Example sentences of "to [art] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its pectoral fins , freed from the job of providing lift , could be used to give great refinement to the fishes ' control of movement , and their swimming skills reached near-perfection . |
| 2 | He found that although in theory , workovers should not have caused changes to the wells ' productivity , productivity had been reduced — by up to 40 per cent in some cases . |
| 3 | This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , to the organisers ' relief , American Davis Cup heroes Andre Agassi , Pete Sampras and John McEnroe flew in after a complicated , half-Concorde , half-private jet dash following their Fort Worth final triumph over Switzerland . |
| 5 | The anti-popular regimes commit innumerable injustices against women : from marginalization in the workplace and physical violence to the transnationals ' policy of using women in mass media propaganda . |
| 6 | He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 . |
| 7 | He reported that he had come in by helicopter , and had claimed the hill as Balboa 's on the advice of William , and in a formal note to the Explorers ' Club of New York , of which he was a member . |
| 8 | For example , a prediction can be tied into a later encounter in the Castle , or to an encounter on the way back to the adventurers ' base . |
| 9 | The meeting closed with votes of thanks to the guardians ' clerk , Walter George Daniels , and to the chairman and vice-chairman . |
| 10 | On Monday 2 March 1964 Mr Silcock welcomed Miss Margaret Medlow and Mr Kennedy McClatchey to the Leaders ' Meeting and some further discussion took place on the possibility of moving the Communion rail forward and bringing the choir in behind the rail . |
| 11 | He said the White Paper failed to indicate the Government 's attitude to the judges ' response to the Green Papers . |
| 12 | When a discretionary life sentence is passed , for an offence other than murder because of the danger to the public from the convicted person , there is no undue difficulty in ascertaining the determinate sentence which would otherwise be appropriate according to the judges ' tariff . |
| 13 | But I would suppose that the Home Office has at least some information as to the judges ' tariff , and probably a great deal . |
| 14 | The Home Secretary is in my opinion entitled and bound to reach his own tariff decision , after having regard both to the judges ' tariff and to the factors such as public confidence in the administration of justice which Lord Scarman mentioned . |
| 15 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 16 | It is obviously irrelevant to speculate on what if anything was in the mind of the clerk or other subordinate officer who actually received the money , or in the mind of the officer ( whoever he or she may have been ) who paid it into the bank to the defendants ' credit . |
| 17 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 18 | As to the defendants ' claim for commission , even if a breach of fiduciary duty by the defendants had been proved , they would not thereby have lost their right to commission unless they had acted dishonestly . |
| 19 | Bingham LJ said that " the plaintiffs did not do what was necessary to draw this unreasonable and extortionate clause " to the defendants ' attention . |
| 20 | Turmoil in industrial relations , ethnic disturbances , the growth of violent crime , even the dismal competitive record of British footballers , cricketers , and tennis players , were all grist to the commentators ' mill . |
| 21 | Note : We have deliberately avoided the idea that owners ' equity relates to the owners ' investment in the business as with the historic cost model this is fraught with obvious difficulties . |
| 22 | He had already begun contributing to the Gardeners ' Chronicle . |
| 23 | If you thought that seeds and cuttings were the only way to increase your garden plants then turn to the Gardeners ' Manual for a host of practical ideas to try . |
| 24 | Much to the scientists ' surprise , summer conditions left visible annual strata . |
| 25 | This is not to deny the discoveries that have been made , but to state that the purposes that have given meaning to the scientists ' pursuit of truth have been success in and the sustaining of the scientific establishment . |
| 26 | On July 4 the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was readmitted ( after 20 years ) to the Writers ' Union , which voted to publish his book The Gulag Archipelago and to press for the return of his citizenship ( of which he was stripped in 1974 ) , an idea which the author rejected in December . |
| 27 | It was inevitable that the previous week 's tragedy should colour the contributions to the writers ' workshop . |
| 28 | The meeting elected members to the Residents ' Committee for the Investigation of the Effects on Health of Asbestos Fibres in the Environment . |
| 29 | David introduced her to the warden , then they made their way to the residents ' common-room where Rachel was given a rapturous welcome by her new friends , in particular by a young Down 's syndrome woman called Belinda whose delight at seeing her again was only too apparent . |
| 30 | there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one . |