Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] of [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Culler 's brand of structuralism recasts the codes and conventions of structuralist poetics as a form of ‘ literary competence ’ that the reader has mastered or internalised before he or she approaches the text , and which can then be adduced as an explanation for the particular interpretation that s/he then gives of it . |
| 2 | William Shirer , whose CBS broadcasts went out from the Rundfunkhaus , noted in his diary that Goebbels 's Ministry of Propaganda thought the drawling nasal voice ‘ wholly unfit for broadcasting ’ . |
| 3 | The men 's fear of change took the form of vociferously defending the status quo in which after all they had everything to lose . |
| 4 | Professor Charles Robertson of Strathclyde University 's department of architecture confirmed the gloomy prognosis . |
| 5 | It may be preferable from the warrantor 's point of view to use the subjective phrase ‘ so far as he is aware ’ to reduce the risk of constructive knowledge . |
| 6 | Charles 's avoidance of battle denied the English their chance of victory , but he could not succeed in driving the English out of their strongholds around Calais and Bordeaux which they had the will and the resources to defend . |
| 7 | Lukács 's concept of reification extends the theory of ideology by showing one of the mechanisms by which it is effective in obscuring class relations . |
| 8 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 9 | the working party should meet again in March to refine its thinking and , perhaps , invite the WTB 's Head of Policy to join the meeting at some point ; |
| 10 | Although in no sense a general theory , Foucault 's notion of power reformulates the problem of agency and determinism which had beset Sartre and many others by focusing on the possibility of making intelligible the strategies and techniques of local operations of power without relying on the dialectic of ideology and the consciousness of subjects , or on their corollary , the assumption that power operates globally and homogeneously . |
| 11 | Darwin 's theory of evolution incorporates the principle of natural selection , which suggests that animals change according to their surroundings , developing adaptations — over several generations — which enhance their ability to survive in particular habitats . |
| 12 | Green activists have claimed that the Commission 's definition of development retains the mindset of the 1960s , when vast infrastructural improvement schemes were seen as the only way to improve depressed local economies . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't be shy — call me Naylor ! ’ he thundered , and suddenly Leith 's sense of humour got the better of her , and she burst out laughing . |
| 14 | Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring scandalised the audiences at its first performance … ten years later it was an established classic . |
| 15 | Freud 's analysis of dreaming remains the most influential single account that we have . |
| 16 | There could be no Durkheimian solution to such ills , for Freud 's model of man-in-society included the idea of instinctual gratification and repression , and it is this dimension which is lacking in Durkheim 's thought . |
| 17 | It is clear that Brown and Harris 's model of depression provides the most scope for preventive formulations , that it is the most complete model of depression available , and has been most systematically researched . |
| 18 | John Hampden 's Regiment of Foot guarded the inaugural meeting of the Hampden Society and made sure everyone paid their initial £5 subscription . |
| 19 | In equilibrium , a firm 's cost of capital equals the sum of its dividend yield and growth rate . |
| 20 | To prevent a heavy landing as the airbrakes are opened , a backward movement is needed on the stick to increase the wing 's angle of attack to maintain the same amount of lift as before . |
| 21 | Calvin 's doctrine of election had the consequence that no earthly priesthood could arrogate the authority to determine whether an individual was of the elect . |
| 22 | However Sarah 's enjoyment of publicity overcame the circumspection a royal girlfriend is expected to display . |
| 23 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , Saussure 's view of language excludes the referential dimension with his concept of the sign as the combination of signifier ( written or spoken ) and signified ( concept ) . |
| 24 | However , at any time before the purchaser 's title is fed ( i.e. before the seller obtains ownership ) , the buyer is entitled by virtue of the seller 's breach of condition to regard the contract as repudiated , to reject the goods and thus to reclaim the price on a total failure of consideration . |