Example sentences of "to the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunlight poured down from the window in the upper ante-room , to the twin flights of the stairs . |
| 2 | Before leaving Britain we 'd learnt that the hike up to Mount Kenya 's ‘ walkers summit ’ , Point Lenana , was not too demanding , and that the climbing route up to the twin summits of Batian and Nelion was graded mainly Diff , with a few patches of Severe , so we were n't expecting any technical problems . |
| 3 | This particular mill was at Oxlynch and stood close to the twin sources of the Arlebrook . |
| 4 | He paid for water to be piped from the valley 1,500ft below the village and for a proper tarmacadam road to be constructed , linking it to the twin towns of Couiza and Montazels in the valley below . |
| 5 | Saudi Arabia , devoted to the twin concepts of Islamic and Arab solidarity , was for many years active in promoting both , aided by the twofold prestige of guardianship of the Holy Places in the Hedjaz and the country 's immense petroleum and financial reserves . |
| 6 | Everything from the vertiginous slopes to the twin spires of the château which gracefully echoed the greater majesty of the peaks was breathtaking , awesome . |
| 7 | Recently appointed to the twin posts of general manager BPX , Venezuela , and associate president , BPVenezuela , Haythornthwaite is aware of the challenge facing BP . |
| 8 | Emotive and negative purity style moral warnings pointed to the twin dangers of promiscuous women and the threat of VD . |
| 9 | Nizan 's own comments tend , by contrast , to be more elusive , more enigmatic , granting equal weight to the twin themes of existential angst and ideological instruction : " Death and the bourgeoisie are the principal themes of this book " , he notes laconically . |
| 10 | And Port Vale are set to take around 22,000 fans to the twin towers for the second time in a week . |
| 11 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 12 | For the moment though , in the cool light of day , I 'm asking you to apply your highly developed thinking faculty to the twin issues of contraception and safe sex . |
| 13 | Moreover , this broad focus has enabled older women to participate fully in the opposition to the twin evils of sex and age discrimination . |
| 14 | We were allowed ten minutes to have our coffee and bread before being chased back to the barrack rooms for cleaning and tidying . |
| 15 | Now the first is one of Dostoevsky 's alterations to the galley proofs of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ , and the second is a variant recorded by his widow . |
| 16 | The relative intensities of NOEs observed between GH8 and ribose H2' compared with H1' indicates that all glycosidic torsion angles are anti , and the polarity of the connectivities ( GH8 to the ribose protons on the 5' side only ) is indicative of a right-handed helix . |
| 17 | He bent his head to the ground , trying to catch his breath as he listened to the warning bells of the horse-drawn fire engines , heading to the inferno . |
| 18 | In such cases it is essential for the predators to evolve inborn reactions to the warning signals of the lethal prey , so that they can be avoided without any learning process taking place . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the order relates to the working papers of the auditors of Atlantic and not simply to Atlantic itself but these papers could clearly contain information of relevance to the administrator 's investigation even if that information could not have been obtained in litigation against Atlantic . |
| 20 | The official view remained faithful to the spirit of a memorandum issued to the internment tribunals in 1939 : |
| 21 | Addition of purified porcine procolipase , corresponding to 2 µg/g VPDPR after tryptic proteolysis , to the feed pellets of these rats lead to the loss of normal weight gain and maintenance of body weight . |
| 22 | In fact , the alternative course open to the Church Commissioners of demolition of the building and sale of the site might not have been easily pursued , had they chosen to adopt that route . |
| 23 | Some of those contributions are channelled back to the Church Commissioners for distribution . |
| 24 | We heard his remarkable speech in the seaport of Miletus , to the church leaders of Ephesus , as he started to travel from Greece to Jerusalem . |
| 25 | One should remember , however , that similar criticisms were levied at delegates to the Church Congresses of the period . |
| 26 | However , layers of paint and plaster applied to the church walls during the 19th century have sealed the walls , thus disturbing the breathing process . |
| 27 | This awareness contributed to the sense evangelicals in the Clapham tradition had of disorder within the church whose position itself appeared threatened by economic , social and political change . |
| 28 | I am intrigued by the capstan winches fitted to the Range Rovers on the Darien Gap crossing . |
| 29 | Talk to the management experts in your company ( there must be one or two around ) Learn from them . |
| 30 | Melman was referring to the management principles of the American engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor , pervasive in Western industry since about 1911 . |