Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leapor 's response to the discomforts of agricultural labourers must be approached at different levels . |
| 2 | This may have been Swegen 's response to the attempts by Æthelred to get Norman help reported by Henry of Huntingdon under 1009 . |
| 3 | De Klerk 's response to the Harms report was effectively to exonerate Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan ( held by the Harms report to be " politically responsible " for the existence of the CCB ) from all responsibility for the activities of the discredited CCB , declaring that the report 's findings belonged to a past era , and there was " no reason to condemn the politicians in charge for the way in which they carried out their duties " . |
| 4 | Fojcik 's response to the hounds is especially remarkable for as Degas did with race horses , he conveys both their animal beauty and their potential energy as lean mean racing machines . |
| 5 | The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 6 | The findings were based on interviews with 501 people — a representative sample of Lothian 's population — and featured in the Regional Council 's response to the plans for reform . |
| 7 | BRAC 'S RESPONSE TO THE FINDINGS OF THE STUDIES |
| 8 | Mr Sim was chairman of the North East Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority 's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry . |
| 9 | Mr Sim was chairman of the North east Water Board from 1970-75 and played a crucial role in the authority 's response to the needs of the developing North Sea oil industry . |
| 10 | The form is essential , a result of Khan 's response to the cacti she grows and draws ; the Pod , like a cactus , fascinates the viewer , drawing her in while simultaneously warning her off . |
| 11 | The government 's response to the riots , apart from the setting up of the Scarman Inquiry , was to devote more resources to law and order and to renew its efforts to persuade business people to invest in the inner cities . |
| 12 | In addition , the borrower 's response to the arrears situation , the steps taken when confronted with arrears , and the nature of the interaction with the building society will be considered . |
| 13 | The Quaker mine-owners could hardly avoid the site 's exposure to the ravages of moorland weather , but they provided for the welfare of their employees , with sick pay and adult education schemes that became models for other employers . |
| 14 | Yet these lines contain an anger which is encountered again and again in her work , that from the constraints of a girl 's upbringing to the tyrannies of marriage , there is small hope of a woman achieving the life she wants . |
| 15 | He also interprets St Paul 's teaching to the Colossians ( 3:3 ) in these terms : His evocation of a silent darkness at the heart of which the soul is alive only in faith and expectant longing , combines the same sense of both end and beginning that Rolle creates at the end of his shorter Passion meditation when the process of penance linked with the stages of the Crucifixion concludes in the darkness of the entombment — a darkness which in the pattern of Incarnation is the prelude to dawn and Resurrection . |
| 16 | Once in London , he worked with James Asperne , of the European Magazine , Thomas Hurst , of Longman 's , and perhaps Thomas Tegg [ q.v. ] , who witnessed Wilson 's admission to the Clothworkers ' Company 7 February 1810 . |
| 17 | He and Sergeant Robins had obviously tried each other 's patience to the limits , but he cheered up at the sight of Dalgliesh and enquired with childish belligerence : |
| 18 | Nineteenth-century concordats had improved the legal position of Roman Catholicism in many countries and often left the clergy considerable powers over such matters as education , yet Papal Infallibility , the Syllabus of Errors and the Church 's resistance to the conclusions of biblical criticism alienated intellectuals . |
| 19 | A weekend away from the office can lower the body 's resistance to the organisms in air-conditioning systems . |
| 20 | As Lewis saw things , Morse 's talk to the tourists was not one of his chief 's more impressive performances . |
| 21 | What ‘ happens ’ is linked in the protagonist 's mind to the networks of her imagination . |
| 22 | Above all he brought an accountant 's mind to the affairs of the Transport Department , with startling results . |
| 23 | Her last film ‘ RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN ’ ( 1964 ) whose commercial and critical failure ended her career , can be seen as a woman 's reply to the eulogies of the working class male celebrated by John Osbourne and his like , and it does so by poking fun at the ideology of the male and his crude sexism . |
| 24 | ‘ In practical terms ’ , Luxemburg 's biographer , Peter Nettl , comments , ‘ Rosa Luxemburg 's opposition to the PPS ( Polish Socialist Party ) , and its policy of self-determination made her the most efficient ally of the SPD 's ( German Social Democratic Party 's ) policy of organizational integration for minorities in Germany ’ . |
| 25 | Part of the Medau Society 's submission to the Sports Council was that we increase our membership numbers , and therefore our income — if we do not achieve this it will have repercussions on our grant . |
| 26 | What worried him most , apart from the meretricious glitter of the whole charade , was the erosion of the proper role of Cabinet Ministers , both in relation to their own departments and in their right to be fully consulted on matters of collective responsibility ; the Prime Minister 's indifference to the processes and opinions of the House of Commons , provided a majority would sustain him in office ; and the disarray and poor morale which coalition under a dynamic chief of another party was creating in the headquarters and local organizations of the Conservative Party . |
| 27 | Another occasion which demonstrated Winston 's indifference to the dictates of authority or public opinion was when I was approached by a picaresque character called John Shaheen , an American oil magnate who spent his life getting in and out of the most complicated financial transactions , seemingly always on the verge of ruin but nevertheless contriving to remain sufficiently solvent to undertake his next massive adventure . |
| 28 | SIR — The reports that Mr Patten , having failed to hold on to his seat in Parliament , might be wheeled out as Governor of Hong Kong ( April 16 ) are symptomatic of the Government 's indifference to the wishes of the people who actually live there . |
| 29 | But Henry 's indifference to the realities of the Scottish situation came out most clearly in this third , amazing , offer : if resistance to the marriage was successful , he would respond by making Arran king of Scotland north of the Forth by force . |
| 30 | The situation illustrates Anselm 's indifference to the compromises of practical affairs . |