Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official plan is for oil 's share of consumption to rise from its present 50% or so to 60% in 1990 , then to drop back to 40% by the year 2000 through increased use of natural gas both in the home and for electricity generation . |
| 2 | Instead of reacting against the bias in their chosen paper , readers tended ( at the margin ) to defend their paper ( if it was biased against their party ) or even to glory in its bias ( if it was biased in favour of their party ) . |
| 3 | Should they necessarily be restricted to electoral variations , or even to activity around state institutions such as local government ? |
| 4 | Scientists present their ideas to the general public , contributing directly or indirectly to debates in social , legal , and religious domains . |
| 5 | There are also various derivative usages , in which deictic expressions are used in ways that shift this deictic centre to other participants , or indeed to protagonists in narratives — Lyons ( 1977a : 579 ) calls this deictic projection , Fillmore ( 1975 ) shifts in points of view . |
| 6 | Dinosaur size is a vitally important subject , bearing as it does on the controversy concerning metabolism and the generation and conduction of heat , and hence on the susceptibility or otherwise to changes in climate . |
| 7 | Earlier research has shown that only to 30% of the student population reach this level . |
| 8 | We are now at a point in this evolution where , I believe , the climate is more favourable than hitherto to cooperation between linguists and educationalists . |
| 9 | That was why , Claudia saw suddenly , Fleur had clung more than ever to Dana after their father 's death . |
| 10 | She had overheard Papa say that once to Mama about a particularly notorious senator whom he was compelled to entertain . |
| 11 | However , care must be exercised in the analysis of unfamiliar languages , as demonstratives are often organized with respect to contrasts between participant-roles rather than simply to distance in concentric circles from a fixed deictic centre ( the speaker 's location at CT ) . |
| 12 | They provide a very active participation in the many voluntary groups supporting the revolution and contribute much more than previously to development through participation in the labour force . |
| 13 | Nitrogen cycle — The process in which ammonia is broken down into nitrites and thence to nitrates by aerobic bacteria . |
| 14 | This elegant steam train will sweep you from Cherbourg to Bayeux to view the beautiful 11th century tapestry and thence to Paris with lunch on board . |
| 15 | Every August the Queen travelled from her house at Osborne on the Isle of Wight to Gosport and thence to Balmoral by train . |
| 16 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 17 | The removal of such barriers would increase market entry which would directly lead to an increase in competition , and thereby to reductions in X-inefficiency and monopoly pricing practices . |
| 18 | We have long known , of course , that the White Chalk facies of late Cretaceous times extended all the way from Antrim in Northern Ireland , via England and northern France , through the Low Countries , northern Germany and southern Scandinavia to Poland , Bulgaria and eventually to Georgia in the south of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | The vacuoles appearing in these cells during infusion of caerulein contain activated lysosomal enzymes which in turn may activate the digestive enzymes leading to cell destruction and presumably to leakage of these enzymes into the interstitial tissue ( where they produce inflammation ) and into the blood . |
| 20 | Marshall ( 1987 ) follows Mandel ( 1975 ) in relating long waves to major shifts in the wider economy , and especially to movements in the rate of profit , but goes beyond Mandel in trying to make the theory less deterministic . |
| 21 | Road junctions are few and they are of importance to travellers and especially to tourists on a first visit . |
| 22 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 23 | I commend them , and the area over which they preside , to adventurers and explorers of all ages , and especially to sufferers from urban depression for which they are the perfect tonic . |
| 24 | The ego , as says , is open to the outside world and furthermore to stimulations from inside , from inside the body , that reach it through subjective sensations like hunger when you need food , or fear when something threatens you , and cognitive er awareness like er okay you realize that before you have your lunch you 're gon na have to go to the bank to get some money to pay for it . |
| 25 | Accountability must flow downwards and outwards to users of the service , as well as upwards to councillors and ministers . |
| 26 | I think the main thing is there 's about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your B M S set during the day , and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls , sort of brings it home to you . |
| 27 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 28 | The mill was powered originally by water , then converted to steam in 1811 and finally to electricity in 1914 . |
| 29 | After the débâcle at Acre he retired to Cyprus , whence he visited Armenia and Jerusalem before returning to Grandson and finally to England in 1296 . |
| 30 | As diagnoses become more refined , they move from a simple description of signs and symptoms to an understanding about pathogenesis , and finally to knowledge of aetiology . |