Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to the [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus Herzen , in London , filled the gap created by the government 's response to the appearance of Kavelin 's essay in April . |
| 6 | The CNT 's response to the coming of a Republic was confused . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You may find your firm 's response to the suggestion of printing another brochure is an immediate " We can " t afford it " . |
| 11 | This policy presents the Union 's response to the introduction of new technology in the post-privatisation business environment . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 21 | The Labour Ministers fully supported Churchill 's resistance to the opening of a Second Front . |
| 22 | It symbolizes the significance of state intervention , of industry 's renunciation of the market and labour 's advancement to the status of an ‘ estate of realm ’ . |
| 23 | Increased economic activity in these locations can be seen in Charles 's grant to the bishop of Paris of the Grand Pont with its mills and , later , of the right to dispose of some newly-built houses ; in the mint ( with its profits ) conceded to the bishop and cathedral clergy of Châlons ; in the trading interests of the clergy of Rheims ; in the monks of Corbie 's intended purchase ( " if we have enough money " ) of pepper at Cambrai ; and in the scattered but widespread references to episcopal and monastic building works ( not all of them ecclesiastical ) and , more rarely , in archaeological traces or architectural remains of these constructions . |
| 24 | Thus in RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farms ( 1978 ) , farmers bought seed potatoes under a contract which limited the supplier 's liability to the cost of the seed . |
| 25 | Angels hovered around the eucharistic altar and carried the congregation 's self-offering to the throne of God , bringing back his blessing . |
| 26 | Between 1935 and 1939 Nizan 's opposition to the spread of fascism within the fabric of French society became progressively more hostile , more ferocious . |
| 27 | Meanwhile pacifists were generally content with the abstract moralizing suggested by the Manchester Guardian 's opposition to the formation of a Liberal Foreign Affairs Committee on the grounds that the ‘ success or failure [ of foreign policy ] depends on the application of a few simple principles to facts which as a rule are not very numerous nor very complicated . ’ |
| 28 | The announcement , regarded by analysts as a reversal of Egypt 's commitment to a regional defence pact , was reportedly due to Egypt 's opposition to the involvement of non-Arab powers , including Iran and Turkey , in regional security arrangements . |
| 29 | Allowing for a degree of non-anomalous unusualness in the sentences ( such sequences are , for various reasons , rather difficult to construct ) it seems that we have got from John 's mouth to the mouth of the river without encountering zeugmatic incompatibility . |
| 30 | Fredegar records the death of Guntram , apparently in 592 , and Childebert 's succession to the kingdom of Burgundy , thus uniting it to the east Frankish realm , and establishing a political axis which was to last until 613 . |