Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 2 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 3 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 4 | Whether or not the advantages to the business of imposing a change outweigh the disadvantages to the employee is one of the factors which should be taken into account . |
| 5 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 6 | The intention here is not to turn this essay , or indeed the panel to which it contributes , into yet another moaning session about the state of British higher education . |
| 7 | They can also perform a limited corporate finance function , and provide a mechanism for marketing shares in an unquoted company ( Newco ) , where otherwise the benefit to an employee of holding shares is somewhat illusory , in that he can not realise his shares for cash , unless he remains a shareholder of the company and ( usually ) an employee or director , until there is a sale of Newco or it obtains a listing . |
| 8 | I had considered that perhaps the clues to the several lost treasures were concealed in the fabric of the buildings , that clues might be readily available for the discerning eye — although , logic would surely dictate otherwise . |
| 9 | It was hoped that soon the lines to the Don basin and Nizhnii Novgorod would be electrified , followed quickly by the whole of the Siberian network . |
| 10 | Question 5 is to ensure that whenever the answer to Question 3 is ‘ No ’ the process is examined to see whether it is still a sound investment . |
| 11 | Question 5 is to ensure that whenever the answer to Question 3 is ‘ No ’ the process is examined to see whether it is still a sound investment . |
| 12 | And Wimpey has gone one stage further to ensure that even the openings to which the windows are fitted reduce air leakage . |
| 13 | In that regard it appears that membership of an association creates between the members close links of the same kind as those which are created between the parties to a contract and that consequently the obligations to which the national court refers may be regarded as contractual for the purpose of the application of article 5(1) of the Convention . |
| 14 | Another misconception is that a planning appeal is a means of settling a ‘ dispute ’ between applicant and authority and that therefore the issues to be considered are only those raised by the planning authority . |
| 15 | In 1912 , Key wrote of the women 's movement as ideally winning back ‘ the wife to the husband , the mother to the children , and thereby the home to all ’ . |
| 16 | He gets no visitors , and so the letters to Maureen are a lifeline : |
| 17 | The only head of public interest upon which the inspectors rely is the prevention of crime , and so the question to be answered is whether on the material before it the court should have been satisfied that disclosure of Mr. Warner 's sources is ‘ necessary … for the prevention of … crime ’ within the meaning of section 10 . |
| 18 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
| 19 | The thrill , and perhaps the claim to posterity , is in being able to bestow a name on a rose that is different to anything seen before . |
| 20 | It is the human being who will be faced with the opportunity and perhaps the temptation to be violent , and who will make the decision as to which path to follow . |
| 21 | We all left , going through the kitchen , out across the courtyard and down the trackway to the church . |
| 22 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 23 | For dry harvesting , machines with rotating teeth are pushed up and down the bogs to gently comb the berries from the vines . |
| 24 | They walked back through the kitchen and down the hallway to the front entrance of the house . |
| 25 | They also accept that the brain has certain innate dispositions , if only the disposition to be reinforced by particular stimuli . |
| 26 | If only the solution to the Church 's other problems were as straightforward . |
| 27 | My other point relates to developments in Europe , and especially the run-up to the Maastricht intergovernmental conference . |
| 28 | It is possible to identify many individual wage earners in the court records , and the next stage of the project involves finding out more from other sources about these individuals , so as to understand more fully their social and economic position , and especially the extent to which they were solely reliant on their income from wage earning . |
| 29 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 30 | All for now — it is chucking down hail , so I am afraid it is the post lift near here tomorrow Monday and not the trek to the main sorting office . |