Example sentences of "to the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I guess I owe you an apology , ’ he said ruefully , ‘ although when you walked in through the kitchen door , all dressed up to the nines after being with Ryan , I wanted anything but to forgive you . ’ |
| 2 | Geoff 's greased up to the nines after putting on a eig eight tonne of Oil of Ulay |
| 3 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 4 | Speaking at the House of Commons ' debate on the Bingham Report , Mr Nelson told MPs that , of this sum , £28m had been incurred by Touche Ross as provisional liquidator prior to the winding up order of 14 January 1992 . |
| 5 | This must be equal to the integral over the surface were v is the velocity and — the density ; n is the outward normal to the surface S which enclosed V. By Gauss 's theorem we may write and hence Since this must be true for any volume element we have the equation of continuity The conservation of momentum in continuum mechanics relates the rate of change of the momentum integrated over a volume V to the resultant of the forces on that volume . |
| 6 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 7 | Forms which are not attached to the coast or only attached at one end seem to orientate themselves , some at right angles to the resultant like attached forms and some parallel to the resultant for reasons which remain uncertain . |
| 8 | And I 'm giving a voice to the hundreds of people who do n't have a voice . |
| 9 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 10 | It was not a fun place any more and doors were already slamming shut to the hundreds of young hopefuls hanging around outside the studio gates about the time when Nicholson began his search for work . |
| 11 | These catalogues , which are now issued in sections , provide a quick ready-reference to the hundreds of volumes available . |
| 12 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 13 | In addition to the hundreds of peasants and fisherfolk who took part in the project , key collaborators include David Briddell ( USA ) , Ricardo Avilez ( Mexico ) , Augustine Loorthusamy ( Philippines ) , Sarah Mathews , Sanjib Sarcar and Felix Sugirtharaj ( all from India ) . |
| 14 | To me , and to the hundreds of ordinary French housewives who listened to his talks and read his books , his ideas and his attitude to cookery were stimulating and liberating . |
| 15 | The benefits became clearer as companies , like the multinational Philips , fired their workers and contracted work out , often to the hundreds of small outfits that had sprung up in the surrounding Lima shanty towns of Villa El Salvador , Comas , or Independencia . |
| 16 | That 's the message from the Derry County Board today to the hundreds of followers still seeking tickets for Sunday 's Ulster championship tie against Down . |
| 17 | Manhattan District Court Judge Milton Pollack announced on March 9 that a single " global " settlement had been reached to the hundreds of civil litigation suits which had arisen from the 1990 collapse of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank [ see pp. 37412-13 ; 37848 ] . |
| 18 | I ca n't believe you genuinely think that … that my little designs in St Lucia would make any difference to the hundreds of pattern designs used by Sarah Chester Fabrics … ’ |
| 19 | That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see . |
| 20 | That content too has always been felt to be linked to the aesthetic in some way — though again as of late , in theoretical studies this has not been examined . |
| 21 | Does it hold on to the exclusive for its major shareholders or go with its journalistic impulses ? |
| 22 | The family of daisy-like flowers covers nearly every conceivable colour from the most shocking of pinks and oranges to the subtlest of pastels and creams . |
| 23 | Andrew Steel , Managing Director , looks ahead to the 1990's as a new era where the company can benefit greatly from these latest developments . |
| 24 | Retirement Assured , which lets sheltered apartments to the elderly on assured tenancies , takes account of tenants when valuing its properties . |
| 25 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 26 | Nor are voluntary payments made to the elderly by relatives liable to tax . |
| 27 | Adam , 52 , and former dancer Jackie had their marriage put to the toughest of tests in the early days . |
| 28 | The first formal and unequivocal statement of federal goals came from the Draft Treaty presented to the twelve by the Luxembourg Presidency in June 1991 . |
| 29 | It was a philosophy that I think led to the eleven plus . |
| 30 | Up to two adaptors attach to the 200 at £386 each . |