Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [n mass] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the localiser makes a demand for a left or right correction , refer back at once to Horizon and Heading using rudder for the 2° to 5° heading change . |
| 2 | It was an everyday occurrence for the gentry to bed maidservants . |
| 3 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |
| 4 | Rather than seeing the exploitation of the peasantry as the means to industrialisation Bukharin insisted that ‘ a qualitative increase in the productivity of national labour , and a determined fight against non-productive expenditure … are the main sources of accumulation . ’ |
| 5 | This meant that Adorno in particular tended to project science as something exterior and exclusively instrumental ; he reacted against it , as well as ‘ objective ’ reason generally , by trying to retrieve the individual subject as the means to salvation . |
| 6 | Other companies attracted prices between the 122p to 129p opening price on the 100p partly-paid shares . |
| 7 | Other companies attracted prices between the 122p to 129p opening price on the 100p partly-paid shares . |
| 8 | At a recent presentation in Novosibirsk , Commonwealth of Independent States regional manager , Robert Hall , said Russian customers will be given slight market discounts on top of the 20% to 40% educational discounts the company already offers . |
| 9 | One compromise under discussion was to unfreeze some of the £4 to £5bn of receipts from council house sales to allow town halls to spend more to boost the construction industry , and help get the economy moving . |
| 10 | One compromise under discussion was to unfreeze some of the £4 to £5bn of receipts from council house sales to allow town halls to spend more to boost the construction industry , and help get the economy moving . |
| 11 | ‘ The days of the £20,000 to £50,000 transfer fees are gone . |
| 12 | The present Liszt disc is among the finest of the series to date . |
| 13 | Leaving aside the issue of sovereignty — not of the House but of the people to self-government — the devil of the single currency is not merely that the economies of the Community are simply not convergent and would be prevented from converging by a single currency , but that they are not all at the same point in their economic cycles . |
| 14 | This foundational belief gives meaning to the more popular belief in the right of the people to violence . |
| 15 | Wherever possible , the relevance of the data to sex and ethnicity will also be discussed . |
| 16 | It seemed to Schmidt that even though the recollections made her sad , talking about them at all was the beginning of a means to recovery . |
| 17 | Yet he took to show-business like a duck to water . |
| 18 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 19 | A year after she arrived , Anna moved from Christine 's school , and took the new one ‘ like a duck to water ’ . |
| 20 | If he was this way inclined anyway , he will take to his new life like a duck to water . |
| 21 | Eva took to it like a duck to water . |
| 22 | Cranston took to the food like a duck to water , smacking his lips , draining the blackjack , and shouting for the taverner 's pot boy to come and fill it again . |
| 23 | She took to the good life like a duck to water , ’ she added wryly . |
| 24 | He took to schoolmastering like a duck to water . |
| 25 | As for Do-Do , he 's taken taken to familly life like a duck to water . |
| 26 | Cheltenham 's Tony Allcock has taken to grass like a duck to water this week … he won his first national title on the green stuff in the Ulster Games singles . |
| 27 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 28 | My staff tell me that the elderly people have sort of taken to it like a duck to water almost . |
| 29 | Benjamin , we may say to his credit , seems to have taken to Curry Rivel like a fish to water , and would stay there until the day he died . |
| 30 | He or she will be interested therefore in the products of information technology as a means to communication rather than as a store of data . |