Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] a " 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 | She was referring to President Aquino 's rise to power on a wave of sympathy following the assassination of her husband . |
| 3 | Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady 's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It comes as no surprise to learn of NASA 's resistance to Sanskrit as a language for AI . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By John Roman Baker , comprising Crying Celibate Tears , The Ice Pick and Freedom to Party , these award-winning plays explore man 's relation to man in a time of crisis , where the war against the HIV virus is at is fiercest . |
| 10 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 11 | The aim was expressed at the launch of a new report reviewing the role and prospects of the small firms sector in the economy , Small Firms in Britain , a publication which in some ways is the government 's answer to pressure for a regular ‘ report on small business ’ , similar to the weighty volume published annually in the United States . |