Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Peter Bergg , Liberal Democrat candidate for Darlington , said the Liberal Democrats would link pension increases to wage settlements and not to inflation . |
| 3 | Since thoughts are so important to the emotions and consequently to happiness , a man must learn to cultivate them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 6 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 7 | Th do n't want to extend the the d debate on this , just to point out that paragraphs thirty five and thirty seven , P P G three , both related to local plan policies and not to structure plan . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After reaching this stage there are still opportunities for movement from small houses to large houses and on to Travel Inns which are often attached to a Beefeater Restaurant . |
| 11 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 12 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 13 | Use sand-paper to clean the sawcuts and also to radius off the edges of the spar ends . |
| 14 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 15 | ‘ the violation of the universal laws governing the building of socialism [ which ] led to incomplete socialist changes and even to retention of some elements of the transitional period ’ — namely , failure to fully collectivize Poland and reign-in the Church ; |
| 16 | But soon it was on with those famous upside-down glasses and down to business . |
| 17 | My Lords , erm the , the th the most I think perhaps er th th th the Noble Lord , Lor Lord erm referred to my amendments and particularly to Amendment twenty-one which I share with I share certainly share this view with him that that is probably the most important of the ones which is which er I am concerned and to which I put my name and also I do n't think it necessary at this stage to add to my remarks , but I do believe that the that the overwhelming need here is to strengthen the representation of elected erm members on police authorities and to er walk er to tear away from the trend as I see it which is in which is erm the er my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary has written into this Bill of increasing the power of the central Government . |
| 18 | There is also ‘ Debby ’ , a butterhead lettuce resistant to most diseases and also to lettuce root aphid . |
| 19 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 20 | In the same way the constitution of 1720 , which drastically limited the powers of the Swedish monarchy , hitherto one of the most absolute in Europe , seemed to condemn the country to perpetual divisions and faction-fights and therefore to impotence in international affairs . |
| 21 | The film is vulnerable to the collection of static charges and therefore to contamination . |
| 22 | He condemned the practice of marital chastity as highly dangerous , leading to infertility in women , impotence in men and even to death . |
| 23 | In spite of the 190bhp power output capable of taking the little car from standstill to 60mph in under seven seconds and on to double the UK speed limit , it is that smoothness and flexibility that impress rather than the muscle . |
| 24 | Maybe , thousands of years ago , birds and reptiles from continental South America had reached the Galapagos , ferried on the rafts of vegetation that float down the rivers and out to sea . |
| 25 | Choosing the wrong technology , or failing to take the necessary adaptive measures in management , production or marketing can quickly lead to falling profits , dwindling market shares and finally to takeover or closure . |
| 26 | With the passage of time thereafter , the role of the audited accounts becomes progressively less important and other more up to date information , including up to date references and up to date experience of transactions and accounts , of whatever kind , covering later periods , become progressively more important . ’ |