Example sentences of "and [adv] to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 In this case I also wanted to get the cut edges of the neckband tidied up as soon as possible — remember this particular garment has been ferried to and fro to class and back .
2 But once established , these lines underwent predictable developments towards increasing specialization — and eventually to overspecialization and extinction .
3 With anti-lock as standard , they respond smoothly and effectively to instruction and show no signs of fade during repeated hard stopping .
4 They tend to attribute their successes more to luck and less to ability than men , and to be more influenceable .
5 Choosing the wrong technology , or failing to take the necessary adaptive measures in management , production or marketing can quickly lead to falling profits , dwindling market shares and finally to takeover or closure .
6 The layout also reflects the sequence of scientific archaeology from one lab to the next from sorting and cleaning , to cold storage , rough sectioning and then thin sectioning and fine polishing , and finally to analysis and interpretation .
7 A. culicifacies , the sole vector in Sri Lanka , remains susceptible to BHC and malathion and malaria persists there ; in India , and possibly in Pakistan too , the same species shows ‘ pockets ’ of resistance to malathion and even to fenitrothion but extensive areas still exist where there is no evidence of organophosphate resistance .
8 If everyone ( or at least those who can mould opinion and wield sanctions ) implicitly agrees that it is weak to get upset , and a sign of personal incompetence to make mistakes , then openness entails real risks to staffroom status and even to promotion and other career prospects .
9 Sufficient time needs to be given to listening to the answer and then to prayer and ministry to meet the needs another member has .
10 Inland the machair grades into mesotrophic grassland and then to fen and swamp communities .
11 That is what led Marx to history and then to anthropology as , in the course of his work , he pushed his analyses ever further backwards in the evolution of human society .
12 But by the 26th , he was in ward in Dalkeith , and during the next two months was moved from there to Seton , and then to Blackness and St Andrews before finally being released on lo April .
13 Carinish Court was a safer subject than James , less objectionable than Ralph 's views on racial purity and closer to reality than the history of the Salpertons .
14 From the growing disillusionment of the Spanish experience in 1937 , Nizan was led inexorably to incredulity and disbelief during the Munich crisis of September 1938 , and ultimately to bewilderment and total despair following the Nazi-Soviet pact and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 .
15 Permed hair is thicker and easier to style than untreated hair and you wo n't have to worry about frizz if you handle it with care and use the right products .
16 Quite frankly , we 're advising all our clients to sit tight , at the moment , and neither to buy nor to sell .
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