Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canon J Stafford Wright , an evangelical scholar and former principal of Tyndale College , Bristol , believes that the psychic might be man 's link with the rest of the animal world . |
| 2 | The government 's response to the problem of teacher shortages was to launch new kinds of teacher training programmes . |
| 3 | The EEC 's response to the disintegration of Yugoslavia is an equally important indication of what might be expected from the Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 4 | Any fishkeeper who has seen the fry 's response to the flicking of the black pelvic fins of their mother will have no doubt that communication is taking place . |
| 5 | Television 's response to the struggle around Clause 28 reflected the status the campaign achieved in the political arena . |
| 6 | It was Clarkson 's response to the stubbornness of West Indian legislatures over amelioration in the mid-1820s to encourage ladies ' antislavery associations to promote abstention as a superior alternative to the use of force by the government . |
| 7 | The announcement was the chess federation 's response to the decision by Kasparov and Short to stage their final outside FIDE 's auspices in an attempt to attract higher prize money and give players more control over professional chess . |
| 8 | Mr Hurd 's response to the debate on law and order , always a difficult test for Conservative Home Secretaries , was markedly well received and ended to a standing ovation . |
| 9 | Thus Herzen , in London , filled the gap created by the government 's response to the appearance of Kavelin 's essay in April . |
| 10 | The CNT 's response to the coming of a Republic was confused . |
| 11 | Russia 's response to the crisis of 1914 can only be understood in terms of the nature of the tsarist regime and of the pressures upon it . |
| 12 | One may suppose that such was the genesis of C.S. Lewis 's sad comment on his step-children 's response to the death of his wife : |
| 13 | Znaniecki 's response to the sociology of knowledge dates from 1940 and Merton 's is from a similar period — a later functionalist response was that of Parsons in 1959 . |
| 14 | As well as providing a useful way of looking at people 's response to the Earth through the physical structures which have survived , and as a way of interpreting legend , the Spectrum of Response is also a framework into which we can fit our own relationship to the landscape . |
| 15 | They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation . |
| 16 | Ramaphosa said that the killings were the government 's response to the launch on June 16 of an ANC mass action campaign designed to force majority rule . |
| 17 | You may find your firm 's response to the suggestion of printing another brochure is an immediate " We can " t afford it " . |
| 18 | This policy presents the Union 's response to the introduction of new technology in the post-privatisation business environment . |
| 19 | The IBM 7051 Power Network Dataserver is IBM 's response to the need for a high speed file server to work with these new machines , and was developed with Auspex Systems Inc . |
| 20 | It is common ground that the Family Law Reform Act 1969 was Parliament 's response to the Report of the Committee on the Age of Majority ( 1967 ) ( Cmnd. 3342 ) . |
| 21 | Indeed in the first two months after opening the new Traverse made £10,000 more than the old venue 's income for the whole of the previous year . |
| 22 | A system that had been designed to exclude the poor 's income from the payment of tax , was reshaped in such a way that , although the poor continued to enjoy exemption on their low income , the same privilege was extended to similar bands of income for all other taxpayers . |
| 23 | Senior officials in Borders education department will be challenged today at an education committee meeting to justify termination of the Heiton teacher 's contract at the end of next week . |
| 24 | The rebuilding of the Berlin orchestra was begun by Karajan in 1955 with great patience and care — he had a lifetime 's contract in the process of final negotiation . |
| 25 | Peter Wall was a fast and clever full-back whom Manager Bert Head brought to Selhurst Park to add proven 1st Division quality to Palace 's defence in the summer of 1970 , in an attempt to avoid further embarrassment for the club in Division One . |
| 26 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |
| 27 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if annual rates of inflation over the period are as shown . |
| 28 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 29 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 30 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the years shown if the yearly rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |