Example sentences of "[verb] to the [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I decided to write to the Grocers ' Company about the matter . |
2 | Lapworth 's academic career began as lecturer in chemistry at the School of Pharmacy in Bloomsbury ; in 1900 he moved to the Goldsmiths ' Company 's Institute at New Cross as head of the chemistry department . |
3 | She moved to the neighbours ' wall and sprayed ‘ fornicator ’ and ‘ debauchee ’ . |
4 | Jerome Blum assigns the tsar pride of place in the list of factors which contributed to the serfs ' emancipation . |
5 | He had already begun contributing to the Gardeners ' Chronicle . |
6 | All its major innovations — the sale of council houses , the reform of the unions , privatization of industry , tax reform — had met with popular acclaim and substantially added to the Conservatives ' constituency . |
7 | In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary . |
8 | He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 . |
9 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
10 | Souness , confined to the directors ' box because of a five-game ban from the touchline and dressing room area , said : ‘ I thought we played a very good team . |
11 | It referred to the Palestinians ' struggle for " sovereignty " and envisaged a future " confederation between the two states of Palestine and Jordan , which can be a cornerstone for our security and prosperity " . |
12 | Time given to listening to the parents ' point of view at an early stage and to reducing their anxieties by giving well-founded information can be helpful in arranging a placement which satisfies them . |
13 | Now , she lay panting by the fire , warming her flanks and apparently listening to the humans ' conversation . |
14 | Roskill J said that B was in breach of an implied duty in : ( a ) not communicating to the plaintiffs ' board the information which he received from the patent agents and in taking no steps to protect the plaintiffs against possible consequences of the existence of the patent ; and ( b ) using information regarding the patent for his own benefit . |
15 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
16 | Before there could be any school in Stockport , it was first necessary for the executors to purchase property which could then be legally transferred to the Goldsmiths ' Company . |
17 | In respect of one item the credit period expired at midnight on 1 December and property in it was transferred to the buyers ' customer on 2 December . |
18 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
19 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
20 | Homework should be differentiated according to the learners ' ability . |
21 | According to the boys ' version of the evening , no drugs had been present . |
22 | According to the Broadcasters ' Audience Research Board , it had an average of 7.8 million viewers across the week . |
23 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
24 | When a discretionary life sentence is passed , for an offence other than murder because of the danger to the public from the convicted person , there is no undue difficulty in ascertaining the determinate sentence which would otherwise be appropriate according to the judges ' tariff . |
25 | In September the government announced a ceiling of 5.5 per cent for wage increases in 1991 ; according to the employers ' organization , the Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales ( Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations — CEOE ) , wages rose by 9 per cent in 1990 — well above the level of inflation . |
26 | It was made with a slit for the blade to pass , like the slits at the back in angels ' tunics for their wings , and was changed according to the seasons ' calendar . |
27 | According to the buyers ' guide produced by estate agents Savills , who specialise in such properties , the price of prime properties in Yorkshire has risen by more than 130 per cent over the last three years . |
28 | 6 Individual voters are rational and informed ; they have an appreciation of their own best interests ; and so they give the parties programatic support and vote according to the parties ' past or prospective action in office in the light of their own knowledge and interests . |
29 | The ‘ cure ’ for over-indulging at the office Christmas party is also much cheaper , according to the Consumers ' Association Which ? magazine . |
30 | Advice on energy conservation provided by British gas and electricity companies is " hopelessly inadequate " , according to the Consumers ' Association . |