Example sentences of "to [noun sg] and [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to attribute their successes more to luck and less to ability than men , and to be more influenceable . |
| 2 | A member of the Cambridge ‘ Apostles ’ , he was a communist before and during the war but later became more sympathetic , first to anarchism and then to syndicalism . |
| 3 | A. culicifacies , the sole vector in Sri Lanka , remains susceptible to BHC and malathion and malaria persists there ; in India , and possibly in Pakistan too , the same species shows ‘ pockets ’ of resistance to malathion and even to fenitrothion but extensive areas still exist where there is no evidence of organophosphate resistance . |
| 4 | No special methods were adopted to enhance the activity of bacteria oxidizing excreted ammonia ( produced from metabolism of proteins ) first to nitrite and then to nitrate . |
| 5 | Too often students go straight from school to college and on to university without seeing any action resulting from their studies . |
| 6 | One of the initiatives is to encourage more teacher placements in industry , so that those in education who have gone from school to college and back to school as teachers and who have not experienced life in industry or commerce can be exposed to it , the better to assist their pupils in preparing for a working career . |
| 7 | Accordingly , from the mid-1970s , research began to examine the perception and behaviour of individuals , and then to develop general conceptual and theoretical research , in a shift from the ‘ inductive ’ to the ‘ scientific ’ route shown in Figure I. I. Smith ( 1983 ) in another recent summary broadly agrees with Owens , and divides his textbook Recreation Geography into a four-stage continuum from description , to explanation , to prediction and finally to policy formulation . |
| 8 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 9 | If , as I have tried to show , the acquisition of the ego and superego were such important aspects of economic adaptation , first to hunting and then to cultivation , it is clear that the very success of the latter threatened to compromise the psychological foundations on which it was based . |
| 10 | The mill was originally converted from fulling to corn and then to silk in 1747 . |
| 11 | degree in 1948 : he proceeded rapidly from research student to lecturer and then to reader in dynamical climatology ( in the department of meteorology ) by 1949 . |
| 12 | Other litigation between Condy and A. D. Mitchell , who had joined the firm in 1870 , led at first to estrangement and then to reconstitution of the company as Condy & Mitchell Ltd. , with Mitchell and Henry Bollmann 's eldest son , H. J. Bollmann Condy , as managing directors . |
| 13 | This was partly due to economy and partly to inexperience . |
| 14 | Jennifer looked from son to father and back to son . |
| 15 | He looked from Silver to Hazel and then to Fiver . |
| 16 | Colorectal cancer develops through a complex process from hyperproliferative mucosa to adenoma and eventually to carcinoma . |
| 17 | In other words , the assumption is that the transformation from money-capital to commodity-capital and back to money-capital again will find no external barriers , other than the market . |
| 18 | Addictive disease is simply the next in the progression from short sight to diabetes and on to epilepsy . |
| 19 | But even those of us who have never been anorexic and live in the affluent Western world must know , perhaps through some isolated experience of our own or others ' , that non-eating leads to fatigue and thence to depression . |
| 20 | Because of the consciousness of using the correct level of language in a conversation or discussion , any interpreter one engages may unconsciously modify statements going from English to Japanese and back to English again , according to the rank of the people involved . |
| 21 | During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century , the application of quantitative methods of science was extended to psychology and so to education . |
| 22 | At 14 , Hurston left home to work as a housemaid , then went back to school and on to university , where she studied literature and later anthropology . |
| 23 | That is what led Marx to history and then to anthropology as , in the course of his work , he pushed his analyses ever further backwards in the evolution of human society . |
| 24 | Some of the returns from Taylor 's questionnaire 216 drew attention to these problems , one in particular reporting that another year of full-time work would be required to bring the thesis work up to standard and up to date . |
| 25 | Some of the returns from Taylor 's questionnaire drew attention to these problems , one in particular reporting that another year of full-time work would be required to bring the thesis work up to standard and up to date . |
| 26 | The suspicion in Graham 's voice turned to puzzlement and then to excitement . |
| 27 | There may , of course , have been shorter-term adaptations first to abnormality and then to absence of the cortex on one side . |
| 28 | It is said among devotees that 100 per cent mental or physical control of an Akitas is quite impossible — they respond only to rapport and never to bullying . |