Example sentences of "[conj] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Respiratory signs may be due to larval damage in the lungs or to the anoxic effects of anaemia . |
| 2 | It can refer to geographical area as in planning or other land-based services , or to the administrative needs of personal services such as education . |
| 3 | This may have been due to a reluctance to suck more money out of a generous population , or to the usual delays in carrying out orders from Moscow . |
| 4 | by no means all of the old sport s were abandoned , but they were more or less confined either to the margins of community life or to the remoter parts of the nation . |
| 5 | A public relations executive , Subba Row was a skilful diplomat accustomed to getting his own way and his methods did not always appeal to some of the county clubs or to the elder statesmen of MCC . |
| 6 | or to the lazy benches of summer |
| 7 | We should remember that Δ ν=+1; is also permitted , but that this corresponds to the emission of radiation in the IR or to the anti-Stokes lines in the Raman spectrum , which will be weak , as the population of molecules with ν > 0 will be small . |
| 8 | Even more than Weber , he was indifferent to the historical contexts in which nation states had developed , or to the possible consequences of nationalism , imperialism ( which he does not mention ) and the rivalries between nation states . |
| 9 | The discrepancy of our results to the reported inhibitory action of cyclosporin A on renal prostaglandin formation may be caused by an organ selective effect of cyclosporin A or to the higher doses of cyclosporin A — that is , 50 mg/kg , used in studies on renal prostaglandin formation . |
| 10 | If their activities are unsuccessful , only another professional can say whether this was due to incompetence or to the inevitable workings of nature or society by which even the most competent practitioner would have been stymied . |
| 11 | There are many lesser examples around , of people whose influence upon policy making owes nothing either to any notion of representative government or to the cruder theories about pressure-group activity |
| 12 | The only inquiry has been the American one and that was handicapped because the British er er partners of er Price Waterhouse did n't pass on to either that inquiry or to the American partners of Price Waterhouse , the information they had about what had gone wrong with B C C I so that inquiry itself was inadequate but it is the only one and what that found er was appalling er indeed they were pretty critical about British audit regulation , about the auditors performance . |
| 13 | Chris Dick of Linguaphone , which has a joint venture in Russia , reports that to the familiar problems of inflation , bureaucracy and foreign exchange has been added a new threat , piracy , now ‘ an enormous problem ’ . |
| 14 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 15 | The papacy 's reputation for venality may be more closely related to the difficulties of collecting what was due to it than to the actual amounts of money coming in . |
| 16 | If lesion A affects function X but not function Y while lesion B affects function Y but not function N , it is reasonable to assume that the effects observed are specific to the loci of lesions A and B rather than to the general effects of brain damage . |
| 17 | We should not forget , however , that Berkeley 's own commitments are to God rather than to the predetermined demands of some idealized empiricism . |
| 18 | But at the same time , we must pay careful attention to what such young people are actually doing rather than to the easy caricatures of them which some seem to prefer . |
| 19 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 20 | This perspective is closer to that of the Newbolt Committee than to the guiding impulses of inter-war English studies . |
| 21 | The married priest might be more obvious to the archdeacon on his visitation or inspection and to the rural deans in charge of the groups of parishes ; the unmarried concubinist could well escape justice . |
| 22 | In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people . |
| 23 | At man height the quire aisle is dark with thick arteries of shadow connecting every feature to its neighbour — steps , sepulchres , arches , screens all laced together and to the towering pillars by these black branches from which thick clots of blue and red hang like deadly , tempting fruit . |
| 24 | We are grateful also to Lord Flowers and all the speakers at various events and to the many members of the University who contributed to the public launch of the Campaign for Resource . |
| 25 | Favourite excursions are to the Habsburg castle , the very cradle of the Habsburg dynasty , perched on a hillock among green woods ; to several other castles in the area ; and to the many attractions of the countryside on the doorstep of Windisch . |
| 26 | Third parties need to be alert to the possibility of change and to the actual practices of the body . |
| 27 | Similarly , the relatively slow growth of labour productivity and high level of unit costs in the post-war period of growth ( between the crossroads of the 1930s/1940s and those of 1970s/1980s ) were largely attributed to the character of management and labour , employers and unions , within the UK and to the internal policies of the state . |
| 28 | Immobility is linked to the desire for stable identity , to certain knowledge , to fixed images , and to the various clichés of the discourses of authority . |
| 29 | The late Marguerite Yourcenar was also an admirer of Proust and she relates the history of her mother 's family in Dear Departed in a way which recalls Proust 's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past and to the sheer coincidences by which past and present can seem to illuminate one another . |
| 30 | The early novels will be analysed in relation both to Brooke-Rose 's conceptual concerns during this period and to the fictional conventions through which she chose to figure them . |