Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 Everything links , from cosmology to microbiology .
4 Harrison handed over the binoculars and twitched the wheel to port .
5 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 .
6 Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved .
7 They began to relax , Delaney and Forster leaving the wheel to Lawton .
8 The capping has brought down the poll tax bill in the borough to £339.22 , a reduction of nearly £14 .
9 Well , Eleanor divorced King Louis , who preferred religion to women anyway , and married Henry , who then became Duke of Aquitaine through her .
10 His transfer from religion to art was now complete .
11 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 .
12 Arthur restores liberty and right religion to Belgae .
13 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 .
14 But again , he does not mean by this to reduce religion to emotion , though he is clear that emotion plays a part in it .
15 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. ,
16 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 .
17 Above Thwaite the Pennine Way branches off towards the right , behind the intake wall , while a signpost to the left reads " Bridleway to Keld " .
18 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 ) .
19 She looked from her grandson 's angry glower to Caroline 's pale face .
20 As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed .
21 A drawing by Webber , the artist assigned by the Admiralty to Cook 's third voyage , of Keelakekula Bay inscribed ‘ the Place where Captain Cook was killed ’ is reputed to have already found a buyer not far below its original purchase price .
22 Fairbank retired from the Admiralty to Hove .
23 He first used it to wipe some of the filth from the priest , then lifted the sponge to Rafferty 's mouth , forcing it in .
24 Courts have a discretion , in special circumstances , to award an alternative remedy to damages for breach of contract .
25 Whether the courts would extend this remedy to information in documents which were accidentally released as opposed to surrepticiously obtained was answered in English and American Insurance Co Ltd v Herbert Smith [ 1988 ] FSR 232 .
26 He then complemented these observations by giving the appropriate remedy to patients who displayed similar symptoms and signs , and found that he had discovered a therapeutic tool eminently superior to any in use at that time .
27 Figure 7 ‘ The Country of the Iguanadon ’ , frontispiece to Mantell 's Wonders of Geology , eighth edition , 1864 .
28 Frontispiece to Galileo 's Dialogo i due massimi sistemi del mundo ( 1632 ) .
29 At Vergina , later in the fourth century , the quality of recently discovered fresco-painting suggests an established tradition which might go back to Archelaos ' time ; and continuity is also suggested by Pliny 's statement ( Natural History xxxv.62 ) that Zeuxis gave Archelaos a painting of Pan , who was to be patron deity of the third-century Macedonian king Antigonos Gonatas ( see the coin illustrated as frontispiece to W. Tarn ( 1913 ) Antigonos Gonatas ) .
30 Another characteristic of western European parliamentary democracies is the pattern of fairly frequent change from socialist to conservative governments and vice-versa .
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