Example sentences of "and [adv] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this digression , we return to the falsificationist conception of the progress of science as the progression from problems to speculative hypotheses , to their criticism and eventual falsification and thence to new problems . |
| 2 | A Constitution introduced by the King in 1962 embodied a multi-tiered system of panchayat ( council ) democracy , under which there are elected councils at village level which in turn elect members to district councils and thence to zonal councils . |
| 3 | passing the bill over to the welfare authorities , and thereby to other taxpayers , is not acceptable , either in terms of the escalating size of the bill , or , more importantly , from the point of view of individuals learning about how to behave responsibly , and the long-term financial responsibilities that flow from adult behaviour . |
| 4 | The Thatcher government in particular , throughout its terms of office , repeatedly committed itself to cutting the burden of taxation , and thereby to increasing incentives and encouraging enterprise and initiative . |
| 5 | Since he viewed Soviet society as a totality with a mobile equilibrium , he considered it necessary to steer the peasants towards co-operation and eventually to socialist forms via exchanges between the two sectors on the market . |
| 6 | It is a point made so many times by so many people that it has almost lost its meaning : even if all children went to the same nursery , primary and secondary schools , their examination performance and hence their entry to higher education establishments and eventually to well-paid jobs will still vary according to their family background . |
| 7 | Hierarchical organizations are more unified , have more room for manoeuvre , and respond more quickly and flexibly to environmental changes , creating constant pressure upon proletarian movements to imitate their modes of organization . |
| 8 | In order to meet customer needs we must be able to respond more quickly and flexibly to changing conditions . |
| 9 | thirdly , and perhaps most importantly , any person taking a registrable charge over the company 's property ( and only to such persons ) will have notice of any matter requiring registration and disclosed . |
| 10 | Water is also delivered slowly and constantly to local streams , which consequently carry little sediment , since the soil is bound by tree roots . |
| 11 | Since then the term is applied to anything both useless and expensive , and especially to pointless things . |
| 12 | This means imposing a tight domestic monetary policy , which , as already pointed out , is very distasteful to most governments , and especially to socialist governments . |
| 13 | I always enjoy listening to agriculture debates and especially to Conservative Members , because that is the only time when we do not hear any free market claptrap . |
| 14 | The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model , which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means , the costs of treatment , their prior efforts , or the demands made of their competitors . |
| 15 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 16 | To say the election is fair and just to all parties is simply not true . |
| 17 | Instructions are to hang in between the taps and any trapped spider will climb up it and away to other parts . |
| 18 | ‘ Up and away to greener pastures all the time … ’ |
| 19 | During these years she also held the British record for endurance swimming , extending it from 26 hrs. in January 1930 to 44 hrs. 30 min. by the end of the year , then to 45 hrs. in 1931 , and finally to 46 hrs. in 1932 . |
| 20 | Haeckel 's disciple Gustav Schwalbe created a linear progressive sequence from the great apes to Pithecanthropus to the Neanderthals and finally to modern humans . |
| 21 | It is delightfully written and beautifully illustrated , guiding the student from simple chemicals to macromolecules to cellular organisation and finally to multicellular organisms . |
| 22 | The ceiling would be lowered in successive years to 400 ewes and 830 in LFAs , the rest receiving 17% of premium , and finally to 350 ewes and 750 in LFAs . |
| 23 | Business , Accountancy and the Environment : A Policy and Research Agenda ( see p 78 for review ) says that it will be those companies responding fully and promptly to environmental issues which will be in the strongest competitive position in the future . |
| 24 | Anybody who dreamt of surrendering that basic safeguard at this time would be doing the gravest disservice to current and possibly to future generations in Britain . |
| 25 | If we can survive the next hundred years or so , we will have spread to other planets and possibly to other stars . |
| 26 | This is not an uncommon pattern with central institutions , but it does strengthen the case for sending the Library 's exhibitions ( in photographic form ) to other parts of Scotland , and possibly to other areas of the City . |
| 27 | Roger Jacobi has described a vivid picture of hunters around Cheddar Gorge using the many shallow access valleys from the Levels to the top of the Mendips as ambush points for animals moving to and fro over the seasons , and it is noticeable how many of the Mesolithic sites located by Joan Taylor and Rebecca Smart are at the top end of shallow valleys in the front of the Mendips and close to former springs . |
| 28 | 100 yards from Cricket Ground and close to all amenities — ample free street parking . |
| 29 | There he suggests that the extant megalithic monuments are preferentially located in areas underlain by older rock ( without acknowledging that such monuments over younger rock in the south and east Britain might have been destroyed by later development ) , and close to geological faults which he believes cause a luminous aerial phenomenon , sometimes called a UFO ! |
| 30 | What is especially interesting about such systems is the possibility that experiments can be constructed which are sufficiently simple and close to theoretical models that routes to chaos can be studied in detail . |