Example sentences of "of the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE conversion of the Bury to Manchester line to Metrolink operations has meant that it is no longer available for conventional locomotives and trains . |
| 2 | Some would see his agnosticism , his awareness of the limits to thought , as the only true basis for religious faith . |
| 3 | Whether HMIs or local inspectors are involved , the school still has to give over control of the evaluation to outsiders ; it may only be willing to do this if teachers are assured of the kind of fairness discussed above . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it appears that Williams had cleverly manipulated the debate in order to demonstrate the acquiescence of the church to slavery . |
| 6 | According to the Acts of the Apostles Peter took the lead in opening membership of the church to Gentiles . |
| 7 | The dedication of the church to St Thomas is no accident . |
| 8 | When GATT was formed in 1948 China had been among the founder members , but its membership had lapsed after the withdrawal of the nationalists to Taiwan . |
| 9 | Defence correspondent Paul Maurice asked her just how much of the threat to Britain had increased since the start of the Gulf crisis . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The exploitation of Nigeria 's natural gas is particularly important in view of the threat to oil exports posed by increasing home consumption . |
| 13 | Finally , there is a sense in which these two enterprises in London and Edinburgh were perceived as particularly worrying not just because of the social origins of promoters and beneficiaries , or because of the threat to wages , but because they meant bringing women into the work-place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Somehow she must discover the extent of the threat to Edmund 's life . |
| 17 | Rothmans ' chairman Lord Swaythling , a Tory Peer , told of the threat to jobs at the company 's Darlington and Spennymoor plants in a letter to Darlington MP Michael Fallon . |
| 18 | During the Korean War , Attlee made Britain 's objections to the extension of the conflict to mainland China crystal clear to Truman . |
| 19 | He says the Government recognises the importance of the route to commuters and tourists , and it will not be axed , even though it 's losing money . |
| 20 | Nearly a century later , another bestselling American business story offered a different concept of heroism and a different description of the route to success . |
| 21 | In 1894 the purchase of the Leicester Canals was completed , and as mentioned earlier , agreements and options covering the rest of the route to Langley Mill were later arranged . |
| 22 | The first half of the route to Gooch 's century must be the rockiest he has travelled towards any of his 16 in Tests . |
| 23 | To use the jargon , federalism means extending the competence of the Euro-institutions to defence , foreign , immigration and asylum , social , and economic policies — the bread and butter issues of our politics are to be removed from this Parliament and transferred to Brussels . |
| 24 | The greater benefit of the computer to statisticians is therefore that it does not become ‘ bored ’ by a large number of simple tasks . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But he had left the running of the operation to Müller . |
| 28 | The doctor explained the nature of the operation to Julie and her mother and they both agreed that it was necessary . |
| 29 | Walkers can also extend the excursion by continuing from Heiligenschwendi downhill in a southerly direction on the edge of the woods to Oberhofen on the lakeside ( approximately 40 minutes ) . |
| 30 | Following the decline of the Stockton to Darlington railway , the station gradually fell into disrepair and was repeatedly vandalised . |