Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When approaching a detailed ratio analysis of a company 's accounts it is helpful to group the ratios under three main headings to measure different aspects of the company 's activities . |
| 2 | To aid the overall analysis of the contractor 's programmes it is often appropriate to request at tender detailed programmes for each structure or major work area programmes for shutter , falsework and scaffolding erection and movement resource schedules against work elements , and movement charts for labour and plant . |
| 3 | In Lawrence 's essays it goes along with that familiar stance of hard-earned adjustment whereby sickness is always someone else 's problem — the masses , the modern world , women , homosexuals , whoever . |
| 4 | In other words they could overcome the debilitating impact of high unemployment and the government 's attempts it deflation which had clearly weakened the trade union movement 's powers of resistance during the early 1920s . |
| 5 | In view of the Queen 's reactions it is little wonder that Lord Clarendon , the Foreign Secretary , should have half-jokingly accused the Emperor of ‘ making love to her ’ . |
| 6 | The subject had bored me witless at school , but on Sheila 's lips it all came alive , and forced me to the conclusion that it was n't history which was boring , but those who tried to teach it . |
| 7 | Well they want to move it they want to develop the area and er now they 're talking as well about taking the trees out from around there too which is really getting up people 's noses it would seem . |
| 8 | In Diana 's words it can provide ‘ disabled people with freedom from the wheelchair they spend so much of their life in , making them as mobile as the next gust of wind ’ . |
| 9 | It is doubtful if the mill could ever be operated on a commercial scale and in Wilf Medlam 's words it is ‘ a desirable and harmless anachronism , doing its bit to satisfy the immense demand for 100% wholemeal flour ’ . |
| 10 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 11 | In Simons 's words it ‘ goes beyond the information given ’ to identify the interests which shape the ‘ facts ’ . |
| 12 | It was an intelligent , thought-provoking script , but in Whitaker 's eyes it just did not work . |
| 13 | In Stan Whittaker 's eyes it is perhaps good health and good fun that make the sacrifices of a fight against Fascism at all worthwhile . |
| 14 | To Joyce 's eyes it seemed she " Always had an abundance of confidence . |
| 15 | Compared to today 's remedies it was an effective and extremely economical solution : one bag of soot lasted all summer ! |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , quite … ’ said the Matron , and to Alida 's ears it was a firm interruption . |
| 17 | To Curtis 's ears it sounded uncannily like the faint clapping of a ghostly audience . |
| 18 | But for the bony discomfort of the seats and the pressure of other people 's legs it was quite pleasant to take our time . |
| 19 | Whatever is near the school the children can study , and because it is near the school and the children 's homes it is important . |
| 20 | Of course any rod bag will do but with the price of some of today 's rods it is false economy to make do . |
| 21 | Watchdog lists FIVE of Lundgren 's movements it claims are dangerous . |
| 22 | Only last year organizations such as CAMRA helped to get S & N's bid for J. Cameron ( Hartlepool ) referred to the Commission on the grounds that if S & N acquired Cameron 's pubs it would have a monopoly of outlets in the North East . |
| 23 | The road ran straight ahead of us until it disappeared in the mist , except that at the man 's feet it was gone and there was a gap some fifty metres or so wide through which a brown torrent ran so high and in such furious waves that it almost lipped the broken macadam where the road had been swept away . |
| 24 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
| 25 | In ladies ' shoes it was a thinner leather and the men 's shoes it was a thicker leather . |
| 26 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 27 | In some cases the knowledge is imputed to the keeper by process of law under paragraph ( c ) , but this does not mean that knowledge of a person not mentioned in that paragraph will be irrelevant : if , for example , the wife of the keeper has knowledge of the animal 's propensities it may be proper for the court to infer as a matter of fact that the keeper also knew of them . |
| 28 | Autoquote , regarded as a world leader in the field of accident repair software systems , is described as being so comprehensive that if one coughs in one of Heggie 's workshops it immediately shows up on one of the system 's screens with a cost attached . |
| 29 | Judging by accounts of last year 's knees-up it 's going to be a night to remember — a carnival of flesh — a drink and drugs frenzy . |
| 30 | In Nina 's stories it is Modigliani who was pushed off the bench , made to carry the beer in for a party . |