Example sentences of "[noun sg] ['s] [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report also details the car 's contribution to pollution of soil , air and water by oil , cadmium , lead , copper , chrome , zinc and polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) . |
| 2 | It is a reflection on the ITF competitions , the television exposure , the prestige of these events , and also on the Marketing Department 's commitment to excellence in servicing the needs of our sponsors . |
| 3 | Roy Hattersley 's testament , Choose Freedom ( 1987 ) , emphasized Labour 's commitment to equality as the guarantee of pluralism , tolerance , and personal freedom . |
| 4 | Independent working-class activity in West Ham , most notably through trade unions , cooperation and political representation , coupled with an ineffective Tory/Liberal opposition , laid the foundations for Labour 's accession to power in the immediate postwar years . |
| 5 | The industry 's reaction to news of the Novell/USL negotiations ( UX No 398 ) is less one of surprise at the possibility that Novell might effectively buy Unix than at the timing . |
| 6 | The administration 's record to date on trade , however , was delicately criticised . |
| 7 | In presenting his administration 's programme to parliament on April 24 , Mitsotakis stressed his desire for consensus and reaffirmed the economic platform on which ND had been elected . |
| 8 | The Bank of Scotland sponsored the Council 's mission to Milan in January which achieved business estimated at £4.9m . |
| 9 | Because in the past Dave we 've actually tried to tie it in with parent 's evening to sort of use it as a bit of a motivator to jeer the , gee them up before the end |
| 10 | Secondly , mirroring the extension of the law 's concern to notions of social harm has been a widening of the conceptions of deviant and enforcer to include not only individual actors but also organizations . |
| 11 | Thus one could attend ‘ When Growth Changes to Reduction : Challenges and Opportunities in Bringing Your Museum 's Vision to Scale with Reality ’ . |
| 12 | Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady 's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department . |
| 13 | Awards received by Freeman , Fox & Partners , to which his outstanding designs contributed in no small way , included the Queen 's award to industry in 1967 , and , jointly with Rolls-Royce , the first MacRobert award in 1969 . |
| 14 | Such a viewpoint is mirrored in the legal procedures , which put an emphasis on a child 's return to school via sanctions against parents as the solution to individual cases of truancy . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) That the evidence as to the situation of the mother and child in the event of a return to Ontario did not establish a risk that the child would be placed in an intolerable situation within the meaning of article 13 ; and that , accordingly , since article 13 did not apply and since the child 's removal was wrongful , the court had no discretion but was under a mandatory duty to order the child 's return to Ontario under article 12 of the Convention ( post , pp. 871A–C , 873H — 874C , G–H , 875A ) . |
| 16 | British Rail 's answer to leaves on the line : cut down the trees |
| 17 | Sound track by Count Basie and Islam 's answer to Pavarotti in the even more enormous shape of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ; voice like a tripped-out angel in a dream even though I have no idea what he 's singing about and always sneakingly suspect it 's something on the lines of ‘ Hey , let's string up Salman Rushdie , yeah-yeah ’ . |
| 18 | $13.2 million loss raises buyer 's premium to 15% to indignation of dealers |
| 19 | Preconditioning with brief periods of ischaemia has now been shown to increase the heart 's resistance to infarction in numerous species , including rabbit , rat , and pig . |
| 20 | Outside Flanders , Robert 's sister 's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world ; like Louis VI 's sister 's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch , it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies , ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts . |
| 21 | Outside Flanders , Robert 's sister 's marriage to Roger of Sicily was a mark of his new position in the world ; like Louis VI 's sister 's marriage to Bohemond of Antioch , it stretched French kinship connections into the new Norman colonies , ensuring that travellers from the homeland would find a welcome in those distant parts . |
| 22 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 23 | The book examines harmonisation of technical standards and the Community 's approach to harmonisation with particular reference not only to existing legislation but also proposed legislation . |
| 24 | China expressed " grave concern " over the DPP 's commitment to independence for Taiwan . |
| 25 | A man 's been found guilty of kicking his ex-girlfriend 's dog to death at her home . |
| 26 | Members of this Gaullist elite also played an important role in engineering the General 's return to power in 1958 . |
| 27 | I wonder what was heaven 's response to Henry of Winchester when he achieved the bishopric ? |
| 28 | With regard to the former , power in the sphere of circulation is linked to power in the sphere of production : the greater a group 's access to rewards in the latter , the greater its strength in the exchange processes . |
| 29 | The body 's response to alterations in fluid balance varies according to the rate and volume of fluid loss , the effects being more apparent when loss is rapid or when the patient is already debilitated . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , workers are trying to alter the body 's response to disease by adding information to its cells . |