Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything links , from cosmology to microbiology . |
| 2 | Harrison handed over the binoculars and twitched the wheel to port . |
| 3 | His transfer from religion to art was now complete . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But again , he does not mean by this to reduce religion to emotion , though he is clear that emotion plays a part in it . |
| 7 | 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. , |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Another characteristic of western European parliamentary democracies is the pattern of fairly frequent change from socialist to conservative governments and vice-versa . |
| 12 | When the militarily defeated Czarist regime collapsed early in 1917 , Lenin returned from exile to push for an immediate socialist revolution against the weak parliamentary regime which succeeded it . |
| 13 | Returning from exile to head the newly formed Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , Prestes was imprisoned for nine years in 1935 for leading an unsuccessful uprising against the dictator Getúlio Vargas ( 1930-45 ) and on his release was elected to the Senate with the highest personal vote of any candidate . |
| 14 | Several , including Taki , returned from exile to contest the elections . |
| 15 | However , a fully global analysis of these development indices shows that the geographic distribution of high living standards is bimodal , with a closer association to temperature than latitude ( see figure ) . |
| 16 | In general , ten welcomed the proposal , including from Argentina ( ‘ I think this type of study is necessary ’ ) , of the Christian Conference of Asia ( ‘ I join others who have welcomed the idea of linking up theological thinking to development issues . ’ ) |
| 17 | Finally , as Astbury comments , libraries would claim to contribute the critical component in the market , to provide the counterweight to bestsellerdom , and to contribute substantially to sustaining a wide range of serious books . |
| 18 | It goes far towards helping to account not only for the high and growing degree of relative autonomy from non-Nazi élites enjoyed by Hitler and the Nazi leadership , but also — as the counterweight to terror , repression , and intimidation — for the weakness of resistance to the regime . |
| 19 | In windy weather there will be a definite tendency for the fuselage to weathercock round into wind unless the tail-wheel or skid is chocked . |
| 20 | From Metropolis to R2-D2 , C3-P0 and Robocop , only the robot able to demonstrate human characteristics has proven capable of inspiring the writers of science fiction and capturing the imagination of the public . |
| 21 | The three groups competing for the right to develop the technology for high definition television are expected to sign an accord to pool resources to develop the standard , the Los Angeles Times reported : it said signing of the pact , which could accelerate introduction of HDTV , was imminent ; the groups involve General Instrument Corp and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Zenith Electronics Corp and AT&T Co , and Philips Electronics NV , Thomson SA , Compression Labs Inc and the National Broadcasting Co arm of General Electric Co . |
| 22 | People follow in search of work , adding population concentration to capital accumulation . |
| 23 | Monarchs themselves encouraged such attitudes with spectacular ceremonial , from coronation to funeral . |
| 24 | Turning to the prices of individual stocks , in many cases the price is above par ( £100 ) because of the fall in interest rates , so investors have to take into account the fact that if they hold the stock to maturity they will incur a capital loss . |
| 25 | I support strongly the development of housing associations in view of my experience with my local authority in Sevenoaks , which successfully sold the whole of its housing stock to West Kent housing association . |
| 26 | Also at Horstead Keynes are the carriage sheds where work is undertaken to restore coaching stock to working order . |
| 27 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |
| 28 | New ventures that embody a high degree of risk , for example in high technology areas , are often undertaken by newly formed companies financed by the allocation of stock to group members . |
| 29 | The Green Consumer Guide is subtitled ‘ from shampoo to champagne ’ — the implication being that if only we learn to consume better , we can go on consuming more . ’ |
| 30 | In addition to the Appropriation Accounts , there are many statutory bodies that have responsibilities to produce accounts , to have them audited by the C. and A.G. and to present the result to Parliament . |