Example sentences of "to [art] [noun sg] of [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed the existing system worked to the enrichment of only a small number ; national benefit could be derived from legitimate commerce with a fertile Africa only if the slave trade did not create misleadingly attractive alternatives . |
| 2 | But the non-legal aspect of citizenship is also vital , and appropriate institutional and procedural arrangements need to be developed that will promote the practice of citizenship and harness senses of national community , social cohesion and ‘ civic virtue ’ to the benefit of both the state and the community of citizens . |
| 3 | Warranties and guarantees are thus generally to the benefit of both the buyer and the seller , but there is one area where their interests do not coincide . |
| 4 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 5 | A The received wisdom indicates that to restrain timber across its width will lead to the fracture of either the glue line of the lateral end piece , or the splitting of the board itself . |
| 6 | The theme of accountability is crucial to the operation of both the private and public sectors . |
| 7 | They would never get more than a phrase completed before an argument would break out as to the merit of either the words or the music . |
| 8 | Even if it did n't lead to the elimination of all the older , ‘ flawed ’ models , a narrow range of ‘ new ’ species might well reduce the older ones to huddled groups in farming heritage parks . |
| 9 | Much of the savings , in the official view , will arise from the new structure 's needs for fewer managers , but even that is less than convincing for there is great scope for an increase in bureaucracy , from the need to dispatch the business deriving from the newly acquired functions to the formation of twice the number of existing education , roads and social work departments . ’ |
| 10 | Nevertheless , I was told that I had ‘ contributed nothing constructive ’ to the life of either the house or the school . |
| 11 | There is a £50,000 bonus available to the winner of both the Irish Champion and Cheltenham 's premier hurdle . |
| 12 | And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me . |
| 13 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |
| 14 | Geomagnetic north is not to be confused with the geographic north pole , at 90N , about 770 miles to the north of both the magnetic and geomagnetic poles . |
| 15 | The requirements of the sectors which are expanding today bear little resemblance to the requirements of the industries of the last century , or indeed to the industry of only a few decades ago . |
| 16 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 17 | Copious quantities of Champagne wine were consumed by such a large influx of visitors , enabling the vineyards to flourish and the vignerons to prosper , and leading to the export of both the wine and its reputation throughout the growing markets of Europe . |
| 18 | This tension led on to attempts to fuse the government parties in 1920 , to the failure of almost every government policy , and to complete deadlock by 1921 . |
| 19 | The ‘ combat ’ called for here would certainly have been ‘ risky ’ for it would have led inevitably to the destruction of both the Republican party and the Reagan administration . |
| 20 | An attempt was made , at least by de Gaulle , to link riots in Syria in May 1945 with what happened in Algeria on VE Day ; but the scale of the French reaction in Algeria to the murder of over a hundred European settlers and associated atrocities left at least a thousand and perhaps as many as six thousand Algerian dead . |
| 21 | In 1948 a certain M. ( Micky ) K. Watson was elected on to the committee , beginning a special relationship with the Club that was to last some 30 years and prove instrumental in its recovery , simultaneously adding significantly to the quality of both the Club 's social and golfing amenities . |
| 22 | Third , the war reminded us that where the combination of manipulation and censorship is used to exercise control and power it leads to a dehumanisation of both the controlled and the controller . |
| 23 | The local authority fixes the amount subject to a maximum of twice the personal community charge . |
| 24 | After a violent struggle this grew to a membership of around a hundred within three years . |
| 25 | Its telescope will have a mirror 60 cm across , and will be cooled by liquid helium to a temperature of only a few degrees above absolute zero ; and its detectors will be sensitive to wavelengths up to a maximum of 120 micrometres . |
| 26 | It 's also graduated from a tiny hall in the early days to the professional stage , playing to an audience of over a thousand . |