Example sentences of "of [noun] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 2 | This last remark proved accurate : Elek encountered financial difficulties and Vaughan , on his own and Minton 's behalf , took the matter of payment to his solicitors . |
| 3 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |
| 4 | The implication of this is that in some kinds of library the librarian acknowledges a degree of responsibility to his users , who may not themselves know whether a particular item contains reliable information . |
| 5 | He had a strong sense of responsibility to his vocation of preaching and loved to compare himself to St Paul . |
| 6 | TED COULD only enlist the spirit of Churchill to his cause . |
| 7 | Clearly Luke had achieved the exorcism he had sought by making love to her and was now free to either pursue or resume a relationship with Cavell Fielding , with no danger of damage to his self-respect because he respected Cavell . |
| 8 | Kennedy , 36 , caused £3,000 worth of damage to his £350-a-night penthouse suite in Berlin , ruining sofas , carpets and china . |
| 9 | One informed him that the seventeen year old offender who had caused two hundred and fifty pounds worth of damage to his car had been formerly cautioned . |
| 10 | As far as property damage is concerned , the provisions are really aimed at the consumer market , so , if you buy a home computer as a Christmas present for your uncle and because of a fault it catches fire and causes £1,500 of damage to his house , then your uncle will have a claim under the 1987 Act against the manufacturer of the computer for the damage to the house and furniture . |
| 11 | His basic theology , his belief in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Bible , the nature of Christ as perfect God and man , His death on the cross to pay the penalty for sin , God 's gracious gift of faith to His elect , man 's responsibility to repent and believe the Gospel , and so on , are all considered as ‘ outmoded ’ by many leaders in the modern church . |
| 12 | A common law duty of care is owned by a person providing reports or advice under the law of contract to his client and under the law of tort , to those whom he knew , or ought reasonably to have known , or should have foreseen , might rely on his reports or advice . |
| 13 | He 'd only go for a couple of hours to his London office . |
| 14 | The court said that he was plainly soliciting their custom at a time when he was under a duty of fidelity to his employer and awarded his former employers damages . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , Travis , ’ mourned Leith , and , because she felt helpless to give him any verbal comfort , she stretched out a hand of sympathy to his arm . |
| 16 | Most if it he knew : the copyright on his works to his wife Viola ; the manuscripts to his former wife Hilda Machin ; a small sum of money to his mother , still alive at the time of the making of the will . |
| 17 | Without thinking , he added a carton of milk to his basket . |
| 18 | He thinks it 's like a kind of insult to his powers to write things down . ’ |
| 19 | He pushed a cup of tea to his daughter who rejected it in favour of cold milk . |
| 20 | Thus illegitimacy is no longer taken into consideration in determining the rights of succession of an illegitimate person , or the rights of succession to his estate , or the rights of succession traced through an illegitimate relationship . |
| 21 | This removed one source of opposition to his plans ( an independent industry ministry ) but put more pressure on him to achieve results today rather than tomorrow . |
| 22 | But in addition to his constructive plans , Lanfranc also took steps to cut down the force of opposition to his changes by sending away ‘ for correction ’ one of the chief trouble-makers , a monk called Osbern . |
| 23 | To use the same metaphor that de Gaulle had used about Barricades Week , the putsch burst the abscess of opposition to his policies within the army . |
| 24 | Nicolo laughed as he lifted his cup of espresso to his lips . |
| 25 | A shy man from a conservative Catholic family ( his father , ex-President Antonio Segni , belonged to the right wing of the Christian Democrats ) , he has rallied a wide range of supporters to his reform campaign : free-thinking radicals , communists , a Catholic bishop , trade unionists , the influential Rome daily La Repubblica and the top ranks of Confindustria , Italy 's employers ' association , as well as Mr Orlando himself . |
| 26 | The weeping aloud of the relatives turns to melancholic songs in the local Quechua dialect , Zacarías Ceonocc Huayhua … sings words of grief to his wife whom he has just recognized . ’ |
| 27 | The Commandant should not be an object of ridicule to his prisoners . ’ |
| 28 | Highlands and Islands Enterprise and BT have marched a series of journalists to his door , stressing the benefits of the two organisation 's £16 million ‘ H&I Initiative ’ , which has provided the area with Europe 's most modern digital telephone system . |
| 29 | He was approaching the track leading to the bell tower , a dark grim silhouette in the moonlight , when he saw a great glow of light to his right in the distance . |
| 30 | Judge rethink : The Marquess of Blandford 's 112 day sentence over non-payment of maintenance to his wife may be cut by the judge who committed him to Pentonville on Tuesday . |