Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are now at a point in this evolution where , I believe , the climate is more favourable than hitherto to cooperation between linguists and educationalists . |
| 2 | The remote island of Pantelleria , off the coast of Sicily and more than halfway to Tunisia , produces a superb dessert wine . |
| 3 | It was well known — except apparently to Bromley , Brown and Davenport , who looked hopelessly puzzled — that Rozanov had survived his ordeal in a psikhushka partly by developing shamanistic powers . |
| 4 | Announcing his new Cabinet on Nov. 5 , Miyazawa made Watanabe his Foreign Minister , and gave posts to members of the Mitsuzuka faction , although not to Mitsuzuka himself . |
| 5 | Mr Dostam supports the idea of an Islamic government for Afghanistan , but gives sanctuary to former communists ( although not to Mr Najibullah , who is holed up in the United Nations headquarters in Kabul ) . |
| 6 | Police pay and conditions were improved , although not to levels that satisfied the Police Federation and its members . |
| 7 | ‘ The wind of change ’ , that phrase coined by Harold Macmillan in 1960 , grew to have amore general application than just to Africa , or just to politics . |
| 8 | Are we right to fight for responses to be channelled through National offices , rather than directly to Waterloo . |
| 9 | Although close to death — he died shortly afterwards at his Ilminster home — he insisted on going through with his contribution . |
| 10 | Although close to retirement , he still took an active part in teaching the University students , and the breadth of his knowledge embraced not only clinical forensic work , but also the most up-to-date laboratory tests . |
| 11 | Reports from Lebanon suggest that British hostages could be closer than ever to freedom . |
| 12 | His security undermined , he was now more vulnerable than ever to Mauve 's voice and its cutting edge , to his cold eyes , the touch of condescension . |
| 13 | That was why , Claudia saw suddenly , Fleur had clung more than ever to Dana after their father 's death . |
| 14 | Now the country is opening its doors wider than ever to tourists . |
| 15 | The whole momentum of the 1984 Act , with its emphasis on detention , interrogation , and confessions , has made the right to silence more vulnerable than ever to allegations that it is out of date , too favourable to criminals , and anachronistic . |
| 16 | You are never stuck with less than up to date equipment . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard pitched into the downsizing battle with a vengeance last week with the launch of new top-end multi-processors claimed to be more powerful than up to 85% of IBM 's installed base of mainframe systems — and in a supporting role gathered together an impressive list of mainframe specialist software houses committed to support the machines . |
| 18 | At twenty she 'd rather go riding or fishing with him than up to Dublin or down to a dance . |
| 19 | However , care must be exercised in the analysis of unfamiliar languages , as demonstratives are often organized with respect to contrasts between participant-roles rather than simply to distance in concentric circles from a fixed deictic centre ( the speaker 's location at CT ) . |
| 20 | They provide a very active participation in the many voluntary groups supporting the revolution and contribute much more than previously to development through participation in the labour force . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is not as useless as Aristotelian logic and can lead , if not to knowledge of necessary causes and natures , then to something worthwhile nevertheless . |
| 22 | The mounting cost to the nation of State benefits pointed , if not to bankruptcy , at least to a dangerously unbalanced budget . |
| 23 | What we and Holyfield do know is that Bowe offers a safer route , if not to heavyweight immortality then to respectful acceptance by his peers for his efforts inside the ring , in line with the respect his quiet dignity commands outside it . |
| 24 | One only has to read out their names — Sir Julian , Sir Geoffrey , Sir Michael and Sir Robin et al , to be transported back if not to Camelot then to an Excalibur lager commercial . |
| 25 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 26 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
| 27 | Mary Leapor would have been known if not to Susanna Jennens , then to other members of the Blencowe family who may have recommended her . |
| 28 | Now that we have become accustomed to reading about , if not to eating , such unconventional combinations of foods as duck foie gras with turnips in a sweet-sour sauce composed of wine vinegar , sugar , sherry and port , plus the odd 30 grammes of truffles ; paupiettes of crayfish garnished with leaves of Brussels sprouts ; lobster mould with a sauce of carrots and port blended in turn with a sauce américaine , Pomiane 's innovations do n't sound very audacious . |
| 29 | That , he decided , would put an end to Irina 's career , if not to Irina . |
| 30 | Above us the fronds of the palm trees clattered in the warm wind , while out to sea Bonefish 's ragged and patched sail dipped in the steep waves beyond the reef . |