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 | Since thoughts are so important to the emotions and consequently to happiness , a man must learn to cultivate them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Use sand-paper to clean the sawcuts and also to radius off the edges of the spar ends . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is also ‘ Debby ’ , a butterhead lettuce resistant to most diseases and also to lettuce root aphid . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The film is vulnerable to the collection of static charges and therefore to contamination . |
| 13 | He condemned the practice of marital chastity as highly dangerous , leading to infertility in women , impotence in men and even to death . |
| 14 | 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 . |