Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is legal in Britain to inflict the indefensible cruelty of hounding defenceless animals to death and therefore the terrible stain of this brutality is on all our hands . |
| 2 | The new competition created by all these external and internal forces has increased the barriers to entry and thus the degree of global concentration in many industries . |
| 3 | It takes so much of your time , 15–20 hours a week from February to October and sometimes a lot more , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Calgary , took a train over the Rockies to Vancouver and then a cruise ship up to Alaska and , and back via Vancouver and you saw the erm ice floes er dropping off and er er seals and that , dolphins and that and it looked pretty good . |
| 5 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 6 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 7 | We were closely involved in trying to set up the transport arrangements : we had to get the airforce to ferry the pieces from Phnom Penh to Bangkok and then the Australian national carrier Qantas to bring them to Australia . ’ |
| 8 | Someone had thoughtfully turned the page to March and now the glossy colour photograph showed the Riot Squad drawn up in full battle gear in front of their armoured personnel carriers . |
| 9 | In Sardinia dining is about excellence from start to finish and even the most demanding of gourmet will be well satisfied by the choice and quality . |
| 10 | Oh they came up with their servants all servants up from the south by train to Inverness and then a charabanc or vehicle of such that was in it then because it was only metal roads we had then . |
| 11 | I rode back to Dire Dawa , past Haramaya Lake where my parents had camped , took the train to Jibuti and then a Messageries Maritimes boat to Marseilles , third-class among a draft of the Foreign Legion ; an interesting contrast with the Mission 's journey to Aden first-class on a P and 0 with a deck reserved to ourselves . |
| 12 | It followed that the periods varied in length from season to season and hence the duration of the hours fluctuated . |
| 13 | Both are worried that Keith is embarking on the long downhill road to delinquency and even the nursery staff have resorted to clichés to describe his behaviour . |
| 14 | Although Mabel was a more sympathetic personality than her sister Ethel , when it came to discipline she was equally strict , the difference being that she did not take pleasure in enforcing the ruthless repetition that was necessary to get the routines to perfection and consequently the Girls adored her . |
| 15 | All that lay before a young lady of breeding was duty to parents and hopefully a good marriage . |
| 16 | The annual fees can change markedly from year to year and so the figures which follow , for the session 1993–94 , must be used only as an indication of the minimum likely to apply in later sessions . |
| 17 | According to the Archbishop of Canterbury , ‘ There seems to be a movement from consensus to confrontation and also a growing scale of confrontation . ’ |
| 18 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |