Example sentences of "to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | have also interpreted an increased reactivity at position -46 to singlet oxygen occurring only in a ternary active complex , as an increase in bending allowing better contacts between the two proteins [ 32 ] . |
| 2 | The retreating coasts include those due to submergence and those due to active cliff erosion by wave attack . |
| 3 | In the following sentences , for instance , the entailment ( unilateral in each case ) is in the ‘ wrong ’ direction ( i.e. from superordinate to hyponym ) : |
| 4 | ‘ You 're going to be- ’ |
| 5 | There are even bigger issues : the role which Lenin played in preparing the ground for Stalin , an objective assessment of Trotsky 's contribution , and the feasibility of alternatives to industrialisation at the end of the 1920s . |
| 6 | Rather than seeing the exploitation of the peasantry as the means to industrialisation Bukharin insisted that ‘ a qualitative increase in the productivity of national labour , and a determined fight against non-productive expenditure … are the main sources of accumulation . ’ |
| 7 | In retrospect Bukharin 's ‘ Notes of An Economist ’ stand out as a clearsighted warning against the headlong rush to industrialisation — without due regard to proportionality — that was embarked upon with the FFYP . |
| 8 | West of the river lay a quite distinct series of societies , differentiated from each other by the varying pressures and responses to industrialisation , geography and language . |
| 9 | Together the Junkers and the middle classes located the cause of their anxieties about Germany , their reaction to industrialisation and problems with the formation of national identity as lying outside German nationality , in the threat to German nationality . |
| 10 | In fact , the system developed during the transition to industrialisation in the early part of the present century . |
| 11 | The capitalist mode of production , for example , developed in Britain prior to industrialisation . |
| 12 | The same applies to the situation between nations : inequalities between developed countries have not declined but this does not necessarily mean wholesale rejection of the basic claims that a certain level of education is a necessary prerequisite to industrialisation . |
| 13 | To facilitate technology transfer from research to industrialisation . |
| 14 | Many people dislike its close connection to industrialisation , and would concur with George Gissing 's abhorrence of machinery , expressed in 1895 in his novel , Eve 's Ransom . |
| 15 | The church was closed for repair and restoration during the years 1887–8–9 , when the old ruinous south chapel was pulled down to make room for the present commodious aisles , the reason for this being the increase in population due to industrialisation in the village . |
| 16 | What is more interesting is to discover how far these were due to industrialisation , and used the same methods and technology as were transforming industry . |
| 17 | But in passing , as they may be thought to have done , from journalism to fiction , Naipaul 's feelings , and their objects , underwent a change . |
| 18 | For a truthful picture of India in 1947 , you must turn to fiction . |
| 19 | Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner Faber , £5.99 READING Proofs and Three Parables , George Steiner 's latest collection of short stories ( he prefers to call them ‘ allegories of argument ’ ) , it is not difficult to see why dialectical method should be something that is more common to modern philosophy than to fiction . |
| 20 | The need for varying criteria extends even to fiction stock , in which field most of Slote 's own studies were carried out . |
| 21 | This raises questions about ways of seeing and remembering that are important to fiction . |
| 22 | No wonder , then , if realism , which makes a claim to know past and present in unequivocal terms , returned to fiction and repossessed the field . |
| 23 | C. P. Snow had been a scientist at Christ 's College , Cambridge before he turned to fiction ; William Golding , a Salisbury schoolteacher who gave up teaching with the success of Lord of the Flies , has never exactly written an academic fiction , but The Spire ( 1964 ) is about the enclosed scholastic world of medieval architecture . |
| 24 | Actively employed at sea for nearly twenty years , for the most part in Far Eastern seas which can legitimately be called romantic , Conrad had no need to add extra colour to his raw material , nor did he have to go beyond fact to find episodes , incidents and nuggets of action to transfer to fiction . |
| 25 | Such relationships belong to problem novels , rather than to novels of action , to fiction where a place is not the scene in which action develops but a certain spot where characters place themselves in order to talk . |
| 26 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 27 | A useful definition of what is usually meant by the term ‘ class reader ’ is provided by Foggin in Protherough 's book , Developing Response to Fiction . |
| 28 | It is unusual for us to devote much space to fiction . |
| 29 | The potential of a possible-world approach to fiction is successfully demonstrated in a typology of genres based on the nature of the accessibility relations between the actual world and the worlds functioning as actual in the universes projected by different types of texts ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 30 | The metaphor of ventriloquy is therefore as appropriate to criticism as it is to fiction , since object texts , like fictional worlds , have no autonomous existence . |