Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 2 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 3 | Half of clinics open just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a Family Planning Association survey revealed yesterday . |
| 4 | HALF the country 's birth control clinics open their doors just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a major survey shows today . |
| 5 | Shortly afterwards a Liverpool to Scarborough train thundered through . |
| 6 | This makes Stark 's reference to ideology as ‘ prejudice-begotten thought ’ clearly not a reference to Marx 's own writing . |
| 7 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 8 | ‘ Turning our attention now to the remaining portion of the Archipelago , we shall find that all the islands from the Celebes and Lombok eastward exhibit almost as close a resemblance to Australia and New Guinea as the western islands do to Asia … ’ |
| 9 | And a letter of 30 August 1934 is particularly interesting , since it is rather plainly a reply to protests from Binyon about Pound 's contemptuous treatment of Rubens . |
| 10 | Why the hell is there never a cloth to hand when it 's wanted ? ’ |
| 11 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 12 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 13 | On their release , the teenagers will be supervised until they proved they were no longer a threat to society , he said . |
| 14 | This latter piece was very much a response to Roy Hattersley 's article , ‘ Let's Pretend Politics ’ ( The Listener , 23 June 1988 ) which had totally denounced the programme 's politics as ‘ fantasy as distinct from political thought ’ . |
| 15 | The very philosophy of the Hegelians is therefore not a challenge to society but a way of making such challenge unthinkable . |
| 16 | The 1987 Act is therefore partly a response to lessons learnt at that time . |