Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Chin Kah Hin 's response to a question about adventurousness , adaptability and tolerance typifies the spirit and imagination of the 35 applicants for a Guinness Earth Science Award . |
| 2 | The survey sponsored by the CLR was a market survey testing the library consumer 's response to a product in a new package . |
| 3 | The notes cover the Stamp Office 's response to a number of questions on which the Faculty sought clarification following the publication of Statement of Practice SP 11/91 in September 1991 . |
| 4 | According to this model , deviance is a property which is created and sustained by a community 's response to an act as deviant . |
| 5 | On the same day he told the defendants that he was interested in making an offer for Caliban and asked the first defendant to sound out what would be the plaintiff 's response to an offer in the range of $2m. to $2.5m. gross i.e. the plaintiff to bear the agent 's commission . |
| 6 | The government 's response to the problem of teacher shortages was to launch new kinds of teacher training programmes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Television 's response to the struggle around Clause 28 reflected the status the campaign achieved in the political arena . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Thus Herzen , in London , filled the gap created by the government 's response to the appearance of Kavelin 's essay in April . |
| 14 | The CNT 's response to the coming of a Republic was confused . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You may find your firm 's response to the suggestion of printing another brochure is an immediate " We can " t afford it " . |
| 22 | This policy presents the Union 's response to the introduction of new technology in the post-privatisation business environment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Parental expectations , children 's exposure to a range of experience , and the availability of structured education were different , for example , for the five-year-old in the 1930s and 1950s , and these are different from those of the late 1980s . |
| 26 | It became apparent that Edward could win nothing if he persisted against Stratford and refused reforms ; in May , therefore , he adjourned the archbishop 's trial to a committee of peers ( which in fact he never convened ) and assented to the reforming statutes . |
| 27 | The match could become the victim of the possible PFA strike and Bruce Grobbelaar , the Liverpool goalkeeper , pledged his team 's support to the cause to ‘ protect the players of the future , especially those from the lower divisions ’ . |
| 28 | An expert witness is appointed by a party to assist in putting that party 's case to a tribunal of either judge(s) or arbitrator(s) , with other parties having the same right . |
| 29 | Theoretically , parties should be represented by trained , qualified legal advocates who set out their client 's case to the jury in the Crown Court , or to magistrates . |
| 30 | Implexion eventually gave in to the Grand Masters ' begging and pleading and , for a fee , agreed to present Valiance 's case to the Chamber of Ten . |