Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its wharf near Tower Bridge , London , was a terminus for steam-boats to or from towns situated in the Thames estuary . |
| 2 | The fall in the real wage rate to raises the demand for labour to and ( perhaps ) reduces the supply of labour to . |
| 3 | A fall in the real wage rate from w 1 to w 2 results in both a rise in the notional demand for labour to and a rise in the notional supply of output to Y 2 . |
| 4 | As a Catholic and exemplar civil servant he acted as adviser to and mediator between the government and the Catholic Church authorities . |
| 5 | Modules specified in this way appear when the contents of a package are displayed using LIFESPAN , and can be marked for transfer to and from a VMS account . |
| 6 | On the move , in more ways than one , , one of our warehousemen , moved house earlier this month , best of luck to and his family in their new home . |
| 7 | He also worked with the Cardinal Archbishop of New York , John O'Connor , in ways that are still not known ; his notebooks are full of calls to and from the archbishop 's office . |
| 8 | So a lot of sort of tracking to and fro between one end of the office , hoping that the two groups would n't meet . |
| 9 | Firstly , imagine that the UK is a closed economy , with no foreign trade , with no capital flows of money to or from abroad and with no government sector . |
| 10 | All other types of mail to and from HM Forces in Northern Ireland and South Atlantic must bear postage at the HM Forces concessionary rates . |
| 11 | The Registry is the heart of the student management system , maintaining the flow of data to and from a continuously changing spectrum of offices , individuals , committees , management , external bodies , etc . |
| 12 | If these muscles are in a constant state of tension , then they become hardened ; this restricts the flow of blood to and from the heart . |
| 13 | The overall picture of migration to and from the United Kingdom since 1965 is summarised in Figure 2.13 : net immigration is shown as ‘ positive ’ migration ( above the horizontal axis ) , and net emigration as ‘ negative ’ migration ( below the axis ) . |
| 14 | Thirty ships make the nine-hour transit through Panama each day : 11,000 a year , carrying more than 130 million tons of cargo to and from every country on earth . |
| 15 | The second defendant had made a large number of deliveries to and collections from the premises on Capricorn 's account . |
| 16 | What was I doing , in the late twentieth century , arguing that what happened in the first century was of relevance to whether or not I could be a deacon . |
| 17 | Tanaka ( 1980 ) also describes similar phenomena of socialization to and indoc-trination in company goals . |
| 18 | Thorpe J. held that he had the necessary jurisdiction and authorised the removal of W. to and her treatment at a specialist London unit , subject to arrangements first being made for the approval of new foster parents . |
| 19 | Horses on which large sums of money are bet , such as the Grand National or the Derby , they are horses that the bookies pay a great deal of attention to and the overround that they calculate — they offer odds in such a way that you ca n't , by judiciously placing your bets , guarantee to win , and the overround is erm a thing that you can calculate which expresses , if you like , the average percentage in favour of the bookie on that race . |
| 20 | As a number of alternatives to and criticisms of Saussure 's theory will be discussed in the following chapters , 1 shall only mention here some of its positive implications for the study of literature . |
| 21 | So I said you know , the one minute past quarter to and there 's a sort of quietly you know but then you know , just have to grab at |
| 22 | Every text is a product of intertextuality , a tissue of allusions to and citations of other texts ; and , in the famous words of Jacques Derrida ( famous to people like Robyn , anyway ) , ‘ il n'y a pas de hors-texte ’ , there is nothing outside the text . |
| 23 | Under the Act those executing a warrant are required ( not empowered ) to intercept all communications sent to or from one or more addresses specified in the warrant where the address in question is likely to be used for the transmission of communications to or from one particular person specified or described in the warrant . |
| 24 | It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top . |
| 25 | I am not aware of any proposal to upgrade the Piccadilly or Victoria lines , which carry the majority of passengers to and from King 's Cross . |
| 26 | Outside , a winter gale blusters against the sides of the house and swishes the branches of trees to and fro . |
| 27 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 28 | ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer 's control , the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks . ’ |
| 29 | Member states shall ensure in particular equal conditions of access to and use of the fishing grounds situated in the waters referred to in the preceding sub-paragraph for all fishing vessels flying the flag of a member state and registered in Community territory . |
| 30 | Where problems of access to and quality of services have been exposed , policies have been devised to deal with them . |