Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much to the artists ' chagrin . |
| 2 | The results of this first phase were , much to the researchers ' surprise , that productivity increased no matter how much the lighting was varied . |
| 3 | Much to the scientists ' surprise , summer conditions left visible annual strata . |
| 4 | The particularly rapid growth of Norman Broadbent owes much to the partners ' skill and luck in their sense of timing in the formation of the company ; it is unlikely that this could now be repeated quite so successfully . |
| 5 | A reference to British Steel was something the punters would relate to , much to the dealers ' amusement . |
| 6 | He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders . |
| 7 | When compared with the standard reference values accordinly to the patients ' age group , the individual serum total cholesterol values for men and women were seen to have a propensity to fall within or below the lower end of the normal range . |
| 8 | The 14 March 1988 order recorded that accounts had already been supplied to the plaintiffs and that those accounts had discharged the first defendant 's accounting obligations ‘ subject only to the plaintiffs ' rights under Ord. 43 , r. 5 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 and their rights to require vouching of the said accounts . ’ |
| 9 | Sir Willie 's success is due only to the dealers ' greed . |
| 10 | The LCP are recorded more closely ( note entirely to the violins ' advantage in the busier moments of the outer movements ) , and although this lends a welcome clarity , I find the results almost totally devoid of charm . |
| 11 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 12 | They were placed in the tribune of St Longinus , close to the moderators ' table , both for the conciliar proceedings and other events , which gave them an excellent view . |
| 13 | Bodie drove quickly to the Stones ' house , slowing down as he came into the street at the far end . |
| 14 | This was more to the Swedes ' liking , taking 5 of the first 8 places , including the top 3 . |
| 15 | The KH-11s may be able to transmit directly to the allies ' command centre in Saudi Arabia . |
| 16 | Some , in particular France and Germany , would like to give preferential treatment to living artists ( and possibly also to the artists ' heirs ) when selling their own works . |
| 17 | The Home Secretary is in my opinion entitled and bound to reach his own tariff decision , after having regard both to the judges ' tariff and to the factors such as public confidence in the administration of justice which Lord Scarman mentioned . |
| 18 | With a white , set face , she left the office and went straight to the ladies ' powder-room , breaking down in private and crying silent , bitter tears . |
| 19 | In 1954 Eyre became senior English master at Bromsgrove before moving two years later to the schools ' drama department at the BBC . |
| 20 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 21 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |
| 22 | Equally to the hardliners ' point , Mr Gorbachev 's Soviet Union is a discouraging example of what happens when the party loosens its control of the economy and the people . |
| 23 | The result of the ballot stood up pretty well to the Whips ' calculations . |
| 24 | Fagan was the gloomy little stud-groom who objected strongly to the pigeons ' custom of sitting on his horses ' sheeted backs , balancing and cooing , and doing other things as well . |
| 25 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 26 | Nor , if we are willing to see our co-operative selves as other co-operators see us , should we fail to note Signor Prandini 's implied criticism , pointed though polite , of the British concept of Co-operation as restricted almost exclusively to the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 27 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 28 | We walked across to the teenagers ' car , which had veered across the lawn of a local church . |
| 29 | And after the curtain call , when he was going upstairs to the extras ' dressing-room and had bumped into Mr Potter — she was n't talking at second-hand but had actually witnessed the scene — far from showing remorse he had confronted him as though he was going to head-butt him for the second time . |
| 30 | Some of those services used to build up a wonderful feeling , and now and then it would become rather emotional with the preacher calling on folk to come forward to the penitents ' bench at the front to re-dedicate their lives to the Lord . |