Example sentences of "their [noun] to [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affair came to a head in a series of by-elections in the early 1930s in which the press barons gave their support to Empire Crusade candidates in their fight against the official Conservative central office candidates . |
| 2 | When an employee exhausts their entitlement to sickness allowance , the Director of Management and Information Services , in conjunction with the Director of Social Work , will submit a report to the Personnel Committee concerning the possible extension of sickness allowance . |
| 3 | Once their entitlement to unemployment benefit expires ( after twelve months ) , they are totally dependent on income support . |
| 4 | It works with our marketing businesses to offer customers ways to reduce their exposure to oil price volatility . |
| 5 | The wife spent her time running one of the hotels , while the husband and his brothers devoted their skills to property speculation with considerable success . |
| 6 | Is their responsibility to art cinema or are they mortgaged to the Hollywood estate ? |
| 7 | As a major ‘ consumer ’ of overhauled piston engines for its own fleet , it made sense for the Atlantic Group to extend their activities to engine overhaul . |
| 8 | Extrinsic luminescence centres may behave differently depending on their response to electron beam excitation , and the following types can be distinguished : |
| 9 | Patients were simply told that we were aware that emotions could influence how they reacted to illness and were asked to participate in a survey investigating their response to hospital admission for minor surgery . |
| 10 | The two sides in the battle over admitting men to an Oxford women 's college have been putting their case to University Chancellor , Lord Jenkins . |
| 11 | In the present system claimants can ask for an internal review and if they are still dissatisfied , take their case to Review Board of local councillors . |
| 12 | Because wives are looked on a surrogates for their husbands while the latter are at Westminster , their attitudes to constituency work and their appearance are considered important . |
| 13 | The Cohort Study interviewed a group of unemployed men one , four and twelve months after they had registered as unemployed in 1978 , before the massive wave of job losses , to discover their attitudes to job finding and being out of work . |
| 14 | The following conversations with a handful of actors centred mainly on their attitudes to drama training , and their opinions about the audition system . |
| 15 | Inevitably this will not always be possible but reduction in portering or domestic staff will result in additional burdens for nurses who should be giving their attentions to patient care . |
| 16 | Other races as varied as the Persians , Egyptians , Venetians and even the Crusaders brought their influences to Cypriot food when their armies invaded the tiny island . |
| 17 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 18 | Flat flakes of gold are more difficult to trap as their weight to surface area is small and they have a tendency to escape over the edge . |
| 19 | As to length , there are two traditional ways of measuring and both owe their origins to tiger shooting . |
| 20 | Growing up with divorce : a study of adolescents and their adjustment to family breakdown |
| 21 | Opponents frequently struggled to cope with that type of galvanising influence as Howard Wilkinson 's team may discover for themselves on their return to Villa Park tonight . |
| 22 | South Africa looked set to mark their return to Test cricket after 22 years with a notable victory in their first-ever match against West Indies — but a dramatic last-day collapse shattered their dreams . |
| 23 | The Castle Cup , happily run on a league basis again , was stretched into a four-day competition to prepare South Africans for their return to Test cricket . |
| 24 | Language understanding also involves being able to relate the information in successive sentences , which is why psycholinguists have turned their attention to discourse interpretation , that is , to the comprehension of whole passages rather than single sentences . |
| 25 | No one loses their right to tax relief on borrowings up to £30,000 for these purposes . |
| 26 | As they begin to grow , change their diet to brine shrimp , Daphnia , or bloodworm . |
| 27 | Although these , and similar objects , are small in scale , this belies their importance to bird conservation in the county as a whole in view of the rapid decline of certain bird feeding can perhaps be mentioned as a considerable benefit to certain bird populations . |
| 28 | The course is designed to provide members of the professions allied to medicine with the scientific skills , knowledge and their appliction to relevant clinical practice in their field in order to be better able to evaluate their effectiveness of their contributions to health care services . |
| 29 | The Registered Visiting Students enriched our experience by their contributions to College life and we were delighted to welcome back Emma Sky who went out to fly back with Mona Wahbe , from Gaza , who is sponsored by the Oxford Student Scholarship Fund and is famous for her sparkle and animated use of English . |
| 30 | And if East 17 get really rich and famous , will they have to change their name to South West One ? |