Example sentences of "his [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | With the Paisley MPs Irene Adams and Gordon McMaster , Mr McFall was lending his support to Operation Blade , an initiative by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 32 | With the approach of civil war , Moore pledged his support to Parliament , being named a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire on 24 March 1642 and taking part in July in the first military action of the war in Manchester , which was secured after a skirmish with Lord Strange . |
| 33 | In his address on Sept. 24 King Juan Carlos urged delegates to the conference , which was also attended by observers from eight Arab countries and Israel , to work together to limit the pollution of the Mediterranean , and lent his support to plans for a CSCM . |
| 34 | The diluting of the industrial strategy was a classic Wilsonian operation , as Bernard Donoughue remembers : ‘ I 'm sure that Tony Benn felt himself betrayed by his Prime Minister because the moment the word got around , as it rapidly did in Whitehall — and the Cabinet Office made sure that it got around — that the Prime Minister was not giving his support to Tony Benn , then the civil servants began to back off from their minister . |
| 35 | It is made quite clear in the Life of Wilfrid that Wilfrid was intending to give his support to Eadwulf ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 59 ) |
| 36 | In 1929 Marks left the Liberal Party and offered his support to Ramsay MacDonald . |
| 37 | No oranges will taste the same as those we ate on t hose Saturday mornings , saving the peel to throw at the screen when Roy Rogers brought out his guitar to serenade Dale Evans across a Texas campfire that was flickering in an enchanted cave in a Manchester street . |
| 38 | However , he did not use it very well — not bothering with a control group , for example ( perhaps this was his concession to anti-positivism ) . |
| 39 | BIG-HEARTED Frank Gibbs faces a bleak Christmas after giving all his money to charity . |
| 40 | They were all staying in this Florida hotel … where postman Keith Thompson was shot dead after he refused to hand over his money to muggers . |
| 41 | He that putteth not out his money to usury , nor taketh reward against the innocent ’ ; this psalm is illustrated by one of the most inventive miniatures of the Stuttgart Psalter , c .830 ) . |
| 42 | Mr Corden announced his decision to Feethams staff on Wednesday and remaining directors Mr John Brockbank and Mr Richard Tonks are urgently trying to sort out the club 's cash problems . |
| 43 | The following day Tweed announced his decision to Monica as they sat alone in his office . |
| 44 | Similarly , if L assigns his reversion to X , there is privity of estate between X and A. In such cases any covenants in the lease which " touch and concern " the land , e.g. repairing covenants , are enforceable both at law and in equity . |
| 45 | The idea of a fountain as a metaphor for creativity occurs elsewhere in Coleridge in his preface to Christabel . |
| 46 | In his preface to Djuna Barnes 's Nightwood , he introduced a passage of autobiography couched in a similar tone : " In the Puritan morality that I remember … |
| 47 | If the birds or Australia had not received that degree of attention from the scientific ornithologist which their interest demanded ’ , he wrote in his preface to Mammals of Australia , ‘ I can assert , without fear of contradiction , that its highly curious and interesting Mammals have been still less investigated . |
| 48 | ‘ Dilly ’ , as he was called , went to Summer Fields , Oxford , at the age of eleven and after a year was first in his election to Eton . |
| 49 | His election to Parliament . |
| 50 | A Midlands motor dealer ( ‘ A fair deal with Grunt' — the ‘ e ’ had been added later , upon his election to Parliament ) , he was built like an elderly Land Rover . |
| 51 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 52 | This was " our Arthur " at his first big political contest on home ground since his election to presidency of the union . |
| 53 | He also exhibited seven paintings at the British Institution ( 1841–60 ) and eighty-four ( 1841–69 ) at the Society of British Artists , of which he was elected a member in 1845 , resigning in 1852 in the hope that this would assist his election to associateship of the Royal Academy . |
| 54 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 55 | Orbos , 40 , an unabashed populist , had made a meteoric rise since his election to Congress in 1987 , and was widely credited with having injected new life into the Aquino administration . |
| 56 | Alexander was resident at the papal curia at the time of his election to Coventry in 1224 . |
| 57 | Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years . |
| 58 | It transpired that both had been betrayed by a Russian agent , Hans Geyer , who using the alias ‘ Henry Toll ’ had infiltrated Gehlen 's organisation and passed on all the details of his plans to Moscow . |
| 59 | Mr Amato hurried from his office to the nearby Quirinale palace to present his plans to President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , who later signed decrees approving the nominations . |
| 60 | A king not universally popular , who owed his throne to assassination , must have been sensitive on such an issue , and maybe sometimes nervous of joining large assemblies of armed men . |