Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Veils and headdresses , shoes and lingerie are also available and you can complete your look after a visit to their flower shop . |
| 2 | The usual lairs of sniping pike , marginal rushes and other bankside vegetation , are too much of a threat to their comfort . |
| 3 | The Nez Perce were confident of a return to their homeland . |
| 4 | For those who want more of a challenge to their walking I recommend the following route via the shore of Loch Hakel for drama and scenic beauty . |
| 5 | In 1127 the count of Flanders was murdered while at prayer in the church of St Donatian in Bruges by the members of a mainly clerical clan to whom he had done disservice ; and Henry and Louis intrigued with the local nobles to ensure the succession of a count to their liking . |
| 6 | Underlining their ‘ watchdog ’ role , Council also announced the suspension of membership of the Stratford Aircraft Collection following the group 's failure to repay a Council loan for the moving of an aircraft to their site . |
| 7 | Am I to be mobbed by all these folk for want of an end to their Mystery ? |
| 8 | If , as RIBA says , none of the major parties have produced policies which can tackle this crisis then the fear for those caught in the homeless trap must be that , whoever wins on April 9 , there is little prospect of an end to their predicament . |
| 9 | They saw a flourishing domestic bond market as a threat to their mainstay , corporate lending . |
| 10 | The governments of nuclear-armed countries rightly perceive this as a threat to their defence strategies and decide to send all the stones back to Mars . |
| 11 | Many British men brought up with the notion that independence is strength fear dependency as a threat to their manhood . |
| 12 | It is also interesting , though , that this tends to place working-class women in a contradictory position : their working classness disappears or is represented in a negative way as a threat to their femininity . |
| 13 | Thus many companies see them as a threat to their holding on to their good people , and instilling corporate loyalty into new appointees . |
| 14 | Quoting diplomatic sources at the UN , the newspaper said that Gulf Arab governments which backed the UAE 's case increasingly perceived Iran as a threat to their security and as an argument in favour of a continued US military presence . |
| 15 | A MERSEYSIDE couple has launched a £10,000 fund raising campaign as a tribute to their baby son 's short life . |
| 16 | Now this bigger or , this other organization which wants to put th er another tenant in as in a , as a sub-let to their lease |
| 17 | The British TUC had given £10,000 to the Austrian Socialists as a contribution to their defence . |
| 18 | The point I am making is that pedagogic research calls for the independent appraisal of ideas as a precondition to their application . |
| 19 | This is particularly true of nomadic groups , who have hardly changed their repertoire for generations and who still seek to weave the beliefs and aspirations of their tribe into the very fabric of their rugs , as a testament to their way of life and tribal identity . |
| 20 | Now and again the walkway became even more narrow as a pavement café spilled its chairs and tables upon it , tempting the strolling shopper to stop for refreshment ; here and there a small crowd gathered around a solitary musician or a group of young teenagers singing , the plates at their feet covered in kroner as a testament to their audience 's approval . |
| 21 | In this respect psychology has rendered a service to the courts by undermining the traditional belief in the demeanour of witnesses as a guide to their veracity . |
| 22 | The circulation of the great reviews in the United States included the South and their antislavery content was welcomed as a boost to their cause by American abolitionists . |
| 23 | To examine the 1977 Additonal Protocols to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on International Humanitarian Law with a view to their ratification by the British government |
| 24 | The main objectives of this research are to estimate the total costs of operating the tax system ; to estimate the benefits accruing to businesses as a result of the operation of the system ( particularly cash flow benefits ) ; to compare costs of operating the main taxes ; and to identify areas of high compliance costs with a view to their reduction . |
| 25 | Both conferences were to " proceed in parallel " with a view to their conclusion by October 1991 . |
| 26 | if other members have material on similar themes , the Social Secretary will be pleased to hear of them with a view to their incorporation in a future programme . |
| 27 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 28 | Commissioners proposed a reduction in their use to 7,300 tonnes from January 1995 with an end to their use by 2014 , or earlier if the production of hydrofluorocarbons ( HFCs ) — the least harmful direct CFC substitute — is considered sufficiently reliable . |
| 29 | It does not amount to an argument that staff should be conducting research as such ; merely that if they are engaged in it , there is an advantage to it being undertaken with an eye to their teaching commitments . |
| 30 | All bookshops with an eye to their image have events nowadays , although the competition is tough going . |