Example sentences of "[conj] to [art] " in BNC.

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31 If testing shows that our attachment to Christian friends or to a particular lifestyle is stronger than our attachment to God himself , we must ask whether these supports for faith are in danger of becoming substitutes .
32 It can also be used to attach buoyant materials to the tank base , or to a concealed heavy rock .
33 What makes some people happy for example , is that they are committed to a cause or to a person ; their happiness derives from something other than the pursuit of happiness .
34 When listening to records , or to a band at a gig , even if you are checking out what the bass player is doing you still hear the whole thing .
35 To the far right are two output jacks offering Pre-Fade input ( for connecting other preamps into the D12 's power amp ) and Post-Fade output ( for hooking up to other power amps or to a desk or mixer ) .
36 Again , although they and their families enjoy a standard of living comparable to that of many white-collar families , their social worlds are still to a large extent separate from those of the latter , except where linkages of kinship , or to a lesser degree of neighbourhood , can span the social distance between them .
37 The definition of non-equity shares is widely drawn , so that any right to a dividend or to a redemption payment which is for a limited amount will have the effect that the shares will be considered non-equity shares , irrespective of the other rights they may enjoy .
38 The latter may be due to carelessness , or to a principle which has not been grasped .
39 It is salutary to begin our exploration of English mysticism with Rolle , because he reminds us that the mystical experiment could lead the unwary into all kinds of spiritual and physical dangers or to a sterile solipsism .
40 A person can not by reference to any contract terms or to a notice given to persons generally or to particular persons exclude or restrict his liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence .
41 This rather unusual development may have been due to the influence of Hu Yaobang in the Ministry of Propaganda or to a younger generation of journalists who demanded more honesty in their reporting .
42 If we regard our guide as simply looking for advice as to what moral rules are correct , unrelated to a particular decision which he is called upon to make or to a particular situation in which he is involved then it will be impartiality of the first and last types which are particularly relevant : that is , the formal requirement that legislation is to be universalised , and the material requirement that the decisions made are based on a consideration of all relevant factors .
43 The majority of expatriates choose to send their children to an international school or to a school following their home country 's educational curriculum .
44 Postbasic certificate and statemented ( the latter are generally shorter ) courses are validated by the boards and a list of current courses and training establishments can be obtained by writing directly to the boards or to a delegated careers advice service .
45 Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies .
46 A man can donate his sperm to a clinic or to a woman privately .
47 And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean .
48 On this aspect of his collection he has said : ‘ Within this field , I try to obtain beautifully bound copies that belonged to a royal library , to a prince , or to a famous bibliophile .
49 But it is hard indeed to see how that axiom itself could be made more convincing either to a purely humanist philosophy or to a theology which maintained that God is something more and other than the obverse of our finitude .
50 The specimen pictured is displaying , either to an adjacent female in courtship , or to a competing male as a warning .
51 Again we can ask whether the special needs of girls are attributed to their biology or to a notion of femaleness which implies some form of cultural unity ?
52 This sad state of affairs may be attributed to feckless parents or to a society which projects its standards and values in such an ambivalent way .
53 Gifted children are not peculiar to one ethnic group or to a particular social class .
54 Rights can be earned ( to a salary at the end of the month or to a place on the Board ) , they can be purchased ( by paying an entrance fee ) , they can be entered into in all sorts of ways ( white has the right to move first in chess ) .
55 Between 1868 and 1885 , only about one-fifth of all English provincial titles were not politically committed to the Liberals or to the Conservatives or to a combination of both .
56 This variety is another reason why Orcs and Goblins appeal to so many players , as the number of different troops types enables you to tailor an army to your own style of play or to a particular opponent .
57 If you wish to switch to a new scheme , this could either be to another company scheme or to a personal pension .
58 Although some people may not realise it , if they are paying NI contributions they are almost certainly already contributing towards an additional pension : either to the State scheme , known as SERPS ; or to a contracted-out company pension scheme .
59 Delegation will be essential , either to an individual governor , as recommended in the Warnock Report , or to a sub-committee on duties relating to special needs .
60 The European Commission has set up definitive measures to stop imports of computer chips from South Korea being dumped within the Community : finance ministers decided on Monday that imports of dynamic RAMs from Korea would either be subject to import duties of 24.7% or to a pricing deal worked out with the three main chip producers , Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , Hyundai Electronics Industries Co Ltd and Goldstar Electron Co Ltd ; anti-dumping duties had been levied at 10.1% ; the Big Three took 25% of the Community in 1990 from just 6% in 1986 .
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