Example sentences of "[noun pl] 's [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 2 | The path pursued particularly matched the clergy 's vision of the profanity of towns and sacrality of rural life . |
| 3 | She made her way back into the house , and was quite prepared to ignore Piers 's presence on the sofa , when something made her stop . |
| 4 | The first she knew of Piers 's presence in the room was his light touch on her shoulder , and it was so unexpected that she almost jumped a mile into the air . |
| 5 | Findspots and masons ' marks confirm Pausanias 's division of the subjects between east and west , and his order ( except that by a slip he omits the dragging of Cerberus from Hades ) . |
| 6 | The fishermen 's response to the crisis will become clearer this week . |
| 7 | There the Lord Chancellor endorsed the rights of ‘ free inhabitants of ancient messuages ’ in Saltash to dredge for oysters between Candlemas ( February 2nd ) and Easter each year , as they had ‘ from time immemorial ’ , the fishermen 's triumph over the Corporation is commemorated by a plaque on the ‘ Wheatsheaf ’ . |
| 8 | Ukraine appointed Rear-Adml Boris Kozhin , previously commander of the Crimean naval base , as head of all naval forces in the republic , even though he had just been sacked by Adml Igor Kasatonov , the CIS 's Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , for ‘ inflaming national strife ’ . |
| 9 | One may suppose that such was the genesis of C.S. Lewis 's sad comment on his step-children 's response to the death of his wife : |
| 10 | The Crystal Palace tram terminus was on a gradient and it was ruled that if the crew wanted to take their break there , in the busmen 's canteen round the corner on the Parade , they must go one at a time and not leave the car unattended . |
| 11 | The teacher does not allow the ‘ unnatural ’ pursuit of any mathematical ideas to spoil the children 's enjoyment of the activity . |
| 12 | There were so many limousines and lesser limousines and cars in attendance on the lesser limousines that the queue of cars stretched from Volley 's Pizza and Pasta House down to the Polka Children 's Theatre on the frontiers of Wimbledon . |
| 13 | Given that the main aims of most arts departments , and of the examination syllabuses in arts subjects , refer to the development of such qualities as ‘ imagination ’ , ‘ creativity ’ , and the ‘ ability to respond expressively to given stimuli ’ ; qualities that are essentially concerned with that same kind of engagement with ‘ sensuous forms ’ mentioned above , and we are left asking the question ‘ Can , or even should , children 's work in the arts be examined at all ? ’ |
| 14 | From my interviews with the arts teachers during the survey it was apparent that , even though there were criticisms of certain aspects of the philosophy underlying the issue of examinations in particular , there was clearly a widespread belief that children 's work in the arts could and should be assessed and examined . |
| 15 | Beautifully appropriate , the children 's window in the transept on the north side of the church , shows Christ holding a child in his arms , a lamb at his feet . |
| 16 | At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST . |
| 17 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 18 | How do they view their children 's schooling in the light of their own educational values and practices ? |
| 19 | If children 's anxiety in the transition to a new school can be eased by minimising the changes between class groups and between teachers at no extra cost , and no loss of educational effectiveness , it obviously makes sense to do so . |
| 20 | In this they reflected the children 's literature of the time as created by authors such as Noel Streatfield , Christine Pullien-Thompson and Enid Blyton . |
| 21 | Tuesday : Aerobics followed by pony riding and children 's tennis in the afternoon . |
| 22 | The contribution of parents and teachers to children 's achievement in the infant school |
| 23 | Sports sponsorship by tobacco companies and particularly the televising of sponsored events increases children 's awareness of the brands [ 7 ] and those children with favourite advertisements have been shown to have more positive views on smoking than those without . |
| 24 | We did n't see these worksheets as just to be doled out , but as positive steps to increasing children 's awareness of the library and how to use it . |
| 25 | How can I safely protect my young children 's skin from the sun when on holiday ? |
| 26 | The six will give their views as part of the first ever children 's museum of the year competition . |
| 27 | We will establish a Children 's Minister within the Home Office to co-ordinate policies for children across departments . |
| 28 | Enjoy them again with your own kids with The Best Children 's TV of the Decade videos , from the 60s and 70s ( with the 80s out soon ) . |
| 29 | Disintegration of this kind has implications that go beyond the children 's grasp of the text they are actually trying to read . |
| 30 | On 3 April 1992 , following a hearing in chambers , Booth J. refused to order the children 's return to the State of Victoria . |