Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 2 | more or less every day to day |
| 3 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 4 | There is very considerable force in the submission that once a refusal to treatment is expressed and held to be valid and binding on the hospital , as I have found , then that consent or that refusal should continue to prevail and dictate the outcome of this case . |
| 5 | But he was , in Alexander Pope 's words , ‘ nor yet a fool to fame ’ . |
| 6 | Christmas Day and Boxing Day used to be a quieter family occasion , with family dinner and perhaps a visit to church . |
| 7 | The thrill , and perhaps the claim to posterity , is in being able to bestow a name on a rose that is different to anything seen before . |
| 8 | The United States Congress requested officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to attend an emergency hearing on June 29 to explain the failure of the Hubble Space Telescope and also a decision to ground all space shuttle craft . |
| 9 | In 19 cases rises in household bills of more than 30% were suggested by IPF figures , and here the swing to Labour was 3.1% compared to 3.7% in authorities where the average increases were less . |
| 10 | It is from Paul , and Paul alone , that a new religion begins to emerge — not a form of Judaism , but a rival and ultimately an adversary to Judaism . |
| 11 | Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry . |
| 12 | We shall need to study , not just the individual characteristics of leadership , but also the reaction to leadership by others . |
| 13 | Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society ! |
| 15 | In Japan as elsewhere the commitment to employment security is an attempt by firms to reduce the turnover of key employees and so avoid transferring the benefits of training programmes to rival firms . |