Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] to [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TUC 's response to such criticisms has been characteristically heavy-handed : McIlroy was barred from teaching on TUC courses , and it is alleged that attempts have been made to stifle debate . |
| 2 | Gorbachev 's response to these developments appeared to be twofold , so far as foreign policy was concerned . |
| 3 | The membership 's response to these developments has been quite predictable . |
| 4 | Lavandera 's response to these difficulties is to propose an initial examination by the analyst of discourse function rather than of surface grammatical form , followed by consideration of the functions which are served by the form — the subjunctive in this case . |
| 5 | The Government 's response to these changes in market conditions has , however , been woefully inadequate . |
| 6 | As part of the government 's response to these disturbances , all housing responsibilities were removed from local authorities and a review body was established ‘ with three Protestant and three Catholic members under the Chairmanship of Patrick Macrory ’ ( Rowat 1980:296 ) . |
| 7 | The administration 's response to these dilemmas is , first , to keep as secret as possible what the state is doing and , second , to operate through organizations not formally part of the state apparatus . |
| 8 | the BBC 's response to those pressures and the new broadcasting environment . |
| 9 | The following observations are submitted as the Regional Council 's response to those comments : |
| 10 | The Gagosian Gallery has opened its season with a loan show , ‘ Max Beckmann : The self portraits ’ that gathers together numerous examples of the artist 's response to those persecutions and torments . |
| 11 | But after 1917 Lenin 's resistance to all forms of ‘ revisionism ’ and the ideological closure enforced in the Communist International institutionalized a petrified Marxism , asserting the accuracy of every syllable which Marx or Engels ever wrote . |
| 12 | First , the Conservatives who were in favour of family allowances mostly advocated contributory or employer-financed schemes , and the grounds for the Labour movement 's opposition to such schemes , which they had voiced in the 1920s , were still valid . |
| 13 | My supplementary is will the Chairman of policy and resources committee make a statement to the county council to reassure and inform the ethnic minority community and the general public of Leicestershire of the need for tolerance and racial harmony and reaffirm the county council 's opposition to all forms of racist dogma . |
| 14 | Hence the importance of today 's shoot-out to both clubs . |
| 15 | I am concerned about the Government 's attitude to many things European , and certainly to the whole area of environmental protection . |
| 16 | Erm twenty or thirty years later Kinsey was studying human sexuality and saying things like I 've stuck on the handout so erm y'know in some ways perhaps Kinsey 's attitude to these things er changed . |
| 17 | He wrote of this machine in 1912 : ‘ there is no more reason to ascribe the heliotropic reactions of lower animals to any form of sensation , e.g. of brightness or colour or pleasure or curiosity , than there is to ascribe the heliotropic reactions of Mr Hammond 's machine to such sensations . ’ |
| 18 | In this respect , a quarterly in-house newspaper entitled ‘ Wood News ’ is published to disseminate news about the Group 's business to all employees . |
| 19 | Emma 's reaction to these stories is not recorded . |
| 20 | Coleridge himself long believed that he was born on 20 October , but his father , with a clergyman 's attention to such matters , recorded in the parish register that the true date was 21 October ‘ about eleven o'clock in the forenoon ’ . |
| 21 | May be , but it is also surely the duty of someone like Mr Chatrier , as a leading official of an organisation responsible for the continuing prosperity of tennis worldwide and at all levels , to draw everyone 's attention to such dangers . |
| 22 | ‘ I just think more people in the media should take the initiative to bring the public 's attention to these problems , ’ Dmitry finally exclaims. ‘ that 's what the media 's for . |
| 23 | The warden was a wonderful guy and he mentioned my daughter 's name to these girls and one of them knew her ! |
| 24 | The regime 's intolerance to any views other than its own and its savagery may best be illustrated by three recent events . |
| 25 | closed communion' ( limiting the Lord 's Supper to those attenders who had been baptized by immersion ) versus ‘ open communion ’ ( allowing non-baptized attenders to participate ) . |
| 26 | I respect the hon. Gentleman 's commitment to those matters , and he is right to point to one of the problems . |
| 27 | The interest of subjecting one 's society and one 's life to such principles of justice is assumed to be everyone 's highest interest . |
| 28 | The Vice-Chancellor 's message to all departments , as circulated to Standing Committee of Senate , is that it is imperative to make increased student recruitment a top priority for the coming year . |
| 29 | The spirit of Moore 's approach to such matters is salutary . |
| 30 | The long period of gestation of the new legislation which began in the climate of reform typical of the 1970s but became entangled then in the fiscal and ideological retrenchment of the 1980s , reveals the complexity of the political debate and the variety of interests that had to be reconciled in drafting a new legal reference point that would modernize Germany 's approach to all questions of youth while at the same time express continuity . |