Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to any [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany 's resistance to any easing of strict economic and monetary stabilization measures had reportedly been compounded by fears of a rise in unit labour costs coinciding with wage demands and threatened strikes in the steel and banking sectors . |
| 2 | When he was told of the hierarchy 's opposition to any bill of this kind , Dr Browne , himself secularly inclined , submitted his proposals and arguments to the hierarchy for approval , just as a previous Health Minister , Dr Walsh , had consulted Archbishop McQuaid on a similar matter in 1946 . |
| 3 | That runs counter to Mrs Thatcher 's opposition to any expansion of the parliament 's democratic powers . |
| 4 | Reaction to the overt corruption of much aristocratic politicking in the form of organised Radicalism had little consistent support in the area but its presence contributed both to the increasing strength of popular protest and to the fierceness of the gentry 's reaction to any form of mass criticism . |
| 5 | Thus , it may be desirable to draw a patient 's attention to any inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour ( e.g. a therapist pointed out to a patient that the latter insisted that he wished to tackle some problem in his home yet arranged to go out every evening with his friends ) . |
| 6 | VFM studies are designed to bring Parliament 's attention to any area of potential improvement , including staffing , control and assessment procedures . |
| 7 | Not for the first time , Rostov reflected that the situation was the typical result of the Imperial bureaucracy 's solution to any conflict of interest between the Civil Service and the Navy Board . |
| 8 | It is difficult for a woman to understand a man 's sensitivity to any slur on his virility . |