Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 2 | What I would like to try and get personnel 's agreement to , if a if at all possible , is that we do n't do this nonsense of having to close list our staff to jobs that we know we 're gon na put them into . |
| 3 | The fishermen 's response to the crisis will become clearer this week . |
| 4 | The audience may accept that the war is being fought over an ignoble cause , but Thersites 's response to existence is too much to take . |
| 5 | One of the reasons for Champneys 's move to Holland with his apprentice may have been his bankruptcy in 1766 . |
| 6 | One may suppose that such was the genesis of C.S. Lewis 's sad comment on his step-children 's response to the death of his wife : |
| 7 | They consider that reading , like listening , should rely on children 's ability to ‘ predict possible meanings ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) and find their own answers to questions about written language . |
| 8 | Overall , Wannemacher and Ryan attributed their children 's success to two factors : the presence of a standard for comparison ( the rod with the middle number of beads ) , and use of both words , more and less , in the same trial . |
| 9 | Sniffing will vary from school to school , from youth club to youth club and from one residential children 's home to another . |
| 10 | I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned . |
| 11 | YOUR story about the seriously ill children 's trip to Disney World was really touching . |
| 12 | At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST . |
| 13 | A dozen families were consequently contacted by telephone , and asked to provide information about their family life ; self-identified concerns ; parent 's seizure type and frequency ; the child or children 's response to seizures and the relationship of partners . |
| 14 | Often children 's response to a picture is limited by their vocabulary and their ability to describe features . |
| 15 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 16 | Of the 243 companies interviewed , 56 per cent considered the disruption of children 's schooling to be a very or fairly serious problem for transferred staff . |
| 17 | The first line — ’ Our Father which art in heaven , hallowed be thy name ’ has not yet given way in children 's parlance to ’ Our Father in heaven , may your name be hallowed ’ , or , ’ Our Father in heaven , may your holy name be honoured . ’ |
| 18 | Parental expectations , children 's exposure to a range of experience , and the availability of structured education were different , for example , for the five-year-old in the 1930s and 1950s , and these are different from those of the late 1980s . |
| 19 | Brook is equally determined that parents should have no say over their children 's exposure to permissive sex-education material . |
| 20 | Prize for the Best First Novel went to James Hamilton-Paterson for Gerontius ( Macmillan , £12.95 ) ; and for the Best Children 's Novel to Hugh Scott for Why Weeps the Brogan ? |
| 21 | Slightly fewer assisted individuals and related children 's progress to their teacher . |
| 22 | You ca n't change them — you ca n't force a man to love you when he does n't , ca n't hold children 's progress to adulthood back . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | On 3 April 1992 , following a hearing in chambers , Booth J. refused to order the children 's return to the State of Victoria . |
| 25 | But there are only limited facilites for them stay in the children 's ward to be near their daughter . |
| 26 | A wall mirror in the painting area can stimulate the children 's attention to natural symmetry . |
| 27 | Her presence and interest doubtless affect the children 's attention to similarity and difference . |
| 28 | ‘ Exposure to human suffering , bloodshed and cruelty may , in the long germ , stunt children 's sensitivity to violence inflicted on others in real life . ’ |
| 29 | Results were related to two theoretical issues : children 's implicit theory of teaching and children 's sensitivity to misunderstanding . |
| 30 | ‘ Exposure to human suffering , bloodshed and cruelty may , in the long germ , stunt children 's sensitivity to violence inflicted on others in real life . ’ |