Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel . |
| 2 | However , because of the serious recession of the early 1990s , especially in the South East , the government decided in its Budget of 1992 to keep the increase for 1992/3 down to the current inflation rate of only 4.1 % , instead of the 24.1 % which would have been the maximum ‘ phasing in ’ amount payable . |
| 3 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 4 | Local social services departments ( formerly local health departments ) provide day nurseries for some up to the age of 5 . |
| 5 | Theodora had passed none of that on to the Archdeacon , and he had himself offered no judgement . |
| 6 | On the marsh behind the Butts and Great Winox , are the Fresh Marsh then below this out to the river The Commons and Salts , then the Hage Brook and near to Marsh Farm , Parsonage land . |
| 7 | It truly was a parochial effort as children from the age of six up to the oldest members took part . |
| 8 | ( They passed the cost of these on to the Trustees . ) |
| 9 | But I can take some of these back to the office and have a look at them under the funny lights — ultra-violet , infra-red — to see if anything shows up . |
| 10 | However , the mainly peaceable daily demonstrations for democratic reform , which had brought tens of thousands on to the streets in the capital and other centres [ see pp. 38277 ; 38324 ] for the wave of strikes and demonstrations launched on June 10 ] , continued in the days following Razanamasy 's appointment . |
| 11 | In 1990 out of an intake of 48 on to the new graduates management training course 13 were women , in 1991 this had risen to 30 out of 90 . |
| 12 | By contrast , and despite there being a duty on local education authorities since 1944 to provide for all up to the age of 19 , significant numbers of young people with special educational needs began to enter colleges only in the mid-to-late 1970s . |
| 13 | The defendants paid the reduced rent from 1941 down to the beginning of 1945 , by which time all the flats in the block were fully let , and continued to pay it thereafter . |
| 14 | From 1976 through to the introduction of the community charge in 1990 , governments had tried to curb local spending by reducing central government support . |
| 15 | Whyte ( 1980 ) provides several instances of the influence of the Roman catholic moral code in both state decision-making and in public behaviour from 1922 through to the 1950s . |
| 16 | But in 1989 , 1990 and 1991 the Extended HGSC Index underperformed , as it did in 1992 up to the date when this issue went to press . |
| 17 | ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap . |
| 18 | Apart from this unfortunate monarch , a good deal of interest has always been shown in the site , with a long sequence of systematic excavation from 1906 down to the present day . |
| 19 | Yeah , up to right up to the school |
| 20 | The data packs in the PSIONS are off loaded on to the mainbranch computer ensuring that records are kept up to date . |
| 21 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 22 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |
| 23 | The best I have ever managed is to replace the stitches one by one on to the needle hooks with a transfer tool and even then I lost more stitches ( and had to ‘ save ’ them ) than I transferred successfully . |
| 24 | think of a number multiply it by two now divide it by two back to the number you though of . |