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 | According to this model , deviance is a property which is created and sustained by a community 's response to an act as deviant . |
| 5 | On the same day he told the defendants that he was interested in making an offer for Caliban and asked the first defendant to sound out what would be the plaintiff 's response to an offer in the range of $2m. to $2.5m. gross i.e. the plaintiff to bear the agent 's commission . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a move from a concern with the intrinsic character of the student 's experience to an interest in what the student knew and could do at the end of the course . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Part of the Institute 's reply to an enquiry from an Environmental |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Cynthia Chase s tightly argued and richly suggestive ‘ Primary Narcissism and the Giving of Figure ’ repays close attention , for in it she makes a case for the significance of Kristeva 's work to an understanding of post-structuralist notions of the ‘ uncertain agency ’ of language , not as it is often misunderstood , as cavalier irresponsibility , but as the indication of the ‘ imperative of linking an ethical or political project with a critical epistemology ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Section 38 of the 1954 Act as amended by s 5 of the Law of Property Act , 1969 provides for application to the court for the court 's approval to an agreement excluding the provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ … |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |