Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter we witness Rose being guided by the Fool towards Pagoda-land , where she finds the salamander , then back to the court where her kindness to both the salamander and her persecuted old father is rewarded by the transformation of the Prince to his real shape and his victory over all contenders to win Rose , rescue her father and banish Epine . |
| 2 | It 's not going to help anyone , and will be a considerable loss to both the scientific and naval communities , if you three gentlemen elect for self-immolation . |
| 3 | At a press conference after the meeting , Antall emphasised that the declaration did not signal the birth of a new organization in opposition to either the Warsaw Pact or COMECON . |
| 4 | Moderator I 'm going to ask the general assembly to turn their mind to quite a different subject now . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom is a signatory to both the Convention ( 1951 ) and the Covenant ( 1976 ) although neither has been incorporated into our domestic law . |
| 6 | Diagrams for development are being selected for their usefulness to both the teaching-learning process and course assessment requirements . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes , old boy — and I speak as one who has changed a good many nappies in his time and is not a total stranger to either the washing-up bowl or the kitchen stove — sometimes I wish we were still living in the good old bad old days . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Nor I , ’ she countered , in a ridiculous attempt to even the score . |
| 9 | Use of a chart prevents repetition of work that has already been carried out by blocking any attempt to reapply the same rule in the same place . |
| 10 | In addition to acting as local pilot to some of the remoter islands during our stay , there were trips by car to all the more interesting spots on shore such as the old village of Skara Brae , the Churchill Barrier and the Italian Chapel . |
| 11 | That position is to be contrasted with what has happened in New Zealand and Australia ( which have relaxed the rule to approximately the extent that I favour ) : there is no evidence of any complaints of this nature coming from those countries . |
| 12 | Due to pressure on places the Faculties of Arts , Law , Medicine and Social Sciences are able to offer deferred entry to only a small proportion of applicants . |
| 13 | I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough . |
| 14 | The sources also reacted favourably to a statement published yesterday by the erstwhile Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to around a third of a new cabinet . |
| 15 | Opposition sources reacted favourably to a statement by the former Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to about a third of the cabinet seats . |
| 16 | Together these two concepts give the key to both the sculpture and the inspiration for its bold commission by The Royal Bank of Scotland through the good offices of a non-executive director , Angus Grossart . |
| 17 | They are both trusted men and the key to both the gallery door and another for Sir Ralph 's chamber hang on a hook beside them . |
| 18 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 19 | Doing so regularly will , over months or years , increase the risk of harm to almost every body function . |
| 20 | He can create overall rhythms and within them short phrase rhythms , but the basis of them all is that they exist in groups and by being efficient in action and appropriate to the context give pleasure to both the performer and the onlooker . ’ |
| 21 | There was an armful of Mills and Boon love stories on the mantelpiece bearing witness to nearly a year of quiet , no television or radio , only romances by candlelight . |
| 22 | First , in the classroom the teacher is giving recognition to only a part of themselves , and a failing one at that when he concentrates on schoolwork . |
| 23 | Other forms of action , non-legal , are available including the referral of a complaint alleging maladministration to either the Parliamentary or Local Ombudsman ( See Chapter 7 ) and use of a Liaison Committee , if one is in existence in the area , in order to air any grievances and seek their resolution . |
| 24 | My parents are dead now , and I moved away from our village to quite a big town in the hope that I would make friends . |
| 25 | Since the Club is , literally , on the very edge of the wide beach , from the very moment of waking in the morning you are on the spot for that pre-breakfast swim , the windsurfing lesson , a ‘ cruise ’ on a pedalo or a mini yacht , or a walk along the beach of white shells and sand to either the resort of M'Diq or Smir Restinga . |
| 26 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 27 | One of the school 's main aims is to raise enough money for a second indoor sports base , which would be of benefit to both the school and the local community . |
| 28 | There are several different relationships between bacteria and larger organisms : symbiosis is a relationship of mutual benefit to both the host and the microorganism . |
| 29 | The importance of temporary jobs as a way back into work for persons who have been unemployed can be seen by reference to both the LFS and PSI 's Unemployed Flow Survey . |
| 30 | A straightforward , attractive , and testable interpretation of Sag & Hankamer 's suggestion is that ellipses are interpreted with reference to only a representation of the superficial features of a text , while model interpretive anaphors are interpreted with reference to only a mental model . |