Example sentences of "and the [noun] to [noun] " 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 | Humanity shall remain content to cut off further hopes of increased life enjoyment by permitting the continued dominance within the human race of the evolutionary law that requires for its operation that ( a ) , all surplus life must perish and ( b ) , the strongest shall be entitled to all that physical dominance permits them to take , regardless of the source of what is taken , and the cost to others . |
| 3 | Humanity shall remain content to cut off further hopes of increased life enjoyment by permitting the continued dominance within the human race of the evolutionary law that requires for its operation that ( a ) all surplus life must perish , and ( b ) the strongest shall be entitled to all that physical dominance permits them to take , regardless of the source of what is taken , and the cost to others . |
| 4 | Conservatives who had claimed to prefer contributory pensions in 1908 faced outraged complaints from their constituents about the growth of bureaucracy and the cost to employers . |
| 5 | An acquisition of newly issued shares does not constitute a disposal by the issuing company — in this instance Target — and the cost to Newco of subscribing the shares is added to its base cost in the " pool " of total shares in Target . |
| 6 | Proposals include work on St John 's Pavement , St John 's Square , Borough Pavement and the approach to St Werburgh 's Square , from Borough Pavement . |
| 7 | The research is therefore central to evaluation of the Act and the approach to police accountability it embodies . |
| 8 | The hospital , moreover , is perfectly located for a swift getaway , just yards from the Brussels ring road and the motorway to Paris . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In such a case your report should be prepared at once , and the original instructions and any other documents sent to you by your mortgagee client , as well as your notes on title and the replies to requisitions , should be carefully perused . |
| 11 | Pass-Off Day : the end of training and the gateway to battalion life . |
| 12 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 13 | ECLAC put Latin America 's combined foreign debt for 1989 at US$422,000 million , with 60 per cent owed to commercial banks in the USA , Europe and Asia , and the rest to governments and multilateral agencies . |
| 14 | More than a third of sales would be to Labour voters , another third to Alliance or Tory ( 12 per cent ) , and the rest to people who could not say which party they supported . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The value of shares in firm A is V SL and the return to shareholders , assuming that all earnings are distributed , is which is earnings before tax but after debt interest has been deducted as an allowable expense , less corporation tax . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These included a change in the constitutional status of the province so as to make it subordinate to Serbia , the imposition of Serbocroatian as the official language , the dismissal from the Kosovo government of ‘ Albanian chauvinists ’ and of Serbian ‘ opportunists and careerists ’ , and the return to Kosovo of Serbian emigrants ( NIN , 9 November 1986 ) . |
| 19 | The government said that it had agreed to allow the phased release of around 1,300 political prisoners after Sept. 1 , and the return to South Africa of around 22,000 anti-government exiles after Oct. 1 . |
| 20 | Since then NMW has carried out a heavy rationalisation programme and the return to profits has come despite a fall in turnover from £5.92m to £4.66m . |
| 21 | Places on the route through France described in the book are Châlons , Lyons , Avignon , and Marseilles ; it also includes a visit to Nice , and the return to Genoa by the Corniche route . |
| 22 | Caesar figures could delay the collapse of civilization and the return to barbarism . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As soon as the barriers to entry in this type of regulatory regime are broken down and outside membership is allowed , the effectiveness of self-regulation and the ability to police members on the old club principle tends to be eroded . |
| 25 | and then when the boys were of school age they went to Brighton and the girls to Hastings and |
| 26 | Individual liberty and the roads to freedom |
| 27 | We were brought up to think of the wonderland between Loch Broom and the roads to Skye as Wester Ross , and always will . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better . |
| 30 | ‘ And the trip to Profitis Bias was your last chance to make her see reason , was n't it ? ’ |