Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is not certain that property qualifications were required for liverymen , several companies are known to have imposed minima for admission to their freedom . |
| 2 | Sunderland asked for a £50,000 facility fee for admission to their match with Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | Students at Tirana 's Enver Hoxha University began boycotting classes on Feb. 6 to press demands for improvements to their accommodation , for an end to compulsory study of Marxist theory and the history of the ruling Party of Labour ( PLA ) , and for a change in the university 's name . |
| 4 | Some chat for hours to their dog ; some talk to plants , and of course some people talk for fun , because they like doing it . |
| 5 | They do not , like other fines , go into the public purse but into the pocket of victims who have already been compensated by the same jury for damage to their reputation . |
| 6 | The occupier accepts no liability for injuries suffered by visitors or for damage to their property . " |
| 7 | The question is when should a person be under a duty to compensate others for harm to their interests . |
| 8 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 9 | They brought him in after dark to their hearths , and answered his questions as well as they could ; and soon they spoke of Master Harry Talvace , drawing up the image of him slowly out of the well of memory . |
| 10 | He describes how in the midst of turning around Ebury Press to a £5 million enterprise , she would still wake up early enough to devote the early morning hours and after work to their children , Georgia , four , and Grace , one . |
| 11 | Instead wrong-doers , or even the mischievous who came under the stern eye of the chief dresser , were sent off home to their parents , and like-as-not , a strapping . |
| 12 | Some people mentioned that they acted as models to their patients . |
| 13 | They were treated for burns to their hands and arms at Raigmore Hospital , Inverness . |
| 14 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 15 | Mr White , meanwhile , is chronicling the doctor 's undergraduate days at Oxford and , in tabloid-Press prose , writes of college balls where ‘ the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would in all probability be the daughter of a baron or duke , wrapped in the best silk ’ , while on the river ‘ the navigators of punts … and those on the grassy banks lifting a glass of champagne to their lips ’ strike Mr White as ‘ an earthly paradise in freeze-frame ’ . |
| 16 | Female squid do not extend any parental care of protection to their eggs and may become so exhausted by the act of reproduction that they die shortly after . |
| 17 | Few countries have shown such a remarkable sense of responsibility to their station buildings as New Zealand . |
| 18 | Welsh Water said the cost of damage to their pumping stations would run to £750,000 . |
| 19 | They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ . |
| 20 | His conjecture , then , is just one way of making sense of certain anatomical facts across species , evolutionary hypotheses , and observations of impairments of linguistic functions on the part of human patients who had suffered different sorts of damage to their brains . |
| 21 | They knew of the construction of the sewer , and they ought to have appreciated the possibility of damage to their mains and taken appropriate action to prevent or rectify it . |
| 22 | Both bodies have been able to comment on draft PPGs and MPGs and have secured a number of improvements to their content . |
| 23 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 24 | The practice developed of ferrying this minority of strike-breakers to their collieries in NCB vehicles , protected all the way by large numbers of police officers . |
| 25 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 26 | The general duties of employers to their employees are set down in Article 4 of the Order . |
| 27 | The offer is there and is open to senior police officers if they believe that such batons would be of advantage to their forces . |
| 28 | The young cadres had authority to explain the facts of cases to their elders , and this was a new feature of political talk . |
| 29 | In the succession of sons to their fathers ' benefices , reform would have depended on the bishops and , of course , the clergy themselves . |
| 30 | Deaf and dumb children who could manage by self-teaching alone through their eyes to make themselves useful and a source of income to their parents did not often find their way into the asylums . |