Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [noun] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Rittner stood down as Arts Council Secretary General two years ago , believing government plans to devolve the council 's funding responsibilities to the regions would drastically reduce its role . |
2 | It was Addison , formerly President of the Local Government Board , but with its demise now the first Minister of Health , who introduced the programme which articulated Lloyd George 's election promise to the voters of Wolverhampton in November 1918 that returning soldiers should have ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ . |
3 | Wealth thus seems to mean the same as ‘ property ’ , but ‘ property ’ is a term commonly used to refer to anything from Henry Ford II 's car company to the clothes you are wearing . |
4 | She delivered cases of her husband 's vintage collection to the doorsteps of neighbours in Berkshire early one morning . |
5 | Mick 's night move to the Blues |
6 | The dictates of self-preservation often ensured that the respectable young working woman dissociated herself from the known prostitute , since association with prostitutes rendered a woman 's character suspect to the police and could lead to her name being placed on the registration list . |
7 | May I appeal to your readers to send a Valentine 's Day message to the Members of Parliament and urge them to ‘ Have a Heart for Wildlife ’ , to attend the debate and vote for the Bill . |
8 | Of course these wages do not include the company 's pension contributions to the individuals concerned . |
9 | The two published a number of works together and , after Moseley 's death in 1661 , Herringman purchased from Moseley 's estate copyrights to the poems of Abraham Cowley , Richard Crashaw , Sir John Denham , John Donne , Sir John Suckling , and Edmund Waller [ qq.v. ] , as well as some of the plays of Ben Jonson and Sir William Davenant [ qq.v . ] . |
10 | This was repealed in 1971 and chargeable assets in a deceased 's estate pass to the heirs at probate value . |
11 | as if to emphasise the point , Matthew ends the Gospel by Jesus ' mission charge to the disciples , ‘ Go there-fore , and make disciples of all nations . ’ |
12 | Frustrated by his colleagues ' lack attention to the problems of literacy , partly because of their tradition of studying ‘ pre-literate ’ societies , Goody has attempted in a number of articles and books ( 1963 , 1968. 1977 ) to describe the importance and ‘ potentialities ’ of writing . |