Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 stated , at p. 622 : ‘ we in this court must apply the ratio of Neilson 's case to any case not distinguishable from it in principle , ’ and summarised , at p. 622 , as follows the public interest which the court in Neilson 's case had accepted as justifying the immunity :
2 Germany 's resistance to any easing of strict economic and monetary stabilization measures had reportedly been compounded by fears of a rise in unit labour costs coinciding with wage demands and threatened strikes in the steel and banking sectors .
3 When he was told of the hierarchy 's opposition to any bill of this kind , Dr Browne , himself secularly inclined , submitted his proposals and arguments to the hierarchy for approval , just as a previous Health Minister , Dr Walsh , had consulted Archbishop McQuaid on a similar matter in 1946 .
4 That runs counter to Mrs Thatcher 's opposition to any expansion of the parliament 's democratic powers .
5 Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow foreign secretary , reiterated Labour 's opposition to any commitment to offer the right of abode to favoured categories based on status or affluence .
6 Her scheme of things in my judgment is likely to offer better continuity of care and thus more rapport between Paul and his carers and a better opportunity for one carer to hand on the necessary skills with Paul 's equipment to any successor .
7 Reaction to the overt corruption of much aristocratic politicking in the form of organised Radicalism had little consistent support in the area but its presence contributed both to the increasing strength of popular protest and to the fierceness of the gentry 's reaction to any form of mass criticism .
8 It needed re-emphasising that it was the duty of counsel to draw the judge 's attention to any omission to direct the jury on the burden of proof or on any other essential matter of law : Donoghue ( above ) at p. 271 per Watkins L.J .
9 Thus , it may be desirable to draw a patient 's attention to any inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour ( e.g. a therapist pointed out to a patient that the latter insisted that he wished to tackle some problem in his home yet arranged to go out every evening with his friends ) .
10 VFM studies are designed to bring Parliament 's attention to any area of potential improvement , including staffing , control and assessment procedures .
11 Mr Jordan 's advice to any woman who thinks her doctor has behaved unprofessionally or asked her to do something humiliating is to refuse straightaway and report the incident .
12 Not for the first time , Rostov reflected that the situation was the typical result of the Imperial bureaucracy 's solution to any conflict of interest between the Civil Service and the Navy Board .
13 It is difficult for a woman to understand a man 's sensitivity to any slur on his virility .
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