Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] 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 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Those who despise fictions will presumably admire Wordsworth 's fidelity to fact in line 1 . |
| 17 | It comes as no surprise to learn of NASA 's resistance to Sanskrit as a language for AI . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I have another matter to talk with them actually about my wife 's liability to class to contributions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But if he obtains his wife 's submission to intercourse without resort to those means , there is no offence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The bustle at London termini to load newspaper trains ended in july when BR terminated the contracts remaining after the previous year 's transfer to road by News International and the Mirror Group . |
| 30 | On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern . |