Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latter piece was very much a response to Roy Hattersley 's article , ‘ Let's Pretend Politics ’ ( The Listener , 23 June 1988 ) which had totally denounced the programme 's politics as ‘ fantasy as distinct from political thought ’ . |
| 2 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 3 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 4 | In what was apparently a reference to conservatives within the FLN , he had been highly critical of Algeria 's " political class " in an interview in El País of Dec. 29 . |
| 5 | Altruistic behaviour , for long a puzzle to evolutionists , may now be explained largely in terms of kin selection for the inclusive fitness of individuals . |
| 6 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |
| 7 | ‘ It is merely a password to freedom ! ’ |
| 8 | The conclusion states that the BIE recommends that embalming of infectious cases should not take place , the guidelines are merely a service to members . |
| 9 | It may contribute to performance but it is , like ability , merely a guide to potential . |
| 10 | But such homosexuality must in some sense be repressed ; overt ‘ masculine ’ homosexuality is subversive , says Irigaray , because it openly interprets the law according to which society operates and in so doing threatens it : ‘ once the penis itself becomes merely a means to pleasure , pleasure among men , the phallus loses its power ’ ( This Sex , 74 , 24 — 8 , 128 , 171 , 192 — 3 ; her emphases ) . |
| 11 | She thought adoption was not right for D because ‘ adoption involved merely a loss to D — there is no real gain from it to her ’ . |
| 12 | And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity . |
| 13 | Is he erm bring himself down a bit to Nick 's level , cos Nick and has n't really got any position ? |
| 14 | The French prime minister has just thrown down a gauntlet to America on agricultural trade : he wants to rewrite the deal recently struck by America and the EC on farm exports ( see page 92 ) . |
| 15 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 16 | One potential criticism of the pH/pCO 2 method is that investigators may be measuring dissolved CO 2 in perfusing solution that has diffused as CO 2 gas down a mucosa to lumen concentration gradient , rather than occurring due to secreted bicarbonate ions . |
| 17 | Fox turned down a move to Hull at the weekend but Northern had to match the Humbersiders ' £140,000 offer before clinching the deal . |
| 18 | DARLINGTON defender Mark Sunley yesterday revealed the reason why he turned down a move to Motherwell . |
| 19 | It is perhaps a tribute to Klemperer 's stature that all the recordings featured here continue to stimulate well after the CDs are returned to their place on my shelves . |
| 20 | Christmas Day and Boxing Day used to be a quieter family occasion , with family dinner and perhaps a visit to church . |
| 21 | Anthony and his team have built-up a reputation for running well-organised and entertaining events at this historic Battle of Britain fighter base , so a trip to North Weald on the 4th should be pencilled into your diary . |
| 22 | So a trip to Whitby and a trip to Scarborough . |
| 23 | In the cases that followed ( ie the disposal of the whole of the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 3 ) ; a conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to the wife ( Chapter 4 ) ; and the conveyance of the husband 's interest in the matrimonial home to a third party ( Chapter 5 ) ) , once the husband had disposed of his interest no further tax considerations applied so far as the husband was concerned ( unless there was an element of gift involved in the conveyance not at arm 's length and the husband died within seven years , thus bringing in a charge to inheritance tax ) . |
| 24 | Unlike some Poll Tax demonstrations , this one passed off without any violence , protestors were satisfied with handing in a petition to Mrs Thatcher 's front door . |
| 25 | I must try to remember , Celia said to herself , that I am only a statistic to Dr Shalcross , possibly a case history she might wish to quote , anonymously , because I do n't happen to run true to form . |
| 26 | This increasing emphasis on ‘ dignity ’ was not only a reference to behaviour within the chapel but to the nature of the Church as a body . |
| 27 | Only a return to US price stability would allow a once-and-for-all rise in the gold price to work , and there was nothing in the act of raising the price of gold which would make that more likely ( indeed , the improved gold backing for the dollar would relax such pressure as there was on the US government to maintain price stability in order to defend the dollar ) . |
| 28 | This is only a bar to registration if the first mark is registered in respect of " the same goods or description of goods " . |
| 29 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 30 | With only a minute to half-time Carol Burns made it four , and just into the second-half Rhoda Campbell added another . |