Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] is [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cohabitation as a prelude to marriage is now an acceptable option . |
| 2 | IF RAGS to riches is still the American dream , William Casey lived his own version of it . |
| 3 | ‘ The future potential is enormous and the work to date is only a fraction of what could be achieved . |
| 4 | The problem of filling quotas to specification is probably the most severe disadvantage of a participant-observation study ; since the groups studied are self-recruited , the fieldworker by definition relinquishes control over choice of subject . |
| 5 | My attitude to life is probably the same as most people 's . |
| 6 | This greener-than-thou attitude to nature is neither the traditional ethic of countryside husbandry , nor is it grounded in scientific ecology . |
| 7 | FOR a man who must have thought his career was over six years ago when rejected by Derbyshire , Paul Taylor 's passage to India is indeed a rags-to-riches miracle . |
| 8 | Some of the new investment is financed by parent companies , as is shown by the growing share of investment in subsidiaries , but the resale of less up to date equipment to subcontractors is also a common practice . |
| 9 | This change of emphasis from cash to produce is probably the most difficult mental hurdle . |
| 10 | In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit . |
| 11 | Having studied the text and read critical appreciations of it , my natural reaction to Satan is still the same as it was when he first appeared to me . |
| 12 | Some suggest that the value of BSRI androgyny to women is simply the value of masculinity . |
| 13 | China 's rush to capitalism is also a rush towards individual liberty : the chance to choose not just fancy clothes and fast cars but how to live , where to live and who to be ruled by . |
| 14 | Its position in relation to history is therefore the same as that of primitives to the eternal past : in Sartre 's system , history plays exactly the part of a myth . |
| 15 | ( The road from Sutton to Belmont is still a tree lined avenue not completely built up , in 1982 . ) |
| 16 | This is not to say that older men do not take on the role of ‘ carer ’ , nor that the perceived threat to independence is only an issue for women . |
| 17 | The overall low significance correlation with adherence to programme is probably the unsurprising finding that projects which are technically successful at most stages tend to slip less than those which are not . |
| 18 | The bearer of the warrant from time to time is unquestionably a shareholder but to what extent , if at all , he is a member of the company depends on a provision to that effect in the articles . |
| 19 | A visit to Salcey is all the more rewarding and exciting if you manage to see even a few of its shy inhabitants . |
| 20 | The move of the elderly from the family to institutions is partly a result of the change from extended family to nuclear family . |
| 21 | On the positive side , BP 's announced major oil discovery West of Shetland is certainly encouraging and the transfer of the Department of Trade & Industry oil and gas jobs to Aberdeen is also an important step in establishing a significant critical mass of oil related activity and technology in the North East of Scotland , which will enhance the industry 's potential for international development . |
| 22 | The possible movement of a mosaicist from this region to Trier is also a conventional explanation ( if a partial one ) of the eventual fate of the mosaicists who worked on the finest and final pavement , at Woodchester : in the Palastplatz in Trier a panel similar to one of the geometric panels of the ambulatory of the Woodchester Orpheus was found ( Parlasca 1959 , pI . |