Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Koreans went voluntarily or forcibly to Japan , mostly to engage in the most menial of jobs . |
| 2 | I should be the last to imply that a Member of Parliament ought to subordinate his judgement of what is wise or right to even the most overwhelming majority of opinion . |
| 3 | The announcement concludes a 33-year worldwide hunt for Mengele , who stood on the unloading ramp at Auschwitz sending Jews left to the gas chambers or right to the camp with a flick of his thumb . |
| 4 | Among the other benefits are database storage and simple recall of methods , spectra or data , multi-wavelength scanning ( left to right or right to left ) , multi-standard calibration , statistical analysis of calibration data , molecular weight determination and positive or negative polarity options . |
| 5 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 6 | Depending on which light you have on , the pattern will either go from left to right or right to left . |
| 7 | Structural models of hemisphere specialisation which posit that perceptual asymmetries arise because the brain structures that deal with a particular class of stimuli are lateralised exclusively or predominantly to one hemisphere rather than the other can not cope with this variability . |
| 8 | Reports come from Sudan , where the harshness of nature is compounded by man 's inhumanity to man — or rather to women and children ; and from Zimbabwe , where drought is putting many lives at risk , especially , as usual , those of young children . |
| 9 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |
| 10 | The Council ( Boule ) was not , however , the sovereign body : that was , or was supposed to be , the Assembly ( Ekklesia ) , open to all Athenians — or rather to all free , male , adult citizens . |
| 11 | One day I overheard my mother speaking to a friend , or rather to an acquaintance , since she was clearly deemed worthy only of instant or cliche speech . |
| 12 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 13 | From Highways Department — Shared Use Cycle Tracks , Baberton from the eastern side of Baberton Mains Loan and extending east and south east for a distance of 175 metres or thereby to a point immediately north of 8 , Baberton Crescent . |
| 14 | It 's obviously best that he continues to believe you 're at the bottom of the Danube , or halfway to the Black Sea by now . ’ |
| 15 | Other options are to change to less temperature sensitive chemicals , again from alkali to solvent , or perhaps to abrasive and/or an increase in concentration . |
| 16 | I had intended to emerge while Mr Cardinal was still a reasonable distance away , so that he would see me in good time and suppose I was on my way to the summerhouse , or perhaps to the gardener 's lodge . |
| 17 | Whether you go to East Anglia to enjoy its individual rural charm , or perhaps to the annual Aldeburgh Festival , you will enjoy a visit to the charming Suffolk towns of Framlingham and Orford , both of which feature a splendid medieval castle . |
| 18 | There is a strong temptation to paste what I access into what I 'm writing , or perhaps to forward a copy instantly to a colleague with a dozen taps on the keyboard . |
| 19 | The walls and the floors of her newly redecorated palace -rather garish many thought — are bare , The carpets and the pictures have been created and flown to one of her other homes — perhaps to Juan-les-Pins , perhaps top one of her two places in Paris , perhaps to the house of her fabulously rich businessman son on London , or perhaps to his island in the Seychelles , Her other son , a naval officer who will later pass , briefly and tragically , through this story , dined in his mothers palace one night in October 1978 and , pointing to the one picture remaining on the wall , said , " There 's one they forgot to take . |
| 20 | She 'd leave early and go to Les Eyzies as Mademoiselle Lavaux had suggested , or perhaps to La Roque-Gageac , said to be the most beautiful village in France . |
| 21 | It might seem that fax 's current growth in popularity is attributable to a technological breakthrough or perhaps to some new commercial need to communicate pictorially as well as texturally . |
| 22 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 23 | Previous investigations have demonstrated how provision of emotionally relevant information can influence the way people interpret their own behaviour and in turn whether they respond emotionally or non-emotionally to a given situation . |
| 24 | Last year small river craft were brought in by air or overland to Kalewa and driven down the Chindwin to the Irrawaddy . |
| 25 | It is no coincidence that the subject refers to an inanimate being in all five sentences where only to is appropriate ( ( 14 ) and ( 17 ) — ( 20 ) ) . |
| 26 | You would therefore need to be able to buy the Metro for about £5,200 cash or less to be better off financing the deal yourself . |
| 27 | Nolan and Sam Yaeger often bed the same girl , more or less to spite each other , it seems . |
| 28 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 29 | It increases from more than one in every 2,000 births where the mother is aged 20 years or less to one in 60 where the mother is over 45 years old . |
| 30 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |