Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 The national dimension to sports reporting and the search for heroes could be a source of anxiety and even distress to the more reticent sportsman .
2 A separate development has seen the establishment of a variety of arrangements offering advice and perhaps representation to defendants to possession actions in the county court .
3 Any precise quantification in the present muddled state of our economy is an obvious chimera and even approximation to the truth is so occluded by political utterance as itself to become unattainable .
4 It should provide a measure of structure and sequence in what is learned , though that measure may vary a good deal from subject to subject and even student to student .
5 Emotional factors , in particular recovery from depression and sometimes response to depressive episodes , may also result in an increased appetite .
6 The Great Depression of 1929 sharpened the mood of rebellion when a catastrophic fall in the price of rice spread hardship and even starvation to many parts of Indochina .
7 In many countries with very unequal land holdings , land reform is considered an essential prerequisite to a successful soil conservation programme ( e.g. Baker 1980 , for Peru ; and Eckholm 1976 : 55 ) , in order to encourage secure and long leases of land so that tenants would invest in conservation and in some cases provide marginal farmers with more land and therefore income to be able to afford conservation measures ( FAO 1977a : 27 ) .
8 Perhaps , the printed versions in their dispersed form will be of interest and even value to future historians .
9 Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success .
10 This meant that school-children taking ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels were not moved during this crucial time and so disruption to schooling did not present a major problem for parents .
11 He also knew that his wife , after being secretary to a bishop and then secretary to the professor of divinity , and his hostess for eight years , was better equipped to be the wife of the new Bishop of Durham than any other woman in the country .
12 It represents both the washing from the stain and defilement of sin and also death to the old way of living and the beginning of a new resurrection life .
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