Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] to the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST . |
| 2 | The Government 's response to the TGAT recommendations , given in the Parliamentary statement by the Secretary of State for Education and Science on 7 June 1988 , is set out in appendix 4 . |
| 3 | In the bad old days you could go crazy trying to match a driver 's configuration to the switch settings on a LAN card . |
| 4 | iii ) perceptual variables will determine the individual 's reaction to the information inputs referred to in Paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 5 | Presque imperceptible if Ravel 's instruction to the ppp strings on page 1 of the score ; and so they are here , which is fair enough , except for the paradox , confirmed by Dutoit and Monteux ( both Decca ) , that Ravel 's moments of mystery can be all the more mysterious when you 're allowed to hear them clearly . |
| 6 | In response to falling trade and as a gesture of solidarity to the pitmen , the landlord has changed the pub 's name to The Miners Arms . |
| 7 | After the Bank 's signal to the money markets at about 2pm yesterday , Barclays Bank announced an increase in its base rate , and was quickly followed by the other clearing banks . |
| 8 | Sales and Marketing Director , Paul Pinsky emphasised the company 's commitment to the clay tiles market : ‘ Bedworth is one of the most advanced and sophisticated clay tile plants in the world . |
| 9 | Mercury Communications Ltd , which came close to accepting AT&T Co 's hand in marriage a year or so ago , is backing the US company 's complaint to the US authorities that the UK regulatory system is unsatisfactory because , claims AT&T , the UK has not provided adequate safeguards to prevent British Telecommunications Plc from abusing its monopoly power , and has failed to exercise controls over interconnection services provided by Telecom for rivals , or the company 's pricing policy ‘ in a meaningful way ’ . |
| 10 | Newport9 Bridgend4 AN EXCELLENT display by Newport 's pack , the highlight being Kevin Moseley 's line-out work , starved Bridgend of possession at Rodney Parade and cleared the home side 's path to the Schweppes semi-finals . |
| 11 | ‘ We were Ireland 's answer to the Sex Pistols and New York Dolls rolled into one . |
| 12 | 1 am , Ribble Valley : The area is sometimes described as Lancashire 's answer to the Yorkshire Dales and , like the Dales , has plenty of farming stock . |
| 13 | But criticism of the package , which will end the barristers ' monopoly right to appear in the higher courts and transfer a huge chunk of the High Court 's caseload to the county courts , was considerably less strident than when the original green paper proposals were debated last April . |
| 14 | The series is part of the BBC 's contribution to the UK Volunteers Week campaign ( which runs from June 1 to June 7 ) to encourage people , old and young , to take up volunteering . |
| 15 | While I would have liked to have seen a bit more about 9 Sqn 's contribution to the Tirpitz attacks , I appreciate that this is a book about 617 Sqn . |
| 16 | Despite NEC 's adherence to the MIPS Technologies Inc R-series RISC , which it fabricates , the move seems to move NEC inexorably towards the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC camp , because Convex plans to use the part in forthcoming parallel machines , and NEC already markets the Stratus Computer Inc fault-tolerant machines in Japan — having chosen the ill-starred Intel Corp 80860 as the basis of its first generation of RISC machines , Stratus plans to use Precision Architecture RISCs in future iterations of its systems . |
| 17 | Sensitive to these pressures , Gorbachev in his Feb. 9 statement reaffirmed the Soviet Union 's adherence to the UN resolutions but expressed concern that the " the logic of [ coalition ] military operations and the character of military actions " threatened to go beyond the mandate of Resolution 678 [ see p. 37870 ] . |
| 18 | Here the critical developments were to take place during the Beagle 's visit to the Galapagos islands , a small group of volcanic islands several hundred miles out into the Pacific from the South American mainland . |
| 19 | Indeed , the division itself is as much about politics as economics : Mrs Thatcher 's hostility to the ERM springs from her hostility to the European Community , which she did not mention yesterday . |