Example sentences of "to the [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of leadership was crucial in this-election ; Carter came across to the voters as a decent man of high moral principles , sympathetic to the underprivileged and of moderate views , but he was not perceived as a strong positive leader . |
| 2 | The one sets off and contrasts with the other , and a choir should give a lead as much to the spoken as to the sung parts . |
| 3 | It is a serious threat to the elderly and to young children . ’ |
| 4 | They must not be allowed to train a new and superior élite , and free places in them ( when and where they are introduced ) should go not only to the cleverest but to those who need a boarding education . |
| 5 | I should like to express here , as I have done outside the House , my deepest sympathy to the bereaved and to the families of those who were injured . |
| 6 | The histories of science and social science demonstrate that empiricism is not so easily applicable to the latter as to the former . |
| 7 | It comes with equal challenge to the religious as to the irreligious . |
| 8 | Move from the general to the specific and from the simple to the complex . |
| 9 | Assuming a social code rather nearer to the Confucian than to our own , the man who wants to go to Bali might choose to obey his parents although convinced that to stay in England is both to his own disadvantage and of no real advantage to them . |
| 10 | In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division . |
| 11 | For the rest of the book I turn to the second and in particular to what lies behind the mounting opposition to the Treaty , away from the fug and the isolation of Cabinet rooms , palaces and Chancelleries . |
| 12 | I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment . |
| 13 | This little town is best known to the Swiss and to others acquainted with Swiss literature as the " Gotthelf-village " . |
| 14 | Reference may be made to the following and to the papers cited under sections dealing with the skeletomuscular systems in the main regions of the body . |
| 15 | This confined the treatment to the well-off and to demographic insignificance until in the 1760s the Sutton family popularized their cheaper method which was closer to the original simple practice and devoid of expensive medical encrustations . |
| 16 | And the youngest was bathed first to the eldest and as the young one was bathed bed , upstairs to bed , upstairs to bed , you see and so it went on . |
| 17 | He reacted angrily to Tory leader Coun Tony Richmond 's suggestion Labour had ‘ ratted on promises to the disabled and to shopkeepers ’ . |
| 18 | But all seemed lost 11 minutes from the end , with Marseille two goals to the good and in total control . |
| 19 | The excitement of cattle stealing was thought by Charles Liesching to be ‘ as fascinating to the Sinhalese as to the Borderers of old ’ . |
| 20 | Second , related to the first and to the awareness of being in their own skin , they learn that it is proper and effective to signal for what they need . |
| 21 | The cult of self-help , usually visited upon the poor , actually belongs not to the poor but to participants in society , the respectable , self-helping , self-respecting institutions of organised communities and classes . |
| 22 | A resolution from Biggleswade , that the transference of the functions of the Board of Guardians to the County Councils would be detrimental to the poor and to the ratepayers , was strongly supported , as was another from elsewhere ; the newly elected government was to be asked to postpone the operation of the Local Government Act of 1929 . |
| 23 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 24 | ‘ We have a big interest in Russia and Russia has the same in Lithuania — they need access to the Baltic and to ( the Russian enclave of ) Kaliningrad , ’ he said after casting his vote on Sunday . |
| 25 | The fourteenth century is another country to the young but in any case I do n't like to make specific parallels with events in more recent times . |
| 26 | The loss of opportunities can be particularly damaging to the young or to the needy and can exacerbate the rural population changes identified in chapter 4 . |
| 27 | Most of the work and examples seem far more applicable to the former than to the latter . |
| 28 | The following comment could be just as easily applied to the 1980s as to earlier this century . |
| 29 | The first part of the Book of Daniel ( approximately chapters 1–6 ) and the Books of Esther and Judith are more likely to belong to the third than to the second century B.C. They combine edification with entertainment . |
| 30 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |