Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British also had financial interests , were the principal users of the canal , and remembered Napoleon 's threat to India . |
| 2 | They had finished in 1815 , with Napoleon 's banishment to St Helena . |
| 3 | HISTORY tells us that a large part of Napoleon 's attraction to Josephine pertained to smell . |
| 4 | On Dr Spencer 's application to the FPC for consent to use the deputising service , the committee agreed to renew consent subject to the condition which involved a limit of 15 calls per thousand patients per month . |
| 5 | 8 ) , ever since the end of the eighteenth century most of the movements of social criticism have been based upon a theory of society ; and on the other side , every major social theory which attempts to provide a new intellectual framework for understanding political life embodies at the same time a particular orientation to the important political issues of the age , whether in the form of Marx 's allegiance to the working-class movement , Max Weber 's identification with the German bourgeoisie and nationalism , or Durkheim 's commitment to the ideas of the Third Republic in France . |
| 6 | Gibraltar was discussed in talks between the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd and the Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez in London on Feb. 12 , 1991 , and again during Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez 's visit to London in May 1991 [ see p. 38201 ] . |
| 7 | ‘ Not surprisingly , the committee was not impressed with the DoH 's response to local authorities ’ concerns ’ , Harris said . |
| 8 | It seems , once again , that Sussex are the last in the queue , yet not the least indelible of the summer 's memories will be Franklyn Stephenson 's contribution to that win over Durham at Horsham . |
| 9 | A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority . |
| 10 | The report referred to " the failure , negligence , complacency and indifference noted on all levels of the services that had planned the visit [ Boudiaf 's visit to Annaba ] , organized its schedule and guaranteed the security of the President " . |
| 11 | Further to Neil 's Memo to you of the 24th June , I am sorry to say that Newport Borough Council came back to us saying that they could not meet with us on Friday 24th July after all . |
| 12 | Mitterrand 's visit to Soviet Union |
| 13 | French President François Mitterrand 's visit to Israel and Jordan in late November demonstrated the French government 's desire to increase its involvement in the peace process . |
| 14 | France 's Labour Inspection department has asked Compagnie des Machines Bull SA 's management to ‘ re-examine entirely the procedure for informing and consulting ’ the company 's labour-management committee on its procedure for the ‘ social treatment of excess employees , ’ according to a report in the French business journal Les Echos : the paper says a letter dated March 19 criticises insufficient and imprecise information communicated by Bull and the absence of a plan for voluntarily reclassified employees . |
| 15 | ‘ Ca n't you handle the fact that I prefer Callum 's company to yours ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I prefer Callum 's company to yours , ’ she whispered , challenging him with her eyes , ‘ any day ! ’ |
| 17 | The Sicilian tyrants also look backwards to the archaic age of mainland Greece : Gelon 's appeal to the Syracusan populace is demagogy of a kind that recalls Pisistratus , as does Dionysius ' demand for a bodyguard . |
| 18 | What reinvigorated them this time was the passing reference in Tuesday 's column to former Sunderland ( and Darlington ) manager Billy Elliott ‘ the old flying winger , ’ recalls Ron . |
| 19 | If Walker also fails to recover in time for Tuesday 's trip to Leeds , Thorstvedt will face the agonising decision of whether to play for club or country . |
| 20 | For Celtic and Macari , a vital game tomorrow in advance of Tuesday 's flight to Lisbon for the second leg UEFA Cup tie . |
| 21 | Easily reached from most parts of the country , short sea crossings to Fleetwood , Stranraer and Cairnryan , coupled with up to 34 ferry arrivals and departures daily illustrate the Port of Larne 's importance to Industry and Commerce . |
| 22 | The story of Alice Walker 's rise to bestsellerdom emphasizes how the literary star system selects and tokenizes particular works while ignoring others . |
| 23 | However , it is through an unexpected connection with the Pre-Raphaelites which is most useful to an analysis of Walker 's attitude to , or treatment of , women in her images . |
| 24 | Kathleen Bigland Walker 's generosity to the College at large was extended to the Library in the form of a most welcome collection of books on prehistorical and classical archaeology . |
| 25 | This was Dr Baltimore 's comment to the NIH : |
| 26 | Adams 's response to Chodorow 's ego psychology provides a Lacanian account of ‘ the constitution of a split subject through the play of presence and absence ’ ( 1983 : 47 ) . |
| 27 | The PLO , dominated by Fatah , reaped the fruits while the Patriotic Front fell apart as a result of the undermining effect of the Palestinian right , the enormous surge in PLO power following the Rabat summit of October 1974 and Arafat 's address to the General Assembly of the United Nations the following month . |
| 28 | Arafat 's address to UN Security Council in Geneva |
| 29 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 30 | Arafat 's visit to Syria and Jordan |