Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the edge of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measure at the last fret position the distance from the rule to the edge of the neck . |
| 2 | He followed the tracks of a car driven apparently at speed to the edge of the reed bed . |
| 3 | To push a huge rock to the edge of a precipice requires tremendous effort and work . |
| 4 | An array of thin I-band actin filaments ( each some 5nm in diameter ) extends from the Z-disk to the edge of the H-band in a relaxed fibre , while thicker myosin filaments ( each about 15nm in diameter ) run throughout the A-band . |
| 5 | A direct descent to Wharfe can be made , as indicated by the dotted line on the map , by walking west from the column to the edge of the escarpment and following this south until a breach occurs to permit a passage down the slope to a path that joins White Stone Lane near the hamlet . |
| 6 | He directed them to the Fish , took over the chaise from them before they entered the village , drove it across the meadow to the edge of Burtness Wood , calling , on his way , to the potboy to bring some oats . |
| 7 | She could n't bear her imaginary fears : to confront her with her real ones was like pushing a frightened child to the edge of an abyss . |
| 8 | The technology , in fact , is getting better all the time : some AFs are now capable of holding the focus all the way from the front surface of the lens to infinity and will lock onto the subject even if it moves from centre-screen right to the edge of the frame . |
| 9 | He hurried up the hill to the edge of the chalk-pit , and looked down into it . |
| 10 | When dry , seal the plastic coating to the edges of the slides with Holdtite rubber adhesive . |
| 11 | I think we 're riding this taxi to the edge of the world . |
| 12 | Dougal grabbed the body 's legs and hauled it on its back to the edge of the gazebo nearest the pond . |
| 13 | Men advanced with beams of timber to the edge of the outermost ditch and there proceeded to erect a gibbet . |
| 14 | typically of 10,000 population size with their standard provision of schools , open space and shops , and with roads deflecting through traffic to the edge of the residential area , also served to impart a new spatial order to the urban environment . |
| 15 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 16 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |
| 17 | Its recognition of the significance of the motor car and its removal to the edge of the main city area was ominous . |
| 18 | Otherwise , it should be set slightly off-centre so that there is a little more space to the edge of the frame in the direction in which the subject is looking ; this is called looking room . |
| 19 | Approach to the edge of Christian reference was here deliberate , as one can tell from the date Gandalf so carefully gives for the fall of Sauron ( 111 , 230 ) , ‘ the twenty-fifth of March ’ . |
| 20 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |
| 21 | To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast . |
| 22 | She climbed higher and at last managed the difficult transition from the top of the ladder to the edge of the hatch frame . |
| 23 | Pressing his ear to the edge of the door , he listened intently , while a full three minutes ticked past . |
| 24 | That comment was made specifically in relation to the edge of the urban area of the city , a as I 've . |
| 25 | Before the gig , Cud munch shark steak and nut loaf , Mike Dunphy drives a pea to the edge of his plate and then points at me with his fishknife . |
| 26 | ‘ No , I do n't think so , ’ she replied , beating a hasty retreat to the edge of the room . |
| 27 | Christine wheeled the pram to the edge of the open green where they were going to play , and then ran back . |
| 28 | After a few days of wing stretching and flapping outside the burrow , it makes the perilous trip to the edge of the cliff . |
| 29 | On my last full day in her house , Mrs Knelle declared that she would drive me through the mountains of Joyce 's Country to the edge of Connemara . |
| 30 | Papandreou called for an early general election ( elections were not due until 1994 ) , describing the conservative New Democracy ( ND ) administration as " an operetta government " ; it was ready to sell everything , he said , " even the Acropolis " , and had brought the country to the edge of bankruptcy , put democracy at risk , and made poverty and unemployment " a daily reality " . |