Example sentences of "[adj] 's [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The R4000 multiprocessor will replace the company 's R3000-based Series 8000 and 68040-based Series 7000 Unix machines , according to Denis Brown , Concurrent 's chairman and CEO . |
| 2 | Crystal clear 's matting and many of the foams can also be used to finally polish the water before it returns to the pond . |
| 3 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 4 | But the animosity conceived by John XXII against Clement V 's kinsmen and women was vented against Bertrand de Goth 's heirs , and Monteux was seized into papal hands in February 1326 . |
| 5 | The voice of Stuart Baxter , Chairman of Midland Amalgamated 's Engineering and Foundry Division , sounds faintly disappointed . |
| 6 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
| 7 | The line ( 0 ) is the reaction function of manufacturer 1 whilst is the reaction function of the retailer of 2 's product when charged an input price ( costs are assumed here to equal zero ) . |
| 8 | Even if it does happen , it does not force the conclusion that speaker 1 has monitored speaker 2 's speech and made an assessment of how often speaker 2 uses that variant . |
| 9 | A company of porcupines crowded themselves together one cold winter 's day so as to profit from one another 's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death . |
| 10 | Although everyone has the innate capacity to love and to enjoy another 's happiness as well as their own , and to get themselves loved and their happiness enjoyed by others , not everyone can risk the experience in adult life . |
| 11 | There is also a simple desire to enhance one 's own well-being by widening the contrast with another 's distress ; and this too attracts towards his viewpoint , since it is only in awareness from other personal or temporal viewpoints that one 's well-being is experienced as relative arousing envy of another 's happiness or nostalgia for one 's own in the past . |
| 12 | And they kill from spite : they despise the colour of another 's skin and resent the way another worships God . |
| 13 | It follows that attempting to reduce error rates by one person checking another 's performance or automatically comparing the output of the individuals simultaneously performing the same task is not as effective as it would be if errors in the sources were independent ( Chapanis et al . , |
| 14 | The doctrine of consideration provides that a promise will bind the promisor only if it is given as the price for another 's promise or as the price for an action which involves a detriment to the promisee . |
| 15 | Ladies eyed one another 's gowns and intricate , suspensor-lifted , rainbow-hued hairstyles . |
| 16 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 17 | Trespass was obviously unsuitable to deal with the case where the owner had voluntarily put his goods into another 's possession and the other refused to re-deliver them , but this situation was covered by the remedy of detinue . |
| 18 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 19 | It is about creating an expectation that children will share ideas , help one another and make the most of one another 's resources while the teacher is busy elsewhere . |
| 20 | There is a full discussion of this case at p76. 1.5 The employee 's duty to disclose to his employer information which may be of use to that employer ( and not personally to profit from it ) If , during the course of employment , an employee receives information which is or may reasonably be relevant to his employer 's business then he is under a duty : ( a ) to disclose all relevant information received to the employer ; and ( b ) not to use that information for his or another 's benefit unless the employer consents . |
| 21 | By s.5(4) : [ w ] here a person gets property by another 's mistake and is under an obligation to make restoration ( in whole or in part ) of the property or its proceeds or the value thereof , then to the extent of that obligation the property or proceeds shall be regarded ( as against him ) as belonging to the person entitled to restoration , and an intention not to make restoration shall be regarded accordingly as an intention to deprive that person of the property or proceeds . |
| 22 | It is another 's activity and a loss of his own spontaneity ’ — remains of special relevance . |
| 23 | She and Paula , who was in the sixth form , had struck up a close relationship ; when Louise was not occupied in tantalising and inflaming some poor young man she and Paula were always together , drinking endless cups of espresso coffee to the accompaniment of Elvis and Cliff and Tommy Steele on the juke-box in the Black Cat Coffee Bar , haring about on Louise 's smart little Lambretta scooter , or simply spending an evening painting one another 's toenails , plucking one another 's eyebrows and generally trying to make themselves even more fatally attractive to the opposite sex , which , without doubt , they already were . |
| 24 | Gillian and I were falling in love and you 'd think we 'd have wanted to be by ourselves all the time , gazing into one another 's eyes and holding hands and going to bed together . |
| 25 | Gradually , as they stole up to the Belmont stockade , Dulé distinguished different sounds — the fierce explosions of musket fire , the shrieking of the attackers , the yells and shouts and curses and groans of fighting men , their voices thick with fury , the different languages reduced to meaninglessness by the struggles , as men grappled , stabbed , battered , poked at one another 's eyes and even bit one another in the combat at close quarters ; while at a distance the screams of rage and pain merged with the volleys of musket fire and the singing of the arrows . |
| 26 | What is the purpose , for example , of awarding compensation to a person who has acted to his detriment in reliance upon another 's words or conduct when the parties have not reached an agreement ? |
| 27 | At the simplest level , the teacher shows the children how to receive the content of one another 's writing and ask questions which invite the writer to tell more about what she knows or wants to say . |
| 28 | Not only in law , but in ordinary life , we look upon an act done by one man in pursuance of another 's orders as done by the person who gives the order . |
| 29 | Merson had the opportunity to extend Arsenal 's lead when Gough and Butcher misread one another 's intentions but , in keeping with the general tone , he was well off the mark . |
| 30 | Merson had the opportunity to extend Arsenal 's lead when Gough and Butcher misread one another 's intentions but , in keeping with the general tone , he was well off the mark . |