Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He describes the neo-Darwinian approach taken by ethologists , concentrates on the behavioural ecology of Old World monkeys and apes in an attempt to extrapolate from animals to man , and examines the political objections to sociobiology . |
| 2 | The Foreign Compensation Commission was empowered by statute to deal with claims to compensation under agreements with foreign governments . |
| 3 | In Kevin Billington 's production , Quartermaine 's Terms comes over as a deceptively sedate and profoundly funny play that is a serious pleasure to watch from start to finish . |
| 4 | The New Testament has a good deal to say with respect to church administration . |
| 5 | ‘ Our idea is not to change the nature of the force to move from peacekeeping to peacemaking , ’ said Jean-Bernard Merimee , the ambassador of France , whose forces have suffered the most casualties in the Balkans . |
| 6 | Teacher To live from hand to mouth . |
| 7 | In other words , the Home Secretary would have a discretion to exercise from case to case , with the result that the duration of each warrant would vary , subject to a statutory maximum period . |
| 8 | The separate rooms , the doors of which open and close as part of the programme after they have given visitors the chance to move from room to room , begin with the sense of smell . |
| 9 | Hundreds of others in the same position , will doubtless make the same decision to switch from rail to car . |
| 10 | It may have been relatively easy for a large part of the workforce to switch from manufacturing to service industries in the 1980s , but to do the opposite is more difficult . |
| 11 | All around the fringe of the urban area there are pockets of land in the ownership of private builders just waiting for the signal to turn from red to amber . |
| 12 | Student To live from hand to mouth ? |
| 13 | The Secretary of State for Transport , Malcolm Rifkind , has signalled a shift in government transport policy by declaring his intention to encourage freight traffic to move from road to rail , in part by ending British Rail 's monopoly on freight , to improve public transport in cities and to investigate " road pricing " to cut congestion . |
| 14 | Curiosity satisfied , it is rather a relief to emerge from darkness to daylight . |
| 15 | There are also connotations , however , of freedom from fear , freedom from the boredom of having to deal with work for which the learner has no motivation , freedom to move from activity to activity as desired . |
| 16 | But mobility can also be achieved through having access to transport in order to get from place to place . |
| 17 | More worryingly insidious is their ability to act as magnets to acid rain , taking it from the atmosphere and releasing it into the soil , where it leaches down and enters the water system . |
| 18 | Partly it was normal Arab volatility , their ability to move from elation to depression , rage to calm , in the space of a few bewildering seconds . |
| 19 | The polar gates , once used by the star-walking Slann to step from world to world , had collapsed , and a tide of uncontrolled magical energy swamped the Known World . |