Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] to " in BNC.

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31 In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy .
32 ‘ The tenancy shall continue until the said land is required by the council for the purposes of the widening of Walworth Road and the street paving works rendered necessary thereby and the council shall give two months ' notice to the tenant at least prior to the day of determination when the said land is so required and thereupon the tenant shall give vacant possession to the council of the said land …
33 4.2 The Company will give three months ' notice to the Supplier of any alterations to the above forecast should it wish to revise the same during any twelve month period .
34 On September 1st , as soon as she was back in Florence , she had sent £12 , almost ten months ' wages to Ellen and had stressed the importance of letting her know such a large sum of money had arrived .
35 There are certainly general characteristics of the parties ' approach to social policies that may help people to decide between them ; and at particular elections ( such as , for example , the general election of 1945 ) one 's social policy commitments may be particularly clear .
36 Green Party representatives have claimed that their findings invalidate other political parties ' claims to be green .
37 Although the wife , as the other trustee of the conveyance , should have received notice of any incumbrance ( see Dearle v Hall ( 1828 ) 3 Russ 1 ) , it is as well if the conveyance to the wife and new husband contains a recital that the property is free from incumbrances ( assuming this to be so ) to stop any requisitions on a later sale and also to direct the parties ' attention to any incumbrances if there have been such .
38 The National Farmers ' Union tackled all three candidates for the seat the closest three-way marginal in the country on their parties ' commitment to investment in agriculture .
39 Claims of secret assignment should be rejected as incompatible with the other parties ' right to performance .
40 The basis of the parties ' appeal to the country is the election manifestos that they issue .
41 The expert will seek the parties ' agreement to the principle and the cost of obtaining that outside assistance .
42 Mr Clayton drew the inspectors ' attention to a village in Argyll , Scotland , where power lines ran along the main street .
43 The Federation of European Wholesale and International Trade Associations is calling for all references to traders ' responsibility to be removed .
44 What of animals ' rights to life ?
45 The manner of the defeat and the Forest fans ' reaction to it signalled that after 18 trophy-filled years under Brian Clough , the club could really be in trouble .
46 The second was that ‘ hypersensitive ’ Presley — scheduled to leave on a 10-city tour — feared his fans ' reaction to seeing him weighing more than 16st and out of condition .
47 This is the start of the walkers ' way to the Falls of Glomach , first up a forest road to cross a ridge and then gradually declining to the top of the waterfall .
48 But soon Owen 's erstwhile disciple T. H. Huxley began to question the dinosaurs ' relationships to lizards ; he saw the closeness of birds to some reptiles , and inferred that at least some dinosaurs had gone on two legs rather than four , the Iguanodon among them .
49 However , it is not possible to make this inference from the data as they are based upon subjects ' responses to a single question .
50 Unlike Hart 's , Friedman 's explanation shifts the emphasis from the subjects ' deliberations to their action .
51 The mass media too are concerned essentially with communicating , usually giving information although it may also involve exchange in the form of readers ' letters to a newspaper or phone-in programmes on radio .
52 How might such processes be affected in female readers ' responses to stories about males , which concern traditionally male interests and which frequently exclude them altogether or restrict them to a passive role ?
53 It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record .
54 A Survey , by questionnaire , of readers ' reaction to the General Catalogue of Printed Books was carried out over two periods during the year .
55 But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way .
56 Having read your article ( WW/May 91/p.484 ) on the Appalachian dulcimer , I would draw your readers ' attention to the following points , which might aid them in producing an effective musical instrument .
57 I would like to draw readers ' attention to the term pastel painting , which is , in my opinion , a classic misnomer .
58 Be that as it may , the editorial and short report will encourage the young doctors in question and will bring hope and faith in the fairness of the BMJ in drawing readers ' attention to this issue .
59 Sir , I am grateful to the Christmas Critics ' Crowner ( 18th/25th December ) for drawing your readers ' attention to the fate of W J West , perhaps the most victimised author of 1992 , who now awaits sentence on what is poised to become the most controversial book of 1993 , The Crisis in Bookselling .
60 The compounds ' responses to magnetic fields and pressure have boosted scientists ' hopes that they will form the basis of practical superconducting .
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