Example sentences of "and the [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it would seem that the economics of the socially approved tobacco and alcohol industries means that we have to accept 42,000 deaths annually from cigarettes , and the cost to society of 50,000 alcoholics . |
| 2 | In Hard Times ( 1909 ) an unemployed father with a dying child smashes a baker 's window , is caught by the crowd , and is delivered to the police , who proceed to call in a physician ; the working-class family is restored to prosperity and the child to health , and the physician becomes a family friend . |
| 3 | Pass-Off Day : the end of training and the gateway to battalion life . |
| 4 | In the second instance of the link between the mother and the return to darkness , it can be seen how the mother in our everyday world stands as a figure in which the individual may lose him or herself . |
| 5 | My aim was to investigate the symptoms of decay and perhaps to discover in the ‘ capriciousness and the return to chaos ’ a law which would vouchsafe one an insight into the intimate workings of art . |
| 6 | Caesar figures could delay the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism . |
| 7 | Another characteristic of the inward investors that two authorities and ourselves have had experience of is that it 's likely that the user or users will want to have reasonably clean air , good water and the ability to work twenty four hours . |
| 8 | Individual liberty and the roads to freedom |
| 9 | MINISTRY , who issued the acclaimed ‘ Psalm 69 : The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs ’ album last July , follow their Lollapalooza shows in the US with a full British tour kicking off this week . |
| 10 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 11 | Paul Kent and Wayne Forester … perform a mime and comedy show … bringing the puppets and the cliches to life … |
| 12 | I want to go and see the place where I was brought up , my little house , the garden and the road to town . |
| 13 | The Bishop of Derry talks exclusively to the Belfast Telegraph about his illness and the road to recovery . |
| 14 | The Bishop of Derry talks exclusively to the Belfast Telegraph about his illness and the road to recovery . |
| 15 | Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U-boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model . |
| 16 | In 1951 , with the coal and steel discussions still going on , the British electorate returned Churchill and the Conservatives to power . |
| 17 | ‘ The future potential is enormous and the work to date is only a fraction of what could be achieved . |
| 18 | Police in Peterborough , Cambs , traced them within 15 minutes and took the baby and the man to hospital . |
| 19 | Many erroneous assumptions are made both about the nature of cancer in older people and the response to treatment . |
| 20 | We have combined these approaches by examining both the degree and duration of DGR and the response to provocation testing in the same subjects . |
| 21 | It 's what Flaubert described as being ‘ brother in God to everything that lives , from the giraffe and the crocodile to man . |
| 22 | Nine schools have taken part and the discussions to date transcribed , in total some 50 discussions of lengths varying from 3 to 25 minutes . |
| 23 | The tendency to contract arises from the both the polymer-polymer interactions and the resistance to expansion of the chain into over extended and energetically less favoured conformations . |
| 24 | Because the Yek mutation bred true , all the children had talons instead of finger nails , and they possessed both the remarkable powers of healing and the resistance to disease which were the genetic inheritance of the True people . |
| 25 | In the 1780s , when Highgate Hill was so steep and deeply rutted that carriages regularly failed to make the grade , and the drive to town sufficiently dangerous that a wise man went with pistols , a merchant called Thomas Roxborough had constructed a handsome house on Hornsey Lane , designed for him by one Henry Holland . |
| 26 | Details of crystallization , data collection , MIR phase determination , structure refinement and overall structure description are given in Table 1 and the legend to Fig. 1 . |
| 27 | Added to which Lombroso — more famous for his theory about the physiognomic stigmata of criminality — interpreted his observations on genius in a similarly negative fashion , viewing social deviance and the propensity to creativity as alternative expressions of biological degeneracy . |
| 28 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 29 | Then the rejection of a reading where ‘ him ’ is bound to the dog will cause CLE-1 and the reasoner to cycle through all of John , Bill , Fred , and the vet as candidate referents for ‘ he ’ before a change to the ‘ him ’ binding is considered . |
| 30 | However , Mr Howell said ‘ it gave no indication of the number of transactions arranged , the income and expenditure they had produced , the type of risks involved , the scale of any potential gains and the exposure to loss ’ . |