Example sentences of "['s] [noun] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Linda was chosen to star in the advert as Coke 's response to rivals Pepsi , which have bought in rap star Hammer as their television commercial celebrity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , in the case of both local and national inspectors , the school is likely to be bound by the LEA 's response to recommendations , in which case the school still has no control . |
| 10 | For the Liberal Democrats , Lord Bonham Carter agreed that Britain 's response to events must not appear to threaten the security of the Soviet Union or attempt to dissolve the Warsaw Pact . |
| 11 | At the same time , however , there is a new urgency to the West 's response to events in Moscow . |
| 12 | In this context we feel it may be helpful to include a section here on the teacher 's response to children 's written work , and in particular to the marking policy adopted . |
| 13 | But the guidelines say that a doctor 's response to patients depends on the cultural and societal norms in individual countries . |
| 14 | These price increases restored the industry 's income to levels sufficient to cover book costs , but prices still remained low relative to the higher costs the industry was having to incur to meet the new demand . |
| 15 | The Institute 's Tax Faculty has issued a guidance note on a company 's exposure to penalties on submitting a corporation tax Pay and File return containing estimated figures . |
| 16 | Its recommendations focus on dangers posed by the public 's exposure to pesticides and their use by untrained people . |
| 17 | He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Second , the high degree of commitment between private lenders and borrowers in Japan is particularly obvious in lender 's attitudes to firms in financial difficulty and the research will examine the circumstances under which firms are rescued by their bankers . |
| 20 | One of his secretaries Colville tells us that Churchill 's attitudes to clergymen had a touch of King Henry II 's attitude to Thomas Becket . |
| 21 | The history of Western men 's attitudes to women is a history of woman-hatred , often with terrifying consequences . |
| 22 | The Royal Society 's report accepts that people 's attitudes to risks are just as important as the numerical value of the probability of the risk being realised . |
| 23 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 24 | Men 's toiletries producers Lynx have commissioned National Opinion Polls to carry out a survey on men 's attitudes to pressures of living and work . |
| 25 | Initiatives already under way include research into young people 's attitudes to condoms , single teenage mothers ' views on family planning services , special support for pregnant teenagers and ‘ Streetwise ’ , a confidential service for the under-25s which offers advice on contraception , drug/alcohol problems and pregnancy testing . |
| 26 | The survey of over 1,000 adults aged 15+ , conducted by NOP at the end of November 1991 , researched the public 's attitudes to photographs of the Royal family in the press . |
| 27 | Paul 's direction to parents is contained in the words , ‘ Fathers , do not exasperate your children ; instead , bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord ’ ( Eph. 6:4 ) . |
| 28 | The far-infrared and sub-millimetre space telescope ( FIRST ) would extend ISO 's coverage to regions between infrared and radio , while the X-ray multi-mirror would be a very sensitive X-ray telescope . |
| 29 | Observers say that Reagan 's plea to scientists to develop non-nuclear defences is part of a plan to back away from an offensive strategy based on the homeless MX missile . |
| 30 | If you simply switch from writing about an investigation over which you have enlisted your reader 's sympathy to scenes of home life or love life that have no connection with the main story , you will lose each time a little of your hold on the reader . |