Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's response to the problem of teacher shortages was to launch new kinds of teacher training programmes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Television 's response to the struggle around Clause 28 reflected the status the campaign achieved in the political arena . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus Herzen , in London , filled the gap created by the government 's response to the appearance of Kavelin 's essay in April . |
| 9 | The CNT 's response to the coming of a Republic was confused . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You may find your firm 's response to the suggestion of printing another brochure is an immediate " We can " t afford it " . |
| 17 | This policy presents the Union 's response to the introduction of new technology in the post-privatisation business environment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You have n't been on the receiving end of Doreen 's barbs , but if they pierce Ling 's skin to the extent of causing him to leave your service you can put a ring round the fact that there will be … definite disruption . |
| 24 | Most planning decisions are administrative acts against which appeal lies only to the secretary of state , but in the case of a determination of whether or not planning permission is required , the question is a mixed one of fact and law : thus not only is there the normal right of appeal against the local authority 's decision to the secretary of state , there is also a right of appeal against his decision to the High Court . |
| 25 | Announcing the MoD 's decision to the House of Commons yesterday , the Under Secretary for Defence Procurement , Michael Neubert , said : ‘ The choice between these two programmes has been an extremely difficult one because both offer the prospect of a highly capable ship defence system . |
| 26 | The discovery reduced the discrepancies in Uranus 's orbit to the level of arcseconds , comparable with the noise in the observations , but that did not stop some astronomers from predicting a planet beyond Neptune , of a few Earth masses . |
| 27 | The super-lunar region was the remainder of the finite universe , extending from the moon 's orbit to the sphere of the stars , which marked the outer boundary of the universe . |
| 28 | In United 's progress to the top of the First Division and to tomorrow 's final , Schmeichel has kept 23 clean sheets and on only five occasions has he been beaten more than once . |
| 29 | There are some remarkable verbal correspondences between the Interludium and Dame Sirith , such as the clerk 's plea to the girl to " " mend mode " " ( I. 25 ) , appearing in Dame Sirith as " " Amend mod " ( DS. 113 ) , and in the denial by Mome Elwis ( the Interludium 's counterpart to Dame Sirith ) of her ability to perform the tricks the clerk requires : ( Interludium ) ( " A son ! |
| 30 | It is the fight choreographer working out the moves for Leonard 's struggle to the death with Otto . |