Example sentences of "[prep] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disengagement is just one of many social theories which underlie what Phillipson and Walker ( 1986 ) call ‘ Acquiescent Functionalism ’ — ‘ a body of thought about ageing which attributes the causes of most of the problems of old people to the natural consequences of physical decrescence and mental inflexibility or the failures of individual adjustment to ageing and retirement , instead of to contemporary developments of the state , the economy and social inequality ’ . |
| 2 | The distance of the Virgo cluster is approximately 15 Mpc , and so the signal is reduced to for the conversion of a mass of to gravitational radiation . |
| 3 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 4 | This has proven to be the case in all of the uses of to examined to date . |
| 5 | Granted the potential meaning of to postulated above , these two general categories provide a clear illustration of Guillaume 's principle ( 1984 : 134 – 5 ) that actualizing a potential meaning is an operation of thought which takes place while the speaker is mentally constructing a sentence and which he intercepts when he has found the representation which he feels as adequate for what he wants to express . |
| 6 | This use , then , also follows from the potential meaning of to postulated above . |
| 7 | Budhoo also explains why the IMF never suggests cuts to defence , police or public control measures instead of to basic services and subsidies for the poor : ‘ It 's one thing to push around countries and say , OK you have to treat the poor that way ’ ’ . |
| 8 | The view of to proposed here allows one , furthermore , to account for the two major uses of the to infinitive . |
| 9 | If his leaning is towards the physical side , or his leaning towards to biological side , to take chemistry , biology and physics , to take those subjects in the sixth form at A level , and then come straight to university and develop his inclinations in the way that he is here to do . |
| 10 | What such compounds ‘ taste ’ like to other animals is difficult to ascertain , but sometimes very different flavours are due to quite subtle chemical differences between compounds , the sweet taste of vanillin , for example , giving way to the hot and pungent zingerone when condensed with acetone and its double bond reduced , while pungency itself can be explained as to its relative strength by the replacement of particular groups in the molecule . |
| 11 | And as I say we did the mass picket down in Inspector was coming straight up t an the Sergeant to y you know what 's like to leading er people and he said , Now what 's the what you going to do what 's what you want this morning ? |
| 12 | I got on the bus with some of my friends with whom I went with to primary school . |
| 13 | She says she needs the car to get around with to small children . |
| 14 | I do n't know what I think in view of what you say , Mary , go into to great detail as to what went wrong with this , erm because I can cut that short because the fact is that Russell eventually admitted that this programme simply was n't viable . |
| 15 | The dove-tailing of ideas into to mutual benefit which maybe also aspects of sound . |
| 16 | It does n't turn us into to super soul winners . |
| 17 | It was a dirty trick to put it into to poor Mary Lou 's desk said Jean , she ca n't help being scared of things I suppose , she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw it , I should of thought any joker in our form would of been decent enough to popped it into say Alicia 's desk , not if it happened to be Alicia who popped it in said a sly voice , you do so love playing tricks do n't you Alicia ? |
| 18 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 19 | They 've got to condense them down into to micro size , you know like the micro chip |
| 20 | THIS photograph shows the staff at the Royal Bank 's Edinburgh West End Office in 1922 shortly after they had moved from to temporary premises at . |
| 21 | Silence ! the resolutions before you and the second , the working party and to consider and coordinate from to endless . |
| 22 | The UCTA is concerned to regulate the use of clauses which exclude liability for failure to perform , for certain other types of tortious acts , and for failure to comply with certain warranties implied into contracts for the supply of goods and services under the SGA and SGSA ( for instance as to good title under the SGA ) . |
| 23 | A final point is that the explanatory import of the reporting is such as to back trivial and conservative ‘ solutions ’ . |
| 24 | You can imagine , for most types of stress reaction , a scale running from mild/everyday/once-in-a-while/not-much-to-bother-about through to severe/ debilitating/chronic/better-do-something-quick . |
| 25 | I 'm more interested in developing what would be a campaign policy er during the course of tomorrow right through to early June of next year . |
| 26 | The move towards much more efficient methods of heating like convector heaters right on through to central heating , so that you could use more just that back parlour where the cooker was that kept the place warm . |
| 27 | The Amp Clinic can cope with everything from routine servicing , valve replacement , troubleshooting , tweaking and hot-rodding through to general refurbishing and even rebuilding an amplifier from a cardboard box of bits . |
| 28 | Er street muggings , through to armed robbery . |
| 29 | exactly half way through to changing design , so it was nothing like |
| 30 | Our early thinking , at the moment , is that we should seek ways , but without major upheaval , to bring HNCs and HNDs under the ‘ general SVQ umbrella ’ because this would give those advanced awards a rightful place in the framework of Scottish Vocational Qualifications and at the same time simplify and clarify progression routes from introductory through to advanced qualifications and beyond . |