Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour or so to dinner . |
| 2 | But can you think of anybody for yourself who you could think of who over the recently or over the in the past few centuries or closer to home have shown the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 3 | ‘ The pattern of study leave block release — does n't lend itself to the smaller offices or indeed to business organisations . |
| 4 | Although the CD4 counts of the 877 people given AZT were consistently greater than those of patients receiving only placebo , the first three years of follow-up have shown that the proportions of people in the two groups progressing to overt AIDS or even to death were not significantly different at roughly 18 per cent . |
| 5 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 6 | Parsys does n't expect to have the SN9000 ready until ‘ late 1992 ’ — it will take three months or so to bed the new chip in when it does arrive . |
| 7 | It is a passport to altered states of consciousness and ultimately to self-realisation . |
| 8 | With absolute unselfishness , she devoted her life and resources to the building of the church on Edge Hill and later to rescue work in the East End . |
| 9 | From Castle Cary the Way passes to the left of the George Hotel into Paddock Drain , onto Lodge Hill and across to North Cadbury . |
| 10 | His trauma after witnessing the effects of the massacre had led progressively to the loss of his job , a slide into alcoholism and then to crime : |
| 11 | Accordingly , from the mid-1970s , research began to examine the perception and behaviour of individuals , and then to develop general conceptual and theoretical research , in a shift from the ‘ inductive ’ to the ‘ scientific ’ route shown in Figure I. I. Smith ( 1983 ) in another recent summary broadly agrees with Owens , and divides his textbook Recreation Geography into a four-stage continuum from description , to explanation , to prediction and finally to policy formulation . |
| 12 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 13 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 14 | No special methods were adopted to enhance the activity of bacteria oxidizing excreted ammonia ( produced from metabolism of proteins ) first to nitrite and then to nitrate . |
| 15 | The A n T m tracts are known to strongly contribute to gel mobility anomaly and so to DNA curvature ( 1,3,4,9,26 ) . |
| 16 | A bad swing can easily lead to a serious ground loop or even to cart-wheeling and a broken glider . |
| 17 | The clever and convincing sets flow with cinematic ease from factory to fairground , to New England seashore and even to Heaven . |
| 18 | The regiment had come ashore that morning and were going into action that evening , attacking the village just along the road , about two hundred yards from the edge of our village and close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 19 | For on the one hand the Athenian type of behaviour might seem to be quite incompatible with local state obligations in law and electorally to majority , articulated , social interests . |
| 20 | They will pump waste water to an existing sewer at Crosby Road South and then to North West Water 's multimillion pound treatment works at Sandon Dock . |
| 21 | ‘ Management ’ remained in place , only now it was responsible to a government-appointed Board of Directors and ultimately to Parliament , rather than to shareholders ' representatives . |
| 22 | A bite to eat , some relaxing television , an hour with Dorothy Wordsworth and so to bed . |
| 23 | The mill was originally converted from fulling to corn and then to silk in 1747 . |
| 24 | If , as I have tried to show , the acquisition of the ego and superego were such important aspects of economic adaptation , first to hunting and then to cultivation , it is clear that the very success of the latter threatened to compromise the psychological foundations on which it was based . |
| 25 | Since thoughts are so important to the emotions and consequently to happiness , a man must learn to cultivate them . |
| 26 | Timothy Albert Sturdy , 29 , had denied supplying counterfeit copies of popular titles like Nuns On The Run , Dark Angel and AWOL to corner shops . |
| 27 | His most successful hero ( and neither word is really suitable , in any case ) is Captain McWhirr of the Nan-Shan , a middle-aged man whose prosaic letters to parents and then to wife , full of comments like ‘ On Christmas Day at 4 p.m. we fell in with some icebergs ’ , bore them into coma . |
| 28 | One major objective of the programmes is to strengthen cultural identity and traditions , and they may also lead to small-scale income-earning projects and ultimately to self-sufficiency . |
| 29 | A. culicifacies , the sole vector in Sri Lanka , remains susceptible to BHC and malathion and malaria persists there ; in India , and possibly in Pakistan too , the same species shows ‘ pockets ’ of resistance to malathion and even to fenitrothion but extensive areas still exist where there is no evidence of organophosphate resistance . |
| 30 | It will then be possible to make a detailed analysis of demographic structures and population movements in relation to occupational groups and specifically to textile occupations . |