Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm twenty or thirty years later Kinsey was studying human sexuality and saying things like I 've stuck on the handout so erm y'know in some ways perhaps Kinsey 's attitude to these things er changed . |
| 2 | He was replaced by Ilija Djukic , hitherto Yugoslavia 's ambassador to China . |
| 3 | So Wimpey 's commitment to providing affordable social housing should ensure that many further opportunities will arise . ’ |
| 4 | Nor does his love of Three Oranges Suite have the bite we have now come to expect — but the music offers delicacy , too , and Danon brings out brilliantly Prokofiev 's debt to Ravel in the third movement . |
| 5 | That combination indicates perhaps Cohan 's key to the entire venture , for the ‘ technique mix ’ scenario does n't begin and end with his association with the Scottish Ballet . |
| 6 | The weak position of women in the labour market , and their responsibilities within the home as domestic workers and child rearers , affect not only women 's access to housing , but its structure and design . |
| 7 | After he had bowed himself out of the room , Cynthia remained behind and , taking pen and paper , took down Dorothy 's letter to ha dictation . |
| 8 | It is potentially hugely divisive given the Scottish party 's left-wing sensibilities , but less so if working-class traditionalists like Clarke can go down Smith 's route to modernity . |
| 9 | Paul Heaton and friends are definitely not Hull 's answer to Deacon Blue ; more they question why Deacon Blue even exist . |
| 10 | It is not Nizan 's allegiance to communism which must be interpreted in the light of his resignation from the party . |
| 11 | I know he 's not exactly God 's gift to forensic science , but he 's a conscientious plodder and you 're not going to stimulate either his brain or his speed by bullying the poor little beast . |
| 12 | Just man 's inhumanity to man , and the ignorance and the cruelty and the lack of compassion that people were showing — and still are . |
| 13 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 14 | Th the er the anointing of the Holy Spirit , they 're the , th every single thing , every area , our growth , our maturity , whilst we might have input into it , it is still God 's gift to us . |
| 15 | The abbey was plundered and pillaged , its treasures looted , its roofs pulled off , and what was once man 's homage to God became a nesting place for foxes , ravens and kites . |
| 16 | But when MacDonald formed the first Labour Government in 1924 , he brushed aside Morel 's claim to the Foreign Office and took the job himself , combining it with the premiership . |
| 17 | The match with Malta at Tannadice , Andy Roxburgh said yesterday , is also Ferguson 's chance to ‘ show up well and get his career moving again ’ after lengthy negative publicity surrounding transfers , fines and a TV appearance by the player 's agent to complain about the size of the bed in the forward 's digs . |
| 18 | It was the day after Ludens 's visit to Chelsea which had ended with his witnessing Franca 's tears . |
| 19 | Hence Trevelyan 's invitation to MacDonald to chair the new organization . |
| 20 | The player would keep the pipes in place by settling his chin into his collar , hence CD 's reference to Podsnaps 's ‘ setting his obstinate head in his cravat and shirt-collar ’ . |
| 21 | Similarly Major 's commitment to charters is somewhat contradictory in the light of the lack of legislative recognition for disabled people 's rights and the recent talking out of the Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill . |
| 22 | He 'd heard quite clearly Evans 's reference to his inside track with the Kriminalpolizei at Wiesbaden , to Kurt Meyer 's treachery . |
| 23 | Now Regan 's response to this , exemplified in the imbecile 's fear , would be to insist that since ordinary usage almost seems to demand that we describe that unfortunate as recognising a snake , and because this is only possible of someone who holds the necessary beliefs , then he must hold them somehow and somewhere . |
| 24 | ‘ Aga-sagas are really everyman 's alternative to Jane Austen . |
| 25 | Gould was sacked after a stormy 14 months following Albion 's failure to at least make the Third Division promotion play-offs . |
| 26 | Often children 's response to a picture is limited by their vocabulary and their ability to describe features . |
| 27 | She marched straight into Tony Richardson 's office in her summer dress and sandals , sorted out Walter 's money to her satisfaction , and continued to do so for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Tom Jones , nine Merchant-Ivory films and more recently Ballad of the Sad Café , from Carson McCullers 's poignant novel . |
| 28 | The whole scene demonstrates admirably Britten 's approach to words and his understanding of how they can be made vehicles , both for meanings which go beyond their own familiar significations , and for a special kind of music which comes , by some alchemy , from the combination of phonemes and notes . |
| 29 | Manager Alan Murray has been forced to delay team selection for tomorrow night 's visit to the Midlands . |
| 30 | Even Adomnán 's reference to ‘ strangers ’ holding sway among the Dalriadic Scots can not be construed as a reference to the agents of King Oswiu ( or Ecgfrith ) because these strangers are represented as oppressing Dál Riata from c . |