Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [is] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council 's response is co-ordinated by a working group chaired by depute director of corporate services David Hume who was also the author of the three publications described in this feature : the Council 's main response on reform , the report on the future of water and sewerage services and ‘ Restoring the Balance ’ , a proposal for a system of decentralised local government . |
| 2 | Copyright permission should be sought if someone else 's text is used in a design . |
| 3 | Instead of plotting the ratios in risk-return space , Treynor 's measure is plotted in a return systematic space . |
| 4 | Emergency medical treatment is often given against a patient 's wishes , even though the patient 's decision is taken during a lucid interval and no section of the Mental Health Act ( MHA ) 1983 applies to detain the patient . |
| 5 | But our interest in Peter 's story is represented by a relatively small but important matter which in a negative way affects the happiness of Peter 's home life . |
| 6 | Much of the church 's teaching is based on a concept that implies the need to live ‘ holy ’ lives in this world , without expecting reward or recognition for it but anticipating that the afterlife will reflect something of the quality of this earthly life . |
| 7 | The cughtagh 's presence is marked by a far-off tumble of pebbles and gravel as you stand at the opening to his cave . |
| 8 | The grocer 's hair is parted like a feather |
| 9 | Even a single day 's loss is covered by a deposit that each counterparty must make when the contract is first taken out . |
| 10 | Chapter 7 , which is written by Sara Ladbury and Clive Mira-Smith , is a piece of work by the Cities Research Unit , a private consultant , and accordingly reflects the style and the medium in which it is rooted , whilst similarly Jon Dawson and Michael Parkinson 's chapter is written from a perspective that is able to take on board their own personal involvement with the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 11 | The firm 's accounting is done by a chap called Hooper — Morley Hooper . |
| 12 | The premalignant character of Barrett 's oesophagus is shown by a progession from benign columnar epithelium into dysplasia and adenocarcinoma . |
| 13 | The customer 's card is passed through a terminal at the point of sale . |
| 14 | The Centre 's research is organised on a team and cross-team basis to ensure high levels of integration in the design and operational stages of the research project . |
| 15 | The man 's car is described as a small silver or grey coloured hatchback . |
| 16 | Every picture of the broad purposes of a school 's plan is drawn from a particular viewpoint . |
| 17 | Presented by CIRCUS , the independent arts project , the trail 's core is formed by a series of informal exhibitions . |
| 18 | Leapor 's satire is directed against a standard of value , indeed , a division of labour , based on class and gender . |
| 19 | Hooper 's inclusion is seen as a move by Dalglish to introduce the fear factor after three defeats in four games , in which Grobbelaar let in six goals , including four at Southampton . |
| 20 | Hooper 's inclusion is seen as a move by Dalglish to introduce the fear factor after three defeats in four games , in which Grobbelaar let in six goals , including four at Southampton . |
| 21 | It is likely , though , that few Ayrshire folk will know that a prominent part of the city 's waterfront is named after a native of the county . |
| 22 | The result is that the uranium 's instability is controlled within a ‘ chain reaction ’ in order to release a steady supply of intense heat . |
| 23 | At the end of Brideshead , too , Waugh 's hero is defeated in a similar search , though he is allowed consolation . |
| 24 | Grieco 's work is based on a detailed case study in the Northamptonshire steel town of Corby , and smaller studies of women in the fisheries industry in Aberdeen and of people migrating from the East End of London to live and work in the new town of Basildon , on London 's outer fringes . |
| 25 | Invariably the surveyor 's work is associated with a property or business transaction and because investment and interest rates are an inevitable part of the project , delay or slow progress may prove unacceptable to a client . |
| 26 | One by one , the royal marriages have come crashing down — Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips divorced , the Duke and Duchess of York separated and now Prince Charles and Princess Diana 's marriage is exposed as a sham . |
| 27 | The family 's architecture is designed on a tiered principle to enable scalability . |
| 28 | A limited example of this is the recognition that whether a text is published in quarto or folio or whether it circulates as a manuscript will help to create the conditions in which the text 's meaning is understood within a given culture at a particular historical instant . |
| 29 | Amis 's opinion is formed on a small sample of Leapor 's work . |
| 30 | The bulletin 's conclusion is based on a comprehensive review of all the studies , and the stated beneficial effects of some surgery for some children took into account the positive results from a study by Gates et al . |