Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his voyage , he has realised that sport is more than just a game to Americans , and that sports stars are the heroes of the nation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he was , in Alexander Pope 's words , ‘ nor yet a fool to fame ’ . |
| 4 | Christmas Day and Boxing Day used to be a quieter family occasion , with family dinner and perhaps a visit to church . |
| 5 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
| 6 | Today the sixteen-and-a-half horse power Ford Cargo , one of a fleet of several serving the Highlands and Islands , is driven by Bill once a week to Gairloch , fortnightly to Kinlochewe and once a month to Applecross . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This promoted the HCIMA to produce an Education Brief and also A Guide to NVQs . |
| 9 | Here , then , are two more of the group of " preliminary studies " from which BT was to emerge ; and indeed a letter to Wagner later that year refers to " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , in precisely such terms , as a Vorstudium , Whatever remains of the course on Oedipus Rex itself is as yet unpublished . |
| 10 | Its fourth issue devoted a page to analysis and views of the smaller , 21 July Vietnam demonstration half a page to strike reports from Manchester and London , two pages to a suppressed BBC script on racism , and almost a page to Malcolm X and an excerpt from American black power advocate Julius Lester 's Look Out Whitey . |
| 11 | Yet no one was in the least surprised when Ferguson scored the try which earned the Raiders extra time in the Sydney Grand Final , and subsequently a trip to Manchester . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool . |
| 14 | MATURITY IS : Recognising that it is not a commitment to self which brings happiness in life but rather a commitment to others . |
| 15 | 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 ! |