Example sentences of "'s [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A school 's funding now depends above all on its pupil numbers , and open enrolment under the 1988 Act ( see Chapter 4 ) allows parents much wider choice of school for their children to attend . |
| 2 | The hon. Lady 's response admirably sums up , in one word , what the council tax is all about — absolute and unmitigated rubbish . |
| 3 | While supporting the general thrust of the strategy and its emphasis on the importance of transport to the regeneration of the regions , the CIT 's response also comments on the absence to date of an effective structure that could apply any available EC funding and carry a regional strategy forward , as well as on the need both for considerable investment in public transport and for the best use to be made of the existing transport infrastructure in serving proposed strategic development sites . |
| 4 | Sadat found the Shah 's response too weak and said so . |
| 5 | Gide 's response nicely if unawares repudiates the sexual-difference view of homosexuality as a solipsistic refusal of the other : ‘ how little he knew of the human heart ! — of mine at any rate … |
| 6 | For many couples , this represents a real saving in tax , in consequence of a wife 's income no longer being aggregated with that of her husband . |
| 7 | To take a similar proportion of everyone 's income away will not affect individuals ' capacities to express their preferences between goods or services though it does bias their choices between goods and leisure . |
| 8 | Furthermore , in many more isolated and smaller settlements a wife may be unable to work regularly owing to a lack of jobs or transport ; therefore the total mortgage that a would-be home buyer can obtain will be based on a multiple of the husband 's income alone . |
| 9 | All the advice we have read assumes that the wife will claim a refund of tax on her low income , rather than share a husband 's income so as to take full advantage of allowances . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd be an idiot if I thought there would n't be more offers in the three-and-a-half years of Hirst 's contract here . |
| 11 | Whitlow 's been very very good at the heart of Leicester 's defence today and that was an important header he won then . |
| 12 | Barnes , using all his trickery and fine distribution , began to carve Everton 's defence apart , but again Liverpool without Ian Rush lacked the final touch . |
| 13 | After the interval , chances were few and far between and most of the early play took place in mid-field , but towards the end Hucklecote applied severe pressure , but the visitor 's defence superbly mastered by outside half , Neil Smith held out for a fine hard-earned victory . |
| 14 | It is clearly related to man 's activities inland in draining the wetlands , cutting peat and altering the courses of the rivers Brue , Axe and Parrett . |
| 15 | This functional explanation seems to be more satisfactory than , and logically prior to , one based on prestige : as it happens , this individual 's activities away from home had not been upwardly mobile . |
| 16 | Convenient scapegoats perhaps , but the K G B was open about today 's activities too ; Major General Alexander Karbalnov of the K G B revealed for the first time that seven hundred thousand people have been executed for political crimes since the revolution and that three-and-a-half million have been repressed . |
| 17 | But it is not man 's activities alone which can be held to account , for man is also a part of the natural ecosystem . |
| 18 | NAMES are being drawn up for the Co Antrim team to take part in May 's Coca-Cola Under 18 Championship . |
| 19 | Account executives must have a head for figures and a feeling for spending the client 's money wisely because they may need to explain costs at any moment . |
| 20 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 21 | ‘ If the bank is the custodian of someone else 's money then it is aiding and abetting a crime . |
| 22 | Then Monks said that he had all Oliver 's money safely now , but how funny it would be if the boy went to prison for stealing , after his father 's unfair will . ’ |
| 23 | In the NHS it has meant allocations , based on last year 's money usually updated for inflation with additional funds for anything new . |
| 24 | On reflection , I vowed never to go solo up Cust 's Gully again and to be wary of guidebook information . |
| 25 | Denmark , consulting its people in a way that some other European governments shunned , has nevertheless taught Europe 's statesmen quite a lesson . |
| 26 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 27 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
| 28 | The Franco-German joint statement speaks of democratic legitimation of the union , making Europe 's institutions more efficient , ensuring unity and coherence in every sphere and implementing a common foreign and security policy . |
| 29 | Weston 's difficulty once again seems to stem from accepting too readily an undifferentiated view of ‘ possession ’ . |
| 30 | BSO/Origin 's accounts also highlight the many uncertainties involved and the assumptions that have to be made . |