Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By analogy , the more nearly individual areas can match their populations ' preferences for social spending to their expenditure , the more efficient will be the overall outcome — and the less ‘ coerced ’ local people will feel ( Tiebout , 1956 ; Foster et al . , |
| 2 | Is it only incomers who protest at perceived threats or is there a true grassroots feeling about such changes to their way of life ? |
| 3 | Before the war , he had been one of the most prominent members of the Dock workers ' Guild , acting as principal deputy to their father , the Chairman , but after he was disabled and discharged from the army , he was forced to take other work , helping Florrie to run their Aunt Emily 's corner grocery shop . |
| 4 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 5 | However , arguments along the lines of ‘ the Russians ’ real objective was less their alleged anxiety to protect Cuba than to alter the whole balance of global strategy to their advantage by one bold stroke' ( Clissold : 1970 , p. 49 ) would seem to raise something of a false dilemma . |
| 6 | It is tempting , but completely illegitimate , to slide from analysis of the production of official solutions to their implementation . |
| 7 | Thus labelled , it relinquished the parents of their last shred of moral obligation to their son ; even managed to convince them that in the end none of it was their fault . |
| 8 | In the county that has produced men of such credit to their country as Bruce and Burns , the name of John Dalrymple should be spoken of with shame . |
| 9 | In 1985 , ESP also added testing of submersible motors to their list of services — a list that has since grown by the addition of testing protectors , PSIs and cable . |
| 10 | Since the value of these slaves to their master lay so often in the slaves ' intelligence , initiative and skill , incentives ( such as the possibility of purchasing freedom ) were used more consistently than physical coercion as a means of persuading slaves to accept their inferior status . |
| 11 | Acquaintance with social progress in the West highlighted what V. G. Belinsky ( 1811–48 ) , the foremost literary critic of the 1840s , called ‘ cursed Russian reality ’ , and added a sense of national humiliation to their indignation . |
| 12 | We often find that people quite junior in the hierarchy have influence out of all proportion to their position because of their standing in the informal structure . |
| 13 | Here most of the hills are rocky and small , but since they thrust up their shapely , jagged features from lochan-speckled moors , they create a presence out of all proportion to their size : sort of miniature weathered sandstone versions of the Torridon giants . |
| 14 | Tiny though they were by today 's standards , they had a local importance out of all proportion to their size . |
| 15 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 16 | Was a polite Behaviour joined to that honest Sincerity and social Disposition which is remarkable in the English Sailors , I think they would not only be the most useful Men in the Island , but by much the most agreeable Companions : For this Reason , I would recommend it to Parents who are to breed their Sons to the Sea , to give them an early Taste of Letters , especially the European Tongue , which will be of great Service to their Business as well as polish their Manners " . |
| 17 | Relief operations in the wake of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait [ see pp. 37631-41 ; 37697 ; 37988 ] were considered to be only marginally the concern of the UNHCR , being seen primarily as the evacuation of third-party nationals to their home countries , rather than the repatriation of refugees . |
| 18 | In these examples locations close to the sources of ore were of fundamental importance to their development , though distance did not always prevent sites further afield from profiting , as exemplified by pewter manufacture at Camerton and at Lansdown , near Bath , both within easy reach of the Mendips . |
| 19 | To some , the parade before the public is a source of extreme satisfaction to their vanity , but all the preliminaries that go before the parade are so much drudgeries that irritate , and are completed as hastily as possible . |
| 20 | This was brought home to me after witnessing the rapturous welcome given to about a dozen young Cape Verdians as they carried their enormous radios and bottles of duty-free Scotch to their waiting loved ones in the airport arrival lounge . |
| 21 | Often , withdrawal is a straightforward but tragic response of older people to their inability to finance social integration . |
| 22 | This large and increasing number of old , and very old , people will contain a high proportion of individuals who have either no family setting and connections , or at any rate none that is of practical relevance to their way of life . |
| 23 | Work on more general aspects of science and technology policy has included completed studies of the ways in which the Japanese Government chooses and administers its ‘ next generation base technologies development programme 1981-1991 ’ and the responses of industrial firms to their Government 's ‘ seeds and needs ’ approach . |
| 24 | Mr Ferris asks us to point out that one of the requirements of the UK Air Navigation Order is that the current registered owner of an aircraft must keep the Authority informed of any changes to their address or ownership details in order that the UK Register of Civil Aircraft can be kept up to date . |
| 25 | The widespread belief that Ross had declared the Interfor Report ‘ not credible ’ was , perhaps , of greater value to their case than anything Aviv might have sworn to . ) |
| 26 | Here , research into the attitudes of employed workers to their work does support a parallel . |
| 27 | ParaSet also reportedly provides the first ‘ what if ’ capability for engineers to assess the impact of potential changes to their software . |
| 28 | It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation . |
| 29 | According to the government , this will improve accountability of local authorities to their electorate ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Chapter 21 , Para. 4.7 ; CIPFA , 1989 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 30 | The degree aims to provide students with a sound knowledge of the basic principles , concepts and techniques of business management , with specific reference to their application in the banking and financial services industry ; an understanding of the structure and operation of the industry in a European context ; and the critical , analytical , communications and inter-personal skills needed for a successful career in this rapidly developing field . |