Example sentences of "and [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I climbed through the Megger Stones and on to Great Coum looking down Dentdale and Deepdale . |
| 3 | Not only is there a great depth to the pressure for change , but it also exists on an enormously wide number of fronts — from the National Curriculum through assessment and on to open enrolment and the local management of schools and ( for some ) beyond that to grant maintained status or other ‘ exotics ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although the drift of coarse material on the upper part of the beach must be due to wave action and not to current action , the role of currents in moving material over the sea floor is disputed . |
| 6 | Almost two years of acrimonious disputes between the Indian Government and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Industrie came to an end on Jan. 11 , when a court of inquiry in New Delhi ruled that the crash of an Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus in February 1990 , in which 92 people had died , had been due to pilot error , and not to technical failure , as the Indian authorities had maintained [ see p. 37268 ] . |
| 7 | Although some Scottish lakes had begun to show signs of recovery , this was due to the decline of energy-intensive industries such as iron and steel and not to environmental protection policies . |
| 8 | did not ‘ think it is open to this court to hold that the rule applies only to damage to adjoining land or to a proprietary interest in land and not to personal injury . ’ |
| 9 | Note that this only applies to ordinary armour and not to magic armour which saves normally . |
| 10 | I am confident that we shall move forward from this Council to greater co-operation between the planets and thus to mutual gain . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is perfect competition that leads firms to set marginal cost equal to price and thus to marginal consumer benefit . |
| 13 | Ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai , Utamaro and Sharaku produced these works in small numbers and largely to special commission . |
| 14 | We decided to halt the nonsense and stopped for a sandwich on a picturesque rocky outcrop that provided views east and west along the glen , and over to spectacular Knoydart . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | Adler paid less attention to the unconscious mind and more to goal-directed therapy . |
| 19 | On May 28 , ten days after they had lost contact and close to complete despair Bonington gave up the search . |
| 20 | Seafront family run hotel facing the Sea Life Centre , Palace Pier and close to Royal Pavilion , the famous Lanes and conference centres . |
| 21 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 22 | In contrast , cattle develop a good immunity to Oe. radiatum , partly due to age and partly to previous exposure so that it is primarily a problem in weaned calves . |
| 23 | Budyko then proceeded to attempt a physio-geographical zonation of the earth and his approach has subsequently been developed by systems in which energy and moisture regimes are related to vegetation types ( e.g. Grigor'yev , 1961 ) , to genetic soil types ( e.g. Gerasimov , 1961 ) and later to geomorphic zonality ( Ye Grishankov , 1973 ) . |
| 24 | The frequent expression of the various xenobiotic metabolising enzymes may contribute to the anti-cancer drug resistance that is characteristic of carcinoma of the colon , and also to chemical carcinogenesis in the colon as these enzymes can metabolise both exogenous and endogenous compounds , which are implicated in the development of colon cancer . |
| 25 | But the obscurity of the means/end relationship will again normally prevent divergent expenditure being identified , since a plausible case can usually be made for donations in terms of their contribution to goodwill and hence to long-term profitability . |
| 26 | One suggestion is that , as the solubility of carbon dioxide increases with decreasing temperature , the cooling of the sea at night will lead to an increased acidity and hence to increased solution . |
| 27 | In this section we merely want to put forward briefly the three main ways in which social policy has made and can make a contribution to increased consumption , investment , employment and hence to economic growth . |
| 28 | These channels make the membrane permeable to ions or molecules , which can then enter the cell and act as signals for the initiation of the biochemical cascades which ultimately lead , in ways that I shall describe in the next chapter , to the synthesis of new synaptic membrane components and hence to synaptic remodelling . |
| 29 | In 1901 , am ambitious extension of the system took the trams away from the Promenade , on an almost circular four-mile route from Talbot Square to Marton and back to Central Station , only 250 yards away . |
| 30 | A few seconds later the glider is unstalled and can be brought level and back to normal flight with the normal use of the controls . |