Example sentences of "['s] [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embarrassing parallels between the party 's response to discontent in Peking and Lhasa also embrace rhetoric and ideology . |
| 2 | The Forth studies will include other transport developments proposed last month in the Government 's response to consultation on possible improvements to road , rail , bus , traffic management and public transport west of Edinburgh and between Lothian and Fife . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , workers are trying to alter the body 's response to disease by adding information to its cells . |
| 4 | Awards received by Freeman , Fox & Partners , to which his outstanding designs contributed in no small way , included the Queen 's award to industry in 1967 , and , jointly with Rolls-Royce , the first MacRobert award in 1969 . |
| 5 | Whaling and jute were two of the chief sources of Dundee 's rise to prominence as a port . |
| 6 | Baldwin 's rise to power as the Conservative leader and prime minister in 1923 and 1924 — 9 was ruled by two considerations : first , the need to tame the Labour party and to force it to accept the conventions of parliamentary politics ; and second , to ensure that Lloyd George be kept out of office at all costs . |
| 7 | She was referring to President Aquino 's rise to power on a wave of sympathy following the assassination of her husband . |
| 8 | At demonstrations , he had seen faces ‘ filled with hatred ’ which reminded him of the months preceding Hitler 's rise to power in 1933 . |
| 9 | Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady 's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department . |
| 10 | He believes this ‘ tripartite alliance ’ is the reason for Japan 's rise to domination in world markets , and the only way that Britain 's true industrial base can be saved . |
| 11 | Here , you will be able to follow Sooty 's rise to super-stardom through the sets , props , scripts , photos and films which have enthralled the very young and the very old ! for 40 years . |
| 12 | The three youths were arrested by officers involved in Operation Overdrive , the police 's attempts to crackdown on joyriding in Oxford . |
| 13 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 14 | Each of these sections end with a couple of sentences which sum up the consequences of Pip 's attitudes to life in that particular section . |
| 15 | So the appeal was allowed , the order for possession was set aside as against Mr. Steed and the case was transferred to the Chancery Division for a new trial at which the facts regarding the execution or non-execution of the transfer and Mr. Steed 's entitlement to rectification of the register would be determined . |
| 16 | DONALD WOODS saw a dream come true with South Africa 's entitlement to re-entry into international cricket , and the experience was enhanced by his journey with the team through the World Cup tournament . |
| 17 | Sometimes a family crisis such as the wife 's admission to hospital for an operation , or confinement , when mother-in-law comes to the rescue and willingly takes over the housekeeping , will draw them together , and help them to value each other as people for the first time ; but more often it is a gradual process , the slow demolition of long-held prejudices . |
| 18 | Those who despise fictions will presumably admire Wordsworth 's fidelity to fact in line 1 . |
| 19 | It comes as no surprise to learn of NASA 's resistance to Sanskrit as a language for AI . |
| 20 | Preconditioning with brief periods of ischaemia has now been shown to increase the heart 's resistance to infarction in numerous species , including rabbit , rat , and pig . |
| 21 | I have another matter to talk with them actually about my wife 's liability to class to contributions . |
| 22 | Given the outlook of Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA , it is not surprising that , on learning of Thorsen 's intention to film in Britain , immediate action was taken . |
| 23 | In presenting his administration 's programme to parliament on April 24 , Mitsotakis stressed his desire for consensus and reaffirmed the economic platform on which ND had been elected . |
| 24 | Nor should industry expect ‘ to find refuge in a perpetually depreciating currency ’ , Mrs Thatcher said , underlining Nigel Lawson 's opposition to devaluation of the pound . |
| 25 | Among women in the general population , having three or more children at home was found to increase a woman 's vulnerability to depression in the face of provoking agents . |
| 26 | The field man 's vulnerability to criticism from his superiors has implications for his decisions as to the circumstances in which action on his part is warranted . |
| 27 | But if he obtains his wife 's submission to intercourse without resort to those means , there is no offence . |
| 28 | Although the enterprise flourished , Elizabeth Malleson remained convinced that adult education ought not to be organized on a single-sex basis and , after failing to persuade the Men 's College to merge , converted the Women 's College to coeducation in 1874 . |
| 29 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 30 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |