Example sentences of "[pron] 's [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 2 | We can see similar ‘ invitations to continue ’ in someone 's response to a series of instructions or directions . |
| 3 | We describe pitch in terms of high and low , and some people find it difficult to relate what they hear in someone 's voice to a scale ranging from low to high . |
| 4 | Possibly he might be angry or resentful about someone 's attitude to him . |
| 5 | ‘ But alcohol dilutes someone 's judgment to the point where they 're physically dangerous , ’ says Luke who ironically plays recovering alcoholic Dylan McKay in the teen series . |
| 6 | In your group , discuss everyone 's answers to the questions . |
| 7 | Clearly , not everyone 's reaction to the situation was the same . |
| 8 | If claims do arise , it is in everyone 's interest to be able to identify easily all the matters that were disclosed . |
| 9 | Today the Law Society — though known first and foremost as the body which governs solicitors — is also actively involved in law reform and improving everyone 's access to justice . |
| 10 | Today the Law Society — though known first and foremost as the body which governs solicitors — is also actively involved in law reform and improving everyone 's access to justice . |
| 11 | Today the Law Society — though known first and foremost as the body which governs solicitors — is also actively involved in law reform and improving everyone 's access to justice . |
| 12 | Today the Law Society — though known first and foremost as the body which governs solicitors — is also actively involved in law reform and improving everyone 's access to justice . |
| 13 | May be , but it is also surely the duty of someone like Mr Chatrier , as a leading official of an organisation responsible for the continuing prosperity of tennis worldwide and at all levels , to draw everyone 's attention to such dangers . |
| 14 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 15 | One that indicates stop at once ( something 's going very wrong and you need to draw everyone 's attention to it ) . |
| 16 | Greenpeace 's international HQ produces an amazing amount of campaign literature : sea turtle fact sheets , Everyone 's Guide to Toxics in the Home , five major arguments against kangaroo farming , ocean incineration of toxic waste , driftnets , the destruction of red coral , campaign to end nuclear weapon testing , save Antarctica , let's save the Mediterranean , and a great deal more . |
| 17 | Everyone 's guide to tulips , daffodils and lilies ; August 1 Focusing on the splendour of camellias , rhododendrons and magnolias ; |
| 18 | We 'll have a lot of fun , now that everything 's back to normal . |
| 19 | That one should live to the utmost of one 's ability to be big — to be noble , and true and honourable and beautiful . |
| 20 | One might expect one 's money to be used to buy holidays or be handed to charity , but that is not what happens . |
| 21 | The notion of giving up one 's rights to a ‘ whole community ’ or of submitting to a decision forthcoming from the community or a portion of it would be a strange and abhorrent idea to them ( Overing , in press ) . |
| 22 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
| 23 | An individual 's allegiance could be shaped by questions of party principle and party loyalty , but it could also be shaped by one 's relationship to the central government , or Court , and one 's attitude towards the power of the executive . |
| 24 | Such awareness becomes important in helping clarify one 's place in society and , thus , one 's relationship to others in that society . |
| 25 | But from the perspective of constructivism — which is a general theory of how cognisance is possible and how it develops — the immediate ‘ information-processing ’ shortcomings that lead to the failure to relate one 's actions to objects is not relevant . |
| 26 | However , even if induction and abduction are not available here , something quite similar is , namely the moving tentatively to general conclusions on the basis of one 's responses to particular cases , and the testing of general conclusions by how acceptable one finds , in practice , the responses to particular situations which they dictate . |
| 27 | A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism . |
| 28 | The interest of subjecting one 's society and one 's life to such principles of justice is assumed to be everyone 's highest interest . |
| 29 | It is not therefore always appropriate to allow one 's life to be dictated by the differing fiscal policies in force around the world . |
| 30 | The life of science involves dedicating one 's life to the discovery of the nature of reality . |