Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embarrassing parallels between the party 's response to discontent in Peking and Lhasa also embrace rhetoric and ideology . |
| 2 | Exodus 16 and Numbers 11 belong to two series of passages which are concerned with God 's response to complaints of the people during their years in the wilderness . |
| 3 | Scaling : the relaxation ( time-correlation ) functions ( which characterise a material 's response to changes in an applied mechanical or electromagnetic field ) , measured at different temperatures , may be made to coincide on a single ‘ master ’ curve by scaling the time axis with a temperature-dependent characteristic time . |
| 4 | The body 's response to alterations in fluid balance varies according to the rate and volume of fluid loss , the effects being more apparent when loss is rapid or when the patient is already debilitated . |
| 5 | The Forth studies will include other transport developments proposed last month in the Government 's response to consultation on possible improvements to road , rail , bus , traffic management and public transport west of Edinburgh and between Lothian and Fife . |
| 6 | At the same time , however , there is a new urgency to the West 's response to events in Moscow . |
| 7 | There seems to be a struggle , which Milton perhaps did not intend , between the reader 's response to Satan as a powerful and convincing character and the way in which one should react to such a malevolent force . |
| 8 | Elsewhere , workers are trying to alter the body 's response to disease by adding information to its cells . |
| 9 | I wonder what was heaven 's response to Henry of Winchester when he achieved the bishopric ? |
| 10 | The Institute 's Tax Faculty has issued a guidance note on a company 's exposure to penalties on submitting a corporation tax Pay and File return containing estimated figures . |
| 11 | Awards received by Freeman , Fox & Partners , to which his outstanding designs contributed in no small way , included the Queen 's award to industry in 1967 , and , jointly with Rolls-Royce , the first MacRobert award in 1969 . |
| 12 | Whaling and jute were two of the chief sources of Dundee 's rise to prominence as a port . |
| 13 | Baldwin 's rise to power as the Conservative leader and prime minister in 1923 and 1924 — 9 was ruled by two considerations : first , the need to tame the Labour party and to force it to accept the conventions of parliamentary politics ; and second , to ensure that Lloyd George be kept out of office at all costs . |
| 14 | She was referring to President Aquino 's rise to power on a wave of sympathy following the assassination of her husband . |
| 15 | At demonstrations , he had seen faces ‘ filled with hatred ’ which reminded him of the months preceding Hitler 's rise to power in 1933 . |
| 16 | Members can draw an important lesson from the hon. Lady 's rise to office as a junior Minister in the Department . |
| 17 | He believes this ‘ tripartite alliance ’ is the reason for Japan 's rise to domination in world markets , and the only way that Britain 's true industrial base can be saved . |
| 18 | Here , you will be able to follow Sooty 's rise to super-stardom through the sets , props , scripts , photos and films which have enthralled the very young and the very old ! for 40 years . |
| 19 | The same was true in Normandy , where Henry II 's concession to Rouen between 1160 and 1170 , soon to be a model for other cities across the Angevin empire , permitted internal self-government by a mayor and town council , but also allowed the duke to choose the mayor from a list of three names submitted to him by the council , and protected the ducal right to military service . |
| 20 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 21 | TOP Augsburg was the second stop on Mozart 's progress to Paris with his mother in 1777 . |
| 22 | The far-infrared and sub-millimetre space telescope ( FIRST ) would extend ISO 's coverage to regions between infrared and radio , while the X-ray multi-mirror would be a very sensitive X-ray telescope . |
| 23 | Isabella 's plea to Edward to ‘ have pity on gentle Mortimer ’ was brushed aside , and Edward ordered him to be arrested and placed in safe custody . |
| 24 | If you simply switch from writing about an investigation over which you have enlisted your reader 's sympathy to scenes of home life or love life that have no connection with the main story , you will lose each time a little of your hold on the reader . |
| 25 | So the appeal was allowed , the order for possession was set aside as against Mr. Steed and the case was transferred to the Chancery Division for a new trial at which the facts regarding the execution or non-execution of the transfer and Mr. Steed 's entitlement to rectification of the register would be determined . |
| 26 | DONALD WOODS saw a dream come true with South Africa 's entitlement to re-entry into international cricket , and the experience was enhanced by his journey with the team through the World Cup tournament . |
| 27 | Sometimes a family crisis such as the wife 's admission to hospital for an operation , or confinement , when mother-in-law comes to the rescue and willingly takes over the housekeeping , will draw them together , and help them to value each other as people for the first time ; but more often it is a gradual process , the slow demolition of long-held prejudices . |
| 28 | BP 's payment to Exxon in the USA results in $10m transfer from Bank Z to Bank W in the USA . |
| 29 | Of the latter , one was dedicated to King Henry II of England in a prologue taken almost word for word from Bede 's preface to Ceolwulf at the beginning of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People . |
| 30 | Those who despise fictions will presumably admire Wordsworth 's fidelity to fact in line 1 . |