Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [subord] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His news for them as to the enemy was as anticipated , but with an unexpected postscript . |
| 2 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 3 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 4 | I will never part with it unless to a poet : he will find what I find and the unfortunate artist will have no choice as to his immortality . |
| 5 | Because they appear reasonably proficient , the instructors tend to give less practice to them than to the other students . |
| 6 | The giant predators that walked on their hind legs ( Tyrannosaurus , Allosaurus and other theropods ) share structures of the hip bones with the sauropods that show they are more closely related to them than to the rest of the dinosaurs . |
| 7 | He had uttered more words of advice to them than to the girl he was meant to be treating . |
| 8 | Authority were more likely to listen to them than to the DoH . ’ |
| 9 | In other words , they attached about as much value to them as to the drinks . |
| 10 | They were being taxed to abet the king and to nullify his concessions which were as valuable to them as to the laity . |
| 11 | It was as natural to them as to the birds . |
| 12 | ‘ Probably using a VT detonator to give an air burst over the target , ’ he murmured , more to himself than to the Staff Sergeant . |
| 13 | I fear the world invisible is more visible to him than to the rest of us . |
| 14 | It was his country , and campaigning across those noble moors under the Cheviot was his true life , as natural to him as to the hawks hovering on languid , sinewy , expert wings above the heather . |
| 15 | Feeling irritable and out of sorts , she took her tea into the workroom , hoping her carvings might be as therapeutic to her as to the people she carved them for . |
| 16 | But such was the disappointment on his face that I was compelled to agree that we would enjoy such a picnic , which indeed is a delicious meal in other circumstances — at Henley during summer , or at Glyndebourne on a good afternoon — but in the middle of the South African veld , on our way to Rhodesia , its incongruity would have occurred to anyone except to a British diplomat . |
| 17 | More people support angling and less people are strongly opposed to it than to the hunting of deer , foxes , hares and other mammals . |
| 18 | The papacy 's reputation for venality may be more closely related to the difficulties of collecting what was due to it than to the actual amounts of money coming in . |
| 19 | If you do nothing about those feelings , the recipient will probably be totally unaware of them ; if you translate them into action , you may well be setting in motion a train of events which will cause harm and destruction , bringing as much grief to yourself as to the object of your ill-will . |
| 20 | Radicals in the inter-war period became divided among themselves as to the degree to which social and economic reforms should be subordinated to financial constraints . |
| 21 | It turns out that all neurons of the primary visual cortex respond best to oriented bars or edges , though they still vary greatly among themselves as to the position their receptive field occupies in the visual field , as to the direction of preferred orientation , velocity of motion , size of bar and its polarity ( dark or light ) , and in other ways . |
| 22 | If the Americans could not agree among themselves as to the merits or otherwise of the Sterling Area , they were still troubled by the weakness of sterling , and by other evidence of the " grave " economic problems which continued to plague their ally . |
| 23 | ( b ) Holidays etc In practice , partners will agree between themselves as to the amount of time they should be allowed to take away from the practice and when their absence from the firm will cause the least difficulty . |
| 24 | Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case . |