Example sentences of "[noun] and to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be emphasized that the goal of transferability applies equally to the practical and the theoretical , to skills and to knowledge , to arts and to science , and it should be the overriding aim of school education . |
| 2 | Both inside and outside the Congress there were fears that a " militarization " of the anti-narcotics campaign would lead to acts of repression against peasant growers and to corruption among the military . |
| 3 | Secure the deal and to hell with integrity or compassion . ’ |
| 4 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow referred to rattan and to water in Africa . |
| 5 | Delivering the leading judgment , Nolan L.J. , having referred to the breath specimen provided by the defendant and to section 8(2) said , at p. 228 : |
| 6 | This solution was applied both to aircraft and to Motor Torpedo Boats , which had much the same troubles as wooden aircraft . |
| 7 | Public accountability and transparency might be assisted by opening up the negotiation process between Central and Local government to participation by disinterested , knowledgeable parties and to non-expert advisors who could seek to ensure transparency , which is manifestly lacking in current procedures , particularly for the assessment of Grant Related Expenditure . |
| 8 | Our recruitment fell disastrously in 1976 with the consequence that a College decision was made to close the department and to phase out the courses that had been developed . |
| 9 | He had a progressive mind , favoured women 's rights to the vote and to university education , supported trade unionism , and advocated bimetallism . |
| 10 | 17.5 These points are relevant both to programmes of study and to assessment , since they show that linguistic forms can not be corrected or assessed independently of their purpose . |
| 11 | But it is also very costly — to the individual , to the college and to society generally . |
| 12 | With certain simplifying assumptions ( that selection is weak , and mating is random with respect to age and genotype ) the theory can be extended to diploids and to variation at multiple loci . |
| 13 | It is varied , later in the sonnet , with the traditional image of the adder , which is believed to be able to block its hearing ( ‘ my adder 's sense/To critic and to flatterer stoppéd are ’ ) , but does so in order not to be deflected by charm or blandishments from destroying its prey . |
| 14 | His thinking has affected modern approaches to therapy and to counselling and education . |
| 15 | Again , the relatively popular policy of the privatization of industry fell on stony ground when it was proposed for extension to the electricity supply industry and to water services . |
| 16 | With a careful introduction to the database , pupils were made aware that the information they had access to was the same information available to those in the food and catering industry and to consumer groups . |
| 17 | Divided into forty-four short chapters and illustrated by a large selection of good colour reproductions , it offers a convincing explanation of the artist 's apparently inexplicable imagery by reference to his biography and to source material which ranges from Egyptian and Greek sculpture to Quattrocento frescoes , Symbolist pictures of the nineteenth century , film stills , pulp fiction , popular postcards and encyclopaedia illustrations . |
| 18 | Reports filtered out of the latest MacWorld in San Francisco about an Apple Computer Inc project , code named Cat in the Hat , that aims to port the Apple ToolBox , Apple 's crown jewels , the source of the Mac interface , over to IBM Corp 's AIX in six months , to Hewlett-Packard Co HP-UX in nine months and to Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines after that . |
| 19 | Access to unpaid family labour and to family networks provide the small family business with an important element of flexibility . |
| 20 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 21 | Parsons recognizes that in Western industrial society ‘ There will be certain tendencies to arrogance on the part of some winners and to resentment and to a ‘ sour grapes ’ attitude on the part of some losers ' . |
| 22 | Initially applied in the context of lakes and their drainage basins which can be used as units of sediment-based ecological study ( Oldfield , 1977 ) , the techniques have now been shown to have widespread application to sediment correlation in lake sediments , to differentiation of weathering and pedogenesis , to the identification of sediment sources , and there may subsequently be application of mineral magnetic measurements to long sediment sequences from major lake basins in non-glaciated regions , to near-shore marine sediments in morphogenetically dynamic areas , and also to cave sediments , alluvial fills , river terrace sequences and to loess successions . |
| 23 | They should be thought of as models rather than theories because they are orientated to action and to practice . |
| 24 | They moved from cover to cover within the compound , advancing towards the rear of the battle , following the sounds that would lead them to their own side and to news of the day 's progress . |
| 25 | The government on Oct. 22 signed a memorandum of understanding allowing the UN to resume international relief aid and to station foreign aid workers and UN guards on Iraqi territory . |
| 26 | I refer , for instance , to shorter hospital waiting lists and to school performance league tables . |
| 27 | Wigan has now agreed to carry out all the adaptations and to rehouse the woman and her family while the work is done . |
| 28 | In addition , groups of questions were devoted to marriage and to child-care , so that there was no pressure on the women to feel that responses on these subjects would be out of order . |
| 29 | But he firmly eschewed political involvement and devoted his time to his diocese and to building . |
| 30 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |