Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syria 's response that it ‘ can not control what goes on in the Bekaa ’ and that Turkey ‘ should first try to solve the Kurdish problem within its own borders ’ has served only to confirm Turkish suspicions about Syrian intentions . |
| 2 | One concerns the proportion of a manager 's income that is derived from holding shares in the company in comparison with the proportion that depends on being an employee . |
| 3 | The tribunal interpreted the implied mobility clause in Mr Bowles 's contract that he could be sent to work anywhere in the UK to mean that he could ‘ ordinarily ’ be sent to work anywhere in the UK . |
| 4 | He says it 's part of the staff 's contract that they work different shift from time to time — at times of crisis or if someone is sick we have to ask someone who knows the job to cover . |
| 5 | Remove a fox from its territory and another will soon take its place — so where is fox-hunting 's defence that it controls foxes ? |
| 6 | But while it was still a live issue , it was amusing to see how ready people were to accept Steele 's defence that it was through the machination of such a crusted establishment figure as Avrion Mitchison that Steele had been invited to repeat his work in a scientific environment for the purpose of discrediting it — a defence that compounds bad science together with bad scientific journalism . |
| 7 | New South Wales , on the other hand , ran in six tries to win quite convincingly in the end , although it has to be said in Scotland 's defence that they came close on several occasions to scoring a try and only slipped out of range in the last five minutes when they conceded two tries , both of which were converted . |
| 8 | The jury rejected the newspaper 's defence that the ordinary reasonable reader of the " News of the World " would not take the allegations of such a person seriously . |
| 9 | Granada 's defence that the words were not intended to refer to the plaintiff and would not have been so regarded by reasonable viewers was rejected by the jury , after hearing that the officer had received " unpleasant and damaging " comments afterwards . |
| 10 | I always really wanted one but the trouble was they were 70 quid a pop , which I certainly could n't afford on a Saturday lad 's money — even the Saturday lad 's money that Malcolm paid . |
| 11 | However , our role is more central , even on the most banal basis — the £2 billion of the Government 's money that goes into that bottomless abyss year after year . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're forgetting , ’ she reminded him , ‘ it 's only other people 's money that I enjoy spending . ’ |
| 13 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 14 | That joint reading perhaps lies behind the appeal in Walahfrid 's prologue that the quest for wisdom be revived and widened " in modern times " . |
| 15 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 16 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 17 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 18 | Lee was close to him and was standing on Philip 's shoelace that had come undone as he ran . |
| 19 | In February 1988 , says WG , Mr Carr told WG 's board that Alkar 's sales for the year to January had been £10.4m with a profit of £2.7m . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 21 | True , firms like Unilever spend more on their various brands combined ; but it is to Tesco 's advantage that all its own-labels fall easily under one ‘ brand umbrella ’ . |
| 22 | It is to no-one 's advantage that they should be homogenised . |
| 23 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 24 | The king 's concession that the cost of troops should fall on the rich and powerful rather than the poor of the community was insufficient to placate the commons , and in the October parliament of the same year they presented a petition entitled ‘ La demande de la Commune ’ in which they called for the abolition of the maltote , the punishment of purveyors who took prises without making payment , and pardon for debts . |
| 25 | The Concordat , described as " the best negotiated settlement in Western history " , confirmed the German emperor 's renunciation of investiture of bishops with the ring and the crozier and the pope 's concession that episcopal elections should be held in the presence of the king . |
| 26 | The Environment Department said yesterday that Mr Patten could not agree with the inquiry inspector 's judgement that the needs of the historic house justified the introduction of unacceptable shopping developments in the countryside . |
| 27 | Here the agent is investing in the small artist , trusting the manager 's judgement that this act should go on to be the next big thing . |
| 28 | If it is difficult now to concur with the Bioscope reviewer 's judgement that the film ‘ surpasses in technical achievement anything of its kind ever made in Britain , and at times soars to heights of directorial brilliance ’ , it 's still possible to understand how an audience that had been accustomed only to silent films might warm to the various acts on display . |
| 29 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 30 | Ottaviani continued to believe that ‘ error has no rights ’ and argued for repression ; Cardinal Augustin Bea , President of the newly created Secretariat for Christian Unity , shared Pope John 's judgement that ‘ condemning errors ’ was not the best way to open up a conversation ( or dialogue ) with other Christians or the modern world . |