Example sentences of "[coord] to [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me , Cornwall was an area covered on the way to the Scilly Isles , with its infamous humpback runway , or to Land 's End for the standard photo of the signpost showing the distance to your home town . |
| 2 | This would be too akin to the power of the pope backed by the inquisition in the seventeenth century , or to Stalin 's power backed by the KGB over soviet scientists in the twentieth century , to be acceptable . |
| 3 | ‘ If I find even the vaguest reference to an Ark or to Jordan 's water in this abbey or any place in your possession , I shall see you stand trial at King 's Bench in London on a charge of high treason ! ’ |
| 4 | Households with less privately-owned land which had to rely on the ‘ public economy ’ ( the forest ) for livestock rearing rather than private land , were less willing to see restrictions placed upon access to forests or to others ' private land for stubble grazing in cases where fodder tree planting on terrace backs was being advocated . |
| 5 | The section does not apply to off-sale licences or to seamen 's canteens , seamen 's canteens being outwith the definition of licensed premises in s.139(1) . |
| 6 | Not related to the job holder 's current post or to CA 's work . |
| 7 | Whereas we are encouraged to remember the pre-war years as the home of traditional discipline and common sense , we can hardly fail to notice the sympathy which reaches out to Hatton 's bad boys or to Butterworth 's hyperactive little terror — a sympathy , what is more , that nowadays would often be slapped down as a sentimental , modern , postwar ‘ permissive ’ fad . |
| 8 | Today 's reactions to events in Hungary and the GDR , tomorrow 's response to Austria 's already-submitted application for EC membership or to Turkey 's determined membership claims , can all too easily foreclose long-term options . |
| 9 | This habitual restraint produces a docility which woman requires all her life long , for she will always be in subjection to a man , or to man 's judgment , and she will never be free to set her own opinion above his . |
| 10 | But if it 's a world problem , if there are international dimensions to our problems in Britain , or to Kenya 's problems in Kenya , or to Mexico 's Mexican problems in Mexico , then somehow we 've got to have international groups looking at the international aspects of those problems . |
| 11 | After that we would go hack to my flat which I share with two other students in the Santa Croce area , or to Debbie 's . |
| 12 | In neither case , as in modernism , is attention to be drawn to the aesthetic material itself , or to Greenberg 's ‘ surface of the canvas ’ ; the spectator 's attention is drawn instead to the referent , to the real world . |
| 13 | But if it 's a world problem , if there are international dimensions to our problems in Britain , or to Kenya 's problems in Kenya , or to Mexico 's Mexican problems in Mexico , then somehow we 've got to have international groups looking at the international aspects of those problems . |
| 14 | Freeman suggested that this refers to participation in a ceremony of confirmation at Southampton in 1016 , or to Cnut 's coronation by Archbishop Lyfing in 1017 . |
| 15 | It does justice neither to Henry 's interest in literature nor to Eleanor 's own personality . |
| 16 | Happily Herbert had eventually trotted off and to Amy 's distress had been seen no more , although his lead still hung on the caravan door , a limp reminder of her bereavement . |
| 17 | Drawn , with one exception , from that museum 's rich collection of material , which , in size and importance , surpasses both the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art , it travels to the IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez in Valencia ( 12 September–8 November ) and to Korea 's Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art ( 21 June–19 September 1993 ) . |
| 18 | For Hesketh , now committed to racing and to Hunt 's career — with a generosity unparalleled in FI — it seemed as sensible to take Hunt straight up into FI , and Hunt duly made his debut at a non-championship race at Brands Hatch early in 1973 , there earning , in a used Surtees TS9B , a third place just behind Denny Hulme — and Hulme was , let it be noted , driving the McLaren M23 , a far more advanced car . |
| 19 | Mitch asked quickly , forgetting his silence for a moment , and to Maggie 's relief the lovely young face was turned to him , Ana smiling . |
| 20 | He looked explosive and to Maggie 's surprise Felipe intervened . |
| 21 | This gives a clue to the location of Swinsto Hole , five minutes north-west and to Simpson 's Pot , over the wall in the next allotment east : their entrances are small and , masked by long grass , need a search but both admit to major cave systems . |
| 22 | None of the other children had to wear shoes , and to Martha 's contrary seven-year-old mind the reasons Nana advanced for insisting on shoes were not satisfactory . |
| 23 | My brain adjusted slowly to the Russian language and to Victor 's hair . |
| 24 | By February 1795 three Pantisocratic brothers — Coleridge , Southey , and George Burnett — were settled together in lodgings at 25 College Street , Bristol , very close to the cathedral , and to Southey 's Aunt Tyler . |
| 25 | Silverstein called Douglas , who had already read the script , and to Silverstein 's tremendous relief , Kirk said that the part was n't big enough for him as a star , and not small enough for a cameo . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , quite … ’ said the Matron , and to Alida 's ears it was a firm interruption . |
| 27 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 28 | O&Y says it intends disclosing more , but only to suppliers of corporate loans of more than $5 billion , and to London 's Canary Wharf project . |
| 29 | He had arrived by bus , now he decided to cut across the Heath , through Greenwich Park and to Rose 's flat . |
| 30 | Following concern that the IMF would react unfavourably to the new socio-economic policy and to Lutkowski 's resignation , Olszewski stated that talks with the IMF were continuing over target figures . |