Example sentences of "[conj] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An electoral chain of command pushes orders up so that the people control things at the same time as those in authority are responsible down to the people or to the government of the people . |
| 2 | This problem will be discussed later ( pp. 392–3 ) ; but it is worth dwelling a moment on the evidence that a life of spiritual adventure , or of intellectual adventure in the rapidly growing schools , was a rival in appeal to the traditional life of hunting and fighting of the European ruling classes , or to the life of mercantile enterprise or travel . |
| 3 | The German Ideology makes no detailed references to specific studies of primitive societies or to the work of anthropologist . |
| 4 | Hence there are no readily understandable anatomical or physiological correlates to the excesses or deficiencies of Ying , Yang , or Qi or to the expression of liver and spleen disharmonies . |
| 5 | Also generally unknown is the extent to which decline is due to the abandonment of routes or to the reduction of frequencies . |
| 6 | None of the other Arabic sources cited refers either to a visit earlier than the one in 823 or to the presence of Mehmed Sah on this pilgrimage ; and , on the latter point , it may be significant that in the account in the Arabic sources of Molla Fenari 's departure from Egypt ( 22 Rabi " I 823/6 April 1420 ) the presence of his son-in-law , but not of his son , is mentioned . |
| 7 | At the very least , the precaution of staining thin sections with Alizarin Red S and potassium ferricyanide ( Chapter 4 ) is required as a rapid and sensitive method of determining whether variation in CL intensity is likely to be due to fluctuations in Mn activator or to the presence of Fe as a quencher . |
| 8 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
| 9 | So , whether we look purely to the way in which a corpus sustains itself internally , or to the production of new perspectives for the corpus , or to the intermingling of different corpuses , or finally to standing outside a corpus altogether and developing a critique of it , we can see that reason is exhibited within and given sense by a framework with its own tacit rules . |
| 10 | In other words , what occurs , after the contract is made , in relation either to the possession of the goods or to the payment of the price , can have no bearing upon the operation of Rule 1 . |
| 11 | Picture a graduated scale of improbabilities , analogous to the scale of sizes from atoms to galaxies , or to the scale of times from picoseconds to aeons . |
| 12 | There can not be many women who run their homes as efficiently and as mechanically as a factory , or to the kind of strict timetables that the domestic manuals printed a generation or two ago would have us follow . |
| 13 | Neither do feelings of ‘ having too much to get through ’ relate to the number of children the housewife has , or to the kind of aids and amenities she possesses . |
| 14 | As more data accumulate it may turn out that there are in fact subtle differences and that these relate to the presence or degree of sinistrality in the patient 's family or to the position of the hand during writing ( see below ) . |
| 15 | He and Eva went out on long walks together , or to the cinema at the ICA to see Scorsese films and exhibitions of dirty nappies . |
| 16 | If you are familiar with your local school of nursing then you can write directly either to the director of nurse education or to the tutor for postbasic education based at the school . |
| 17 | As we said then , these were indicative in character and not comprehensive as to the levels or to the range of performance which might emerge at any one level or from a particular child . |
| 18 | A Christian may relate this concept to that of the Word in the prologue to St John 's Gospel , or to the idea of Wisdom in the Old Testament and the Apocrypha with its quasi-personal cause . |
| 19 | When he started his pelting I ran , either to my bedroom upstairs or to the toilet at the bottom of the garden . |
| 20 | The archbishop hoped that this offer would be sufficient to restore peace , and Lancaster together with Wake and others swore a solemn oath that they had not done anything against the estate of the king or to the dishonour of his royal lordship . |
| 21 | The legislation merely states that ‘ if it appears to a local planning authority that it is expedient in the interests of amenity ’ , it may take certain action , in relation , for example , to unsightly neglected waste land or to the preservation of trees . |
| 22 | A wheelchair is no barrier to success in creative writing , using a computer , painting a picture — or to the development of long-lasting friendships . |
| 23 | An increase in the number of veins may be due either to an increase in the number of branches of a principal vein , or to the development of secondary longitudinal veins , between preexisting veins . |
| 24 | The advancing coasts may be due to emergence or to the development of constructional forms either organic or inorganic : they include , thus , shorelines which would have been classed by Johnson as emergent and as neutral . |
| 25 | Most of it is devoted either to the Chorus or to the development of Henry 's character . |
| 26 | It is very difficult to see how this approach can be reconciled to either Article 92 of the Rome Treaty or to the notion of fair competition in a single market . |
| 27 | A turning-point came in the case of Ridge v. Baldwin in which it was held that the distinction between administrative and judicial functions was of no relevance to deciding whether a decision-maker ought to comply with the rules of natural justice or to the availability of judicial review remedies . |
| 28 | He has one overriding piece of advice for managers attending his courses at Henley Management College : ‘ Either get to the top or to the bottom of the organisation as quickly as possible ! ’ |
| 29 | Too often groups are selected for tasks with no forethought about benefit to the members or to the suitability of the task for a group . |
| 30 | The idea came from old Mrs Ferrar , who proposed that from time to time the family should confer on some subject which should ‘ tend either to the information or to the excitement of the affections ’ . |