Example sentences of "' [noun] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives students access to another source of spoken English and it gives them one or two hours ' exposure to the language . |
| 2 | In 1902–6 he had four adventurous years ' attachment to the King 's African Rifles , serving up-country in Kenya , where he discovered a new species ( Hylochaeros meinertzhageni , the giant forest hog ) . |
| 3 | In both cases the parents ' resignation to the inevitability of the assessment outcome arose from their having no opportunity to determine or seriously influence the objectives of the assessment nor to contribute to the conceptual framework within which their children 's needs were being assessed . |
| 4 | However , there is little direct evidence as yet on how such schemes actually affect workers ' attitudes to the company performance . |
| 5 | We found that the pattern of boys ' attitudes to the police were consistent with those of adults , Blacks and Whites tending to be similar , and Asians slightly more favourable than the others . |
| 6 | The same case could , of course , have been made about listeners ' attitudes to the number and length of speeches to which they were now to be subjected . |
| 7 | Survey of employers ' attitudes to the Youth Training Scheme in Scotland |
| 8 | The study reports on the findings of a re-interview survey of employers ' attitudes to the Youth Training Scheme , which was originally carried out in 1984 and repeated in 1985 . |
| 9 | Students ' reactions to the pattern of the original version were interesting : they argued that it felt too " top-heavy " , too 'symmetrical " and was on the whole rather unsubtle . |
| 10 | It was noted earlier that certain demographic and institutional considerations appear to affect teachers ' reactions to the LEA scheme . |
| 11 | SOCIAL WORKERS ' REACTIONS TO THE STUDY |
| 12 | He established a dummy Swiss company , Lake Resources Inc , through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers , right-wing American bigots , and the enormous profits out of the arms ' shipments to the Iranians , who had paid twice the going rate for what they bought . |
| 13 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 14 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 15 | Moreover , the direct dependence of the war effort upon industrial output rendered workers ' resort to the strike weapon even more devastating than in peacetime , and from the summer of 1915 there was a resurgence of industrial stoppages . |
| 16 | The EEC 's Sheepmeat Regime guarantees producers ' income to the level of the Basic Price ( set each year by the EEC ) through payment of an annual premium . |
| 17 | This was the key factor also in the Kosovo Albanians ' response to a FRY draft programme , revealed on Sept. 17 , to resolve the problem of teaching in Albanian in Kosovo schools . |
| 18 | Each school has its own method dictated by the dancers ' response to the way that technique is practised , a way which is coloured by national traits in music , society and culture . |
| 19 | The widely publicised work of Basil Bernstein had made a large public at least aware of the possibility that pupils ' response to the process of education might be limited by their habitual uses of the mother tongue . |
| 20 | Two-fifths of teachers were not aware of their governors ' response to the report and over half were not aware of the response of the LEA . |
| 21 | But it also suggests that industrial relations have a relative autonomy of their own , and hence are an independent influence on the railways ' response to the pressures of commercialism . |
| 22 | The summit was originally called by Charles Haughey , the Irish Prime Minister and President of the Council for the first six months of 1990 , to discuss the Communities ' response to the prospect of German unification and to the rapid changes in the rest of Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | It suggested that if a firm had low debts and was paying a lot of corporate tax its managers were actually being incompetent : while proudly keeping their credit ratings high , they were handing their shareholders ' money to the taxman . |
| 24 | Sunday Life has learned that the Northern Ireland Office will stump up taxpayers ' money to the IRA 's political wing for the protection of its premises . |
| 25 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 26 | In defence to a claim for that loss , the sellers sought to rely upon a contractual clause limiting the sellers ' liability to the cost of replacement of the seeds , i. e. the clause excluded the sellers ' liability for any consequential loss arising from ‘ use or failure in performance of or any defect in any seeds or plants supplied or for any other loss or damage whatsoever , ’ except for the cost of replacement of the seed . |
| 27 | They unanimously held that on its wording it limited the sellers ' liability to the cost of replacing the seed . |
| 28 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 29 | Clearly , there were some changes and in some industries , most notably coal mining , national wage negotiations disappeared in November 1926 after the collapse of the miners ' resistance to the coal lock-out , to be replaced by district agreements . |
| 30 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |