Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is not known from that study , however , whether the reduction in intraduodenal bilirubin output resulted from hyperglycaemia induced alterations in gastric emptying of the meal , alterations in endogenous CCK secretion , or alterations in the responsiveness of the gall bladder to CCK .
2 Cholinergic blockade with atropine reduces contractile responses of the gall bladder to CCK , and action similar to the effect of hyperglycaemia on gall bladder contraction induced by CCK .
3 A dynastic match : the marriage of Prince Napoleon to Princesse Clotilde of Piedmont , January 1859 .
4 General Winter may have repelled invaders from Napoleon to Hitler , but he is a domestic tyrant from whom successive regimes have sought to escape by pushing south to more friendly climes and warm-water ports .
5 Even in the sixties , the words ‘ a tendency to deprave and corrupt ’ had led the courts from manners to morals .
6 Everything links , from cosmology to microbiology .
7 Harrison handed over the binoculars and twitched the wheel to port .
8 He fastened the panel from an old radio to the headboard with sticky tape and tied the driving wheel to Pete 's cardboard box with string .
9 Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved .
10 They began to relax , Delaney and Forster leaving the wheel to Lawton .
11 The capping has brought down the poll tax bill in the borough to £339.22 , a reduction of nearly £14 .
12 Between 1984 and 1991 , the volume of leasing in the UK grew from £3.9bn to £12.6bn , at an average rate of 18% a year .
13 From mid-May to mid-June the Mozarts stayed in Naples , where they visited Vesuvius and Pompeii , went to the opera at the beautiful San Carlo theatre , and were received by the King and Queen of Naples .
14 Well , Eleanor divorced King Louis , who preferred religion to women anyway , and married Henry , who then became Duke of Aquitaine through her .
15 His transfer from religion to art was now complete .
16 Though Eliot refuses to treat the uneducated merely as ‘ savages ’ , his essential ideas about the indispensable contribution of religion to culture are presented as being derived from the study of a less complex model .
17 Arthur restores liberty and right religion to Belgae .
18 In comparison to the way in which fraud , obfuscation and inanity have been able to hold out in other fields — from politics and religion to scholarship and law — it is an impressive record .
19 But again , he does not mean by this to reduce religion to emotion , though he is clear that emotion plays a part in it .
20 In a poem continually relating Christian religion to fertility ritual Eliot 's painted annunciation hints at the most primitive rites not only in its ‘ nimbus ’ but also in its drought-stricken landscape , where ‘ The wilderness is cracked and browned. ,
21 Dawson 's Religion and Culture stressing Tylor 's importance and relating theories of primitive religion to Christianity was selected by Eliot as one of his ‘ Books of the Year ’ in 1950 .
22 Above Thwaite the Pennine Way branches off towards the right , behind the intake wall , while a signpost to the left reads " Bridleway to Keld " .
23 From the Green Quarter strike north another half mile along a road and then go eastwards along a bridleway to Sadgill in the slender valley of Longsleddale ( 2 miles ) .
24 She looked from her grandson 's angry glower to Caroline 's pale face .
25 Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl 's tight implementation timetable .
26 Mr Kelman believes that the net result of the Law Commission proposal will be to increase the risks to companies because hackers who often tell their ‘ victims ’ about their insecure systems will be afraid to do so .
27 The samples are tested as part of a process to minimize health risks to miners .
28 And the risks to youngsters are growing .
29 Those who deal with firearms are generally aware of the attendant risks , and the days when those involved in motoring and other forms of transport could make light of the risks to life have now long passed , as various air , sea , rail , and road disasters have occurred .
30 There were some risks to life and limb , however , over which she had no control ; how could she ever have guessed that she would outlive her son Robert by almost exactly 10 years ?
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