Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corals have promoted last year 's winner The Fellow to 5–4 for Kempton , although that may well change again today after the Hennessy . |
| 2 | It imputes to Proust 's text the ability to contradict itself without intervention . |
| 3 | The coffee industry , until tourism 's rise the country 's biggest earner , is in semi-collapse . |
| 4 | They 'll be waitin' fer us an' once the load 's orf the motor Tony can take it back on 'is own . |
| 5 | And it was then , in the midst of the suffering and chaos round them , as Rachel knelt on the ground and took from David 's case the aerosol that would hopefully save a man 's life , that he suddenly looked across at her . |
| 6 | There is no reason why a lyricist should elucidate but in Gedge 's case the lack of chimera can make surveying his words an unrewarding exercise . |
| 7 | In the Bishop 's case the brewery is Scottish and Newcastle in the local it is Camerons or Wolverhampton Breweries , or whatever it is now and there was no choice . |
| 8 | In Cherry 's case the magistrate 's conclusion was that the delay was extreme but justifiable and there was no prejudice . |
| 9 | But their Lordships had concluded that in Cherry 's case the magistrate 's finding that the delay was justified was wholly untenable . |
| 10 | It was perfectly proper to infer prejudice from the mere passage of time : in Cherry 's case the magistrate 's decision was based on two flawed findings of justification and no prejudice . |
| 11 | In Laker 's case the minister was seeking to require the Civil Aviation Authority to follow his policy but he chose a way of doing this which the Court of Appeal considered not to be within his powers . |
| 12 | In Graham 's case the skin appears normal and , since there 's no inflammation or eczema type lesions , anti-inflammatory creams and so on are n't particularly helpful . ’ |
| 13 | The United States is considered to have entered this phase sometime in the 1950s ; in Britain 's case the date is less clear — either in the mid-1960s or in the 1980s depending upon which aspects of service growth are emphasized . |
| 14 | As he illustrates , in Harsnett 's case the theatre was a : ‘ symbolically charged zone of pollution , disease , and licentious entertainment ’ . |
| 15 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 16 | William II , Henry I and Stephen all won the throne by holding rivals at bay , and in each case warfare played its part ; in Henry 's case the battle of Tinchebrai ( 1106 ) enabled him to imprison his elder brother for life and made him secure in Normandy as well as in England ( see pp. 289 ff . ) . |
| 17 | In the local authority 's case the exercise of parental responsibility is subject to certain limitations ( s33(3) ) . |
| 18 | After a hard day at the office — in Joey Dunlop 's case the Carrowdore 100 — our world motorcycle ace likes nothing better than unwinding with a cup of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 19 | In Kempe 's case the problem is slightly eased by the fact that even she recognised her state after the birth of her first child as a sickness of mind and we should not regard this as an isolated episode of ‘ puerperal psychosis ’ that was unconnected with her continuing aberrant behaviour . |
| 20 | Gramsci argued , like Banfield did some thirty years later , with a direct political aim , but in Gramsci 's case the problem was to develop a political strategy for the Communists adequate to the conditions in the rural , clerical-dominated and agricultural south , as well as to the conditions in the much more urban , secular and industrialised north of Italy . |
| 21 | It was flooded with water that in my case came up to my armpits and in Jeff 's case the back of his knees . |
| 22 | The distinction between this case and Stevenson 's case is that in Stevenson 's case the defendant had a regular practice of selling his ex-rental cars and also in selling those cars he was selling something akin to stock-in-trade . |
| 23 | However , on the facts of Lim 's case the House of Lords upheld the decision of the lower courts that it would be possible to obtain the required facilities outside the National Health Service and that it was reasonable to incur that expense . |
| 24 | In Clovis 's case the sharpness of the break seems to have been remarkable . |
| 25 | In Wimsatt 's case the theory is that of the American behaviourist C.W. Morris , whose work follows in the empirical tradition established by Ogden and Richards . |
| 26 | In Sweden 's case the move was to be seen in the context of the government 's declared intent to apply for EC membership ( the date for this application was subsequently set formally for July 1 , 1991 ) . |
| 27 | In the Navigation 's case the ground floor food preparation area was obtained by converting an old-fashioned and unwanted small private bar : similar areas suitable for conversion can not be guaranteed in more than 50 per cent of the units , though equivalent areas could be made available in the remainder through ‘ building out ’ . |
| 28 | ( i ) Ulpian discusses the same problem as Celsus , a bequest of an office ( militia ) , but in Ulpian 's case the beneficiary is a slave . |
| 29 | 1.15 In Gregory 's case the plaintiff , who was injured in a way that could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt , suffered a 40 per cent total reduction since he was also travelling as a passenger in a car knowing that it had defective brakes . |
| 30 | In Spark 's case the answer was no , but the story does not stop there . |