Example sentences of "['s] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud suggested that work was man 's link to reality because it was through work that the individual became linked to the human community . |
| 2 | Miliband 's response to Poulantzas was that he goes too far in dismissing the composition of the state elite as of no account , and in suggesting that structural constraints are so compelling ‘ as to turn those who run the state into the merest functionaries and executants of policies imposed upon them by ‘ the system ’ ( Miliband 1983 , p. 32 ) . |
| 3 | Dearlove 's study ( 1973 , ch. 8 ) of Kensington and Chelsea showed that the council 's response to groups revolved largely around councillor assessment of them . |
| 4 | Yesterday the Rev John Wilson , minister at Corporation Road , said he was encouraged by local people 's response to efforts the church is making to provide a focus for a range of activities . |
| 5 | Part of Oxford Polytechnic 's response to accreditation has been to increase the involvement of external reviewers in the quality control process . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The biggest concern about Germany 's response to racism lies here . |
| 8 | Crosland 's response to Plowden was as positive as that of Boyle to Robbins . |
| 9 | Another characteristic of importance to the choreographer is the nature of a dancer 's response to music . |
| 10 | This implies that Robertson 's response to Kirk 's querying of the definition of " Chetniks " had been to remove the term altogether , and simply to word his instruction in general terms that " all surrendered personnel of established Yugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Yugoslav forces . " |
| 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 | More hopeful , in part , is God 's response to Moses . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Exodus 16 and Numbers 11 belong to two series of passages which are concerned with God 's response to complaints of the people during their years in the wilderness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | The Audit Commission 's response to Government proposals for the council tax focuses mainly on administrative implications . |
| 23 | The complicated nature of women 's response to doctors ' views about their role also characterised the way in which women dealt with the whole area of sexual difference and its implications for their position in terms of both the separation of spheres and of female dependency within the private sphere of home and family . |
| 24 | Today 's reactions to events in Hungary and the GDR , tomorrow 's response to Austria 's already-submitted application for EC membership or to Turkey 's determined membership claims , can all too easily foreclose long-term options . |
| 25 | Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH yesterday announced Hitachi Ltd 's response to IBM Corp 's latest ES/9000 mainframes as the 99/XXX family . |
| 26 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Scaling : the relaxation ( time-correlation ) functions ( which characterise a material 's response to changes in an applied mechanical or electromagnetic field ) , measured at different temperatures , may be made to coincide on a single ‘ master ’ curve by scaling the time axis with a temperature-dependent characteristic time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The body 's response to alterations in fluid balance varies according to the rate and volume of fluid loss , the effects being more apparent when loss is rapid or when the patient is already debilitated . |