Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 2 | This backlash has meant many dog owners having to confine their pets to their own gardens for exercise and toilet use which , of course , leads to the problem of how to dispose of the dogs ' faeces . |
| 3 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , by selective choice , the articulate , financially secure and politically active can also indirectly contribute to school failure — not perhaps in their district and their child 's school , but in the schools and districts to which such influence is never brought ( or the area from which they have moved away ) . |
| 5 | This ‘ mini-apartheid ’ was reminiscent of the colonial era , when parts of China were out of bounds to its own people . |
| 6 | This template , called NORMAL.DOT , is a series of menu definitions , dialogue box settings and styles to which each Word document defaults in the absence of a customised template . |
| 7 | The purpose of any order under subsection ( 2 ) must , in my opinion , be to restore all of the parties to their former positions . |
| 8 | This seems to me to be the minimum information necessary if the order is to be capable of restoring the parties to their former positions . |
| 9 | He also found it possible to direct public funds to his own use . |
| 10 | In June a settlement agent in Fort Worth , Texas , was indicted for embezzlement , an agent in Birmingham , Alabama , was found guilty of the theft of $168,000 , and a computer operator in Denver , Colorado , was found to have transferred $313,127 in HUD funds to his own account . |
| 11 | Fortunately , technology often brings solutions to its own problems . |
| 12 | There is surely a lesson here for us , as we turn to information technology for solutions to our own problems of communication . |
| 13 | Santa Clara , California-based RasterOps Corp warns that it will record an operating loss and take a $5m to $7m restructuring charge for the third quarter ending March 31 : it says third quarter sales will be about equal to the second quarter 's $25m , and it blames ‘ general market softness and lingering effects of the transition from third party channels to its own sales force . |
| 14 | Proposals put forward by Maynard et al ( 1986 ) for GP budgets would overcome this problem , since GPs would act as gatekeepers to their own budgets . |
| 15 | By that he meant the rich , using their wealth , are able to manipulate the flow of information and images to their own advantage . |
| 16 | In the end Diana , who had an epidural injection in the base of her spine , was able to give birth thanks to her own efforts , without resorting to forceps or an operation . |
| 17 | When she was alone , Emily allowed herself a smile of satisfaction , nothing could stop her now , she was on her way up and all thanks to her own ingenuity . |
| 18 | Mr Grist has a new job , thanks to his former boss , the Secretary of State for Wales , David Hunt . |
| 19 | For nearly 500 years the people of this area built churches , cathedrals , schools and houses on the Byzantine model and , as time passed , adapted these designs to their own needs . |
| 20 | James was by European standards a clear-sighted ruler who wanted to gain a little more of the authority over his subjects to which all kings were entitled , but by the standards of Englishmen he was a ruthless tyrant with the additional vices that he wanted to promote the cause of Roman Catholicism and was willing to infringe the rights of property . |
| 21 | Gaze at your second list , and repeat the words to yourself several times — out loud if possible . |
| 22 | She had said those words to him many times , reminding him of his indoctrination at the hands of Por Tanssie 's officials . |
| 23 | He was giving words to her own struggle , but before she could feel too much empathy a light went on inside her . |
| 24 | In Holland , the unions made structural adaptations to their own organisations to meet the needs of the rank and file . |
| 25 | In Holland , the unions made structural adaptations to their own organisations to meet the needs of the rank and file . |
| 26 | In the standard Keynesian view of macroeconomics such a policy will soften the fluctuations in real output and other real variables to which any economy is prone and which are due to fluctuations in private-sector spending . |
| 27 | Belinda blurted dismissively , disturbed to find that Tom had been aware of at least some of Greg 's attentions to her that evening . |
| 28 | Tiguary , at the north tip of the island , could muster about five hundred men ; from the length of the northern shore , the chiefs there could raise another four hundred ; on Oualie , Dulé could promise a force nearly two hundred strong of a mixed crowd of men , a core of maroons from islands in the archipelago colonised already , some redlegs , or tallow men , renegades to their own people and the more ardent to fight for that very apostasy ( some of them former prisoners and others who had been press-ganged into sailing service ) . |
| 29 | NCM in Cardiff will initially use the well established system of its parent company and then , in time , transfer its clients to its own system . |
| 30 | From January , Dolphin , the Norsk Data A/S affiliate based in Oslo , will sell NeXT workstations as clients to its own server systems — targeting public service , banking and finance sectors . |