Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She whistled , hitching up her skirt and petticoats so she could run more easily down the tradesman 's path to the gate . |
| 2 | Turner 's Mercury and Herse suffered a similar fate , dragging down the sale 's total to £1.2 million with a punishing 42 per cent bought in by value . |
| 3 | The National Executive Committee was warned that watering down the party 's commitment to sexual equality in the policy review , out of a fear of losing votes , could backfire . |
| 4 | Perhaps the BBC 's build-up to the event carried Mr Topolski away ; media coverage of a sport is actually of secondary importance to the event itself . |
| 5 | The contribution librarians could make to student development has been underestimated , and includes not only the librarian 's contribution to taught courses on library research methodology , leading to greater confidence and autonomy , but also the day-today interaction with students and librarians at reader 's advisory and reference desks . |
| 6 | Trapped for a month , only the dog 's determination to be reunited with her master kept her going . |
| 7 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 8 | On Dec. 21 , however , the Minister for Lands , Agriculture and Rural Resettlement , Witness Mangwende , sought to reassure the white farming community that it was not the government 's intention to " grab land " for the resettlement programme . |
| 9 | The baby 's navel 's attached to the mother , not the mother 's navel to the baby . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ These plans are designed to further the Government 's commitment to wider and deeper share ownership and to a successful sale of BT shares in 1993/4 , ’ said Stephen Dorrell , financial secretary to the Treasury , told a seminar of stockbrokers and other financial intermediaries . |
| 11 | It is against this background of restricted choice that one should initially view what was really a middle-class pressure group for women 's rights : the campaign to open up the compositor 's trade to women . |
| 12 | Judith Church , Health and Safety Officer of the Manufacturing , Science and Finance Union summed up the government 's attitude to health and safety as : |
| 13 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
| 14 | The camera moved up the woman 's body to her eyes , searching , searching . |
| 15 | Quite clearly the court 's attitude to intervention to control and abuse of power is affected by the nature of the power being exercised . |
| 16 | In March , David & Charles brings out The Gardener 's Guide to Growing Hellebores , by Graham Rice and Elizabeth Strangman ( £16.99 , 0 7153 9973 X ) ; in July , Batsford follows with a translation of Martha Ahlburg 's Hellebores ( £19.99 , 0 7134 7058 5 ) . |
| 17 | He said that he was under pressure from his own supporters to change radically the government 's approach to the economic problems . |
| 18 | ‘ Now the evening 's drawing to a close , and I reckon we ought to take the opportunity of conveying to Jack here the heartiest good wishes of the Kingsmarkham and District Darts Club . |
| 19 | So far the leadership 's reaction to the 1983 and 1987 defeats has differed from that to such earlier decisive election defeats in 1931 , 1951 , 1970 , and 1979 . |
| 20 | Almost unbelievably , a passer-by overhead the man 's approach to Robert outside the school , became suspicious , and telephoned the local police with the number of the car . |
| 21 | Hungarian legislation appears to serve well the country 's conversion to a free market economy . |
| 22 | It was a profound philosopher ( or maybe The Hitch-Hiker 's Guide to the Galaxy ) who said bad things always happen on Thursdays . |
| 23 | Is that not the best possible example of how the Government 's commitment to the NHS is working ? |
| 24 | It becomes a rite of separation into an area where the detective 's need to ‘ juggle with statistics and detection rates ’ is diametrically opposed to the constantly voiced uniform preference for action which is simply programmed to ‘ nail the prig down ’ . |
| 25 | How should the law deal with cases where the woman 's consent to sexual intercourse stemmed from a mistake on her part ? |
| 26 | Yet the government 's conversion to a policy of favouring industrialization did no more than exacerbate the peasant predicament . |
| 27 | Yet the Tutor 's capitulation to Natalia reveals her power over every man she meets as well as his failure to withstand her wiles . |
| 28 | Such reports can help to demonstrate publicly the company 's commitment to high standards of corporate governance . |