Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Whether it be participation through music-making or through response to performance ( dance , other body-movement , shouts of enthusiasm , the social paraphernalia of shared fanship , and so on ) , the increased specialization of musical labour together with mass media distribution , which together deliver ‘ high-quality ’ professional products into our homes , render all such ‘ participation ’ anachronistic ; it becomes an exercise in self-deception since it is manipulated from above by the consumer industries , the fetishistic relation hidden beneath a mask of self-directed activity and ‘ spontaneity ’ .
2 Some groups of animals found in nature are simple ‘ associations ’ assembled either through overwhelming influences of nature , such as tide-washed plankton on a sandy shore , or through responses to temperature or light held in common by all participants .
3 If you have any tips you want to share then contact OSC , ground floor , Rennie House or via E-Mail/TAO to office systems consultancy .
4 The legislation renders liable to forfeiture any benefit derived from the publication of material concerning the circumstances of the offence , from the publication of material concerning the defendant 's opinions , exploits or life history ( provided that the benefit was attributable in whole or in part to notoriety achieved through commission of the offence ) or any benefit obtained by commercial exploitation in any other way of notoriety achieved through commission of the offence . )
5 We can not forbid individuals to use that allowance in whole or in part to pay fees for their care .
6 Support dipped sharply to 51 per cent only when the Americans were held to be largely or in part to blame for the failure of the Paris Summit in May 1960 .
7 As has been discussed , the ‘ response to injury ’ hypothesis depends on initial endothelial injury and little is known about loss of endothelium in vivo either spontaneously or in response to risk factors for atherosclerosis .
8 The 1987 Language Survey conducted by ILEA found 23 per cent of the Authority 's school population using a language other than or in addition to English at home , with 170 different languages spoken by its pupils .
9 Damages may be claimed on their own or in addition to rescission .
10 This was attributed mainly to the need to liaise with a large number of external agencies and bodies either by telephone or in face to face meetings .
11 Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route .
12 The move from verse to prose can often signify a drop in seriousness , to mockery or ridicule ; from tension to relaxation ; or from public to private discourse .
13 Ultimately , of course , it does n't matter where or when the music was composed , and I urged any reader with an ear for beauty — whether your tastes habitually range from Mozart to early Beethoven , or from Bartók to Stockhausen , or anywhere in between or beyond — to investigate this CD forthwith .
14 In these the water flow is from end to end or from middle to side , respectively , the clear water leaving by weirs or troughs , and the sludge on the bottom being removed by mechanical scraping gear that carries it to a sump from which it can be pumped away .
15 Subsequent annual measurements , made at more than 20 triangulated stations , have revealed that ice motion and ablation are not uniform from place to place or from year to year .
16 ‘ Term of years absolute ’ means a term of years … either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; … and in this definition the expression ‘ term of years ’ includes a term for less than a year , or for a year or years and a fraction of a year or from year to year ; …
17 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take or from year to year
18 Were you to want to travel truly scenically from Bayonne to Cambo , or from Cambo to Bayonne for that matter , then you would take the road very magnificently known as the Route Impériale tea Cimes , or ‘ Imperial Route of the Peaks ’ , which lies east of the main road and is many times more beautiful .
19 Likewise , if past convention has made a particular layout familiar ( such as time increasing downwards or from left to right ) , a change should be considered only if a clear advantage is to be gained .
20 What counts as better or worse with respect to scientific theories will vary from individual to individual or from community to community .
21 They correct their own pronunciation , e.g. , fwo to fwog ( for frog ) ; their own morphology , e.g. , the man go to the man going or the man 's going ; and their own lexical choices , e.g. , from ship to boat ( for a rowing-boat ) , or from shoe to sandal ( for a sandal ) .
22 It make no difference at all , electronically speaking , whether the line is printed from left to right or from right to left and most modern printers are capable of bi-directional printing .
23 Do they mean none transferable from person to person or from book to book , erm , for everything it does n't say and if they know , both of them stopped sending out those
24 Other repetitive abnormal behaviour exhibited by deprived horses includes swinging the head and neck up and down , or from side to side , and the extension of this habit into the stable vice of weaving .
25 For Marxist thinkers this has usually meant the accession to power of a new class , involving the transformation of the whole social system , as in the transition from feudalism to capitalism , or from capitalism to socialism .
26 A court can include a requirement for the child to be medically or psychiatrically examined on one occasion or from time to time as directed by the supervisor ( para 4(2) ) .
27 This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day .
28 3 Changes in mood , for example from indicative to interrogative or from imperative to subjunctive .
29 In every Shakespeare play where prose appears ( as it does in all but four : Henry VI , Parts 1 and 3 ; King John ; Richard II ) , characters constantly move from prose to verse , or from verse to prose , and back again .
30 Sometimes a manufacturer sells directly to a member of the public , e.g. by mall order or by door to door salesman .
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