Example sentences of "'s [noun] [conj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen 's worry as to how the Dolls ' House opened was a perfectly reasonable one . |
| 2 | If all were re-appointed , in a replay of 1964 , the claim that franchises were ‘ competitive ’ would begin to look hollow , and would simply confirm the Pilkington Committee 's judgement that to all intents ‘ the appointment of a programme contractor is virtually irrevocable ’ ( Pilkington , 1962 , p. 165 ) . |
| 3 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 4 | A suitable compromise is for both parties to rely on the opinion of a leading Queen 's Counsel as to whether or not and to what extent the purchaser 's claim is likely to succeed . |
| 5 | Thompson 's and Anderson 's choices of their respective definitions are clearly the fruit of a more fundamental attachment — to the underlying assumptions of individualism in Thompson 's case and to holism in Anderson 's — and as the tone of their exchange reveals , they will not lightly give these up . |
| 6 | The holder 's decision as to whether to exercise the option will depend on the relative values of the shares to which he would be entitled on conversion and the cash receivable , including the premium , on exercise of the option . |
| 7 | However , local authorities have a local appeals procedure under which officers may appeal if they are dissatisfied with the authority 's decision as to whether it is necessary to move home or if they are dissatisfied with any of the authority 's decisions in relation to the application of the relocation provisions . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 9 | We are concerned with the Secretary of State 's decision as to the first period , the ‘ tariff . ’ |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make such representations , the Secretary of State is required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which is relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for these purposes . |
| 11 | How then is it contended that the courts have power to review the visitor 's decision as to the effect of the domestic law of the university in this case ? |
| 12 | USER_INPUT/ — is an input parameter specifying the DC identifier to be assessed , the assessment comment and this user 's decision as to whether he agrees with the changes being implemented . |
| 13 | The court 's decision as to what constitutes a class conceals the policy issues in the decision . |
| 14 | The committal order was sealed on 11 June 1992 and copies were then sent to M. 's solicitors and to the governor of the prison in which M. was held . |
| 15 | For example , a successful validation exercise in Singapore enabled the Board to add a manuscript transcription component to both the Private Secretary 's Certificate and to the Secretarial Studies Certificate . |
| 16 | Death being a fairly serious matter , a body can not be disposed of until a doctor 's certificate as to cause of death has been received by the registrar . |
| 17 | The Crown admitted that the judge 's direction as to the effect of good character was flawed in the manner contended for by the defendant but , adopting the view of the Court of Appeal , while admitting the error , contended that it had caused no injustice . |
| 18 | The order is in the opinion of the Secretary of State such as to give effect either to the Director 's proposals or to his proposal as modified by the Advisory Committee ; and |
| 19 | The genuine elected leadership of COLPROSUMAH was denied access to the union 's headquarters and to the union 's funds and dues , which the government passed to its puppet union . |
| 20 | Disclosure is not required for non-audit services supplied to subsidiaries not audited by the parent company 's auditor and to overseas subsidiaries . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the story provoked questions as to Clinton 's honesty and to his possible misuse of influence in appointing Flowers to her current job in return for her silence . |
| 22 | Honda manager Neil Tuxworth said : ‘ Someone rammed the back of Phillip 's bike and to be honest he 's not in a fit state to race . |
| 23 | Editor , — It is unfortunate that Gary P Bray adds to the confusion over deaths from paracetamol overdose by an apparent failure to recognise the difference between the cause of death and a coroner 's verdict as to its motivation . |
| 24 | As Syme has remarked , ‘ Rome 's peculiar greatness was due not to one man 's genius or to one age , but to many men and the long process of time . ’ |
| 25 | Hahnemann disagreed with Cullen 's hypothesis as to the mode of action of cinchona and took some himself to see what effect it would have . |
| 26 | Arousal in this study appeared to have a beneficial effect on memory for both types of information quite contrary to the predictions of Easterbrook 's hypothesis and to the results of the Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) study . |
| 27 | Once at Norfolk House , she would consult her mother 's wishes as to her future movements . |
| 28 | The leader of another informal nationalist grouping , the Forum for the Peoples of Abkhazia , was elected to the Congress of People 's Deputies and to the new-style Supreme Soviet , where he expressed some reservations about the idea of strengthening the fifteen union republics at the expense , almost certainly , of the smaller national-territorial units that were subordinate to them . |
| 29 | But there was more than a little doubt in Harriet 's mind as to whether his wife was remotely in love with him . |
| 30 | There was evidently some dilemma in Gould 's mind as to whether a work on the birds of Europe or just the birds of Britain would prove most lucrative . |