Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whaling and jute were two of the chief sources of Dundee 's rise to prominence as a port . |
| 2 | Baldwin 's rise to power as the Conservative leader and prime minister in 1923 and 1924 — 9 was ruled by two considerations : first , the need to tame the Labour party and to force it to accept the conventions of parliamentary politics ; and second , to ensure that Lloyd George be kept out of office at all costs . |
| 3 | She was referring to President Aquino 's rise to power on a wave of sympathy following the assassination of her husband . |
| 4 | Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady 's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department . |
| 5 | Here , you will be able to follow Sooty 's rise to super-stardom through the sets , props , scripts , photos and films which have enthralled the very young and the very old ! for 40 years . |
| 6 | So the appeal was allowed , the order for possession was set aside as against Mr. Steed and the case was transferred to the Chancery Division for a new trial at which the facts regarding the execution or non-execution of the transfer and Mr. Steed 's entitlement to rectification of the register would be determined . |
| 7 | Sometimes a family crisis such as the wife 's admission to hospital for an operation , or confinement , when mother-in-law comes to the rescue and willingly takes over the housekeeping , will draw them together , and help them to value each other as people for the first time ; but more often it is a gradual process , the slow demolition of long-held prejudices . |
| 8 | It comes as no surprise to learn of NASA 's resistance to Sanskrit as a language for AI . |
| 9 | Nor should industry expect ‘ to find refuge in a perpetually depreciating currency ’ , Mrs Thatcher said , underlining Nigel Lawson 's opposition to devaluation of the pound . |
| 10 | Among women in the general population , having three or more children at home was found to increase a woman 's vulnerability to depression in the face of provoking agents . |
| 11 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 12 | On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 13 | Yet after 7,000 invading American troops had swept away the revolutionaries , Blaize was imposed by the US and its Caribbean allies as the harmless head of a reluctant coalition of squabbling younger politicians , a half-respected figure from the past who might block the eccentric Gairy 's return to power at the polls . |
| 14 | I once took all eleven of my Dad 's angelfish to school in a jam-jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . |
| 15 | What was your father and grandfather 's attitude to authority in the pit ? |
| 16 | These decisions paved the way for Flattery and Williams in which rape was held to have been committed where the defendant , using neither force nor the threat of it , obtained the victim 's consent to intercourse by a fraud as to the nature of the act . |
| 17 | The industry 's reaction to news of the Novell/USL negotiations ( UX No 398 ) is less one of surprise at the possibility that Novell might effectively buy Unix than at the timing . |
| 18 | Jocelyn Harris is almost certainly right when she suggests that Leapor is , in fact , responding to John Locke who writes ‘ Of Adam 's Title to Sovereignty by the Subjection of Eve ’ : |
| 19 | Once acquiescence has been established , it is not appropriate to restrict the court 's discretion to consideration of the degree of the acquiescence . |
| 20 | By chapter 4 you 'll find you 've progressed to in-depth explanations about specific software ( databases , desktop publishing , shell , music , simulations etc ) but it 's a gentle progression with refreshingly little computerspeak ( honest ) and a brilliant idiot 's guide to jargon at the back of the book just in case ! |
| 21 | However , he confirmed that Argentina 's claim to sovereignty over the Falklands , set to one side during the negotiations , would continue to be pursued in international forums . |
| 22 | Throughout the remainder of the 1530s , royal propagandists were systematically employed to justify and publicize Henry 's claim to supremacy over the English church . |
| 23 | It concerned Canterbury 's claim to primacy over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 24 | The question which remains to be solved is : were these phrases added to existing documents in 1070–72 to support Lanfranc 's claim to primacy over the whole area of the British Isles , or were they added as a last resort in 1120 , when the claim which Lanfranc , Anselm and Archbishop Ralph had all supported was facing final and irrevocable defeat ? |
| 25 | The two brothers were at times united in their hostility to Chilperic 's son Chlothar II , and at one moment they reduced the latter 's kingdom to territory between the Seine , the Oise and the sea . |
| 26 | Roy Hattersley 's testament , Choose Freedom ( 1987 ) , emphasized Labour 's commitment to equality as the guarantee of pluralism , tolerance , and personal freedom . |
| 27 | However , like Rawls , Dworkin 's commitment to equality in the economic sphere is somewhat limited . |
| 28 | This continuing and growing investment reflects Johnson Matthey 's commitment to R&D as a vital element in its strategy for future growth and profitability . |
| 29 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 30 | Bateman 's fine turn of speed and immaculate crosses were seen at their best in Palace 's drive to promotion from the newly-formed Football League Division Three . |