Example sentences of "[adv] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 2 | Another is Padfoot , a creature with long , smooth hair who will creep unheard alongside a traveller , then suddenly rattle a chain , much to that person 's consternation . |
| 3 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |
| 4 | In fact , it was the sort of autonomy that Dustin had already won on his last two pictures , and would retain , much to many directors ' displeasure , in most of his future ventures . |
| 5 | Factoring itself is not a term that means much to many outsiders , although invoice discounting has the virtue of describing what it does . |
| 6 | It certainly continued to give opportunity for glory , for self-advancement , and for material gain ; in that respect it has not changed much to this day . |
| 7 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 8 | Sadly , Jimmy died in 1989 , but all of the achievements owe much to this dear , departed , friend . |
| 9 | Eva was never afraid to speak her mind , and she had an uncanny knack of putting her finger right on a problem , much to some people 's discomfiture . |
| 10 | The subtle qualities of Hartley Wood glasses , their colours , such as liney gold pink which contains real gold , and their irregular , seedy , striated effects , own much to these discoveries . |
| 11 | Wave after wave of a pleasure bordering on exaltation raised her gently to some peak , ebbed a little , then carried her up again , more fiercely than before . |
| 12 | This proposal , rejected by Iran as failing to address the issue of troop withdrawals to internationally recognised boundaries , involved ( i ) direct talks between Iran and Iraq in each other 's capitals under UN auspices ; ( ii ) the unconditional release of all sick and wounded prisoners of war ( PoWs ) ; and ( iii ) the opening of the Iran-Iraq borders to allow the resumption of civilian travel , especially to each other 's Islamic shrines . |
| 13 | The ubiquity and sensitivity of magnetic minerals , the speed and versatility of measuring equipment and the persistence of magnetic linkages between source and sediment make the emerging methodology ideally suited to both process- and reconstruction-oriented catchment studies and more especially to that integration of the two approaches so strongly advocated in recent time . |
| 14 | Mrs Gould who I am happy to say is quite well has been fully occupied in making drawings of the soft parts of the birds together with appropriate plants flowers berries etc. which will be introduced into my work and I trust from the fund of information I shall be enabled to add that the book will not be void of interest especially to all lovers of ornithology … |
| 15 | Visibility Especially to those bosses with more power . |
| 16 | Given the increasing difficulty which the local authorities are experiencing in offering financial help to their institutions , especially to those polytechnics in urban areas where their parent authorities are under greater pressure from the Department of the Environment to keep rate increases down , it may not be possible for the public sector institutions , try as they may , to keep up their student numbers . |
| 17 | She fell silent , unable to speak openly — especially to this man — of the torment writhing within her . |
| 18 | Newton 's law of gravitation has no explicit time dependence , implying that gravitational effects are transmitted instantaneously to all parts of the Universe ; however , it is a basic postulate of SR that signals travel no faster than the speed of light . |
| 19 | One answer that has been proposed is that they somehow ‘ tunnel ’ their way instantaneously to another part of the Universe — or even to an alternate Universe . |
| 20 | Such case-finding , it is suggested by some , should be applied annually to all people aged over 65 . |
| 21 | In 1295 Edward had confiscated for war purposes the apport ( or fixed due ) which religious houses and estates in England dependent on mother houses abroad , particularly in Normandy , paid annually to those mother houses . |
| 22 | Please or thank you , or complimenting someone on their effort , does n't seem to come naturally to many managers or supervisors . |
| 23 | Please or thank you , or complimenting someone on their effort , does n't seem to come naturally to many managers or supervisors |
| 24 | It comes naturally to some people , but there should be night-school classes in it for the rest of us . |
| 25 | It is the structural proteins which are of real interest , as they go about the business of actually modifying cells ; the immediate early gene mechanism is a piece of molecular biological housekeeping , which probably seems arcane not merely to most non-biochemists but to biochemists as well . |
| 26 | Yet saying aloud to each other 's face , ‘ We do n't want to remain together in the next life ’ would amount to saying , ‘ No love ever existed between us , and no love exists between us now . ’ |
| 27 | Then your mother and grandmother read its scandals aloud to each other in the kitchen , with a monotonous note of sustained outrage that was never sated . |
| 28 | They are looking through the directory board in the foyer of the RCA building , reading aloud to each other all the names of firms they find ridiculous ( ‘ How about this ? |
| 29 | You may work out that the two holes have to be of a suitable size for an individual ( ? ) to put two fingers in , possibly near enough to each other to put two fingers of the same hand in , and , having established this scale , it seems likely that the object referred to as the finger stop is only centimetres removed , rather than kilometres removed . |
| 30 | Looseknit networks are hard to deal with chiefly because a multi-valued speaker variable like social network involves comparing speakers who differ from each other in certain respects — let us say in respect of the multiplexity of the ties which they have contracted at the workplace — but are still similar enough to each other in other related respects to make such a comparison meaningful . |