Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tata for now India could become to software in the 1990s what Taiwan and South Korea are to electronics today . |
| 2 | Thus India could become for the software scene in 90s what Taiwan and South Korea are to electronics today . |
| 3 | However , rather than getting upset about this it spurs her on to try harder to show that they are worth watching . |
| 4 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 5 | The NRA have admitted to building over 60 fish passes and other structures for getting fishes to places they could not reach before , at the same time doing nothing to resolve existing access problems or the new problems thus created ( The West Bank settlements attitude all over again ? ) |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he did not go to university unwillingly . |
| 7 | goes to university right ? |
| 8 | goes to university right ? |
| 9 | The only good thing , the only good thing about La the only good thing about Labour is that they would have brought back student grants so if I ever , if I ever do go to university then I 'll get lots of money . |
| 10 | Do n't know whether Sally still goes she 's , I think she 's gone to university now . |
| 11 | Ca , Cameron 's , Cameron 's gone to , to University now . |
| 12 | Alan had obviously expected to return to university alone , once the fuss was over . |
| 13 | Annabel wished that there had been some way young Eve could have been sent to university too . |
| 14 | ‘ Carol 's split town and gone back to university as far as anyone knows . |
| 15 | Skipper Alan Kernaghan said : ‘ It is up to everyone to stick together . |
| 16 | In fact as discount factors tend to unity so does the temporary reputation become permanent . |
| 17 | You 're subject to contract now then ? |
| 18 | Because ZFM was set up in 1967 at the insistence of the military , who argued that economic development in the Amazon basin was necessary for national security , its managing authority , SUFRAMA ( Superintendencia da Zona Franca de Manaus ) is responsible to Defence rather than Trade . |
| 19 | The importance attached to every other issue rose sharply when the campaign opened but the importance attached to defence hardly changed . |
| 20 | To de-fuzz quickly , disposable razors are the answer . |
| 21 | When are the teachers going to stop being political animals and get down to teaching rather than try to score points off the Government ? |
| 22 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 23 | On the one hand , the Act tries to encourage judges and magistrates to sentence more petty offenders to punishments in the community rather than to custody ; but on the other hand , the Act allows people convicted of violent or sexual offences to receive harsher sentences than hitherto . |
| 24 | His heart sank , perversely convinced that he was to be transferred to some damp hole where he would be able neither to stand upright nor lie at full length , and chained there in darkness . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Under a proposed law to be presented to parliament later this year , industrial producers will be obliged to ensure the collection and recycling of waste consumer products . |
| 27 | In 1557 he led a Nottinghamshire levy of 300 men to Berwick , and was returned to Parliament again in 1558 , Elizabeth 's first Parliament . |
| 28 | The report , originally prepared last year by the government 's National Audit Office as a quick swot of the services offered by London 's top galleries and museums , has just been circulated as a final draft ; it is due for submission to Parliament shortly . |
| 29 | After 1496 Henry resorted to Parliament only once , in 1504 , when he was granted £30,000 as an aid for the knighting of his eldest son — by then dead — and the marriage of his elder daughter . |
| 30 | 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 . |