Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 But the inherent political weaknesses of the struggles , the chronic inability to attract support from other sections of labour , and the social composition of the unemployed led directly to a collapse of militancy after state intervention .
2 Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved .
3 Thirty years later , the rapid reconquest of the duchy by the French owed much to the threat posed by the French king 's artillery against the defences of towns which preferred to surrender than to make a fight of it .
4 Our present understanding of the relationship between ΔC p and the hydrophobic effect [ 17 , 18 ] , leads us to conclude that the latter contributes little to the formation of the single strand helix , and consequently , that water molecules may not be appreciably ordered around the faces of the bases prior to stacking .
5 The 1991 budget was adopted by the National Assembly on Dec , 22 , 1990 ; amounting to 106,000 million francs CFA and substantially lower than the previous one , it was the first to correspond strictly to the 12-month calendar year , previous ones being based on a 15-month period .
6 These are two rather different purposes , the first relating more to a summative statement which could be used to inform parents or employers of the pupils ' knowledge and skills .
7 The two went noisily to the bus-stop , leaving Alice on the doorstep , stunned , and staring without seeing at the letter she had written to her mother , thrust into her hand by Monica .
8 But he was very much with her later that year when the two flew privately to the South of
9 The 401st moved slightly to the right to avoid it , but ran into an even heavier barrage that knocked down one B–17 from the 612th in the Group .
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