Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Indochina met on 23 November 1946 and heard d'Argenlieu 's report it resulted in what Devillers affirms was obviously the government 's decision to face up to every infringement of the Franco — Vietminh agreement , if necessary by force . |
| 2 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 3 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 4 | ‘ Brother , ’ he whispered , ‘ we have the Regent 's permission to go down to the Springall house now , to examine and take anything we wish . |
| 5 | He had not been searching specially for them so that , as he wrote in his journal , " It is sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomologist 's mind to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete catalogue " . |
| 6 | Ultimately , de Gaulle 's attempt to hold on to the symbolic status bestowed by 18 June and the war proved his undoing . |
| 7 | The recommencement of any trading would be an open invitation to poachers and smugglers throughout the leopard 's range to get down to their illicit business . |
| 8 | The rising muzzle signalled his intention , but it was not in Rostov 's nature to stand passively to be slaughtered . |
| 9 | Lukanov was apparently unhappy at what he considered to be the party 's failure to respond appropriately to the coup attempt in the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | To blame religion for what could be people 's failure to live up to it is not logical . |
| 11 | India 's desire to open up to foreign investment evident in the relaxation on rules restricting foreign advertising , for example have further encouraged the present move . |
| 12 | And one who did not want to be punished , either , was their other comment , as witness the way he was prepared to kill Rose Hilaire once he saw that her tie-up with Joe and John Coffin would enable her memories of what she had seen of Ephraim 's body to go straight to dangerous quarters . |
| 13 | A chance to buy presents in Amman 's bazaar to take home to ‘ utility ’ Britain . |
| 14 | On this basis the Council issued a statement the following year on Procedure for Validation of Courses of Study , the kernel of which was the CNAA 's wish to respond differently to institutions which themselves differed widely in range of work and in experience : ‘ an application from a college where the staff for the proposed course is of known academic quality and experience may not require the same scrutiny of detail by the Council as in other cases ’ . |
| 15 | Maureen was upset when she heard that his leave was postponed but the rest of the family thought it better for their mother that she still had Joe 's leave to look forward to , so Maureen said nothing . |
| 16 | The great novelist , in Nizan 's eyes , should be an " anti-Dostoievsky " , that is to say , a writer who can at one level emulate Dostoievsky 's ability to transpose on to the literary plane the anguish and despair of men and women struggling alone and unaided in the midst of a tragic social situation , and yet who can at another level go beyond Dostoievsky , offer a coherent explanation of the specific historical situation in which men and women are trapped , and focus attention at the same time on the political means of combating the injustices of their social condition . |
| 17 | But any doubts about United 's ability to hold on to three comfortable points were dismissed in the 49th minute when Irwin strode through a big gap in the Southampton defence to beat Flowers from ten yards . |
| 18 | ( The view that the bird 's ability to go straight to the fish is the exercise of a ‘ bodily skill ’ , supposed to be quite independent of any representation or computation , will be discussed in Section III . ) |
| 19 | Similarly , the child 's mastery of syntax is seen as a product of the adult 's ability to respond selectively to those aspects of a child 's language which are developmentally progressive . |
| 20 | Infolink 's ability to respond quickly to the needs of a particular industry sector is demonstrated by a number of recent initiatives . |
| 21 | Valium prescription is frequently related to an individual 's social functioning : the person 's ability to live up to social ideals , social expectations and the physician 's judgement are factors in a pseudo objective diagnosis . |
| 22 | The guardian 's involvement to last up to three months after the placement at [ the mother and child unit ] . |
| 23 | Liaises with bride 's family to keep up to date with wedding plans . |