Example sentences of "[noun] to the edge of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measure at the last fret position the distance from the rule to the edge of the neck . |
| 2 | He followed the tracks of a car driven apparently at speed to the edge of the reed bed . |
| 3 | To push a huge rock to the edge of a precipice requires tremendous effort and work . |
| 4 | An array of thin I-band actin filaments ( each some 5nm in diameter ) extends from the Z-disk to the edge of the H-band in a relaxed fibre , while thicker myosin filaments ( each about 15nm in diameter ) run throughout the A-band . |
| 5 | A direct descent to Wharfe can be made , as indicated by the dotted line on the map , by walking west from the column to the edge of the escarpment and following this south until a breach occurs to permit a passage down the slope to a path that joins White Stone Lane near the hamlet . |
| 6 | He directed them to the Fish , took over the chaise from them before they entered the village , drove it across the meadow to the edge of Burtness Wood , calling , on his way , to the potboy to bring some oats . |
| 7 | She could n't bear her imaginary fears : to confront her with her real ones was like pushing a frightened child to the edge of an abyss . |
| 8 | The technology , in fact , is getting better all the time : some AFs are now capable of holding the focus all the way from the front surface of the lens to infinity and will lock onto the subject even if it moves from centre-screen right to the edge of the frame . |
| 9 | The route then goes through Errington Woods to the edge of Beacon Moor . |
| 10 | He hurried up the hill to the edge of the chalk-pit , and looked down into it . |
| 11 | When dry , seal the plastic coating to the edges of the slides with Holdtite rubber adhesive . |
| 12 | I think we 're riding this taxi to the edge of the world . |
| 13 | Dougal grabbed the body 's legs and hauled it on its back to the edge of the gazebo nearest the pond . |
| 14 | Downward pressure on fees , together with a decline in the property market and escalating overheads , had driven some firms to the edge of bankruptcy and tempted solicitor to theft . |
| 15 | Side chains Lys23 and Thr25 on the ribbon surface of each subunit make direct hydrogen bonds to the edges of base pairs ( Figs 1 b and 2c ) , making the major contribution to sequence specificity in the complex . |
| 16 | From there they crawled the last ten yards to the edge of a rise and looked down into the valley . |
| 17 | Men advanced with beams of timber to the edge of the outermost ditch and there proceeded to erect a gibbet . |
| 18 | Several times Abraham brought the purposes of God to the edge of extinction , Isaac 's birth introduced yet further tragedy and the keenest disappointment , while how God 's promises survived Jacob 's cruelty and trickery we shall never know . |
| 19 | typically of 10,000 population size with their standard provision of schools , open space and shops , and with roads deflecting through traffic to the edge of the residential area , also served to impart a new spatial order to the urban environment . |
| 20 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 21 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |
| 22 | Its recognition of the significance of the motor car and its removal to the edge of the main city area was ominous . |
| 23 | Otherwise , it should be set slightly off-centre so that there is a little more space to the edge of the frame in the direction in which the subject is looking ; this is called looking room . |
| 24 | ‘ Jottings ’ had not quite been pushed overboard ; it was clinging by its fingernails to the edge of the raft , to be found , often seriously cut , between the competition and the personal column at the back of the paper . |
| 25 | If we add an edge from I to J , we will create a cycle ( a sequence of distinct edges , each having a node in common with its predecessor , and each node appearing in exactly two edges ) by adding the edge I to J to the edges of the path from J to 1 . |
| 26 | Approach to the edge of Christian reference was here deliberate , as one can tell from the date Gandalf so carefully gives for the fall of Sauron ( 111 , 230 ) , ‘ the twenty-fifth of March ’ . |
| 27 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |
| 28 | To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast . |
| 29 | He goes to his lorry where he drags six bags to the edge of the lorry 's platform . |
| 30 | She climbed higher and at last managed the difficult transition from the top of the ladder to the edge of the hatch frame . |