Example sentences of "to [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt was made in SPAR to reflect these factors by temporarily , during the application of the focusing rules to each anaphor , augmenting the existing focus registers with intrasentential candidates , ordered according to Hobbs ' algorithm . |
| 2 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 3 | In addition to the factors already discussed , the main stimulus to employers ' organisation in a number of countries appears to have been less that of a counter to growing union power , or an attempt to achieve market or labour force regulation , and more a response to what was perceived as a threat to common employer interests arising from increasing state intervention . |
| 4 | The Ministry of Finance was sympathetic to employers ' insistence that their authority should not be undermined . |
| 5 | Employers , therefore , had less reason to associate for defensive purposes since although trade unionism did represent a challenge to employers ' power to manage ‘ it was manifest as a threat to specific employers in specific industries at specific times and places rather than as a general threat to employers as a class ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 286 ) . |
| 6 | The Confederation of British Industry estimates that the move could add more than £40 billion to employers ' pension costs . |
| 7 | Women 's limited access to employers ' pension benefits are directly related to the traditional domestic division of labour which assigns the ‘ breadwinner ’ role to men , principally husbands , and the major responsibility for the unpaid work of the home ( especially child care ) to women . |
| 8 | I have received representations from various sources on the subject of a statutory payroll levy related to employers ' training expenditure . |
| 9 | Their significance for Woolf was in contributing to prisoners ' sense of injustice . |
| 10 | Certain orientations of his work can be affiliated to Levinas ' attempt to shift the relation to alterity from an appropriation by the same into its totality to a respect for the other 's heterogeneity . |
| 11 | The video , Right First Time , will not be appearing in the shops , but is designed to highlight the importance of a team approach to Inroads ' work . |
| 12 | First , a bit of background to Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop . |
| 13 | If your husband dies , you will be entitled to widows ' benefit in the same way as any other widow . |
| 14 | A widow who has cohabited and loses her entitlement to widows ' pension will , if the cohabitation ends , be entitled to claim it again . |
| 15 | A Youth to Lourdes ' group has started planning their pilgrimage for next July . |
| 16 | On the agenda , how best to make half a million pounds worth of cuts to Gloucestershires ' library service . |
| 17 | An information paper ‘ Hygiene Developments ’ , describing in more detail CCG 's response to the Act , was circulated to Operations ' Management to assist them in planning to cope with the onset of the new legislation . |
| 18 | A ‘ Food Safety Update ’ sheet was launched in January to ensure that early clarification of the progress of regulations was made available to Operations ' Management . |
| 19 | According to the release from Peter de Savary 's Land 's End Limited , the move was prompted by increasing concern over cliff-top erosion and a growing threat to climbers ' safety due to deteriorating in-situ protection and lack of regulatory control . |
| 20 | They have therefore decided , subject to shareholders ' approval , to introduce a new executive share option scheme and a series of savings related share option schemes for employees overseas as well as making a change to the UK SAYE scheme . |
| 21 | It was an uneventful drive to Ravens ' Bridge , past the steamer pier and the small wooden jetties before turning sharply to cross over a shallow , slow-moving stream ; a final view of the calm and sparkling waters of the lake and then they were swinging around into the village 's centre — a wide area off the road painted into parking spaces , a couple of tea rooms , several small hotels and a marine shop with a yard for pleasure boats alongside . |
| 22 | As Venables issued his plea , Alan Sugar delivered a vote of confidence to Spurs ' management team of Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence . |
| 23 | Peter Wright : from third-choice Scot to Lions ' selection |
| 24 | According to Pepys ' Diary , he was educated at Westminster School , and became a scholar of Christ Church , Oxford , in 1652 . |
| 25 | You can pass , in a short tour , the BBC , LWT , Granada , Central and a host of other UK broadcasters , Berlusconi , Freemantle/Talbot ( ‘ The World 's Biggest Supplier of Game Shows ’ , according to the slogan adorning their massive exhibition space ) , a bewildering array of Euro-broadcasters , MTV ( USA ) and literally hundreds of producers of everything from serious arts/documentary programmes to kids ' animation , producers of ‘ erotic ’ material , light entertainment and cult films . |
| 26 | CASKET , the Falcon bikes to kids ' clothier , waved off chairman Neil Balfour just before Christmas . |
| 27 | This will entail all curriculum areas in schools to establish more coherent and thorough techniques of assessment , capable of being linked to schools ' reporting procedures . |
| 28 | Heseltine 's team , by contrast , was highly skilful , visibly enthusiastic , extremely active and very well informed as to backbenchers ' voting intentions . |
| 29 | Mr Wakerley said when police later went to Sams ' workshop , in Newark , Nottinghamshire , they found there a set of stencils capable of producing both messages . |
| 30 | And to Engels ' accusation of Panslavism , he replied : |