Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These coffins , England 's response in lead to the Egyptian mummy case , became fashionable in the fifteenth century and were still to be seen in some areas in the last decade of the seventeenth century , though they were beginning to decline in popularity during the 1660s and 1670s . |
| 2 | Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd the Employment Appeals Tribunal ( EAT ) held that the tribunal had correctly concluded that there was an implied term in Mr Jones 's contract of employment to the effect that his employer had the right to transfer him to any site within reasonable daily commuting reach of his home . |
| 3 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 4 | It is with a feeling of sadness that we consider it necessary to express our reservations about Winnie Mandela 's judgement in relation to the Mandela Football Club . |
| 5 | I would therefore vote for a Labour candidate only if he or she guarantees opposition to the party manifesto 's support for abortion to the extent of denying the Whip . |
| 6 | Here Braverman ( 1974 ) buttresses Marx 's case by reference to the ‘ Babbage principle ’ . |
| 7 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 8 | This approach has many parallels with empowerment in the developmental model , the main differences lying in the social worker 's level of commitment to the existing social order . |
| 9 | The disposing Party will provide an auditor 's certificate in relation to the disposal and will refund to the Lead Organization such amount as may be claimed by the Secretary of State in respect of such disposal . |
| 10 | All the students had successfully completed Longlands College 's preparation for entrance to the uniformed services course . |
| 11 | After three-and-a-half years at Rugby Park , Fleeting decided that last week 's 3–1 defeat by Partick Thistle had effectively closed the door on Kilmarnock 's hope of promotion to the Premier Division this season . |
| 12 | The charter recording Aethelbald 's grant of land to the monastery of Abingdon in Berkshire between 726 and 737 , in which he is styled ‘ king of the Angles of Britain' ( CS 155 : S 93 ) , is a forgery and unacceptable as an authentic record , but its attestation by Aethelheard , king of the West Saxons , while on expedition beyond the Severn against the Britons , could derive from a genuine fragment . |
| 13 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 accordingly applies to a disclaimer in such a form purporting to exclude the valuer 's liability in negligence to the purchaser . |
| 14 | The scheme forms part of the Ecu62 million second phase of the EC 's programme of assistance to the nuclear industry in the former Soviet Union . |
| 15 | This provides a measure of each speaker 's variability with respect to the particular variants under consideration , but provides no clue as to why the speaker might have used the variant that he/she did in any particular case . |
| 16 | I dealt with the first part of the hon. Lady 's question in reply to the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) . |
| 17 | How may we examine Milton 's or Marvell 's poetry in relation to the events of the mid-seventeenth century ? |
| 18 | Work in progress must be the genuine transfer of the vendor 's work in progress to the purchaser . |
| 19 | Leslie Hill 's account of Kristeva 's work in relation to the French Avant-Garde finds a more convincing context for her work than Tina Chanter 's attempt to formulate relations between Kristeva and the early twentieth-century British MP Eleanor Rathbone . |
| 20 | He poured into the telephone a long and unintelligible narrative about Profumo 's villainy in relation to the unhappy answer he had given to Wigg about the army . |
| 21 | Waltz 's criticism of Kaplan to the effect that rules do not make a system invites a hermeneutic retort that nothing else possibly could in the social world . |
| 22 | Fire-brigade or not , if it had n't been for your bright idea and splendid work and your friend 's race for help to the farmhouse the whole field would be ablaze , ’ said Farmer Olinton . |
| 23 | Anne and Sarah were attending Victor 's Academy in addition to the caelidhes now . |
| 24 | The Tall Ships had sailed from all corners of the world to Liverpool to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's voyage of discovery to the New World . |
| 25 | Magnus was struck by the central function of the reflexes that govern the position of an animal 's head in relation to the rest of its body and to its environment . |
| 26 | What is also indicated , though , is a serious shortcoming in the scope of Dworkin 's theory in relation to the broader issue of social and economic inequality to which reference was made earlier . |
| 27 | Attempts to refute Einstein 's theory by reference to the new phenomena failed . |
| 28 | By now , with the termination of Mr M 's role as tutor to the girl who refused to go to school , she was receiving no education at all . |
| 29 | Since the passing of the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919 , Parliament 's role in relation to the legislation of the Church has been largely formal . |
| 30 | Legal withdrawal in the recent past from regulation of personal matters such as sexuality and birth control suggests that the uneasiness about law 's role in relation to the family may be explained in part by looking at the history of the debate on law and private morality . |