Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quick almost elusive comment to dwell upon , then his attention would turn to a barman , a stranger , a word about the environment , the weather , the decoration or structure of a particular place ; then his attention would return to one 's response to his initial comment . |
| 2 | He sighed and set off up the stairs again , pulling himself up by his hands on the thick , frozen rope fixed to the outside of the staircase , the castle 's concession to their earlier request for a handhold on the often ice-slicked steps . |
| 3 | Since WWF 's change to its present name from World Wildlife Fund it has , to quote a staffer in a rival pressure group , ‘ been trying to get away from its cuddly animal image ’ . |
| 4 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |
| 5 | All too soon it became politic to think about returning Tony 's toy to its rightful owner . |
| 6 | She looked at the pictures of the Spitfire , and trembled to think that his survival depended , in part , on such a little plane , almost like a child 's toy to her sophisticated eyes . |
| 7 | We had doubts in our minds about the strength of these children 's attachment to their adoptive parents and though our sample group is very small , we would like to pose the hypothesis that ‘ severing children 's meaningful emotional links with members of their birth families limits their capacity for full attachment to their new families ’ . |
| 8 | The late Marguerite Yourcenar was also an admirer of Proust and she relates the history of her mother 's family in Dear Departed in a way which recalls Proust 's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past and to the sheer coincidences by which past and present can seem to illuminate one another . |
| 9 | One should aim to cultivate one 's mind to its utmost potential . |
| 10 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow gave a Valentine 's card to her former lover Woody Allen showing a steak knife plunged into her chest , his friends said last night . |
| 11 | I am very puzzled by the Minister 's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for St. Helens , North ( Mr. Evans ) . |
| 12 | In the light of the Minister 's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield ( Mr. Hinchliffe ) , will he guarantee that at European level he will press for a system of mandatory labelling so that eggs are labelled ’ battery ’ , ’ barn eggs ’ , ’ free range ’ or whatever ? |
| 13 | Able to choose his own successor David Whitaker offered the Script Editor 's seat to his long-time friend and colleague Dennis Spooner . |
| 14 | Another writer , Ward ( 1981 ) , also argued against open adoption , again claiming that it could adversely affect the child 's bonding to its new family . |
| 15 | ‘ Incidentally , taking the old man 's philosophy to its logical end , I presume that one would be expected to destroy an enemy machine even if one knew that , say , the pilot were injured or out of ammunition , and therefore unable to fight back . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Boesky 's return to his old haunts comes with four months of his sentence still to run . |
| 17 | It was interesting to be given an insight earlier this evening into the Minister 's attitude to his own brief . |
| 18 | He 'd heard quite clearly Evans 's reference to his inside track with the Kriminalpolizei at Wiesbaden , to Kurt Meyer 's treachery . |
| 19 | And although it is true that Wagner could , if required , have figured under various of their headings , it seems that the decision to lay any emphasis on the relevance of Wagner 's work to his own ideas represented a further and final development . |
| 20 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 21 | During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators . |
| 22 | To be truthful , I had forgotten about Earl Angus 's gift to his estranged wife but the two Highlanders still remembered us . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think I have had the pleasure of meeting you before , ’ she said , transferring Flossie 's lead to her left hand and entangling it dangerously with the milk can , whilst proffering her right . |
| 24 | In the autumn of 1985 , Peter Walker , Secretary of State for Energy , had taken to making the following joke in after-lunch speeches : he would quote the Duke of Wellington 's reaction to his first Cabinet meeting as Prime Minister : ‘ An extraordinary affair . |
| 25 | Your employer 's reaction to your ill health will be governed by a variety of considerations , such as : |
| 26 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 27 | FROM WHICHEVER direction you approach Mothecombe , whether along the winding wooded valley beside the ever widening River Erme , or down the road from Battisborough Cross and through the clumps of hydrangeas , or by sea around Butcher 's Cove to its sandy bay and up the secret combe strewn with bluebells and daffodils , the first sight of it takes your breath away . |
| 28 | In them he included his diary entries of the days from Nasser 's announcement to his own resignation on 6 November when the ill-fated invasion was ignominiously terminated by a ceasefire . |
| 29 | In many ways the Crown Prince 's relationship to his stern father bears a passing resemblance to that of the Prince of Wales and King George V. Like his cousin , he was intensely bored by pomp and ceremony ; after an official visit to Konigsberg , he dispatched a typical wire to the Kaiser , reporting ‘ seventy-five speeches , four and a half hours ’ duration and the usual horrible banquet ’ On another occasion , he was actually placed under house arrest by the Kaiser for skipping a state function . |
| 30 | Priskin 's back to his mischievous ways , though he now knows to keep a low profile on washing day . |