Example sentences of "[indef pn] 's [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main survey showed that women were anyway much more likely than men to say they would prefer weekly payments to monthly — a factor which , as we have seen , tends to narrow someone 's choice to the exclusion of some relatively low-cost types of credit . |
| 2 | We can see similar ‘ invitations to continue ’ in someone 's response to a series of instructions or directions . |
| 3 | We describe pitch in terms of high and low , and some people find it difficult to relate what they hear in someone 's voice to a scale ranging from low to high . |
| 4 | ‘ But alcohol dilutes someone 's judgment to the point where they 're physically dangerous , ’ says Luke who ironically plays recovering alcoholic Dylan McKay in the teen series . |
| 5 | Clearly , not everyone 's reaction to the situation was the same . |
| 6 | He was still trying to find them among the milling blackened faces , when a sudden shout drew everyone 's attention to a flicker of torch light weaving through the trees towards the highway . |
| 7 | An individual 's allegiance could be shaped by questions of party principle and party loyalty , but it could also be shaped by one 's relationship to the central government , or Court , and one 's attitude towards the power of the executive . |
| 8 | The strength of subsequent recovery will depend largely upon the willingness truly to hand over one 's will and the outcome of one 's life to a non-individual-human God . |
| 9 | The life of science involves dedicating one 's life to the discovery of the nature of reality . |
| 10 | The meat is not eaten and has no market value , but the dried eyes and the sexual organs of the boto are often sold as amulets to increase one 's attractiveness to the opposite sex , or to increase the bearer 's sexual powers . |
| 11 | There 's no other way to get out of this nightmare land than to crunch one 's way to the arch . |
| 12 | There are even travel journals , containing descriptions of the Pyramids , for example , and precise instructions on how to make one 's way to the Holy Land . |
| 13 | Giving one 's name to a people , place or institution , or to the title of a book or play . |
| 14 | Granted , one must not hypothesise wildly ; one must confine one 's speculation to the framework of known historical data and probabilities . |
| 15 | The Urvills ' own history , too , made her feel like something unimportant on the family tree , for all that Fergus talked of responsibility and duty and one 's debt to the next generation . |
| 16 | Wright applied in 1978 , committing herself to the five community rules which include monthly meetings with other ( local ) members , donating one-tenth of one 's income to the church — and allocating time for others . |
| 17 | ‘ All the Vermeers in New York ’ by Jon Jost , a film-maker whose sensibility could n't be farther away from Hollywood , examines the folly of seeking to transfer one 's attraction to a work of art toward a real person . |
| 18 | ‘ The crux of military operations lies in the pretence of accommodating one 's self to the designs of the enemy . ’ |
| 19 | This mediation of ethics makes indirect one 's access to the problem of the relationship between the religious faith of some and the morality of the many , particularly on the issue of the freedom of the individual versus the intervention of the state . |
| 20 | A literal translation of the first is scarcely interpretable : to make warm throats of something ; the second translates into something a little easier to construe : t o give one 's tongue to the cat . |
| 21 | To bare one 's soul to a member of my profession , Mr Barnett , is no small hurdle to surmount . |
| 22 | It is difficult to project one 's mind to a subsequent sale where the receipt has to be produced , but one can visualise difficulty where the solicitor for a purchaser objects to the receipt and refuses to settle until a receipt in conformity with the Form provided is produced . |
| 23 | Only a small part of the side of the boat and rail are depicted and three blues show up again and again throughout the collection and seem to draw one 's attention to a detail otherwise missed . |