Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farm worker has become resigned to this public indifference , although he becomes annoyed by the continuing refusal to recognize the importance of his contribution to food production . |
| 2 | George Medley , Director of WWF — UK , paid this tribute to Sir Peter : " It is impossible to overstate the importance of his contribution to conservation . |
| 3 | An important part of his contribution to theory was the analysis of the demand for money and its differences with the quantity theory view . |
| 4 | A review of his life to date written while undergoing analysis in Vienna , October 1930–June 1931 |
| 5 | Dobbie was colonel commandant , Royal Engineers , from 1940 to 1947 but was not actively re-employed and dedicated the remainder of his life to missionary work , serving on a number of Christian committees . |
| 6 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |
| 7 | He retired in 1898 and devoted the rest of his life to nature study and wildlife photography . |
| 8 | Even the pinnacle of his success to date was free of any taint of pandering : compare ‘ Purple Rain' with Michael Jackson 's ‘ Beat It ’ , where Eddie Van Halen was dropped plum in the middle as a calculated bid for MTV exposure and the Middle American AOR heartland . |
| 9 | Clayton attributes a lot of his success to sport itself . |
| 10 | ‘ That is something that come out of his reconnaissance to Goose Green . |
| 11 | 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Matthew Maynard should make the ‘ A ’ tour as the first step of his return to Test status . |
| 14 | When he completed his circumnavigation of the world , his contemporaries were just as impressed by the fact that he achieved this feat without losing a single member of his crew to scurvy . |
| 15 | In Meditatio the Christian monk committed the divine words of his Lectio to memory as he pondered their meaning and , as he did so , he recited them aloud . |
| 16 | He turned slightly in the seat , the light from a street-lamp gilding the carved tanned planes of his face , turning the thickness of his hair to midnight silk , so that despite herself Fran felt a tiny ripple of appreciation for his male beauty . |
| 17 | This is the book of the exhibition which travelled from Germany to London this year and moves on to Dublin ( Irish Museum of Modern Art , 21 November-10 January ) before reaching America , and represents the most complete survey of his work to date . |
| 18 | Yet the last three years made Fisher doubt whether Ramsey was possible — because of his Catholic restraint on reunion schemes and his suspicion of the ecumenical movement , because of his willingness for wide Catholic liberties in the way of worship , and because of his attitude to law . |
| 19 | Khaki chinos and a matching short-sleeved shirt skimmed the muscular angles of his body to perfection . |
| 20 | Nodding absently he opened the palm of his hand to gesture towards Tran Van Lung 's sea-green gown . |
| 21 | And although they shared I.A. Richards 's impatience with the existing chaos of critical theories , and his desire for some scientific order in the study of literature , they would certainly not have endorsed his view that literary theory should be concerned with experience or with value ; nor would they have approved of his recourse to neuro-physiology or psychology as a means of making literary criticism more scientific . |
| 22 | In an address on Jan. 10 to mark the 24th anniversary of his accession to power ( on Jan. 13 , 1967 ) , President Gnassingbe Eyadema announced a political amnesty and a change in the financing of the ruling Rally of the Togolese People ( RPT ) , the country 's sole legal party . |
| 23 | President Ben Ali marked the fourth anniversary of his accession to power ( Nov. 7 , 1987 ) by pardoning 1,070 people sentenced by civil and military courts ; 141 would be released and the others would have their sentences reduced . |
| 24 | Starting in 1672 , when he acquired the directorship of the Académie Royale de Musique , he turned most of his attention to opéra , composing approximately one a year until his death in 1687 . |
| 25 | He spoke of his incentive to art as being that of ‘ exhilarated despair ’ and from nearly all of his paintings there emerges a scream as chilling as that which Munch so memorably depicted 99 years ago . |
| 26 | The charm of his style , the persuasiveness of his appeal to history , the breadth of his understanding , the way in which earnestness is blended with joyfulness in his religion — and all things pervaded by reason and good sense — have won disciples for Hooker in all subsequent generations . |
| 27 | The evidence of his claim to greatness so far is sketchy , to say the least . |
| 28 | Although he inherited FE 's dark , almost saturnine good looks and something of his addiction to alcohol , which he later overcame , he had neither his father 's gift of oratory nor his boundless energy . |
| 29 | Machen 's reminiscences , Far Off Things ( 1922 ) and Things Near and Far ( 1923 ) , movingly recaptured his youth in Monmouthshire and his struggles as a writer during the fin de siècle , and revealed the depth of his dedication to literature . |
| 30 | Argan believed that art belonged to all men , which is why he battled in defence of the cultural heritage from the dark days of Fascism — to the last days of his life , proof of his commitment to criticism as an instrument of conscience . |