Example sentences of "[adv] [noun pl] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that he had only hunters to school and exercise and Mrs Geary ( who loved the lads ) to feed him well , no question about his weight , life was kind and easier ; but he was the last to admit it and showed sympathy to nobody , least of all to Nicandra . |
| 2 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |
| 3 | The 3,000 or so subscribers to Mountain will help to bolster High 's circulation figures with the added hope that when the ex- Mountain subscriptions expire , some will renew them with High . |
| 4 | It is also subject to all kinds of criticism ; not just listeners to Radio Four , but the employers of graduates speak disapprovingly of the way the English language is spoken . |
| 5 | Gradually incentives to growth in the economy were provided . |
| 6 | Some , such as jazz guitarist Larry Coryell 's 1971 album Barefoot Boy , on the defunct Flying Dutchman label , probably sold around six copies on vinyl ( mainly thanks to side one , where someone had irresponsibly convinced Coryell he could be the new Jimi Hendrix ) ; a CD re-issue is out of the question . |
| 7 | Now thanks to Housing Association , I 've got my own totally modern two bedroom home , and at last a big helping hand onto the property ladder . |
| 8 | Tactical ideas and formations , set-piece plays , team weaknesses are all exposed to the globe beforehand thanks to satellite television and video cassettes , leaving little room for surprises . |
| 9 | The secondment of teachers to industry ( and equally industrialists to education ) is a microcosm of the Partnership in action . |
| 10 | The imaginary conversations he held as he travelled the country roads were not simply distractions to while away his lonely journeys but rehearsals of the arguments he would use to outsmart the hunters and send them back home empty-handed . |
| 11 | That woman is many English children 's first encounter with death , lying there knees to chin , folded , flaking , tendons taut . |
| 12 | Q Are there alternatives to Claret and Port to drink with cheese ? |
| 13 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 14 | Okay let's move on then folks to knowledge . |
| 15 | The introduction of bargaining and the capacity to negotiate collective agreements or ‘ convenios ’ , although still closely controlled , gave the company councils a genuine industrial relations function for the first time and encouraged the workers ' commissions ' strategy of working through the official system and putting forward candidates to company council elections . |
| 16 | Other writers , such as Seebohm Rowntree , were much less guarded , putting forward solutions to family poverty and circulating new ideas about how they could be reconciled with the economic needs of industry . |
| 17 | Again these industries — shipbuilding , railway equipment , iron and steel , pharmaceuticals — are usually principally suppliers to government agencies or are state owned . |
| 18 | Other assets , such as government bonds — i.e. loans to government for a fixed number of years — are somewhere in the middle . |
| 19 | Now one of the things I think we need to do , And I I I put it in there and it 's pa it 's part of my appraisal system , is to do some work on actually entitlements to training . |