Example sentences of "to the [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since guiding his team to the European Cup-Winners ' Cup five months ago , Cruyff has taken his spending to £15m in a year . |
| 2 | Partly it was in response to the Black Workers ' Group and because Ahmed and I were both Black and lesbian/gay . |
| 3 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |
| 4 | Seven minutes from the end of this Littlewoods Cup third-round replay , it was beginning to look as though they should accord the same honour to the current Wanderers ' manager , Phil Neal . |
| 5 | He considered applying to the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps of Arkansas University , a nearly foolproof means of escaping combat service in Vietnam . |
| 6 | The increasing use of diagnostic information and the requirements of public examinations should bring to the fore teachers ' role in assessment in comparison with their somewhat peripheral involvement hitherto . |
| 7 | Walker , who only switched sports in August , is named in the 29-strong squad that travels to Spain next month as part of the build-up to the Five Nations ' Championship . |
| 8 | the rich nations no longer have the stomach for sending their men to fight unless it is safe or there is a threat to the rich nations ' own pampered existence , and |
| 9 | Admission is 50p with all proceeds going to the Aged Members ' Treat . |
| 10 | Bognor has been the unlikely home to the annual clowns ' convention since 1985 . |
| 11 | And she ran to the nearest ladies ' room and emerged with bleary eyes , clutching at her stomach . |
| 12 | Implexion eventually gave in to the Grand Masters ' begging and pleading and , for a fee , agreed to present Valiance 's case to the Chamber of Ten . |
| 13 | He was delayed by an accident to the Imperial Airways ' HP.42 on which he was flying on the Kisumu-Cairo-Karachi sector . |
| 14 | When schools shut for lack of fuel in the winter , they gave private lessons to the richer peasants ' children . |
| 15 | If you go to the normal parents ' class you get -Oh yeah — another one , does n't know a lot , just got pregnant for the fun of it , but the midwives , Ros and Maureen , they treat you different . |
| 16 | Detecting a weakening of international resolve on sanctions , Mandela responded angrily to the Western countries ' positions . |
| 17 | The German Democratic Republic arose as a retaliation to the Western Allies ' decision to create a German Federal Republic in the Western occupation zone in May 1949 . |
| 18 | A few weeks later , in a speech made to the All-Russian Teachers ' Congress in Moscow on 9 July , Khrushchev made a specific reference to Cuba in this respect . |
| 19 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 20 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
| 21 | WILLIAM Waldegrave 's announcement of an extension to the budget-holding GPs ' schemes will reduce the rural residents of Wear Valley into second class citizens as far as NHS treatment goes . |
| 22 | With his first vote the West German elector can if he so desires make a choice solely with reference to the rival candidates ' personal qualities or their popularity . |
| 23 | All necessary information had been efficiently handed over to the new Teachers ' Representative , , who was then introduced and warmly welcomed by . |
| 24 | The couple fought a long battle to get welfare benefits but they were unsucessful until Anita went to the new carers ' centre in Banbury . |
| 25 | But let me get to the various leaders ' speeches . |
| 26 | A clause similar to the following should be included : In order for our investors to proceed with their due diligence , we would ask for your consent to the following : ( a ) that senior management within the [ Group ] can be made aware of the proposed management buy-out and that we can be allowed to provide information to the investors and their advisers , subject to satisfactory letters of confidentiality on both sides ; ( b ) that the investor can instruct [ investigating accountants ] to commence work on producing an accountant 's report on the [ Group ] ; ( c ) that [ investigating accountants ] can contact [ existing auditors ] to obtain historical financial information in respect of the [ Group ] and shall be entitled to have access to the existing auditors ' working papers ; ( d ) that our advisers can contact you in order to progress this transaction . |
| 27 | Assignments must be relevant to current industry practices and should wherever appropriate relate to the individual students ' work places ; this applies particularly to the technical areas of food , beverage and accommodation operations/management . |
| 28 | He was slain by a poisoned crossbow bolt fired by a Dark Elf assassin after bringing word to the Dark Elves ' enemy . |
| 29 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 30 | This may , however , turn out to be hokum and Saturday 's Stradey celebration probably provided an imperfect guide to the two clubs ' chances , other than to reveal that here at least there is no chance of capitulation . |