Example sentences of "[indef pn] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
2 | We can see similar ‘ invitations to continue ’ in someone 's response to a series of instructions or directions . |
3 | We describe pitch in terms of high and low , and some people find it difficult to relate what they hear in someone 's voice to a scale ranging from low to high . |
4 | Possibly he might be angry or resentful about someone 's attitude to him . |
5 | ‘ But alcohol dilutes someone 's judgment to the point where they 're physically dangerous , ’ says Luke who ironically plays recovering alcoholic Dylan McKay in the teen series . |
6 | Clearly , not everyone 's reaction to the situation was the same . |
7 | If claims do arise , it is in everyone 's interest to be able to identify easily all the matters that were disclosed . |
8 | Today the Law Society — though known first and foremost as the body which governs solicitors — is also actively involved in law reform and improving everyone 's access to justice . |
9 | Today the Law Society — though known first and foremost as the body which governs solicitors — is also actively involved in law reform and improving everyone 's access to justice . |
10 | Today the Law Society — though known first and foremost as the body which governs solicitors — is also actively involved in law reform and improving everyone 's access to justice . |
11 | Today the Law Society — though known first and foremost as the body which governs solicitors — is also actively involved in law reform and improving everyone 's access to justice . |
12 | May be , but it is also surely the duty of someone like Mr Chatrier , as a leading official of an organisation responsible for the continuing prosperity of tennis worldwide and at all levels , to draw everyone 's attention to such dangers . |
13 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
14 | One that indicates stop at once ( something 's going very wrong and you need to draw everyone 's attention to it ) . |
15 | Greenpeace 's international HQ produces an amazing amount of campaign literature : sea turtle fact sheets , Everyone 's Guide to Toxics in the Home , five major arguments against kangaroo farming , ocean incineration of toxic waste , driftnets , the destruction of red coral , campaign to end nuclear weapon testing , save Antarctica , let's save the Mediterranean , and a great deal more . |
16 | Everyone 's guide to tulips , daffodils and lilies ; August 1 Focusing on the splendour of camellias , rhododendrons and magnolias ; |
17 | We 'll have a lot of fun , now that everything 's back to normal . |
18 | That one should live to the utmost of one 's ability to be big — to be noble , and true and honourable and beautiful . |
19 | One might expect one 's money to be used to buy holidays or be handed to charity , but that is not what happens . |
20 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
21 | An individual 's allegiance could be shaped by questions of party principle and party loyalty , but it could also be shaped by one 's relationship to the central government , or Court , and one 's attitude towards the power of the executive . |
22 | Such awareness becomes important in helping clarify one 's place in society and , thus , one 's relationship to others in that society . |
23 | The interest of subjecting one 's society and one 's life to such principles of justice is assumed to be everyone 's highest interest . |
24 | It is not therefore always appropriate to allow one 's life to be dictated by the differing fiscal policies in force around the world . |
25 | The life of science involves dedicating one 's life to the discovery of the nature of reality . |
26 | The strength of subsequent recovery will depend largely upon the willingness truly to hand over one 's will and the outcome of one 's life to a non-individual-human God . |
27 | Young workers needed to develop the ‘ ability to grapple with unfamiliar conditions , and the habit of applying one 's mind and one 's knowledge to what one has to do ’ . |
28 | It can find expression in one 's attitude to voluntary organizations , to the culture and traditions of the community , and in behaviour to its members when met in anonymous situations . |
29 | Inasmuch as they are motivated by one 's consent they become , in a small undramatic way , an expression of one 's attitude to one 's society . |
30 | Nor is the allocation of rewards in contemporary Britain commensurate with skill , hard work and the importance of one 's contribution to society , in the way that functionalist analyses of stratification would suggest . |