Example sentences of "one 's [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That one should live to the utmost of one 's ability to be big — to be noble , and true and honourable and beautiful . |
| 2 | One might expect one 's money to be used to buy holidays or be handed to charity , but that is not what happens . |
| 3 | The notion of giving up one 's rights to a ‘ whole community ’ or of submitting to a decision forthcoming from the community or a portion of it would be a strange and abhorrent idea to them ( Overing , in press ) . |
| 4 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
| 5 | An individual 's allegiance could be shaped by questions of party principle and party loyalty , but it could also be shaped by one 's relationship to the central government , or Court , and one 's attitude towards the power of the executive . |
| 6 | Such awareness becomes important in helping clarify one 's place in society and , thus , one 's relationship to others in that society . |
| 7 | But from the perspective of constructivism — which is a general theory of how cognisance is possible and how it develops — the immediate ‘ information-processing ’ shortcomings that lead to the failure to relate one 's actions to objects is not relevant . |
| 8 | However , even if induction and abduction are not available here , something quite similar is , namely the moving tentatively to general conclusions on the basis of one 's responses to particular cases , and the testing of general conclusions by how acceptable one finds , in practice , the responses to particular situations which they dictate . |
| 9 | A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism . |
| 10 | The interest of subjecting one 's society and one 's life to such principles of justice is assumed to be everyone 's highest interest . |
| 11 | It is not therefore always appropriate to allow one 's life to be dictated by the differing fiscal policies in force around the world . |
| 12 | The life of science involves dedicating one 's life to the discovery of the nature of reality . |
| 13 | The strength of subsequent recovery will depend largely upon the willingness truly to hand over one 's will and the outcome of one 's life to a non-individual-human God . |
| 14 | Young workers needed to develop the ‘ ability to grapple with unfamiliar conditions , and the habit of applying one 's mind and one 's knowledge to what one has to do ’ . |
| 15 | One might be asked to report upon one 's beliefs to a psychologist or sociologist , interested in current opinion on matters biological , and say ‘ I believe that natural selection does not adequately account for the evolution of animal life ’ . |
| 16 | It can find expression in one 's attitude to voluntary organizations , to the culture and traditions of the community , and in behaviour to its members when met in anonymous situations . |
| 17 | Inasmuch as they are motivated by one 's consent they become , in a small undramatic way , an expression of one 's attitude to one 's society . |
| 18 | Nearly all the females prefer males with ridiculous long tails : therefore there is an advantage in fitting one 's sons to the fashion . |
| 19 | Nor is the allocation of rewards in contemporary Britain commensurate with skill , hard work and the importance of one 's contribution to society , in the way that functionalist analyses of stratification would suggest . |
| 20 | The latter will always heavily tilt the balance towards finally meeting one 's obligations to the employer . |
| 21 | Slumps and sickness and tithes and taxes and the Milk Board and the Marketing Board , and working one 's fingers to the bone and trying to bring up children … |
| 22 | The meat is not eaten and has no market value , but the dried eyes and the sexual organs of the boto are often sold as amulets to increase one 's attractiveness to the opposite sex , or to increase the bearer 's sexual powers . |
| 23 | There 's no other way to get out of this nightmare land than to crunch one 's way to the arch . |
| 24 | There are even travel journals , containing descriptions of the Pyramids , for example , and precise instructions on how to make one 's way to the Holy Land . |
| 25 | Using language normally seen in missives asking for one 's child to be excused from games , Ms Smith 's mother , Mrs Patsy Smith was quoted as saying , ‘ Mandy ca n't have sex because she 's not well enough . ’ |
| 26 | Giving one 's name to a people , place or institution , or to the title of a book or play . |
| 27 | Granted , one must not hypothesise wildly ; one must confine one 's speculation to the framework of known historical data and probabilities . |
| 28 | The Urvills ' own history , too , made her feel like something unimportant on the family tree , for all that Fergus talked of responsibility and duty and one 's debt to the next generation . |
| 29 | Wright applied in 1978 , committing herself to the five community rules which include monthly meetings with other ( local ) members , donating one-tenth of one 's income to the church — and allocating time for others . |
| 30 | A quick almost elusive comment to dwell upon , then his attention would turn to a barman , a stranger , a word about the environment , the weather , the decoration or structure of a particular place ; then his attention would return to one 's response to his initial comment . |