Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [det] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 2 | The City is difficult , you can only shift this traffic management from one place to another and do the best you can in each area , and there are cheaper ways of doing it , not erm three hundred thousand at a time . |
| 3 | Just as seeds provide a rich feast to those that have the equipment to deal with them , so do their animal equivalent , eggs . |
| 4 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 5 | The railway engineer , therefore , provides a transition curve to ease the engine from one radius to another while adjusting the superelevation , or cant , to counter the centrifugal force . |
| 6 | Uli Edel has forged a remarkably coherent whole , cross-cutting from one story to another while retaining a precise delineation of character , picking out threads of compassion and love from a bleak tapestry of pain . |
| 7 | A survey conducted in 1977 by the US federal government concluded that it costs as much to change from one computer to another as to buy the machine itself . |
| 8 | The Chinese Wall is a self styled regulatory mechanism aimed at stemming the flow of material information from one department in a conglomerate to another and resolving the legal problems associated with conflicts of interest generally . |
| 9 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |