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

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1 The fishermen 's response to the crisis will become clearer this week .
2 The memorial marks a striking turnabout in the men 's approach to composing machines , which must have been the result of a fairly recent appreciation of the double threat posed by women Monotype operators .
3 The Men 's Movement to which he has turned speaks much of the ‘ wound ’ which fathers inflict on their sons .
4 The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years .
5 Miller 's involvement seemed to mark a change of gear in the police 's approach to the case .
6 The SDLP MP questioned the police 's commitment to the task , but the RUC hit back with a staunch defence of their security policy .
7 Ruling the complaint to be incompetent , he said the procurator-fiscal had not drawn the police 's attention to the need for urgency in serving the necessary papers on Neil .
8 On 3 April 1992 , following a hearing in chambers , Booth J. refused to order the children 's return to the State of Victoria .
9 I saw Michael on a regular basis in the children 's home to which he returned .
10 At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST .
11 But there are only limited facilites for them stay in the children 's ward to be near their daughter .
12 This tale of personal resolution is saved from saccharine overkill by Byrne 's fine , tortured performance , the children 's refusal to be cute and an almost lyrical conjunction of the young boys ' hidden feelings of neglect and their father 's coming to terms with his bereavement .
13 It 's possible to use classroom time for discussions and all the out of role preparatory work that greatly strengthens the children 's commitment to drama .
14 The need to assist a stranger , even a foreign one , even a strange foreign animal , badly injured outside one 's home will bring the children 's party to a halt .
15 A wall mirror in the painting area can stimulate the children 's attention to natural symmetry .
16 Her presence and interest doubtless affect the children 's attention to similarity and difference .
17 The women 's response to this dispute differed .
18 Although the enterprise flourished , Elizabeth Malleson remained convinced that adult education ought not to be organized on a single-sex basis and , after failing to persuade the Men 's College to merge , converted the Women 's College to coeducation in 1874 .
19 The fourth response is more to do with the response of the women 's movement to adult education than the other way round and about welcoming adult education as just one more arena in the battle for women 's liberation .
20 Consequently , this unselfish and untiring determination has raised the women 's movement to a new qualitative stage …
21 The Women 's Guide to Starting Your Own Business by Deborah Fowler ( Thorsons , £6.99 ) is really helpful and includes ideas on different ways of earning money from home by jewellery-making , picture-framing , etc .
22 It 's not hard to understand the moneymen 's indifference to Dickerson 's proposal .
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