Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge to one 's premisses and assumptions will be made and has to be faced , though one might prefer to reply in terms of ‘ principles ’ rather than of ‘ theory ’ . |
| 2 | The last seven years have seen a considerable expansion of the museum 's activities but have been coloured by the drama and eventual scandal surrounding the controversial restoration by Daniel Goldreyer of one of the museum 's principal paintings , Barnet Newman 's monumental ‘ Who 's afraid of red yellow and blue III ’ which had been vandalised in 1986 ( see p.15 ) . |
| 3 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 4 | So at the Annual , Annual General Meeting it was conducted i , very much in the same way as before presenting the previous year 's activities but this time , we presented a budget ! |
| 5 | ‘ My first job is to learn Saatchi 's activities and to do a good job of selling the consulting businesses , ’ he said , in a reference to the company 's previously announced plans to sell its management consultancy arm . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to see the correspondence between the European Commission and the Government over subsidies and over guarantees about the future of Rover 's activities and jobs , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 7 | Alex , her brother , was big enough to be included in the older children 's activities and without him she had felt unprotected . |
| 8 | But the caribou knew nothing of man 's activities and following the ancient trail they found their way barred . |
| 9 | Details of the Guild 's activities and achievements appear elsewhere in ‘ Voice ’ . |
| 10 | SPEAKING at the annual meeting of the Diocesan Vestment Guild following the Thanksgiving Mass in the Cathedral , Mrs Barbary Boyes , secretary and treasurer for the past 42 years , gave her account of some of the Guild 's activities and achievements over the past century . |
| 11 | In later years a ‘ bull queen ’ , or ‘ bull woman ’ , dressed all in blue and carrying a blue bull stick , would preside over the day 's activities and she would be responsible for raising money to provide the bull . |
| 12 | Second , it was written by a working party headed by John McFarlane , which meant that the non-practitioners were seen to be playing a prominent role in the APB 's activities and encouraging widespread debate . |
| 13 | Although the Stock Exchange does not specifically require notes to the interim financial information , it does require an explanatory statement that will enable investors to make an informed assessment of a company 's activities and profit and loss during the period . |
| 14 | The accounting policies of the Institute have regard to accounting standards and presentational aspects of the Companies Act where these are relevant to the Institute 's activities and do not result in misleading information . |
| 15 | The statement sets out general principles — appropriate to all computer users — relating to efforts to minimise disruption of an organisation 's activities and business , and potential financial loss as a result of computer failure . |
| 16 | The accounting policy note on turnover adds : ‘ It is the opinion of the directors that excluding such sales from turnover would understate the group 's activities and as such would fail to give a true and fair view . ’ |
| 17 | Besides being naturally sympathetic to her media , me own arts consultancy work feeds through to Jacqueline 's activities and , in many respects , we have both benefitted from our collaboration . |
| 18 | For instance , the finding that women are ‘ cooperative ’ or ‘ conciliatory ’ speakers may be explained , as we have seen , in terms of women 's activities and peer-group norms . |
| 19 | As the parent starts to show interest in the child 's activities and play , the child begins to experience an enjoyable interaction with the parent . |
| 20 | Since then , training has become an increasingly important part of CEPRA 's activities and in 1986 it joined forces with the Association of Native Language Communicators to set up a three-year communication diploma course for native language speakers . |
| 21 | The show has aroused considerable scholarly debate over all the fields of the artist 's activities and the closing symposium in London generated lively discussion on questions of attribution and dating . |
| 22 | He was a co-founder of the CNAC , involved in programming the Centre 's activities and looking after its collections from the early days . |
| 23 | A full programme of family events includes theatre , wandering minstrels , storytelling , children 's activities and a host of competitions . |
| 24 | To return to the shareholder example , having raised the point that it is in shareholders ' interests to ensure their returns are reasonable , it logically follows that there will be an incentive for them to spend a certain amount of time and money finding out about the firm 's activities and performance . |
| 25 | Financial information on the government 's activities and plans follows an annual cycle of five major documents : |
| 26 | On the other hand , it is possible that , instead of substituting for transport interactions , telecommunications will broaden people 's activities and actually stimulate further activities and trips ( Tyler 1979 ; Clark and Unwin 1981 ) . |
| 27 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 28 | MINIS , at its simplest , represents ‘ an … attempt to collect information about a Department 's activities and to place responsibility for using this information with the Department 's top management , Ministerial and official ’ ( Richards , 1987 , p. 26 ) . |
| 29 | Control systems which monitor the organization 's activities and report on them , eg production output , sales revenue etc . |
| 30 | In the case of the vocal works — many of which can be dated virtually to the day of composition — this has led to a fundamental change in our perception of Bach 's activities and outlook . |