year-book is due to be ‘ published ’ this spring , so if you have not yet submitted your entry , please send it now to the Alumni Office or directly to Annette Chinnery at . |
| 20 | But Darwin conceived that natural selection applied to individuals , or possibly to species , and that is how it is still understood . |
| 21 | Significant works which have appeared in Latin America have not yet been translated ; and the Asian studies published are still provisional and have thus not contributed either substantively or ideologically to communication studies in the South . |
| 22 | We shall also be celebrating our 40th Anniversary in 1992 and look forward to a national celebration in or close to London . |
| 23 | Do not dry wet clothes on or close to heaters . |
| 24 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 25 | Boboli is only one of several historic gardens in or close to Florence which are in a lamentable state of maintenance : these include the Giardino dei Semplici , that of the Villa Medicea at Castello , and Pratolino , which is being restored . |
| 26 | Scotland has a population of approximately 5 million , most of whom live in or close to cities or towns . |
| 27 | The reason I have chosen these two books for a comparison is because I always prefer to read books that are either true or close to reality as they bring out more emotions in my reading and at leat I know my feelings towards certain situations in the books have been felt by someone before , whether it may be another reader or the character himself , but in more depth . |
| 28 | Ordeals had taken place in or close to churches — the chronicler , Eadmer , writes in the early twelfth century of ordeals being conducted in the baptistery at the east end of Canterbury cathedral where former archbishops were buried — and so confused the ecclesiastical and the secular law , the law of the Church and the law of the State . |
| 29 | It may have had a certain validity , especially in Scotland with its constellation of key organizations within or close to Glasgow . |
| 30 | He trudged the long road to Keswick or often to Wythburn where the carrier , Jackson , would take him to Keswick when the Exhibition was held annually . |