Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 2 | that 's disgraceful that yeah and so that was from erm Street down to the and down the back so it would n't take , did n't take him a couple of minutes down to the mission |
| 3 | To hear it we travelled to Leighton Moss , that wonderful reserve belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds close to the shore of Morecambe Bay . |
| 4 | He took the tin of sardines through to the lean-to , opened it and emptied the contents onto the cat 's dish . |
| 5 | When she returned to the kitchen , she found Beth sprinkling a shovelful of coals on to the fire . |
| 6 | Henry unscrewed the top of the brass cylinder and shook out a bundle of sticks on to the table . |
| 7 | He took Sir Bryan 's rejected set of clubs back to the caddie-master 's hut and then headed for the Tented Village . |
| 8 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 9 | He pulled open the rear door and tossed the package of books on to the back seat , together with his gear . |
| 10 | She took a couple of steps on to the damp surface , lost her balance and collapsed to her knees . |
| 11 | It was not right , it said , to criminalise ‘ the unrest , worries and questions which drove thousands of Dresdeners on to the streets ’ . |
| 12 | She slammed the saucepan of potatoes on to the draining board . |
| 13 | Gently he put the gun down on the table and carried the pile of plates over to the sink . |
| 14 | Surely the Secretary of State agrees that it is economic madness to switch electricity generation from coal to gas , close scores of collieries and throw thousands of miners on to the dole ? |
| 15 | Our case is that , while the nature of the social relations at the workplace is clearly an important differentiating characteristic of the Dukeries field , they are probably a necessary but insufficient factor to account for the response of miners there to the 1926 and 1984 calls to strike . |
| 16 | Depending on their school of thought they would argue that it is due to the national , and world , recession ; an adjustment problem caused by demographic changes bringing a substantial net increase of workers on to the labour market ; particular problems within Britain at the moment ( the unions , poor management , too much or too little intervention by government , North Sea oil , or whatever ) ; or a failure in either fiscal or monetary management of the economy . |
| 17 | The political reform proposals included open meetings of grass-roots party organizations ; the selection of officials up to the rank of Deputy Minister , district APL first secretary or divisional Army or militia commander , and of all enterprise and institution directors , to be " based on elections by the working people , on merit " in order to " have as few cadres as possible appointed directly from above " ; a limit of two terms in office for all members of elective party and state bodies , including the People 's Assembly ( parliament ) and the APL central committee ; a choice between candidates in elections to these bodies ( albeit only communist or communist-backed candidates ; Alia categorically ruled out abandoning " the hegemony of the APL " and allowing rival political parties ) ; and reduction in the bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 18 | The commandos had been able to keep up their grenade-throwing sorties because civilian volunteers from the town carried sacks of grenades forward to the men in action . |
| 19 | There are also less dramatic seepages of volatiles on to the Earth 's surface . |
| 20 | Salt-laden winds also increase the salinity of lochs close to the west coast , and may raise the nutrient content and base status of coastal blanket bogs as in western Ireland ( Sparling 1967 ) , possibly explaining the presence of plants such as Schoenus nigricans , which grows profusely in some coastal peatlands in the Western Isles . |
| 21 | I went a couple of years back to the Coe political launch , the only political journalist among a bunch of ‘ 'ere Seb , woss this then ? ’ tabloid sports mackintoshes . |
| 22 | ‘ He took his box of mints over to the inspector and offered him one , ’ said owner Audrie Stallard , 65 , of Llandudno , Gwynedd . |
| 23 | There has been a delegation of powers downwards to the Réunion and individual museums , and in 1991 the Réunion changed its statute to operate more like a private enterprise . |
| 24 | Hitchens Quality Homes has developed a number of properties close to the golf club , ranging from two bedroom detached bungalows ( £159,500 ) to three bedroom three storey houses ( £169,950 ) . |
| 25 | The creation of a currency union by encouraging a shift of resources back to the manufacturing sectors is likely to result in an increase of the average productivity growth rate of member countries and , again , in a decline of their respective natural rates of unemployment . |
| 26 | Those who took the decisions at the Fourth Lateran Council were a very small group of cardinals close to the pope and , on occasion , the pope himself , alone . |
| 27 | Procedures for preparation of tax computations will have to be reviewed to ensure easy transfer of figures on to the new returns . |
| 28 | A patch of lights off to the right revealed the presence of a town which slowly orbited them and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 29 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 30 | I often think that perhaps putting the hub of the sails in , more or less in the centre of the picture perhaps , not the best place , but I think because in this case , we 've got a lot of trees down to the bottom here . |