Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases on the common law side are usually won not through counsel 's address to the court , which there is usually a little time to prepare in advance , but through the effective examination of witnesses . |
| 2 | Independent working-class activity in West Ham , most notably through trade unions , cooperation and political representation , coupled with an ineffective Tory/Liberal opposition , laid the foundations for Labour 's accession to power in the immediate postwar years . |
| 3 | On Friday , 18th February , 1859 , a week after Tite 's question to Manners , Hall raised the subject of Scott 's appointment again , saying that under the rules of the House he had been debarred from saying more before . |
| 4 | But if the club suddenly asked him to strongly consider taking the Blackburn offer then even if he did n't he probably would never have felt the same again about playing for Leeds , ( ie , doubting about management 's loyalty to him , etc . ) |
| 5 | That means I 've all the kitchen tasks and the washing to do , not to mention acting as lady 's maid to both — and everything else besides ! ’ |
| 6 | I am a member of Parliament 's delegation to the Council of Europe . |
| 7 | A few weeks earlier that same candidate had drawn the member of parliament 's attention to ‘ one David Denholm an old worn out officer at Thorntonloch nigh Dunglass in East Lothian who is about being supperannuated ’ . |
| 8 | As the author of the article says : ‘ While a relatively small amount , this money nevertheless represents a significant statement of industry 's commitment to higher education … ’ |
| 9 | Hodgskin saw a shameless deception at the centre of Ricardian economics and British capitalism : both pretended that capital was productive and the essential spring to greater prosperity , but , Hodgskin argued , capitalists were always parasitic , holding wages close to subsistence levels and diverting the fruits of labour 's productivity to unproductive and anti-social consumption . |
| 10 | Dr Cunningham was fixated on the potent effect of sex and socialism on Patricia Hewitt 's homophobic pensioners , who were yet still ignorant of their imminent deliverance by Glenys Thornton 's ‘ Plan To Win ’ : Mr Roberts , though extremely mindful of Labour 's Duty To Win , had had close working experience with the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights . |
| 11 | ‘ This has obviously now been rectified but it is symptomatic of Labour 's reluctance to be drawn on the issue … |
| 12 | The implications of Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say that something is white ? ’ for this question , are clear . |
| 13 | The Sun agreements were the first part of a strategy devised by Adobe 's four month-old Display Products Group to take the Unix field by storm — and there remains the Interactive Systems Unix side of Sun 's business to be mopped up , Ybarra reminds us . |
| 14 | The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one . |
| 15 | Tennis : Great Britain 's 1961 Wimbledon champion Angela Mortimer Barrett is to be honoured by a place in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Mortimer Barrett , 60 , and promoter Lamar Hunt , will be inducted on July 10 in Newport , Rhode Island , to raise the Hall of Fame 's membership to 160 . |
| 16 | Conveyance of Husband 's Interest to New Husband |
| 17 | But it is also plain that despite sterling 's depreciation to a rate at which it might be reasonably competitive within the Exchange Rate Mechanism , Mrs Thatcher 's team are no more ready to sign on the dotted line than they were in Madrid this summer . |
| 18 | ‘ The Afro-American tendency to extend the body in musical terms signifies in the case of soul and disco an important marriage of pop 's romanticism to the contradictory material possibilities of daily life in the contemporary world ’ . |
| 19 | Postponement of King 's visit to USA |
| 20 | The neo-classical economists and , particularly Alfred Marshall , took a more positive view of education 's contribution to economic growth than the classical economists , including Adam Smith . |
| 21 | BBC journalists took strike action in protest , and the programme was eventually screened with a few face-saving deletions , but the episode called into question the Board of Governor 's commitment to freedom of expression . |
| 22 | Yet a brief perusal of the central details of Wand 's career to date confirms that in fact his commitment to new music was paramount from the time he began to rebuild musical life in Cologne in the early post-war years . |
| 23 | The dominant supporting character is Lady Davers , who supplies an analysis of society 's reaction to such a misalliance . |
| 24 | Hill 's slashed Pursuit of Love 's price to 8–1 from 33–1 , while the first offer of 10–1 by Coral 's immediately after the race was quickly snapped up and they now offer 7–1 . |
| 25 | The geometry of a temple 's construction relates to the human body and incorporates the principles of man 's relationship to the universe , thus forming a bridge , a living connection between the cosmic forces and the terrestrial . |
| 26 | In terms of man 's relationship to nature the key idea here is that of dominion . |
| 27 | Wexford , who had been lyrical , felt positively pained by this evidence of man 's indifference to nature 's glories . |
| 28 | This was no better reflected than in his creation of A Distant Drummer with its horrific theme of man 's inhumanity to man , where ritual warlike movements were applied to the jack-booted soldiers of Nazi Germany . |
| 29 | There is a great deal of man 's inhumanity to man as evinced in the use of torture on political prisoners or the application of apartheid to other races . |
| 30 | Their failure was that , because of man 's inhumanity to his fellow beings , they did not fulfil their potential . |