Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whereas other Renaissance examples of the exhortation to marriage dwell on the delight and solace of the married state , our poet 's argument , by contrast , is directed to the friend 's reproduction of himself for the benefit of posterity . |
| 2 | But it appears that Williams had cleverly manipulated the debate in order to demonstrate the acquiescence of the church to slavery . |
| 3 | Another example that illustrates the need for change is the diminished opportunity to pass deterrent sentences , not just in terms of the threat to society of a particular offender , but the threat to society that is posed by the crime at large in which these people are involved . |
| 4 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 5 | The exploitation of Nigeria 's natural gas is particularly important in view of the threat to oil exports posed by increasing home consumption . |
| 6 | Set against Labour 's attraction to the recent elevation of socialism in the EEC is their dislike of the threat to employment posed by the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 7 | A small number of people were happy to have their money paid into the bank , but opposed the scheme because of the threat to Post Offices and inconvenience to others . |
| 8 | During the Korean War , Attlee made Britain 's objections to the extension of the conflict to mainland China crystal clear to Truman . |
| 9 | Nearly a century later , another bestselling American business story offered a different concept of heroism and a different description of the route to success . |
| 10 | This time the government proceeded to a public trial , which resulted in the condemnation of the Prince to life imprisonment in the fortress of Ham in the north of France . |
| 11 | As we saw earlier , Francis Bacon was able to turn the doctrine of the Fall to advantage : Science would help restore that dominion over nature lost to humanity through Adam 's sin . |
| 12 | This enthusiastic band augmented the famous blue tunics with a daring ‘ bare midriff ’ ensemble to lecture and show Medau Movement in all parts of the country to PE Colleges , Education Authorities , Social/Women 's groups , and various public bodies . |
| 13 | Patrick McAuslan and John McEldowney write of the contribution to disaffection throughout western Europe of what they term the gap ‘ between on the one hand the rhetoric of democracy , of even-handed administration , and of equal opportunities for all , and on the other the increasing centralization and insensitivity of public administration ’ . |
| 14 | The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century . |
| 15 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 16 | But it does much to dispel the prevailing confusion and , in our opinion , constitutes one of the most important treatments of the subject to date . |
| 17 | Progressive solution compaction leads to alteration of the grain to grain contacts , from the original point contacts , through planar ( or tangential ) contacts to inter-penetrating ( concavo-convex ) and sutural grain to grain contacts ( Fig. 5.19c-e ) . |
| 18 | The problem is going to get much larger , and it is not good enough simply to make money out of the rush to home ownership . |
| 19 | These seminars provided a general introduction to the qualifications , and outlined the results of the pilot to date . |
| 20 | The universality of the orientation to truth makes it as much a part of the genetic qualities of human being as the ability to communicate through language . |
| 21 | One simple but often effective form of promotion is that of the door to door distribution of leaflets . |
| 22 | Have they , like good social scientists , been rigorous , robust and balanced in examining alternative possible theoretical interpretations of the evidence to hand ? |
| 23 | It sounds nonsense to me , but I 'd like to have a brief resume of the affair to hand , just in case there 's a sudden panic at Number Ten . ’ |
| 24 | Herzberg , Mausner and Snyderman observe in their study of The Motivation to Work that the provision of better working conditions has the effect of reducing dissatisfaction but not the effect of producing satisfaction . |
| 25 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |
| 26 | Few standard conveyancing textbooks mention , let alone discuss , the covenant implied in a conveyance made under " an order of the court " and there is a suggestion by reason of the heading to Part VI that such a covenant is only to be used where the court orders a conveyance on behalf of a person suffering under a disability . |
| 27 | It underlined , as Barth had done , the absolute contrast between God and man , the interplay of the ‘ No ! ’ and the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the Word to man ; and also , following from these , the fact that no human speaking about God could directly or immediately express or contain the truth about him . |
| 28 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 29 | I know how context influences the effects of alcohol and realise this was a highly artificial situation , but it was still difficult to ignore the terrible predictability of the road to drunkenness : its fixed stages — a brief and seductive period of social effervescence and then the rapid departure of self-consciousness and the ugly appearance of righteousness . |
| 30 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |