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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am confident that we shall move forward from this Council to greater co-operation between the planets and thus to mutual gain . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is perfect competition that leads firms to set marginal cost equal to price and thus to marginal consumer benefit . |
| 6 | Ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai , Utamaro and Sharaku produced these works in small numbers and largely to special commission . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . " |
| 10 | Adler paid less attention to the unconscious mind and more to goal-directed therapy . |
| 11 | On May 28 , ten days after they had lost contact and close to complete despair Bonington gave up the search . |
| 12 | Seafront family run hotel facing the Sea Life Centre , Palace Pier and close to Royal Pavilion , the famous Lanes and conference centres . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 21 | ‘ Success comes to the common man , and even to commonplace ability ; but to triumph over the calamities and terrors of mortal life is the part of a great man only . |
| 22 | You can earn advancement to leading cook and then to petty officer cook or caterer . |
| 23 | The control unit routes the signal to A or B preamps and then to modified Soldano stereo power amps . |
| 24 | The true story of a major league baseball star who went from the street corner to stardom and then to armed robbery but is saved from destruction by a one in a million chance . |
| 25 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 26 | Callinicos mordantly comments on the descent ‘ from revolutionary groupuscule to single-issue campaigns and then to social democracy ’ . |
| 27 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 28 | The Cabinet was deeply divided on the issue , between those , such as Alan Lennox-Boyd , the Colonial Secretary , who argued that immigration curbs could damage ‘ the Commonwealth concept ’ , and those , such as Duncan Sandys , Minister of Housing and Local Government , who warned the Cabinet that ‘ in certain districts , such as Birmingham and Lambeth , colonial immigration had already led to serious over-crowding and consequently to social disturbance ’ . |
| 29 | This poses a threat to agriculture and the food chain , and consequently to human health . |
| 30 | The auctioneer also suggested the latter might accept reimbursement lower than the bids recorded in 1990 and closer to recent market prices . |