Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEGENDARY film-maker Hal Roach who died of a heart attack yesterday , aged 100 , became known as Hollywood 's Prince of Comedy . |
| 2 | Harlesden 's prince of glamour , Omar : even more the golden boy of UK soul thanks to his confident second album , ‘ Music ’ |
| 3 | The University 's funding in future will come through a contract , awarded by the Universities Funding Council , to teach a certain number of students in certain subjects for certain prices . |
| 4 | Freud suggested that work was man 's link to reality because it was through work that the individual became linked to the human community . |
| 5 | Winning design : Richard Horden Associates ' mast-like tour which reflects Glasgow 's link with sailing and the sea |
| 6 | Hangovers are actually the body 's response of shock at being subjected to a substantial dose of a poisonous substance . |
| 7 | Part of Oxford Polytechnic 's response to accreditation has been to increase the involvement of external reviewers in the quality control process . |
| 8 | The council has shown consistently that it is an accountable and efficient local authority that should be allowed to continue and develop its services , ’ added Mr Sanderson when he presented the council 's response to reorganisation . |
| 9 | The biggest concern about Germany 's response to racism lies here . |
| 10 | Another characteristic of importance to the choreographer is the nature of a dancer 's response to music . |
| 11 | The embarrassing parallels between the party 's response to discontent in Peking and Lhasa also embrace rhetoric and ideology . |
| 12 | The Chester case was widely considered a test the government 's response to development pressures on open land surrounding other historic cities in Britain . |
| 13 | The cell 's response to stimulation is to secrete norepinephrine ; the amount secreted falls as the stimulation is repeated . |
| 14 | At the simplest level they suggest that the three dimensional structure of the matrix and availability of ligands for cell binding may be important determinants of the hepatocyte 's response to matrix constituents either alone or in combination . |
| 15 | While the Formalists had treated them as objective features inherent in literature itself , Richards 's emphasis was on the reader 's response to literature and on the evaluation of this response . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Exercise provides a way of releasing a great deal of the muscle tension , and general physical arousal ( adrenalin ) accumulated in the body 's response to stress . |
| 18 | Relations between Kenya and the USA and other Western states deteriorated sharply as a result of the government 's response to FORD 's demands and activities . |
| 19 | The Spanish Foreign Minister , Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , compared Cuba 's response to asylum seekers negatively with that of Albania [ see p. 37618 ] and called for a " peaceful transition to democracy " . |
| 20 | The Audit Commission 's response to Government proposals for the council tax focuses mainly on administrative implications . |
| 21 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 22 | So , on this interpretation , for the rehabilitated child , a children 's hearing might be able to look into his social background until the spent offence and after the rehabilitation period is completed , but would be unable to investigate the offence , the previous hearing or hearings , and the child 's response to supervision or training . |
| 23 | God 's response to sin is , consistently , a blend of judgement and mercy . |
| 24 | A child 's response to death will vary not only in accordance with parental attitudes , but also in accordance with age . |
| 25 | The Forth studies will include other transport developments proposed last month in the Government 's response to consultation on possible improvements to road , rail , bus , traffic management and public transport west of Edinburgh and between Lothian and Fife . |
| 26 | Officials from the Department of Justice , charged with smoothing cultural relations , praise Aspen 's response to latino workers as exemplary . |
| 27 | Two more direct influences on ‘ susceptibility ’ that could also forestall any expected decrease in prevalence are changes in the availability , price or purity of heroin or other illicit drugs , and changes in society 's response to heroin use . |
| 28 | The best example of this and of the way in which Switchboard tends to mirror the mainstream gay ( and still mainly male ) community lies in the organization 's response to AIDS . |
| 29 | ENSURE THAT THE CHILD 'S RESPONSE TO PUNISHMENT IS NOT MORE FAULTY LEARNING |
| 30 | At a popular level the emphasis of the individual 's response to Scripture prompted by the Protestant Reformation allowed biblical imitation to dominate the discourse of socially and culturally disenfranchised men and women . |