Example sentences of "['s] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my hon. Friend confirm the Government 's total commitment to adult education and its comparative cheapness in providing excellent courses for so many people ? |
| 2 | Following the Commission 's strange response to FoE Scotland 's survey , other British campaigners made visits to the Black Forest and the Netherlands . |
| 3 | The draft agreement would guarantee Guatemalan access to the Caribbean and could , if ratified by both sides and confirmed by public referendum , lead to the abandonment of Guatemala 's historic claim to sovereignty over Belize . |
| 4 | A treaty regime affording third party rights can not outweigh a State 's inherent right to self-defence . |
| 5 | Router manufacturers debating whether they should license IBM Corp 's Advanced Peer to Peer Networking code or go with the Cisco Systems Inc-inspired Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking , have a third choice . |
| 6 | Murray 's assured introduction to league football further expands a Rangers squad big enough to handle the loss of John Brown and Trevor Steven at the weekend through suspension and injury . |
| 7 | And in case some of the workers did not appreciate the Minister 's subtle reference to underbidder Hyundai , Michael Fallon , Conservative candidate for Darlington , explained . |
| 8 | In some ways the coup is a continuation of the process that brought Fujimori 's political movement to power . |
| 9 | On the floor , set in the middle of the elaborate mosaic that appeared to be the building 's sole concession to prettification but was in fact the evidence of its true purpose , were the bundles of artifacts Godolphin brought back from his travels , neatly tied up by Hoi-Polloi Nuits-St-Georges , the knots encrusted with scarlet sealing wax . |
| 10 | Olaf Pedersen has recently drawn attention to St Paul 's complete indifference to time and chronology : he never even dated his letters . |
| 11 | Carl Llewellyn had looked as secure as any pilot could be on National Hunt 's casualty-strewn road to success . |
| 12 | Inside is evidence of Revell 's idiosyncratic approach to luthiery . |
| 13 | The former England and Bristol flanker took over the coaching , put up the blackboard and with one word — commitment — he has helped John Pullin 's old club to promotion . |
| 14 | They had witnessed , and were very impressed with , Newman 's fresh approach to TV Drama . |
| 15 | Ruth Donovan , a former Norfolk teacher and member of Molly Scrutton 's class , is now teaching with the organisation ‘ Libby 's Fresh Start to Life ’ in Australia . |
| 16 | The PCI repudiated its previous adherence to Lenin 's insurrectionary road to socialism , declared its permanent attachment to multi-party politics and complete acceptance of liberal constitutional rules , and renounced its hitherto unswerving support for Soviet foreign policy . |
| 17 | Professor Stephen Hawking 's popular guide to cosmology has sold more than a million copies in hardback around the world . |
| 18 | The LTA 's principal claim to fame at the end of 1992 will be the same as it is now — the richest tennis organisation in the world . |
| 19 | Outside the EMS , the markets would become worried once again about the Government 's real commitment to exchange rate stability . |
| 20 | Does the Prime Minister realise that there are only two facts that one needs to know to assess the Government 's real commitment to recovery ? |
| 21 | Despite all this , doubts continue to exist on Germany 's real commitment to EMU . |
| 22 | Although such volumes endeavour valiantly to stress her various charitable works , especially among the enslaved and oppressed Indians , and her experiences of a mystical marriage to Christ , Rose of Lima 's real claim to fame and sanctity was the extraordinary life of violent and self-inflicted penance which she maintained from extremely early in her childhood until she died . |
| 23 | William Joyce 's fanatical commitment to fascism was strengthened after receiving a razor slash on his cheek while helping steward a Conservative party meeting at Lambeth Baths in October 1924 . |
| 24 | The staff of GSNI also coordinate BGS 's hydrogeological input to landfill proposals submitted to the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of the Environment ( NI ) . |
| 25 | Wilson 's chief contribution to botany and horticulture was in the exploration of China . |
| 26 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 27 | Although he was active in the local government of Warwickshire , Worcestershire , and , more briefly , Buckinghamshire , Throckmorton 's chief claim to fame is as one of the few who openly attacked Henry VIII over the divorce of Catherine of Aragon [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | Pritchard 's chief claim to fame , however , lies in his role in connection with a structure of a quite different type which he did not live to see executed — the famous Iron Bridge across the river Severn in Coalbrookdale , Shropshire . |
| 29 | It formed the basis of the first phase of the community 's official response to heroin , although , as we shall see in Chapter 9 , its creation in the local government rather than regional health structure was unfortunate . |
| 30 | While Labour 's official opposition to Section 28 — when it developed — was primarily based on civil liberties and tolerance , several MPs went further in their opposition . |