Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interview survey will look at both local intervened-in and non-intervened-in firms to allow conclusions to be drawn about the effectiveness of past interventions , and perhaps more importantly prescriptions to be made about their future direction . |
| 2 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 3 | Customer Smythe was to accept liability for the Queen 's Royalty of one-fifteenth part ; to pay the company a one-ninth part of the production ; and a money rent of £433 : 6s. 6d. , providing thereby funds to be distributed as a dividend . |
| 4 | Wootton Courtenay , a Somerset village of 90 households , three businesses ( a post office , a garage and a shop ) and a bus that comes twice a week , has recently won a battle to keep the heart of its community — the village shop — mostly thanks to the driving force of Stephen Parnell . |
| 5 | By last year they had crept back only to $113 billion , and that mostly thanks to some hefty refinancing of old high-coupon issues from the early 1980s to take advantage of lower interest rates . |
| 6 | So maps to nearest integer equal to or above , nearest integer greater than or equal to X. |
| 7 | From all over Europe , it 's only hours to 1001 Nights . |
| 8 | There are obviously improvements to be made ; more science should be taught , and there is a great need for more specialists in the class-room , even if they have to be peripatetic teachers , shared between a number of schools . |
| 9 | The ship 's engines ceased and the crew began throwing down ropes to a white man in a pith helmet who had emerged from one of the quayside offices . |
| 10 | The Wester Ross Wilderness proposal , it appears , only objects to the centredness of certain kinds of humans ( mountain bikers , Monro-baggers , etc ) and it urges the CCS to recognise the crucial role of the local landowners as ‘ good stewards ’ of this region . |
| 11 | Now that he had only hunters to school and exercise and Mrs Geary ( who loved the lads ) to feed him well , no question about his weight , life was kind and easier ; but he was the last to admit it and showed sympathy to nobody , least of all to Nicandra . |
| 12 | In adopting a broad search formulation strategy to access the library catalogue , the searcher not only attempts to " match " the system 's language but also places his expressed need in a broader context . |
| 13 | • German scientists ( reports the Daily Telegraph ) have found a way of utilising enzymes to break down nitrates to nitrogen gas . |
| 14 | It is sometimes argued that the loss of lambs is partly the shepherd 's fault : that greater care for the flock would cut down losses to predators . |
| 15 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 16 | They are now recognised as a branch of the British Conservative and Unionist Party , but only thanks to a peasants ' revolt within that party , and no thanks at all to the mandarins of Central Office . |
| 17 | This interpretation makes it quite clear that the disposition in the will has failed , and that it is only thanks to the trust clause that the nurses do obtain this additional income . |
| 18 | It 's only thanks to the efforts of walkers that we 've got so far . ’ |
| 19 | Although in 1977 we were not entirely destitute , having received a major donation , we were able to open the Centre only thanks to loans from the Guggenheim and the MOMA in New York and the Ludwig Forum in Aachen . |
| 20 | After all , it 's only thanks to him you have the chance . ’ |
| 21 | It was only thanks to the scene made by Gilly that his admission about their visit to Puddephat 's rooms had gone unnoticed . |
| 22 | It 's only thanks to Clark 's quick thinking that Richard did n't lose his sight and the pellet from the airrifle went into the back of his head rather than his eye . |
| 23 | It is only thanks to this close control that maximum use can be made of the water available to generate electricity . |
| 24 | ‘ Only thanks to me and try not to forget that the corp ‘ ere also witnessed everything what ‘ appened . ’ |
| 25 | But the older MPs from these areas saw these efforts as merely concessions to the Nationalists . |
| 26 | Older or maturer couples may face marriage more realistically and discuss their expectations before they marry , even laying down guidelines to be jointly agreed and accepted . |
| 27 | In contrast to the Merger Regulation , that only subjects to EC scrutiny mergers having what is known as a ‘ Community dimension , and exceeding a certain threshold , the proposed Directive will apply to any general bid for the shares of any public company in a member state , regardless of the origin of the bid . |
| 28 | At the junction of these rock types , springs form and the water runs down ravines to the sea unless diverted into levadas ( drainage channels ) . |
| 29 | They crossed a bridge and came down steps to the water 's edge . |
| 30 | As early as 1917 Roxburgh demonstrated that many municipal legal systems had developed devices to avoid the restrictions and inconveniences caused by a rigid adherence to the analogous rule that contracts bind only parties to them , a process that continues . |