Example sentences of "or to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples included demands for payment , notices to quit , protests in connection with bills of exchange , and written consents to adoption or to marriage . |
| 2 | The advantage over stratificational social class ( as in Labov , 1966 ) as a principal variable is the universality of the network concept : whereas stratificational social class theory can not be universally applicable to all historical states , to bilingual situations , or to language- ( that is , speaker- ) contact situations ( and all of these are relevant in historical description ) , all speakers at all times have had ties of some kind — weak or strong — with other speakers . |
| 3 | One idea is to encapsulate the haemoglobin in spherical structures of fatty material called liposomes , or to cross-link it with chemical agents . |
| 4 | Just as is the case for walking , the benefits of calming residential areas will not be realised unless provision is made for whole journeys from home to the shops , to work or to school , to be completed free from intimidation by motorised traffic . |
| 5 | No , because we do n't have to go to the legal office or to school to teach for 50 hours a week in between ’ . |
| 6 | Go out to supervise children into playground and check with Coach Guide about any absences or misbehaviour on journey home yesterday or to school today . |
| 7 | The difficulty arises from ministerial unwillingness to curb the dash for gas or to cut-off the cross-Channel interconnector . |
| 8 | Therefore , any remaining lead of the futures price over the spot price is due to either new information being reflected first in the futures market ( price discovery ) , or to recording and reporting lags for the index . |
| 9 | But Durkheim , Eliot noted , did not attribute the origin of religion to wonder or to speculation , but saw in mythology only the savage 's attempt to rationalize and justify his religious practices , ‘ in regard to the true origin of which he is as much in the dark as the scientific investigator ’ . |
| 10 | Royal licences to quarry stones , or to cut down and sell timber in the woods of subjects , or to bring such woods into cultivation , or to pasture cattle therein , were frequently preceded by such an inquiry held by the Justice of the Forest or his deputy . |
| 11 | You can learn to paint at the foot of Cezanne 's Mont Sainte-Victoire , to cook in Umbria , to ride in the Rockies , meditate in Andalucia , or to skin-dive in the Caribbean . |
| 12 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |
| 13 | that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and |
| 14 | Section 4(1) ( f ) provides : ( f ) that the defect ( i ) constituted a defect in a product ( " the subsequent product " ) in which the product in question had been comprised ; and ( ii ) was wholly attributable to the design of the subsequent product or to compliance by the producer of the product in question with instructions given by the producer of the subsequent product . |
| 15 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be due to a build-up of scale or to air being drawn into the system . |
| 16 | Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be caused by a build-up of scale , especially in hard water areas ( see under Corrosion ) or to air being drawn into the system — usually a design fault which a heating expert will have to trace for you . |
| 17 | List servers may be used to raise issues for a particular discipline or to air thoughts and to stimulate discussion between a whole range of people who will never meet . |
| 18 | For many viewers , the most important parliamentary programmes are those that give live coverage to the debates in the Chamber or to committee hearings . |
| 19 | To run cable down to light switches or to wall lights , it will usually be necessary to ‘ chase ’ slots in solid walls , though if you are rewiring a house which was originally wired in metal conduit , you may be able to use the existing conduit buried in the plaster leading to light switches to feed the cable down . |
| 20 | Like an amber light that changes to green or red , doubt may change to faith or to unbelief . |
| 21 | The question posed is how far social rights should now be conceived as including , beyond such things as education , health care and the alleviation of severe poverty , a right to employment or to an appropriate basic income , to decent housing , or to participation by employees in the management of their firms ; and if they are so conceived , what policies and institutional changes could effectively establish them . |
| 22 | And the social base of a governing elite can be open or closed , but is always susceptible to challenge or to displacement by a counter-elite : ‘ History is the graveyard of aristocracies ’ ( Pareto , 1966 , p. 249 ) . |
| 23 | He was then left with two alternatives — going into the forces or to university . |
| 24 | The distinction between operative know followed by the bare or to infinitive could be imputed to dialectal differences if , as Quirk et al. |
| 25 | The few studies that have been undertaken have been carried out from a management perspective in terms of stock management or to quantity overall use of library , materials apart from items recorded in circulation statistics . |
| 26 | A picture emerges of a flourishing and diverse tradition of individual craftsmen whose skills and working methods were applied equally to full-sized harpsichords or to bentside spinets . |
| 27 | The 15-member House of Chiefs considers draft legislation relating to alterations to the Constitution or to chieftaincy matters , and may make representation to the President on matters affecting the tribes or tribal organizations . |
| 28 | Oh yes , because er we had a lot of letter going back an forth to architects or to other slate merchants or to quarry owners . |
| 29 | In the ‘ haute montagne ’ and ‘ montagne ’ zones the retirement annuity is 15,000FF ( £1,304 ) per annum and maximum payments are not confined to those releasing farmland for public use , afforestation or to development plan farmers as they are in the UK . |
| 30 | Whether the increased release of the precursor in type II diabetes is due primarily to a low β cell mass or to insulin resistance is unclear , but the serum concentration of 32–33 split proinsulin in the men reported on by Hales and Barker correlated inversely with their body weight at 12 months . |