Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I enjoy it ’ and ‘ It hurts ’ testify of course only to awareness of the immediate stimuli , and will always be outweighed if enlargement of awareness changes the response . |
| 2 | It is important , however , to have a source of money close to home . |
| 3 | In his view , in the 1970s the drop in children available for adoption led adoption pressure groups to advocate a kind of fostering closer to adoption , with the natural parents having fewer rights to intervene in the foster placement . |
| 4 | To wit , the kind of speed on to man and ball and to the breakdown which would in itself render it a great deal more difficult for the All Blacks to make the Lions ' pack look heavy-footed to the point of statuesque . |
| 5 | In the second the press is restrained by its own professional Code of Practice not to misrepresent or mislead the public . |
| 6 | In the last five partial responders prolongation of therapy up to week 38 led to a definite response and HBsAg seroconversion in three of the five patients . |
| 7 | The collection and computerization of data will form the basis for investigation of six areas of Korean development which are considered to be under-researched by both Koreans and Korean specialists , and which are of relevance both to development policy and to the identification of future potential economic opportunities for Britain in South Korea as well as the future impact of Korea on the world economy . |
| 8 | Were the records of work up to date ? |
| 9 | It seems these humans are often — unwell — a kind of failure even to non-scuttle . |
| 10 | Without doing so , we could miss vital factors of detriment both to water voles and other wetland wildlife . |
| 11 | More importantly John Sadler is credited with inventing a method of transfer-printing on to earthenware tiles . |
| 12 | The most obvious test of television 's ability to set the public agenda was provided by its massive shift of emphasis on to defence in the third week of the campaign . |
| 13 | Television 's enormous shift of emphasis on to defence issues in the third week of the campaign correlated with a huge rise in the number of voters who saw defence as the Conservative Party 's main campaign theme , but with only a modest rise in the number of who wanted a defence debate . |
| 14 | I wonder how many millions of logos are black and white and how many thousands of artists limit their use of colour purely to black and white , which is not in fact true of Joseph Kosuth . |
| 15 | Often this has been done deliberately : factories and sewage works are built to discharge into seas and rivers , and ‘ honey barges ’ ferry cargoes of sewage out to sea . |
| 16 | It is well established that tension and stress can cause a variety of physical problems , ranging from attacks of influenza through to heart attacks , strokes and even cancer . |
| 17 | They are thus forced to extend the area of cultivation on to land hitherto used by pastoralists for seasonal grazing . |
| 18 | All versions of Okapi up to Okapi '87 were written in Z80 assembly language and operated on a network of Apple IIe microcomputers connected to a Nestar PLAN/4000 file server . |
| 19 | The sun was shining but there was a bank of cloud out to sea ; no discernible movement anywhere . |
| 20 | Having been satisfied with the tool 's performance on the rafters , we used it to tack down sheets of fibreboard on to chipboard . |
| 21 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 22 | The garden , which had provided not only subsistence but a little cash crop , was overgrown with brambles and cow-parsley and other vegetation of interest only to wildlife . |
| 23 | There 's lots of time too to practice on single handed Toppers — an ideal way to gather confidence and experience . |
| 24 | Evangelical opponents of cruelty to animals campaigned against the trade in feathers , along with other forms of cruelty closer to home including cock-fighting and scientific vivisection experiments . |