Example sentences of "and [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As now , the decision who will proceed to A level , and thence to higher education will in effect have been taken at the end of the third year . |
| 2 | By nature I mean , first , the principle of survival which drives us to continue living and necessarily entails the ingestion of food ; and , second , the principle of growth which transforms us from childhood to maturity and thence to old age . |
| 3 | The fact that the duty of care is enforced at all means of course that there is a possibility that decisions with bad outcomes will attract liability , and so to that extent procedural standards might suppress risk . |
| 4 | And so to next month 's final article when I shall report on the outcome of the trip to Gresford and give a full report on the practical side of the GPS navigating system . |
| 5 | The scale of development that 's in Professor Lock 's contemplation is plainly not one that I I think that would directly er affect Richmondshire and so to some extent er I 'm speaking from that perspective . |
| 6 | It helped to maintain levels of production and to prevent price-cutting wars which led to further bankruptcies and so to further unemployment . |
| 7 | War is financed by industry , and the power in any land , behind any throne , behind Hitler or behind our own democracy , is a body of immensely wealthy men whose allegiance is ultimately to their wealth , and perhaps to each other . |
| 8 | Tallymen and check traders , and perhaps to some extent local moneylenders ( sometimes in practice the same individuals ) , exercise — on a very much smaller scale — an influence opposite to the one which will be described below under ‘ Banks ’ . |
| 9 | The fact remains that men 's leisure-time activities are much more visible to history , more organized and perhaps to some extent seen as more legitimate . |
| 10 | Er on the envi environmental aspect , I think it 's worth emphasizing because clearly this is the major concern of both Scotton and er the Residents ' Association and er that the County Council has and perhaps to some extent I think it 's certainly the public consultations or the exercises I 've been involved in at this stage in a major scheme has done far more work in trying to assess those effects than is normally the case at this stage in a ma major highway scheme . |
| 11 | The marriage ceremony involves a couple in a public contract — a legal commitment to each other and only to each other , bigamy being a punishable crime . |
| 12 | They were not , by modern standards , especially radical in tone ; but they introduced to a wider public the new approaches to the critical study of the Bible which up till then had developed more on the Continent , and only to some extent in the cloistered world of the English universities . |
| 13 | We argued for much greater prominence to be given to the potential of genuine pupil-pupil collaboration , and less to low-level writing , reading and drawing tasks . |
| 14 | We can date the clearance of stable upland environments such as the chalklands of Wessex and Yorkshire and the Jurassic limestones of the Cotswolds and elsewhere to this period . |
| 15 | It is exceptional to find passages of any great length scored only for wind instruments , but short passages which lend themselves readily and easily to such treatment are of excellent effect and provide good contrast . |
| 16 | I am confident that we shall move forward from this Council to greater co-operation between the planets and thus to mutual gain . ’ |
| 17 | In practice , the state scheme contributions pre-empt a slice of incomes which would otherwise be available for saving through pension schemes , and thus to that extent would be expected to slow down the growth of non-state provision . |
| 18 | Adopted by 151 votes to 3 ( including Israel and the United States ) with 1 abstention , it declared that a resolution of this issue was crucial to a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict and thus to international peace . |
| 19 | It is perfect competition that leads firms to set marginal cost equal to price and thus to marginal consumer benefit . |
| 20 | Ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai , Utamaro and Sharaku produced these works in small numbers and largely to special commission . |
| 21 | The general line of development extends from emergent writing , through the early stages of composition towards growing fluency and control and finally to full independence . |
| 22 | ‘ Although it seemed natural to expect that some word match scores should be good enough that they could be considered correct , thereby eliminating attempts to find alternatives to them , in fact all attempts to implement such an intuition seemed to have led to at best indifferent results and usually to positive degradation . |
| 23 | When the frog leaps off the branch of a tree , these are spread so that instead of falling , it planes gently downwards , and usually to another tree . |
| 24 | We aim to react effectively and rapidly to any HSE incident . |
| 25 | Again you will need to investigate the legality of hiring for classroom use but where it is legal this can give you access mainly to feature films , cartoons for children and possibly to some documentary series . |
| 26 | These areas are ( i ) the organization of licensing , censorship and other similar forms of control , and the struggle against these ; ( ii ) the organization of the market , both in its aspect as a trading area whose purposes , in expansion and profit , may often be in conflict with otherwise dominant political and cultural authorities , and its aspect as a mechanism for commodities in this especially sensitive field , where inherent calculations of profit and scale may impose tensions with other conceptions of art and , at a different level , impose its own new forms of commercial controls ; and ( iii ) the uneven and changing relations between a received and always to some extent recuperated ‘ popular ’ ( largely oral ) culture and the new forms of standardized and increasingly centralized production and reproduction . |
| 27 | I can hardly believe that anyone should behave so cruelly and insensitively to any woman expecting a baby , especially to one like you , almost alone in a strange land . |
| 28 | Back in the 1960s , and still to some extent in 1973 when the NI began , India was considered to be ripe for ruin . |
| 29 | By the time the men put their " memorial " to the employers in November 1909 , the situation was acute : " Not only has hand composition been lately going over more and more to female labour , but the operating on the type-composing machines has also been practically monopolised by the same class of cheap labour , to the consequent injury of our members . " |
| 30 | Adler paid less attention to the unconscious mind and more to goal-directed therapy . |