Example sentences of "[subord] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I ca n't understand it , they 've got to have a decent grade to go to university , but they seem to think that they can get in on D's and E's , if he gets D's and E's , he 's not going anywhere , except to work |
| 2 | Its not something Ive known Leeds supporters do a lot of — except to shite players like Kevin Hird . |
| 3 | I very rarely go out except to union branch meetings — they get me out and they cost nowt . |
| 4 | She did n't get out much , except to church . |
| 5 | They led nowhere yet , except to fantasy in which Gwen Evans held a crow-bar to Mary 's head and Alice Fernie struck it home with a sledge-hammer while Mary , unheeding , watched the television . |
| 6 | ‘ Quite harmless , except to grass and minor organisms . |
| 7 | We are not accomplishing anything keeping the Teller here , except to fuel more rumours . ’ |
| 8 | How cosy this could have been , the rain lashing down outside providing a curtain from the world and the two of them here with no occupation except to pleasure each other . |
| 9 | Although to date it has happened only twice , I recognise , as the committee 's chairman , that this is not satisfactory and it is the committee 's practice in such situations to suspend its own enquiry immediately . |
| 10 | Each in turn has been influenced by involvement in the major OECD/CERI ‘ Transition to Adulthood ’ project , although to date the UK contribution to the project has been very limited . |
| 11 | 88open has decided to offer its system and application compatibility test suites — ITS/88 , AVS/88 and ACT/88 — to industry consortia and companies : although to date they have only been available for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC based systems , interested parties would presumably customise the sets for other architectures . |
| 12 | My objections were originally on the grounds of freedom , rather than efficiency , although in the event , so far as Britain was concerned , socialism led more to stagnation than to tyranny . |
| 13 | Eventually , formal administrative structures were created between the Task Force and local government , but the Task Force 's determination to implement specific projects rather than to help create a broader and longer-term strategy for the conurbation inevitably created tensions . |
| 14 | His or her job is to deal with the child 's physical needs ( e.g. arising from incontinence , lack of mobility or impaired speech ) rather than to help teach the whole class . |
| 15 | Get it to analyse specific behaviour and situations rather than to censure you as a person . |
| 16 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 17 | I have found more difficulty teaching the relational model to computer students ( who want to think in terms of computer jargon and are looking for complications that do not exist ) than to management students . |
| 18 | Accordingly , if anomalies appear in the results , this is attributed to defects in the experiment rather than to wilfulness on the part of the animals under investigation . |
| 19 | Over the years councils had been forced into deep conflict with Scottish ministers over matters which were too often more akin to right-wing dogma than to relevance . |
| 20 | All the evidence suggests that , when consulted , the people of Europe have a vision far closer to de Gaulle 's loose ‘ Europe à l'anglaise ’ than to M. Delors ' unitary state . |
| 21 | It is useful to compare differences rather than to look for one shape in isolation . |
| 22 | Might it be easier to measure this rather than to look directly for structural changes ? |
| 23 | It 's a more importantly to make sure it 's normal rather than to look for a problem with it but Now you 're not trying to escape , are you Jade ? |
| 24 | Recruitment adversiding advertising for example virtually ground to a halt as businesses started to shed er , people , rather than to look for them . |
| 25 | These results owe less to diversification of any kind than to capital gains in the market for corporate control . |
| 26 | For the latter it is better to buy a tape , or to make your own , and listen to that , rather than to try to do it yourself as you go along . |
| 27 | If we are to explore the actual and perceived experiences of students , it may be better to work from their views rather than to try to squeeze them into some predetermined mould through questionnaires and attitude Inventories . |
| 28 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 29 | The droid was conceived as , in part , a satire on US technology , particularly automotive design , intended to look impressive and desirable to buy rather than to function well , with its ‘ killer whale ’ head , no eyes but a large , useless hole for a mouth . |
| 30 | I think we should encourage this , the the signing of the treaty rather than to rush too , er , to the recognition like of German and the French . |