Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to a [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Certainly the obligation to perform military service for the king existed in Skåne in 1085 , for it is mentioned ( as expeditio ) in St Cnut 's donation to a church in Lund in that year , the only surviving Danish royal charter from before 1100 . |
| 8 | On the contrary , the higher education experience should be a challenging and unsettling experience , opening the student 's mind to a sense of ever-widening possibilities , in concept , supposition and approach to the world . |
| 9 | Republican Senator John C. Danforth , the self-appointed mediator between the two sides , expressed his dismay over Bush 's opposition to a provision of Danforth 's proposed compromise bill which would prohibit employers from adopting employment standards which were not directly related to job performance . |
| 10 | Unofficially it was suggested that the rift related to Dogan 's opposition to a campaign by the President 's wife , Semra Özal , to assume leadership of the Istanbul branch of the Motherland Party ( ANAP ) . |
| 11 | Where inability to pay is based upon an unsatisfied execution , the court from which the execution or other process was issued must be specified together with particulars of the return , for example , the bailiff 's return to a warrant of execution or the sheriff 's return to a writ of fieri facias that there were no goods to levy upon . |
| 12 | They claimed that ‘ voices demanding Pakistan 's withdrawal ’ from these pacts were ‘ increasing ’ , and that ‘ the Iranian people are effectively campaigning for Iran 's withdrawal from the aggressive CENTO bloc , the abrogation of the military treaty with America and for Iran 's return to a policy of neutrality ’ . |
| 13 | Where inability to pay is based upon an unsatisfied execution , the court from which the execution or other process was issued must be specified together with particulars of the return , for example , the bailiff 's return to a warrant of execution or the sheriff 's return to a writ of fieri facias that there were no goods to levy upon . |
| 14 | She had been a mother 's help to a family in Hampshire , she had babysat through an agency in London , and had taken on cleaning jobs . |
| 15 | But it is also plain that despite sterling 's depreciation to a rate at which it might be reasonably competitive within the Exchange Rate Mechanism , Mrs Thatcher 's team are no more ready to sign on the dotted line than they were in Madrid this summer . |
| 16 | My instinct , both of mercy and goodwill , was to seek Barbara 's approval to a reference to the Prime Minister , but an even stronger instinct told me that it was likely to be met by a flat refusal and that the negotiating process would be stillborn . |
| 17 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 18 | Once you have attracted people 's attention to a story with a bright , lively opening paragraph , you can provide them with some facts and figures . |
| 19 | The satisfaction of watching the emergence of an obscure water-mark under soft X-rays never palled , and the final pattern was as fascinating to his unsurprised eyes as the expected potter 's mark to a collector of porcelain . |
| 20 | The Elton Committee suggested that there was some doubt about the application of the in loco parentis principle to the disciplining of pupils — for its application would mean that a parent 's request to a school for a particular form of punishment not to be administered to his/her child would have to be granted . |
| 21 | In the use with the bare infinitive , the speaker simply wishes to represent the attributing of the infinitive 's event to a support in time as outside the field of possibility ( hence necessarily non-actual ) . |
| 22 | Supporters of the ANL in the NorthEast are particularly concerned about the ambitions of the BNP including the intention to field a General Election candidate in Darlington and racial attacks which in the past year have included nailing a pig 's head to a synagogue in Sunderland and a similar attack in South Shields . |
| 23 | If the next sequence is to be ‘ Letters to Santa ’ , in fact , you could cut from a repeat of the original close-up of the Santa 's head to a close-up of a letter already headed ‘ Dear Santa ’ … |
| 24 | ‘ All the Vermeers in New York ’ by Jon Jost , a film-maker whose sensibility could n't be farther away from Hollywood , examines the folly of seeking to transfer one 's attraction to a work of art toward a real person . |
| 25 | And so Topaz went to Carlton House and , when the heat of summer came , she and Oswin went to Brighton , following the Regent 's train to a mini-season at that most desirable resort . |
| 26 | Carloman 's widow , child , and a small band of supporters were welcomed by the Lombards , who pressed the child 's claim to a share of the Frankish kingdom . |
| 27 | Historically , the Senate 's claim to a say in the making of foreign policy had depended on the provisions in the Constitution regarding treaty-making . |
| 28 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 29 | It is rather one which results from the process of ‘ legal reading ’ , that is , the reading of the text against the background of ‘ the legal reader 's access to a store of specifically legal relevant contexts ’ ( Davies , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Colleges serve as a integrating force for these purposes to the rest of the sector and also express the Roman Catholic Church 's commitment to a presence in Higher Education . |