Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a passport to altered states of consciousness and ultimately to self-realisation . |
| 2 | His trauma after witnessing the effects of the massacre had led progressively to the loss of his job , a slide into alcoholism and then to crime : |
| 3 | Accordingly , from the mid-1970s , research began to examine the perception and behaviour of individuals , and then to develop general conceptual and theoretical research , in a shift from the ‘ inductive ’ to the ‘ scientific ’ route shown in Figure I. I. Smith ( 1983 ) in another recent summary broadly agrees with Owens , and divides his textbook Recreation Geography into a four-stage continuum from description , to explanation , to prediction and finally to policy formulation . |
| 4 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 5 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 6 | No special methods were adopted to enhance the activity of bacteria oxidizing excreted ammonia ( produced from metabolism of proteins ) first to nitrite and then to nitrate . |
| 7 | The A n T m tracts are known to strongly contribute to gel mobility anomaly and so to DNA curvature ( 1,3,4,9,26 ) . |
| 8 | The clever and convincing sets flow with cinematic ease from factory to fairground , to New England seashore and even to Heaven . |
| 9 | The regiment had come ashore that morning and were going into action that evening , attacking the village just along the road , about two hundred yards from the edge of our village and close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 10 | For on the one hand the Athenian type of behaviour might seem to be quite incompatible with local state obligations in law and electorally to majority , articulated , social interests . |
| 11 | They will pump waste water to an existing sewer at Crosby Road South and then to North West Water 's multimillion pound treatment works at Sandon Dock . |
| 12 | The mill was originally converted from fulling to corn and then to silk in 1747 . |
| 13 | If , as I have tried to show , the acquisition of the ego and superego were such important aspects of economic adaptation , first to hunting and then to cultivation , it is clear that the very success of the latter threatened to compromise the psychological foundations on which it was based . |
| 14 | Timothy Albert Sturdy , 29 , had denied supplying counterfeit copies of popular titles like Nuns On The Run , Dark Angel and AWOL to corner shops . |
| 15 | A. culicifacies , the sole vector in Sri Lanka , remains susceptible to BHC and malathion and malaria persists there ; in India , and possibly in Pakistan too , the same species shows ‘ pockets ’ of resistance to malathion and even to fenitrothion but extensive areas still exist where there is no evidence of organophosphate resistance . |
| 16 | Winterbottom , who led England out in honour of his 50th cap , was as vigilant as ever in defence and always to hand in attack . |
| 17 | Turning right along the lane brought you to Southampton Road by Dairyhouse Bridge , another right turn and along the main road to another footpath opposite Waterloo Gardens — this led into the churchyard and so to home . |
| 18 | They tend to attribute their successes more to luck and less to ability than men , and to be more influenceable . |
| 19 | A member of the Cambridge ‘ Apostles ’ , he was a communist before and during the war but later became more sympathetic , first to anarchism and then to syndicalism . |
| 20 | Some commentators — particularly Cockburn and Dearlove — have argued that this was a period of structural change in which local government became more clearly tied to the interests of capitalism and closer to business interests . |
| 21 | In Britain and Spain the underlying financial weakness of the private railway companies , caused by lack of demand and later by increasing road competition , led first to increasing state intervention and then to nationalization . |
| 22 | Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy . |
| 23 | degree in 1948 : he proceeded rapidly from research student to lecturer and then to reader in dynamical climatology ( in the department of meteorology ) by 1949 . |
| 24 | Other litigation between Condy and A. D. Mitchell , who had joined the firm in 1870 , led at first to estrangement and then to reconstitution of the company as Condy & Mitchell Ltd. , with Mitchell and Henry Bollmann 's eldest son , H. J. Bollmann Condy , as managing directors . |
| 25 | He applied it to er the evolution of the cosmos as a whole and indeed to society , and believed that there was an ine inevitable onward and upward tendency of evolution from simple to complex , from isolated to unified , from erm stupid to more intelligent and so on . |
| 26 | It was to be a combination tax haven , service station and home to fringe businesses . |
| 27 | After the war Lucienne Palmer ( Mrs Hill ) embarked on an acting career and thence to playwriting , translation and adaptation from the French , part-time work as a lay psychotherapist in an N.H.S. therapeutic community , and , latish in life , her very first love of all-painting : London exhibition 1988 . |
| 28 | This was partly due to economy and partly to inexperience . |
| 29 | A keen all-round sportsman , he graduated from cycle and motor-car racing when he began to feel his age and then to speedboat racing . |
| 30 | Clause 11 , ‘ Exemption Clause and Right to Indemnity ’ , is emphasized in heavy type because it limits the liability of Overdrive to the haulier in certain specified circumstances . |