Example sentences of "[coord] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , recent spacecraft voyages have dissuaded astronomers from being too ready to categorize objects as satellites , asteroids , comets or even failed suns ; or to neatly itemize inter-planetary debris , with planets being bigger than moons , asteroids bigger than meteors , and so on . |
| 2 | In practice it proved logistically impossible to observe the strict letter of the law or to completely suppress these cultures . |
| 3 | There are two possibilities : either to exploit the existing key order — if that is possible — or to completely destroy that order , and to allocate keys to addresses as randomly as possible . |
| 4 | The choice is to extensively renovate or to completely replace them with ‘ intelligent buildings ’ . |
| 5 | Sometimes in the process they decide to let go of old destructive relationships or to completely change their career . |
| 6 | And the local tavernas are the best places to sample the delicious Greek cuisine or to simply sit back with a glass of ouzo and watch the world go by . |
| 7 | As a consequence , there is either a tendency to overcompensate and carry out too much fact-finding in a rather loose fashion , or to simply focus on specific information processes with a view to introducing new technology . |
| 8 | This gives you so much more flexibility to have people to stay , to rent out a room if you become hard up or to simply have a room to move into while you decorate your main bedroom . |
| 9 | If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk . |
| 10 | These authors presented pairs of faces to one or other visual field and required their subjects to match the faces either to each other or to previously presented faces . |
| 11 | If two initially rather different cues are made to adhere to the same name or to closely similar names , then rather than being stretched apart the two cues might be forced closer together . |
| 12 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 13 | The House is anxious to know whether the collection of tax by employers is relevant to where people work or to where they live . |
| 14 | there up her house a time or to where she used to work |
| 15 | Yet they see nothing inconsistent with objecting to a well-engineered nuclear waste disposal plant which is clearly necessary to dispose safely of irradiated material already created ; or to properly regulated high-combustion chemical waste disposal plants that are the only alternative ( unless we get rid of the chemical industry ) to toxic wastes being dumped surreptitiously in some field or on some beach . |
| 16 | Single-minded devotion to one s own advancement , or to better pay , or to just one cause , strengthens one legitimate ingredient of the complex personal equation — but sometimes to the point where it eclipses and pre-empts the others . |
| 17 | And time to either discuss their illness with people who understand how they feel , and the way that people react , or to just relax and forget all about the fact they 're living with it . |
| 18 | ‘ He kept asking where he could send flowers and whether it would be better to send them to the hospital or to here if she was coming home . ’ |
| 19 | It is an excellent example of the pointlessness of so much intelligence work , often conceived in the looking-glass world of make-believe where no one seems to be in touch with the real world outside , or to even consider the consequences of their ludicrous ideas . |
| 20 | Under President Islam Karimov , the government seems intent on returning to the ways of the Soviet Union , or to even worse models in the country 's more distant past : the emirs of Bukhara , whose lands are now part of Uzbekistan , once maintained a minaret of death , from which prisoners were flung alive on market days . |
| 21 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 22 | In speaking , either personally or to quite large groups , he spoke with an extraordinary simplicity and directness of manner . |
| 23 | One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . |
| 24 | The overall aim is to show in detail how schools can mediate between past and future without attempting to copy the former or to naively predict the latter . |
| 25 | For example , studies have shown that 90 per cent of boys in the Inner London area admit to having travelled on public transport without a ticket , or to deliberately under-paying ; 82 per cent admit breaking windows of empty houses ; and only a small percentage claim to have committed no offences . |
| 26 | Or to perhaps er put it more to put it , to make it more erm obvious anti-clericalism . |
| 27 | The failure to prioritise needs realistically or to genuinely recognise people 's individuality sometimes leads to competition for resources which badly damages the educational chances of some individuals . |
| 28 | Once this has been done the receiver 's job is finished and the remaining assets will revert to their owners or to less fortunate unsecured creditors . |
| 29 | I would recommend a 7.50 x 16 radial fitted to your own rims or to modestly wide eight spoke rims ( I dare not tell you my preference or people will think I am biased towards Michelin ) . |
| 30 | One simple explanation , which is attractive and plausible , is that the strengthening enabled the ammonoid shell to withstand the hydrostatic pressure at relatively great depths in the ocean — they need not be confined to the surface waters or to relatively shallow depths . |