Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not uncommon for clients to show their report to their employers or to defence experts , whether to be helpful or to justify themselves . |
| 2 | To run cable down to light switches or to wall lights , it will usually be necessary to ‘ chase ’ slots in solid walls , though if you are rewiring a house which was originally wired in metal conduit , you may be able to use the existing conduit buried in the plaster leading to light switches to feed the cable down . |
| 3 | Oh yes , because er we had a lot of letter going back an forth to architects or to other slate merchants or to quarry owners . |
| 4 | On the subject of hitch-hiking , many self-defence books advise that it is safe to pick up hitch-hikers or to hitch-hike yourself in certain circumstances . |
| 5 | A picture emerges of a flourishing and diverse tradition of individual craftsmen whose skills and working methods were applied equally to full-sized harpsichords or to bentside spinets . |
| 6 | There are two main ways in which genetic engineering can be used in agriculture : ( 1 ) by the introduction of a specific gene or genes into a plant or animal cell so that the performance of that plant or animal is enhanced in a particular way through the new trait which has been added , and ( 2 ) by the introduction of a gene or genes into a bacterial cell which will cause the bacterium and its subsequent generations to perform a useful function , for example , to produce a protein toxic to insects or a specific compound especially valuable to farm animals or to man . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ' . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I refer , for instance , to shorter hospital waiting lists and to school performance league tables . |
| 15 | Wigan has now agreed to carry out all the adaptations and to rehouse the woman and her family while the work is done . |
| 16 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 17 | Significant population differences were tested for in the second part to establish the probability of variations being due to systematic effects or to chance . |
| 18 | Holland refused to sign , fearing that de Gaulle had a hidden agenda for the new body to rival NATO , to deter British entry , to undermine the communities and to enshrine their domination by France and Germany . |
| 19 | Traditionally a strong , fast draught breed ( and therefore horned ) the Limousin is now an important and popular beef and veal breed which has been widely exported to European countries and to North America , Australasia and South Africa . |
| 20 | The distinction between public law and private law can , therefore , be used either to accord government special privileges , or to impose on it special responsibilities and duties and to subject it to special controls . |
| 21 | The US-led group insisted on a specific policy commitment to cut internal support for agriculture , to reduce barriers to farm imports and to phase out extra subsidies . |
| 22 | Because religion appeals so strongly to the emotions and to life commitment , it is a special temptation for religious people . |
| 23 | A feature of the morphoclimatic zones recognized by the French school ( Tricart , 1957 ) was the attempt not only to relate such morphoclimatic zones to climates and to processes but also to soils and to vegetation . |
| 24 | It has a strong emphasis on specific objectives ( related to a number of vocational choices to be made by the students themselves ) , to cross-curricular skills and to profile-reporting on progress . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 27 | In the same way , workers , committed to the abolition of national States and to internationalism , might ally , to overthrow the Tsar , with national movements dedicated to the creation of new national States . |
| 28 | Thus both the setting and the monitoring of performance of the railways in relation to the PSO grant , to investment programmes and to planning , are beset with problems of information . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the 1970s these unions began to revive , in response both to labour needs and to frustration at the failure of the conventional political process . |
| 30 | They will also be distributed to youth organisations and to youth workers in parishes to encourage them to press for more appropriate TV programming . |