Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That problem , moreover , related not only to furnishing but to architecture , where the Rule of Taste was in similar disarray . |
| 2 | I want , on your behalf , to send a clear message to-day to Government and to Employers — the gains that working people have made for themselves and their families — gains that have made their world a fairer place — are not for taking back and will not be given back ’ . |
| 3 | This failure is due not to cussedness but to ignorance of what Parliament intended by the obscure words of the legislation . |
| 4 | Significantly , Leslie Howard , in the famous film of 1938 , misunderstood this phrase , which he uttered as if it referred not to sex but to Eliza herself . |
| 5 | From my perspective , then , our lack of certainty should lead , not to inaction but to action on a multitude of fronts simultaneously . |
| 6 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 7 | It refers not to power but to authority , and what I think he means is that although a woman can make good and wise judgements , she can not be the arbiter of that goodness or wisdom . |
| 8 | I have been anxious to show that the nuclear family may lead not to satisfaction but to frustration and disappointment . |
| 9 | ROS : Both your majesties Might , by the sovereign power you have of us , Put your dread pleasures more into command Than to entreaty . |
| 10 | But it , too , addresses itself much more to feminism than to psychology . |
| 11 | Mr Smith assures us that this ‘ strength ’ is because the Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism . |
| 12 | How true it is that the Labour Party has owed more to Methodism than to Marx . |
| 13 | Palestine at the advent of the Christian era is no longer a nebulous place belonging more to myth than to history . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Above all , we must remember that music inclines more to emotion than to cerebralism . |
| 16 | Roman kissed her deeply , murmuring comfortingly before taking them both to heights that owed more to heaven than to earth . |
| 17 | Plays handled just that : single one-off productions including , strangely enough , opera , which was felt owed more to drama than to music . |
| 18 | How should we understand the state , its relationships both to society and to individuals ? |
| 19 | This hatred of Lloyd George on the part of both Baldwin and MacDonald made it very difficult for the Conservative or Labour Parties to contemplate either coalition with the Liberals , or even a tacit understanding with them to sustain a minority government ; and the politics of the 1920s can not therefore be understood without appreciating the widespread antagonism both to coalition and to Lloyd George personally . |
| 20 | I could n't argue with her , knowing I was in the wrong , so in a thoroughly bad mood I free-wheeled down the hill to the Waafery , determined to go straight to bed and to Hell with the dance . |
| 21 | We are closer now to war than to peace . ’ |
| 22 | Fort Augustus offers two things worth relishing : that its canal provides a waterway down to Loch Oich and Loch Lochy and into Loch Linnhe and therefore out to sea and to Mull and Manhattan and Newfoundland . |
| 23 | In fact Marc 's painting after 1911 , with its intense , vibrant colour , and its sense of drama and dynamic tension , was in many ways closer to Futurism than to Cubism . |
| 24 | There is however one kind of inclination which may legitimately be classed as inherently egoistic or altruistic , the biological drive either to self-preservation or to preservation of offspring or others . |
| 25 | But although Darwinian natural selection seems plainly to deny primacy either to egoism or to altruism , it is interesting to notice that nearly everyone has preconceptions which hinder him from coming fully to terms with the evidence . |
| 26 | In one case in 1944 , Scott LJ stated that the ‘ British principle of personal freedom , that every man should be presumed innocent until he is proved guilty , applies also to the police function of arrest — in a very modified degree , it is true , but at least to the extent of requiring them to be observant , receptive and open-minded and to notice any relevant circumstance which points either way , either to innocence or to guilt ’ . |
| 27 | Whereas the priests told him that he must die and would go either to heaven or to hell , the singers of songs told him that , though he must die , his name need not and that it was up to him whether he left behind a good or an evil reputation . |
| 28 | The Chief Inspector is totally impartial and disinterested , owing allegiance neither to government nor to industry , and he decides every case in relation to the air safety aspect , without fear or favour . |
| 29 | Ormrod J. seems to hold in Corbett that sexual relations with a woman with an artificial vagina would amount neither to consummation nor to adultery . |
| 30 | Though Charles the Bald could not evade the type of political problems just outlined , he was predestined neither to success nor to failure . |