Example sentences of "[noun] to the [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | One woman told Elizabeth Roberts that she had resorted to taking her wedding ring to the pawnbrokers ' three times : ‘ each time I was caught with babies ’ . |
2 | Stoddard Mercia 's expertise in weaving special designs to the customers ' exact requirements was a major factor in obtaining the Country Court order . |
3 | Initially , they emphasised export strategies as an alternative to the leaders ' investment-based approach . |
4 | Needless to say , a full-scale review of the moral justification of private property will not be undertaken , but enough will be said to indicate that there are substantial difficulties in the way of providing a satisfactory justification of corporate power by reference to the shareholders ' supposed moral ownership rights . |
5 | The logic of TGAT , however , and its ten levels of attainment , suggests that alternative strategies are open to us if we care to use them ; and this is borne out by the small print of Circular 5/89 , which stresses that the keystages themselves are to be understood with reference to the pupils ' average ages , so that a pupil may ‘ be taught with another age group for one or more subject areas where appropriate … while remaining with his or her peer group for other subjects . ’ |
6 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
7 | The European elections saw Labour capture forty-five seats to the Conservatives ' thirty-two , the first major defeat for Mrs Thatcher in ten years of premiership . |
8 | Labour won a massive victory being returned with 393 seats to the Conservatives ' 213 and the Liberals ' 12 . |
9 | It was returned to office in May 1929 with 287 seats to the Conservatives ' 261 and the Liberals ' 59 . |
10 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
11 | We have just heard that Bob Miller [ currently number one is the Chief Executive 's award scheme ] , has gained further business to provide plants to the surveyors ' temporary offices . |
12 | The terms of these rules give body to the parties ' respective stances before Vinelott J. and on this appeal . |
13 | Management yesterday began suspending ambulance staff in retaliation to the unions ' work-to-rule tactics . |
14 | As Janette Richardson has noted , the transition from the horse 's frolics to the clerks ' night-time escapades is marked by the collocation of the miller 's retying the horse , and making the clerks a bed : To make the point absolutely explicit , when the clerk John has leapt on top of the miller 's wife in bed : — the verb priken , in Middle English , is a standard term for riding or spurring a horse . |
15 | A revealing passage from Khrushchev 's memoirs , citing a letter written by the Soviet premier to Castro in late 1962 , shows his complete insensitivity to the Cubans ' wounded national pride and barely conceals his irritation at what he evidently believed to be ingratitude on Castro 's part . |
16 | The Statement urged the development of sustainable forest management policies , due compensation to host nations for access to the forests ' genetic resources , and technical and financial aid to help developing countries preserve their forests . |
17 | The Statement urged the development of sustainable forest management policies , due compensation to the host nation for access to the forests ' genetic resources , and the provision of technical and financial aid to help developing countries preserve their forests . |
18 | Shortlisted parties will also be given access to the vendors ' various professional advisers to obtain information and to discuss specific areas . |
19 | But this , Taylor and Cameron argue , " rather than offering the analyst direct access to the participants ' own publically displayed identification of units and rules , only postpones the task to a subsequent turn " ( p. 121 ) . |
20 | The Dutch sellers were entitled to those proceeds of sale in priority to the buyers ' other creditors ( secured and unsecured ) . |
21 | During a visit by Hodgkinson to the Sisters ' Provincial Headquarters in London , it became apparent that the whole of the Convent site — with its buildings — was on offer if requested . |
22 | Using local sources in this way the history teacher was able to relate the particular history topic to the pupils ' own locality and so to their own experience . |
23 | The task force planned to cut a track through a corridor of forest running along the edge of the settlement to the elephants ' new sanctuary 50 km away . |
24 | In 1924 , with the slogan " Keep Cool with Coolidge " , he easily retained the presidency for the Republicans , carrying 35 states to the Democrats ' 12 ; 15 million Americans voted for him , while 8 million voted for the Democrat candidate and nearly 5 million for Robert La Follette , a Progressive " third party " candidate . |
25 | This naturally gives an advantage to the institutions ' closest advisers : American investment banks . |
26 | Those who studied the parties ' platforms carefully would have had to relate the Labour Party 's generally stronger commitment to universal social security policies to the Conservatives ' specific pledge . |
27 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
28 | For the list of county court districts and the courts having bankruptcy jurisdiction over them , see Appendix A. Debtors ' petitions can be presented in whichever county court is specified by Schedule 2 to the rules as being , in relation to the debtors ' own county court , the nearest full time county court if it is more expedient with a view to expediting the petition ( r 6.40(3) ) . |
29 | In the midday heat they had foraged in shady woods for berries and interesting objects , to emerge from shadow to the fields ' glaring yellow , heat coming in buffeting waves across the metallic corn . |
30 | The game was slow and low scoring and after seven minutes of the first half , Arena had scored only four points to the visitors ' ten . |