Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 2 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 3 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |
| 4 | ‘ It is merely a password to freedom ! ’ |
| 5 | It may contribute to performance but it is , like ability , merely a guide to potential . |
| 6 | But such homosexuality must in some sense be repressed ; overt ‘ masculine ’ homosexuality is subversive , says Irigaray , because it openly interprets the law according to which society operates and in so doing threatens it : ‘ once the penis itself becomes merely a means to pleasure , pleasure among men , the phallus loses its power ’ ( This Sex , 74 , 24 — 8 , 128 , 171 , 192 — 3 ; her emphases ) . |
| 7 | Christmas Day and Boxing Day used to be a quieter family occasion , with family dinner and perhaps a visit to church . |
| 8 | Anthony and his team have built-up a reputation for running well-organised and entertaining events at this historic Battle of Britain fighter base , so a trip to North Weald on the 4th should be pencilled into your diary . |
| 9 | This increasing emphasis on ‘ dignity ’ was not only a reference to behaviour within the chapel but to the nature of the Church as a body . |
| 10 | This is only a bar to registration if the first mark is registered in respect of " the same goods or description of goods " . |
| 11 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 12 | With only a minute to half-time Carol Burns made it four , and just into the second-half Rhoda Campbell added another . |
| 13 | For her the multi-media scheme has been not only a counter to depression but also a means of exercising aspects of her intellect and imagination . |
| 14 | We are not convinced that the attraction of out-of-town shopping is entirely a response to consumer demand . |
| 15 | On their release , the teenagers will be supervised until they proved they were no longer a threat to society , he said . |
| 16 | 239 is thus a counterexample to assertion ( ii ) , Actually there is only one other positive integer which is not expressible as a sum of eight cubes . |
| 17 | It is thus a contribution to biography , not to criticism . |
| 18 | ‘ We are not just a temple to gold and glass but should turn our attention to daily life ’ |
| 19 | We are not just a temple to gold and glass , but should turn our attention to daily life in all its many aspects . |
| 20 | This could open doors for my career so it 's not just a record to ome . |
| 21 | It was Gandhi 's favourite hymn : not exactly a call to revolution ( ‘ One step enough for me ’ ) . |
| 22 | He kept open a line to North , but made sure that he appeared to have no truck with whatever he was doing . |
| 23 | Offset is usually a government to government agreement . |
| 24 | The intact skin , usually a barrier to infection , can sometimes be successfully invaded by pathogenic microorganisms , as can the body 's mucous membranes ( e.g. the conjunctiva ) . |
| 25 | But the sad experiences of thousands over the past three years show that home ownership is not always a path to happiness and contentment . |
| 26 | Snow , however , is not always a disadvantage to mountain goats . |
| 27 | At present doctors must prove at regular intervals that such patients are still a danger to society . |
| 28 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 29 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 30 | An invasion by Uganda-based rebels , launched on the night of Sept. 30-Oct. 1 , threatened the 17-year regime of President Juvenal Habyarimana , who cut short a visit to North America on hearing that his country was under attack . |