Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] to [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brushed aside the views of the joint chiefs of staff , ascribing their opposition to ignorance of the Far East . |
| 2 | Some people were already turning their thoughts to food of another kind , impatient to get home . |
| 3 | Yet in today 's Britain many groups of individuals are systematically discriminated against by a society which fails to recognise their right to equality of opportunity . |
| 4 | Between three and five hundred people are believed to be in detention solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression , association or assembly or their right to leave the country . |
| 5 | At the conference held in 1888 by the three compositors " unions , the Typographical Association ( English provinces ) , the London Society of Compositors and the Scottish Typographical Association , specifically to discuss the Edinburgh question , the following resolution was passed : That while strongly of the opinion that women are not physically capable of performing the duties of a compositor , the Conference recommends their admission to membership of the various typographical unions upon the same conditions as journeymen , provided always the females are paid strictly in accordance with the scale . |
| 6 | The villagers have taken their case to Department of Transport officials in Manchester . |
| 7 | Classroom teachers might find their entitlement to leave of absence curtailed . |