Example sentences of "['s] [noun] to [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chester case was widely considered a test the government 's response to development pressures on open land surrounding other historic cities in Britain . |
| 2 | At the simplest level they suggest that the three dimensional structure of the matrix and availability of ligands for cell binding may be important determinants of the hepatocyte 's response to matrix constituents either alone or in combination . |
| 3 | The Spanish Foreign Minister , Francisco Fernández Ordóñez , compared Cuba 's response to asylum seekers negatively with that of Albania [ see p. 37618 ] and called for a " peaceful transition to democracy " . |
| 4 | The Audit Commission 's response to Government proposals for the council tax focuses mainly on administrative implications . |
| 5 | Officials from the Department of Justice , charged with smoothing cultural relations , praise Aspen 's response to latino workers as exemplary . |
| 6 | Two more direct influences on ‘ susceptibility ’ that could also forestall any expected decrease in prevalence are changes in the availability , price or purity of heroin or other illicit drugs , and changes in society 's response to heroin use . |
| 7 | It has so far been assumed that while the corporate sector 's response to consumer demand may be imperfect , that what is responded to is at least an authentic expression of consumer tastes . |
| 8 | It shows Picasso 's response to World War II , ‘ The charnel house ’ of 1945 , lent by MoMA to Europe for the first time . |
| 9 | Norman Whitfield 's response to acid rock — at least to Sly and the Family Stone 's rainbow coalition version of it — was to produce psychedelic soul for the Temptations and Undisputed Truth . |
| 10 | The NSF 's response to opposition criticism of the treaty on this issue depended on the argument that to raise the Moldavian question would open up other territorial issues , such as possible Hungarian claims to Transylvania . |
| 11 | It necessitates active asset/liability management due to a bank 's exposure to currency fluctuations and volatile interest rates . |
| 12 | BP is believed to be considering two approaches , one based on a reduction in petroleum revenue tax that would raise the group 's exposure to corporation tax but open the way for an advanced corporation tax offset . |
| 13 | This market has become sharply more expensive in recent months , which could help limit the Lloyd 's exposure to reinsurance claims , a spokesman said . |
| 14 | Keeping track of the individual pupil 's exposure to health education is an even more difficult task , but one which is important if the purpose of health education is to promote and encourage future healthy living habits . |
| 15 | The predominant thrust of the city 's rise to world class cultural status came apart from and was often opposed to the state . |
| 16 | THE tobacco-to-insurance giant , BAT Industries , yesterday sacked one of its big bankers , Paribas , after the French finance group 's decision to back Sir James Goldsmith 's hostile £13.4billion takeover bid . |
| 17 | An Interior Ministry official was reported on Jan. 13 , 1990 , as saying that cases of drug-trafficking had halved since Saudi Arabia 's decision to behead offenders . |
| 18 | William IX 's crusade of 1101 brought about serious financial problems in Aquitaine which caused rapid devaluation in the hitherto stable currency ; and Robert Curthose 's decision to mortgage Normandy to William Rufus in order to cover his crusading expenses exacerbated a conflict over the duchy which was not settled until the death of his son William Clito in 1128 . |
| 19 | You ca n't change them — you ca n't force a man to love you when he does n't , ca n't hold children 's progress to adulthood back . |
| 20 | They should learn to recognise when people 's attitudes to language use , eg as expressed in letters to newspapers , reveal misunderstandings about the nature of language change . |
| 21 | Now out in paperback is Joyce Molyneux 's The Carved Angel Cookery Book ( Grafton , £6.99 ) , full of recipes that range from the frankly rib-sticking to the fashionably rib-revealing , from pheasant with pig 's trotters to courgette terrine , and with a whole , wonderful chapter on offal . |
| 22 | erm what this gives us an opportunity to do is to further exploit and promote erm the English , or the sort of British holiday , and this is why we are sort of working on the theme ‘ Britain 's great ’ , because a lot of people have yet to discover various parts of Britain and there are all sorts of holidays , you know , across Britain , from Land 's End to County Antrim , from Loch Ness to London Town . |
| 23 | Target 's entitlement to capital allowances and carried-forward trading losses should be preserved in Newco under s343 , although s343(4) contains a requirement to ensure that " relevant liabilities " are also transferred ( strictly speaking , novated ) to Newco . |
| 24 | SSP will replace the employee 's entitlement to State sickness benefit , which will not be payable as long as there is an entitlement to SSP . |
| 25 | A person 's entitlement to insurance benefits as well as the amount of benefit is linked to the person 's work history . |
| 26 | So , whatever else followed in the wretched little saga that I am about to describe , it is crystal clear that , right from the outset , the real object behind the Government 's manoeuvrings was the cutting back — indeed , the large-scale elimination — of people 's entitlement to back payments of benefits where there had been official error . |
| 27 | 9.10 Where an award is made by the Board , any period of absence resulting from the injury suffered will not be treated as sickness allowance and will not count against the employee 's entitlement to sickness allowance ; instead , any absence will be treated as special leave with pay . |
| 28 | Moving on to Zimbabwe 's admission to Test ranks , one can only congratulate them and wish them well , while inevitably questioning their prospects in that kind of company . |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher 's election to Party Leader in 1975 was to be immensely significant in the context of post-war politics : the tradition of consensual , one-nation government ( which had dominated Conservative governments since 1951 ) was , if not to disappear , to become far less dominant . |
| 30 | The amount of sizing determines the paper 's resistance to water penetration and abrasion , as well as its printability and porosity . |