Example sentences of "to [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our attempts to draw the design activity back to a single integrated whole we have to look back to parallels close to that point of initial separation . |
| 2 | Still farther to the northeast the reflectances increase to values up to 4.8% Rm . |
| 3 | After the procedure saturation fell to values significantly below baseline in both groups ( p<0.01 ; 95% CIs : 2.4 to 3.5 ) . |
| 4 | The first relates to contracts already in existence when the receiver is appointed . |
| 5 | Mushtaq , who had been spinning widely to Gower out of the rough , drifted a glorious topspinner through that doughty defence to unseat England 's skipper for 135 . |
| 6 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 7 | The management intend he will remain with the party , though obviously the lengthy bus journey to Nadi yesterday as the prelude to a three-and-a-half hour flight to Sydney today , could have a detrimental effect . |
| 8 | However , the significance of the above cases is not confined to activities not in the nature of commercial ventures or to the past or to contracting out by government . |
| 9 | When my right hon. Friend goes to Barrow later in the week , will he congratulate Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. and its work force there on the excellent job that they have done in constructing the vessels to specification and to schedule ? |
| 10 | Pressure from recreation on these open areas is usually considerable , with consequently much disturbance to birds particularly in the breeding season . |
| 11 | Silas 's emotional affairs are not your problem , so why are you allowing them to snake about in your mind ? |
| 12 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 13 | She started to snake out from under the bed , clutching the renegade shoe . |
| 14 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 15 | Almost immediately it was revealed that he had told a radio interviewer on the morning of the lunch that there would be no such tax on gold-mining companies , and he was forced to return to parliament later on April 11 to admit that his memory of events had been mistaken . |
| 16 | In 1557 he led a Nottinghamshire levy of 300 men to Berwick , and was returned to Parliament again in 1558 , Elizabeth 's first Parliament . |
| 17 | Usually ministers are formally answerable to Parliament only for discharging their own responsibilities relating to sponsored bodies ( such as in terms of broad policy and general oversight ) , while responsibility for efficiency and day-to-day matters normally rests with the organizations ' own management . |
| 18 | He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution . |
| 19 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 20 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 21 | However , this itself does not indicate a " reciprocal " use of Creole , for similar refusals can occur elsewhere in response to requests not in Creole : |
| 22 | We do that in relation to negligence generally in the civil courts , but not in the criminal courts . ’ |
| 23 | It was a curious , almost absent-minded gesture ; yet it served to emphasise to Ben how at ease the T'ang was in his father 's company . |
| 24 | She was very careful after that not to take him for granted , even occasionally making excuses to refuse his sporadic invitations , although it tore her to shreds not to be with him at every opportunity . |
| 25 | where defendants conduct leads plaintiff to incur expense in the reasonable belief that the action will proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay , the defendant is estopped from claiming that the action should be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of delay — even if the E limitation period has expired . |
| 26 | where a defendants conduct led the plaintiff to incur expenditure in the reasonable belief that the action was to proceed to trial regardless of the plaintiffs delay even where the limitation period had expired , the defendant was estopped from claiming that the action be struck out for want of prosecution on the grounds of the plaintiffs delay . |
| 27 | By now he would be in the train , the 17.20 , that got to Chelmsford just after ten to six . |
| 28 | As it is , going to Lourdes out of season , in the late autumn or winter , brings one even more starkly face to face with what the Catholic Belloc calls this supernatural place's ' detestable earthly adjuncts ' . |
| 29 | With Felbrigg left behind the route continues to Hanworth then over Thwaite Common and on to the village of Erpingham . |
| 30 | The grants applied to houses both for letting and selling , and the local authorities were empowered also to give help to private builders . |