Example sentences of "and [adv] to [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | The vehicles started to move off to the washdown point and thence to the trains that would take them home . |
2 | In Britain children are looking forward to Christmas and especially to the presents that Father Christmas brings . |
3 | Thus when analysing organisational goals , one must be clear that one is referring to the objectives officially sanctioned in the organisation , and not to the goals that organisations pursue . |
4 | Governors should then be introduced to the budget in some detail , particularly the major headings under which spending is planned and thus to the benefits or problems raised by this allocation . |
5 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
6 | The National Coal Board having decided not to do this , control of the protest fell more and more to the police and to the criminal courts . |
7 | Andreeva went on to complain of historical plays , such as those of Mikhail Shatrov , which were arbitrary in their interpretation and close to the views that had been put forward by Lenin 's opponents , and she deplored the obsessive interest in Stalin among many writers , obscuring the fact that his was a complex and transitional period in which industrialisation , collectivisation and a cultural revolution had brought the USSR into the ranks of the great powers . |
8 | However , the public is by no means an empty receptacle responding uncritically and unquestioningly to the sayings and doings of those in power . |
9 | The Bill gives the Secretary of State wide-ranging new powers , relating not only to capping but to the vast number of orders and regulations that he will be able to issue , and even to the grants that will be given to London 's voluntary organisations . |
10 | On his own right , on the rising ground that led to a wood , and then to the moors and hills that rimmed the horizon , stood Cormac and Gillocher with the men of Atholl and Mar , and the church-banner of Tuathal , holding firm those men of Fife who had chosen to follow the King rather than Bishop Malduin , his acolytes , and his family . |
11 | He talked to Tuathal and then to the toisechs as he put on his mail shirt again and took up his helmet . |
12 | A key clause defined freedom of information : journalists had the right to demand information ( including access to documents ) from state bodies , social organizations and officials , and to appeal to higher bodies or officials and ultimately to the courts if their demands were refused . |
13 | He knew that escape would not be made by force but , even so , his mind returned again and again to the grains and snippets of stories that had somehow ( how ? ) permeated into the world of Men . |