Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the slow process it appears that exercise of a particular type strengthens , or at least preserves , the system 's response to that type of stimulus . |
| 2 | This was done by plotting each person 's response to each dose of salmeterol on the log dose response curve after placebo and salbutamol for each index . |
| 3 | Little 's wife has failed to settle in the Midlands and , despite Leicester 's rise to fourth place in the Second Division table , a return to his native North-East seems likely after the season ends next month . |
| 4 | What price Oxfam Canada 's support to this day with office , phone , and photocopier for the NI 's Canadian team ? |
| 5 | China seriously escalated the dispute on Nov. 30 when it threatened to cancel , on Hong Kong 's reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 , all commercial contracts , leases and agreements between the Hong Kong government and the private sector signed without full Chinese approval . |
| 6 | Norbert Gugerbauer resigned as FPÖ leader in the Nationalrat on March 5 to make way for Haider 's election to this post on March 10 . |
| 7 | He went on to justify the ANC 's resort to armed struggle in 1960 , describing it as " a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid " , and declared : " The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today . |
| 8 | She hopes to put this year 's experience to good use by eventually becoming a primary school teacher . |
| 9 | In the light of revisionist work it is difficult to treat Nicholas 's resistance to liberal reform as a matter of chance or historical accident . |
| 10 | Germany 's resistance to any easing of strict economic and monetary stabilization measures had reportedly been compounded by fears of a rise in unit labour costs coinciding with wage demands and threatened strikes in the steel and banking sectors . |
| 11 | Gandhi 's reply to these kind of questions would probably indicate that for him morality has to be related to what he conceives religion to be . |
| 12 | When he was told of the hierarchy 's opposition to any bill of this kind , Dr Browne , himself secularly inclined , submitted his proposals and arguments to the hierarchy for approval , just as a previous Health Minister , Dr Walsh , had consulted Archbishop McQuaid on a similar matter in 1946 . |
| 13 | That runs counter to Mrs Thatcher 's opposition to any expansion of the parliament 's democratic powers . |
| 14 | Professor Walters has reinforced Mrs Thatcher 's opposition to British entry to the European Monetary System ( favoured by Sir Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson ) and to her Chancellor 's policy in 1988 of managing the exchange rate to maintain downward pressure on inflation . |
| 15 | The results were enjoyed , when on 9 May Blue Peter 's John Leslie read Proskovief 's narration to packed house in the MacRobert . |
| 16 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 17 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 18 | So on March 26th Saudi Arabia signalled Iran 's return to international respectability by resuming the diplomatic relations that had been broken in 1987 after an appalling incident at Mecca when 400 pilgrims , most of them Iranian , were killed . |
| 19 | Their 30-game battle , which ended in Yugoslavia , marked Fischer 's return to international chess after 20 years . |
| 20 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Feb. 13 reported that the Chinese government had refused to discount participation by a People 's Liberation Army officer in the civil government of Hong Kong after the colony 's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 . |
| 21 | THERE has been a lot of interest in Tracy Austin 's return to top-class tennis at the age of 30 after a 14-year gap . |
| 22 | MALCOLM ALLISON 'S return to English football with penniless Bristol Rovers could hardly be termed a last ride on the gravy train . |
| 23 | However , it was also stated that the exemption would be displaced if the parties by ‘ an agreement between themselves [ have ] made it clear … that the wife 's consent to sexual intercourse with her husband … no longer exists . ’ |
| 24 | I WAS disgusted to read Mr Wilson 's reaction to earlier closing of the pubs in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | Reaction to the overt corruption of much aristocratic politicking in the form of organised Radicalism had little consistent support in the area but its presence contributed both to the increasing strength of popular protest and to the fierceness of the gentry 's reaction to any form of mass criticism . |
| 26 | Thus , it may be desirable to draw a patient 's attention to any inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour ( e.g. a therapist pointed out to a patient that the latter insisted that he wished to tackle some problem in his home yet arranged to go out every evening with his friends ) . |
| 27 | VFM studies are designed to bring Parliament 's attention to any area of potential improvement , including staffing , control and assessment procedures . |
| 28 | Where damages for wrongful interference are assessed on the basis that the plaintiff is being compensated for the whole of his interest in the goods ( including a case where judgment is subject to a reduction for contributory negligence ) payment of the damages or of any settlement in full extinguishes the plaintiff 's title to that interest in the goods . |
| 29 | Gilligan 's In A Different Voice ( 1982 ) is a recent application of Horner 's strategy to another area of psychology : moral reasoning . |
| 30 | A thinking man 's guide to tabloid tattle by Mitchell Symons |