Example sentences of "and to [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More significantly , he supported proposals to establish a Pacific nuclear-free zone and to lower levels of troops and armaments to that of ‘ reasonable sufficiency ’ . |
| 2 | If we consider the exercise-bicycle market shown in figure 2.10 , for example , we could move to a higher level of abstraction to new fitness machines and to lower levels of abstraction which can reveal a whole range of possibilities . |
| 3 | The findings are expected to make a contribution to the practical evaluation of the Act , and to wider debates concerning the relationship between law , discretion and working practices in the criminal justice process . |
| 4 | Inner London and the inner areas of a number of industrial cities suffered first , but the loss of manufacturing jobs then spread to the outer areas of cities and to wider regions , such as the West Midlands and the North West , where these were based on manufacturing . |
| 5 | It was to this latter end that Wilson 's journeyings were largely devoted , while the emphasis of his argument was that acceptance of the union 's position , far from creating a tyranny of trade unionism , would lead to greater discrimination in recruitment and to higher standards of seamanship and greater efficiency which would be greatly to the advantage of the shipowners themselves . |
| 6 | Heavily in debt to certain members of his nobility and to routier captains , and let down by his Castilian ally , he had had to seek the financial resources with which to pay for his Spanish expedition . |
| 7 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 8 | In Britain or America or France history making is dominated by professional historians organized in universities and institutes ; their institutional loyalties are cross-cut by intellectual allegiances to schools of interpretation and to further specializations by place and by time . |
| 9 | The source of supply in the sea might perhaps shown signs of exhaustion , and the fishermen might have to resort to more distant coasts and to deeper waters , Nature giving a diminishing return to the increased application of capital and labour of a given order of efficiency . |
| 10 | And births to very young and to older women are more susceptible than others to these maladies . |
| 11 | Babies born to teenagers , especially those who are unmarried as is frequently the case in developed countries , and to older women with many children are often unwanted . |
| 12 | The majority of assistance has historically been provided to private companies , in many cases non-clients , where the shareholders wish to realise their capital and to larger groups ( which do not have their own corporate finance departments and/or where the deal size is insufficient to interest a merchant bank ) wishing to dispose of non-core subsidiaries . |
| 13 | For more than 100 years the Works Brigade was the sole protector of the Urban District against fire , and was also called to villages , and to larger fires in nearby towns . |
| 14 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |