Example sentences of "[subord] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 2 | Beginnings ( very late ) of perplexities about life , why , wherefore and where to … |
| 3 | Why not explain to us why we must perforce accompany you , and where to and suchlike , and mayhap things will be a little clearer . |
| 4 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 5 | Na , no damage except to his vehicle . |
| 6 | The Times gave prominence to cricket but thought the FA Cup Final in 1914 ‘ of comparatively little interest except to the Lancashire working classes ’ ( the game was between Liverpool and Burnley ) . |
| 7 | At times she is whimsical as on a visit by Princess Margaret to Jamaica in 1955 : ‘ May I go on record once and for all — I hate to bend the knee , except to God , and even then not too often . ’ |
| 8 | The Federal Reserve is struggling to allay fears of a ‘ credit crunch ’ — when banks are reluctant to lend except to the most creditworthy borrowers . |
| 9 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |
| 10 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 11 | Author after author denounced Bush , the likely ( except to Surkov and his agent ) President of the United States , who disapproved of abortion . |
| 12 | Unlike many of the guerrilla leaders who are unknown except to the intrepid few who visit their frontline hideouts , Arkan rebels are in the public limelight like the best of Hollywood 's gangsters . |
| 13 | However , most agencies refused us access , except to a minority of birth parents whose children were freed for adoption , often against their wishes . |
| 14 | The fact is that the lift worked for ten years with very little maintenance and little stoppage for repairs , except to the track — and even the track could evidently have been put to permanent rights had the study and expenditure been justified . |
| 15 | This ‘ screening ’ for mental handicap is not as yet widely available except to older mothers where the incidence of Down 's Syndrome , the main type of mental handicap which can be identified through these tests , is considerably greater . |
| 16 | FOR many years the House of Commons regarded itself as a closed society whose proceedings were private except to the extent that the House itself decided to report them . |
| 17 | There was no way you could put it in except to the C-in-C . |
| 18 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |
| 19 | The detainee making a request ‘ must be permitted to consult a solicitor as soon as is practicable except to the extent that delay is permitted by this section ’ . |
| 20 | It had n't much of value in it , except to me , I mean . |
| 21 | East of the Ribblehead railway viaduct and almost in its evening shadow is the desolate moorland of Batty Green , an inhospitable tract of rough ground without distinguishing landmarks and apparently devoid of interest except to grazing sheep , with nothing to earn a second glance by motorists on the Ingleton — Hawes road alongside . |
| 22 | In both these species this is because the mandibular processes are frequently broken , but with no other damage except to these vulnerable processes . |
| 23 | All the information available shows that the Brent flocks in these two harbours remain largely separate , except to the north of Hayling Island , and counts of the entire Chichester/Langstone complex since 1972/73 have shown the peak populations to reach 10,000 to 12,000 birds . |
| 24 | Nature was red in tooth and claw , no less than capitalists , the weak existed for no purpose except to be eliminated by the strong , thus toughening the race in its total , unending war with itself and everything else around . |
| 25 | Despite the intelligent coupling , this set can not be recommended except to those who respond more positively than I do to Giulini 's rather limp direction ( ) |
| 26 | These are not the kind of facts which can be found in the history books ; they are small matters which would be of no real importance except to the people concerned . |
| 27 | A doppelganger is invisible except to its owner and is not reflected in a mirror . |
| 28 | Travelling the trail , as in numberless journey Westerns from Stagecoach to Red River , is still the game , but there 's nowhere to go now except to a pointless death . |
| 29 | And the only east European settlers from Germany who actually saw themselves , among other things , as cultural and linguistic Germans — to the point of organising the German schools teaching the standard German language — do not enjoy the ‘ right of return ’ except to Israel . |
| 30 | The evident plagiarism which underlay her ‘ prodigious ’ contributions to polymer science was too obvious to require special demonstration except to the inquiring scientific minds of the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry which elected Elena Ceauşescu to its membership . |