Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the need for reassurance in a world of visibly consolidating Great Powers — from the United States in the West to the Teutonic and Slav empires in Europe and the East . |
| 2 | The ‘ plains ’ in question are the flatlands of the Po Valley , stretching from the region around Milan in the west to the river-delta in the east , and the ‘ storytellers ’ are the anonymous sources of the tales that Celati relates . |
| 3 | If these fail and she suspects disease she now incorporates the age-old universal remedies such as massage , heat , cooling , gripe water , aspirin , distraction , and , if those do not succeed , she turns in the West to the doctor . |
| 4 | It stretches from the borders of Bretonnia in the west to the sweeping plains of Kislev in the east . |
| 5 | It stretches from the Middle Mountains in the north to Nuln in the south , and from Altdorf in the west to the borders of Kislev in the east . |
| 6 | Research carried out at Queen Mary and Westfield College , London found that in a major incident at a plant of the type proposed a radius of nine miles could be affected , that is from Bolton in the north to Hale in the south , and from Leigh in the west to the easternmost boundary of Greater Manchester . |
| 7 | Caucasian rugs were produced in a region of about 160,000 square miles , stretching from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east , in what is now the most south-westerly part of the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Their campaign was part of a military advance into British territory by Ine which brought the West Saxon frontier in the west to the Tamar . |
| 9 | Similarly the Hercynian folding of the Anti-Atlas in southern Morocco swings from an " Atlantic " direction in the west to the " Mediterranean " direction farther east . |
| 10 | It was first used for a review of the Northern Tethys region — an area stretching from Romania in the west to the Pamirs and Tien Shien in China to the east . |
| 11 | For 400 years after this the Romans enslaved , organised and civilised the enormous area of their known world , which encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from Spain in the west to the Black Sea in the east , from Britain in the north to Egypt in the south . |
| 12 | The Himalayan intercontinental collision orogen extends in a southward-bending arc , some 200 250 km across , for over 2500 km from the Indus River in the west to the Brahmaputra River in the east ( Fig. 3.21 ) . |
| 13 | They would place a saddle in the gateway to the parental home before the bride and bridegroom entered it . ’ |
| 14 | A dark shape appeared in the gateway to the bridge , then turned and began to climb down some hidden steps in the wall . |
| 15 | Private ones are even rarer beasts , especially those like Provincial , Europe 's largest , which operate from a headquarters nestling in the gateway to the Lake District , in Kendal . |
| 16 | The galloping horse raised dust out of the dried mud in the gateway to the wood , an overgrown piece of covert which was the delight of the hunt ; the path was barely wide enough , badly kept , branches low across it , dark after the bright sunlight on the heath . |
| 17 | Slightly further afield you can visit — by road , on foot or on horseback — the villages of Fischbach , Faulenfürst and Rothaus to name but three , and way down in the valley to the west is the main Black Forest town of Freiburg . |
| 18 | I heard she took a chicken in the basket to the vet and put the cat in the oven . ’ |
| 19 | A further difficulty is that repeated mismatching between feelings and behaviour can build up stresses in the system to the extent that something has to ‘ blow ’ . |
| 20 | This is achieved either through the sale of a public sector firm directly to a private sector firm or , more commonly , by the sale of at least 51 per cent of the shares in the company to the general public . |
| 21 | To suggest from within the institution that these influential and powerful units of control are essentially ephemeral and arbitrary constructs , involved in very limited and narrow areas of practice , will almost certainly lead to a rejection of the account ; and the findings are more than likely to be attributed the same metaphorical rejection as the activities of the villains and criminals , as was illustrated in the response to the study undertaken by the Policy Studies Institute outlined above . |
| 22 | The emergence of these two campaigns also marked an important tactical shift in the response to the failure of earlier attempts by individuals in both the UK and the USA to secure judicial recognition for the practice of withholding tax destined for military expenditure . |
| 23 | The history of media will look different according to whether you explore their economic and financial character ; their links to politics and government and to other possible centres of power ; their social aspects , providing certain types of occupation and status and , through their contents , helping to shape their society 's culture from one generation to another ; or their psychological importance , of the kind indicated in the response to the surveys about TV and radio in the 1970s . |
| 24 | Equally it is often used to explain why national leaders are better placed to mobilize collective effort in the national interest such as in the response to the second oil crisis in 1979 . |
| 25 | So p53 is essential for the apoptotic response to the radiation-induced signal , but has no part at all in the response to the glucocorticoid-induced signal . |
| 26 | The significant decrease in sweat spot test score with increasing age would indicate that age is an influential factor in the response to the sweat spot test . |
| 27 | However , a provision in the contract to the effect the property does not pass until Y Ltd. has paid the price , will not entirely meet X 's needs . |
| 28 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |
| 29 | The second part dealt with mixed foil and stated that the ownership of the sellers would transfer from the foil used in the manufacture to the finished products and that these would remain the property of the sellers until full payment had been made to them . |
| 30 | He says in the prologue to the Gospel that he was not a witness to the events themselves ( 1:1–4 ) |