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 | After the procedure saturation fell to values significantly below baseline in both groups ( p<0.01 ; 95% CIs : 2.4 to 3.5 ) . |
| 3 | The first relates to contracts already in existence when the receiver is appointed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Pressure from recreation on these open areas is usually considerable , with consequently much disturbance to birds particularly in the breeding season . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1557 he led a Nottinghamshire levy of 300 men to Berwick , and was returned to Parliament again in 1558 , Elizabeth 's first Parliament . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We do that in relation to negligence generally in the civil courts , but not in the criminal courts . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By now he would be in the train , the 17.20 , that got to Chelmsford just after ten to six . |
| 18 | With Felbrigg left behind the route continues to Hanworth then over Thwaite Common and on to the village of Erpingham . |
| 19 | The grants applied to houses both for letting and selling , and the local authorities were empowered also to give help to private builders . |
| 20 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 21 | The next farm in place and that was dairy cattle , I had five cows to milk then by hand , but only in the morning . |
| 22 | However , they made flesh at the expense of milk : the breed does seem to milk better in harder conditions . |
| 23 | Following discussion of the new legislation on Health and Safety of workstations , it was agreed that £5,000 should be transferred from Computing Budget to Estates specifically for the purchase of chairs , screen filters , footrests and document holders to meet EC Regulations . |
| 24 | Helen 's new employers departed mysteriously and suddenly , and Helen was sent to Rugby almost at once to help Mrs Sery , an ‘ excitable , merry French Woman ’ , with her young son . |
| 25 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 26 | Soon the calls were going out to groups all over the country . |
| 27 | The Cannon Coalridge 's new Power Flue option allows installation up to 4m away from an outside wall , and will also take in up to four right angled bends |
| 28 | Fan-assisted flue ducts allow some fires to be used up to 4m away from the outside wall — they are often skirting flues , which run along a skirting board to an outside wall , and an be used to complement a limited range of conventional fires . |
| 29 | Are you going to Guildford tomorrow in the lorry ? |
| 30 | He had said it was unwise to load up in villages because of thieves and dangerous to camp apart from each other because of bandits . |