Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to their " in BNC.
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1 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
2 | Although it is not certain that property qualifications were required for liverymen , several companies are known to have imposed minima for admission to their freedom . |
3 | Students at Tirana 's Enver Hoxha University began boycotting classes on Feb. 6 to press demands for improvements to their accommodation , for an end to compulsory study of Marxist theory and the history of the ruling Party of Labour ( PLA ) , and for a change in the university 's name . |
4 | Some chat for hours to their dog ; some talk to plants , and of course some people talk for fun , because they like doing it . |
5 | The occupier accepts no liability for injuries suffered by visitors or for damage to their property . " |
6 | They do not , like other fines , go into the public purse but into the pocket of victims who have already been compensated by the same jury for damage to their reputation . |
7 | Although the crisis passed without armed conflict , Nonconformists added a call for a permanent ‘ court ’ to settle disputes between nations to their long-standing demand for international arbitration to avoid war . |
8 | Proposals put forward by Maynard et al ( 1986 ) for GP budgets would overcome this problem , since GPs would act as gatekeepers to their own budgets . |
9 | The question is when should a person be under a duty to compensate others for harm to their interests . |
10 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
11 | They brought him in after dark to their hearths , and answered his questions as well as they could ; and soon they spoke of Master Harry Talvace , drawing up the image of him slowly out of the well of memory . |
12 | He describes how in the midst of turning around Ebury Press to a £5 million enterprise , she would still wake up early enough to devote the early morning hours and after work to their children , Georgia , four , and Grace , one . |
13 | Instead wrong-doers , or even the mischievous who came under the stern eye of the chief dresser , were sent off home to their parents , and like-as-not , a strapping . |
14 | Some people mentioned that they acted as models to their patients . |
15 | They were treated for burns to their hands and arms at Raigmore Hospital , Inverness . |
16 | In the case of one otherwise excellent book governors looking for reference to their own role in the index would have found nothing listed between ‘ Failure ’ and ‘ Handicap ’ ! |
17 | Not only was he shaken and upset by the accident , but , worse for him , his favourite race car suffered severe damage on a day when the Marlboro McLaren Honda team endured a series of setbacks to their own hopes . |
18 | Carolyn Pride , Virginia Pitman and Anne Bolton have remained pillars of support to their emotional friend . |
19 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
20 | Mr White , meanwhile , is chronicling the doctor 's undergraduate days at Oxford and , in tabloid-Press prose , writes of college balls where ‘ the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would in all probability be the daughter of a baron or duke , wrapped in the best silk ’ , while on the river ‘ the navigators of punts … and those on the grassy banks lifting a glass of champagne to their lips ’ strike Mr White as ‘ an earthly paradise in freeze-frame ’ . |
21 | Female squid do not extend any parental care of protection to their eggs and may become so exhausted by the act of reproduction that they die shortly after . |
22 | Few countries have shown such a remarkable sense of responsibility to their station buildings as New Zealand . |
23 | His conjecture , then , is just one way of making sense of certain anatomical facts across species , evolutionary hypotheses , and observations of impairments of linguistic functions on the part of human patients who had suffered different sorts of damage to their brains . |
24 | They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ . |
25 | They knew of the construction of the sewer , and they ought to have appreciated the possibility of damage to their mains and taken appropriate action to prevent or rectify it . |
26 | Welsh Water said the cost of damage to their pumping stations would run to £750,000 . |
27 | Both bodies have been able to comment on draft PPGs and MPGs and have secured a number of improvements to their content . |
28 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
29 | The practice developed of ferrying this minority of strike-breakers to their collieries in NCB vehicles , protected all the way by large numbers of police officers . |
30 | Thus , the policy context , within which the redundancies took place and which older workers experienced in the labour market , often for the first time in twenty or more years , was one of unconcern if not of antagonism to their special needs . |