Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 2 | How are Americans to know that to the Vulgar British ‘ Bristols ’ are breasts ( boobs/knockers/charlies/tits ) and ‘ cobblers ’ are testicles ( balls/bollocks/knackers/goolies ) ? |
| 3 | The discursive mode of Amalgamemnon is also plausible realistically in as much as the future and other unreal verb forms are commonly used in news broadcasts to describe scheduled events , to make meteorological and economic forecasts , and to speculate as to the possible consequences of events that have already taken place . |
| 4 | It is for the housing authority to decide whether they have reason to believe the matters which will give rise to the duty to inquire or to the temporary housing duty . |
| 5 | For a word like ‘ button ’ , or ‘ bottle ’ , it would be necessary to add and to the first post-final set ; the argument would be extended to include the in ‘ Hungary ’ . |
| 6 | At the diplomatic level , where the democracy movement of the last decade had always been belittled in the foreign embassy briefings , the delay in normalising relations with post-massacre Beijing was less due to disapproval than to doubt as to the future stability of the regime . |
| 7 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 8 | STUDIES ON BINDING OF [ I ] bFGF TO SUCRALFATE AND TO THE GASTRIC MUCOSA |