Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of the exchange , from a meeting place for buyers and sellers , to futures trading in a pit or ring leads logically to the assumption that every member of the floor should be aware of the prevailing price of business being done and have an equal opportunity to participate in it . |
| 2 | ‘ Social Darwinism ’ and racist anthropology or biology belong not to the science of the nineteenth century but to its politics . |
| 3 | Frankly , I do n't think he has the moral power or courage to stand up to Dublin and take Dublin on . |
| 4 | You could never be absolutely sure , Jasper thought , that up there in the tunnel roof there would n't be some great iron bar or post sticking down to within an inch or two of the top of the car . |
| 5 | Here we have a co-production of mini-series ambitions , but without the necessary budget or pomposity to puff out to epic proportions . |
| 6 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |
| 7 | Special procedure is provided for provisional licences where building or reconstruction has yet to be done : subs . |
| 8 | But to see his face light up with pleasure as his eye lighted on a child 's painting or model spoke more to the teacher ( and the child ) about the sincerity of his concerns than a hundred words would . |
| 9 | The papal camera or treasury owed much to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ) , who , as a former monk of Cluny , had experience of one of the most advanced organizations of Europe and really established the papal chamber . |
| 10 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 11 | Victorians , who had yet to discover the stiff upper lip and the view that religion had always to be a serious matter , were passionate people who expressed their feelings freely and often loudly . |
| 12 | She liked Yeats well enough , and although poetry meant little to her , she could see that he was destined for great things . |
| 13 | The desire to avoid using past expenditure in assessing need means that attention has often to be confined to those indicators which are easily available at the Local Authority level , but the choice often appears to be arbitrarily restricted . |
| 14 | The chink in this otherwise disarming argument is that Nature exists only to the extent that we comprehend it . |
| 15 | The completed cross-cut now meant that water needed only to be lifted to the level and allowed to run out to day . |
| 16 | The ¥7.5m ( $55,000 ) that he received was peanuts alongside the sums that Recruit doled out to many of the ruling party 's bigger names . |
| 17 | Their tests were cheaper and apparently fairer than local ‘ home-made ’ ones and they conveniently transferred the odium that selection incurred on to a distant , impartial public body . |
| 18 | In such cases the publication is considered on an " item by item " basis : the prosecution may argue that obscenity attaches only to one article or photograph , and that the other contents are irrelevant . |
| 19 | You can talk about the nature of art — blah , blah , blah — and I did do some dribbling off into text and stuff , but now I know that movement says more to me than any of this other tosh . |
| 20 | This is the law that demand increases proportionately to the improvement and increased acceptability of the service offered . |
| 21 | Bush has made it plain that US forces are there simply to ensure that relief gets through to those who need it , although it might help more if the troops sorted out the renegade gangs stealing the food . |
| 22 | It 's for this reason that shareware has n't to be confused with public domain ( PD ) software . |
| 23 | ‘ Language across the Curriculum ’ sometimes appears as a general title , but there is no evidence that any languages other than English contribute strongly to a serious policy for other subjects in school . |
| 24 | As John Smith correctly noted , this should finally dispel the myth that VAT applies only to commodities open to consumer choice . |
| 25 | Finally , the authors advance the widely held view that thrombosis contributes not to the initiation of the process but to its progression . |
| 26 | He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average . |
| 27 | Thereafter normal rates apply and coverage continues up to any age . |
| 28 | For a time , Freames was used for the manufacture of chemicals and later became known as Crystal Fountain Mill , then for the production of shoddy and mattress stuffing up to at least the Second World War . |
| 29 | Let us clarify matters by using the term notion to refer to what Wilkins calls semantico-grammatical categories , and function to refer uniquely to what Wilkins calls categories of communicative function . |
| 30 | After August 31st , SCO will no longer sell or ship the product , passing all orders , inquiries and support requests over to Cleo , a division of Interface Systems Inc specialising in IBM connectivity . |