Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The massive door gave way , and the Russians were upon them , stumbling through the debris , some falling to the defenders ' final volley . |
| 32 | Initially flattering for the recognition it brought , the vast and continuous bundles of fan request mail eventually proved intrusive to the artists ' private lives as their characters entered public domain . |
| 33 | The Statement urged the development of sustainable forest management policies , due compensation to host nations for access to the forests ' genetic resources , and technical and financial aid to help developing countries preserve their forests . |
| 34 | The Statement urged the development of sustainable forest management policies , due compensation to the host nation for access to the forests ' genetic resources , and the provision of technical and financial aid to help developing countries preserve their forests . |
| 35 | Needless to say , a full-scale review of the moral justification of private property will not be undertaken , but enough will be said to indicate that there are substantial difficulties in the way of providing a satisfactory justification of corporate power by reference to the shareholders ' supposed moral ownership rights . |
| 36 | … . The best system in my opinion is not therefore full integration but a kind of core course with extensions varying according to the students ' other studies . |
| 37 | The student movement formed a distinct current of protest , responding primarily to the students ' own experience . |
| 38 | Discussions of this anxiety usually refer back to the students ' own learning in which rules were formalised and exemplificatory exercises done . |
| 39 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 40 | Occasionally he would descend to the students ' common room immediately beneath and beg them to make less noise so that he could write . |
| 41 | The direction of alleged bias was related in a complex way to the critics ' own partisanship . |
| 42 | Consequently , conversation analysis limits the external analyst 's interpretational leeway because it relates his or her interpretations back to the members ' mutual understanding of their utterances as manifest in their behaviour . |
| 43 | With a regretful look at her glass , and a warning glance at Lord Beddington should he tamper with its contents while she was gone — she had observed his hand stealing towards it already — she rose to make her way upstairs to the ladies ' retiring room . |
| 44 | Pausing only to send a page running to fetch her maid , fitzAlan marched her all the way to the ladies ' solar , deliberately avoiding the crowded hall . |
| 45 | This appeal does not emanate from the rational and utilitarian purposes parents may satisfy through reading : rather , the child responds to the parents ' emotional absorption in reading . |
| 46 | An American clinical study ( Anderson and White , 1986 ) also suggests that problems in step families are more likely to relate to parenting issues between adults and children than to the parents ' marital relationship . |
| 47 | However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers . |
| 48 | The quotations that follow are both from personal letters to the present writers , commenting on a published suggestion that those who give advice to parents often do not pay enough attention to the parents ' own views . |
| 49 | So far the exercise has been confined to the managers ' professional body , the Institute of Health Service Management ( IHSM ) . |
| 50 | As Janette Richardson has noted , the transition from the horse 's frolics to the clerks ' night-time escapades is marked by the collocation of the miller 's retying the horse , and making the clerks a bed : To make the point absolutely explicit , when the clerk John has leapt on top of the miller 's wife in bed : — the verb priken , in Middle English , is a standard term for riding or spurring a horse . |
| 51 | An RFL is subject to the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal , including its power to fine the RFL , to strike the name of the RFL off the register or to suspend his or her registration . |
| 52 | Shortlisted parties will also be given access to the vendors ' various professional advisers to obtain information and to discuss specific areas . |
| 53 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 54 | The game was slow and low scoring and after seven minutes of the first half , Arena had scored only four points to the visitors ' ten . |
| 55 | The best solution , I have found , is to throw them down , one by one , on to the horses ' deep bed of wood-chips , off which they almost always bounce unscathed . |
| 56 | Someone had played a trick on the young horseman and had put down a substance that was so obnoxious to the horses ' delicate sense of smell that they would not move . |
| 57 | It is passing the market-makers ' responsibility on to the companies ' own stockbrokers , who will match buyers to sellers . |
| 58 | But this , Taylor and Cameron argue , " rather than offering the analyst direct access to the participants ' own publically displayed identification of units and rules , only postpones the task to a subsequent turn " ( p. 121 ) . |
| 59 | NSS , in common with virtually every other publication in the country , got its fingers burnt last week as a result of giving too much credence to the pollsters ' consistent message that we were heading for a hung parliament . |
| 60 | For the Watercare business ' Purisource package is providing nutrients to the bugs ' daily diet of effluent , making the ‘ meal ’ more appealing . |