Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Town , built in a time of strife , occupies a fairly small area and nestles for protection close to the Castle . |
| 2 | Jim remains an enigma , penetrated through action only to a certain point . |
| 3 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 4 | Though their decline is inevitable , and must usher in a period of unrest for the community , the maintenance of their own power adds of course directly to the utility of the governing elite and is a necessary condition for the order and stability of the community . |
| 5 | The Margaret Thatcher roadshow rolled into town today to a rapturous reception . |
| 6 | In fact , the data which he cites lead one to a conclusion , which when transposed into terms closer to those used in this book , might be stated as follows : When an attributive adjective A qualifies a nominal head N , then , if we have referent-qualification ( which is by far the more common case ) the property of the adjective acts , in identification , independently of the property inherent in the noun . |
| 7 | Particularly bold demands were said to have come from students close to the Liberian border . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , hermeneutics is not committed in advance either to understanding rules in terms of actions or to understanding actions in terms of rules . |
| 9 | Novæ generally appear in regions close to the Milky Way , and anyone who knows the sky really well has a chance of finding one , though beware of artificial satellites and even planets . |
| 10 | Inside the PEP , the amount of tax reclaimed will fall from £25 currently to £18.75 per £100 gross distribution . |
| 11 | These are included in relation only to limited classes of investments , which , however , cover not only money market investments but also debt investments ; it is therefore likely that futures contracts linked to debt securities are included , even if they fall outside the money market exemption ( because the transaction is too small or the debt securities have too long a maturity ) ; and ( 6 ) Countries , monetary authorities or certain supranational institutions . |
| 12 | In December 1886 the Home Office received a memorial from the Clapham Vigilance Association , complaining that Clapham Common was ‘ infested ’ with prostitutes of the lowest type and that actual fornication was shamelessly committed on benches close to the public roadway . |
| 13 | I hope for promotion soon to Chief Steward . |
| 14 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 15 | The lines are most visible on a clear night , in excess of about 25 metres from a sodium light , and are seen to radiate in planes parallel to the main axis of the lamp fitting . |
| 16 | Fascism had to be temporarily embraced in order ultimately to be defeated . |
| 17 | No , I came from India straight to England . |
| 18 | At least 300 people living on storeys closer to the ground were hurt in the nine-floor blocks , which contained 480 flats . |
| 19 | According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 . |
| 20 | Processes which govern the ability of the terminal to respond during sustained activity , such as the synthesis of transmitter , the transport and filling of vesicles and their release from the cytoskeletal cage , will contribute to LTP only to the extent that they influence either the probability of fusion , or the amount of transmitter packed into vesicles . |
| 21 | Operating at temperatures close to absolute zero ( -273C ) , super-magnets deliver the most powerful fields available and consume practically no electricity while operating in their superconducting ( ie , loss-free ) state . |
| 22 | Avoiding an unfavourable current can often be done by tacking close to the shore since the water is normally slower when moving at shallower depths . |
| 23 | These impressions he/she could perhaps spell out , verbalizing them for the benefit of the student and anyone else who has a legitimate interest in knowing how the student is seen by people close to him/her . |
| 24 | A bent metal coat hanger may work for blockages close to the trap but , unlike plumber 's snakes and curtain wire , it will not go round bends . |
| 25 | Never mind , I 'm going into Cheltenham tomorrow to the library . |
| 26 | Green consumerism encourages humans to consume in ways kindly to their planet . |
| 27 | For that reason , straw as a fuel is likely to be most efficient and economical when used in heating close to the point of production . |
| 28 | Spathiphyllum wallisii , the peace lily , is a most elegant houseplant , with glossy green lance-shaped leaves and fragrant arum lily-like flowers of the purest white , turning to cream then to the palest green with age . |
| 29 | Using a southern route , supplies landed at the government-held Red Sea port of Asab were transported by lorry inland to Dese and thence northwards into Tigre , to both government-controlled and rebel-held areas . |
| 30 | But , as we showed earlier , if a positive aggregate demand shock occurs , and if the unexpectedly high local price to which it leads is attributed by agents wholly to an aggregate demand shock , then that movement in aggregate demand , although it is random , will have no effect on real output ; it will merely induce a change in the expected and actual level of prices . |