Example sentences of "[conj] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These claims may relate either to the internal procedures of the organisation , or to its activities . |
| 2 | Work is also a form of transfer of energy from one system to another or to its surroundings . |
| 3 | That part of the collection 's rotation has worked surprisingly well but it has necessitated the temporary removal to storage , or to its branch in Liverpool , of masterpieces which visitors expect to find on permanent view . |
| 4 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 5 | When faced with threats to its broadcasting monopoly or to its programme policy from , say , either wireless exchanges ( the precursors of today 's cable systems ) or overseas commercial radio stations , it was only natural that Reith would turn to the state to guarantee the monopoly . |
| 6 | The choice of items of furniture and equipment , and their arrangement within rooms , is more likely to be related to work carried out in the home , to the use of the home as a place for leisure and entertainment , or to its value as a symbol of status in society . |
| 7 | Butler , far from pressing for early reform of the law , was at pains to dispel the fears of those who felt that the recommendations of the Report would lead to a sudden increase in homosexuality , or to its condonation : |
| 8 | The economic impact of the arts in New York has not however been obvious to the city 's business leaders or to its city government , says William Luers , president of the Metropolitan Museum . |
| 9 | And I ca n't see anyone getting past Briant to this baby , or to its mother . |
| 10 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 11 | There was no way of knowing just how far the tight band of Rebecca 's control would stretch , or to what extremes she would be driven . |
| 12 | Many English fans even regard West Indian cricket as boring , but it is more impossible to know , as defeat follows defeat follows defeat , to what extent this is an objective judgement or to what extent it is just sour grapes . |
| 13 | Or to what extent should a religious discourse be developed or avoided in favour of every-day language ? |
| 14 | However it is not at all clear to what extent religious ideals were widely shared , or to what extent communal cultivation was an agreed voluntary process . |
| 15 | There are arguments about whether we have some ‘ primordial ’ sense of the world which is in some way independent of the symbol systems we use , or to what extent our visual or aural perceptions of painting or music depend on or are penetrated by the knowledge we have through such systems . |
| 16 | It is not clear how far these princes of the eastern Saxons were operating in Kent on their own initiative or to what extent they were under Aethelred 's control . |
| 17 | We do not know how many species of temperate latitudes have been unable to adjust , and so disqualified themselves as polar colonists , or to what extent existing polar plants are restricted in their distribution by light . |
| 18 | Policy makers have , in effect , left the difficult theoretical questions unaddressed about how , or to what extent , public sector accounting should be different . |
| 19 | But the referent again becomes signifier to the extent that the viewer is reminded how like a comic strip the real world has become , or to what extent the real world now comprises comic strips . |
| 20 | Hence , their views , based as they are on personal first-hand experiences , form an important body of evidence about whether or to what extent Britain lives up to its reputation as a liberal democratic country . |
| 21 | She gave no indication to her boyfriend or to her father that she had repented of her sinful ways and I have no evidence from the mother to suggest that she had . |
| 22 | But he did n't come , either to her apartment or to her office . |
| 23 | Specialist local authority homes for dementia , to which new residents could be admitted , or to which residents of " ordinary " homes could be transferred at later stages , are a possibility , but are against strongly held principles of integration and continuity of care . |
| 24 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 25 | The government announced on Oct. 30 that compensation would be paid to people who contracted the HIV virus from blood transfusions during 1980-85 , or to their families . |
| 26 | If these policies continue council tenure may decline to 20 per cent , or less if present government policy to transfer whole estates to other landlords or to their tenants succeeds . |
| 27 | On occasions in area offices , residential homes , day centres , as well as in family homes , staff may find themselves faced with aggressive and violent responses to their offers of help or to their attempts to fulfil their statutory or professional responsibilities to intervene . |
| 28 | Although the itching may be due to the movement of the louse over the skin , it only moves a maximum of six inches per day , and it is more likely that an allergic reaction is set up to the lice themselves or to their faeces . |
| 29 | Poorer regions of the community are specifically addressed in the Treaty to the establishment of a new fund which will help kick-start industry in those areas which are disadvantaged , due either to failing industry or to their position on the of Europe . |
| 30 | Beaumont and Rugg ( 1978 ) , on the other hand , required subjects to perform a go/no-go discrimination task in which subjects responded either to the sound of visually presented letters or to their shape . |