Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davenport co-ordinates the hotel 's activities through regular weekly meetings of the senior staff ( Tom Harvey , Vernon Russell , Agnes Miller and Sheila Martin ) . |
| 2 | The pre-Duchy management had co-ordinated the hotel 's activities through regular weekly meetings of senior staff ( in practice the Accommodation Manager , Head Receptionist , Housekeeper , Food and Beverage Manager , Head Chef and Head Waiter ) . |
| 3 | Traidcraft , which imports and sells a range of goods from developing countries , is to publish a report evaluating the impact of the company 's activities against non-financial criteria . |
| 4 | It is possible that juries would prefer to convict of murder in such cases so as to register their abhorrence of the defendant 's activities in general . |
| 5 | Among the Mercians there must be a reasonable probability that Penda regarded Oswiu 's activities in general as contrary to Mercian interests in particular his involvement , for example , with the eastern Saxons , and possibly his likely reception of Cenwealh from the upper Thames valley whom Penda had expelled ( see above , p. 58 ) . |
| 6 | In NME , which usually covered the band 's activities in extreme detail , Charman was not even mentioned by name in the tiny news item informing readers of the band 's new drummer . |
| 7 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
| 8 | Hiatts , in conjunction with Hiatts-Thompson , exhibited in Miami in February mainly to promote Hiatt 's handcuffs in Central and South America . |
| 9 | But let us look directly at Quine 's discussions of transcendental arguments and transcendental reflection . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) If it is proposed that the target , the offeror or any other person will make a payment to one of the target 's directors for loss of , or retirement from , office in connection with the takeover , then the payment may need to be approved by the target 's shareholders in general meeting in accordance with CA 1985 , s312 or s314 ( see para 8.1.5 below ) . |
| 11 | If a person knows that there is a danger of his mine being flooded by his neighbour 's operations on adjacent land , and courts the danger by doing some act which renders the flooding probable , he can not complain . |
| 12 | PW qualified BCCI 's 1988 accounts , which showed a loss of $49m after loan loss provisions of $145m , because of uncertainty about the impact on the group 's operations of criminal proceedings against BCCI officials on money-laundering and drug-trafficking charges in Tampa , Florida . |
| 13 | Although Mercury has made little impact in local telephone services , it has begun to make an impact on BT 's operations in long-distance and overseas links . |
| 14 | Bogota 's El Tiempo newspaper said Mr Porras was the administrator of the Medellin cartel 's operations in southern Colombia , especially its Amazon cocaine laboratories on the borders with Brazil and Peru . |
| 15 | SCIENCE and technology are supposed to be two keystones of Mikhail Gorbachev 's attempts to liven up the Soviet economy . |
| 16 | As well as improving NATO 's defences against Russian tanks , the new missiles look set to become moneyspinners for the three participating countries . |
| 17 | When radiocarbon dates are available from Loch Lang and Bennett and Fossitt 's investigations at other Outer Hebridean sites are completed , we will have a firmer factual basis for interpreting the vegetational history and the underlying factors that have influenced the temporal and spatial patterns of the past flora and vegetation in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 18 | This could be said of IBM 's personnel in general : The fundamentals have n't changed . |
| 19 | In November , the government moved to quash Pan Am 's subpoenas before Chief Judge Thomas C. Platt in United States District Court , Eastern District of New York . |
| 20 | Patrick stripped off and changed quickly , trying to ignore Joseph Hyde 's too intense stare ; he had long suspected his friend 's preferences for young men — although to be perfectly fair , he had never seen him in any company other than those who supported the Irish movement . |
| 21 | A combination of interview and questionnaire studies and a content analysis of media coverage was employed , with the purpose of elucidating the reasons for people 's preferences for different energy options , their perceptions of the risks involved , and of the viability of alternative energy sources . |
| 22 | N. lapillus 's preferences regarding other potential prey species is more confused . |
| 23 | There was a literary vogue for pseudomedieval ballads following the publication of Bishop Percy 's Reliques of Ancient Poetry , 1765 , and Coleridge in The Ancient Mariner is trying to imitate the diction and manner of an earlier age . |
| 24 | For ten years Law had been at the heart of the party 's reactions to political events , largely because his own views mirrored those of his followers almost exactly . |
| 25 | They tend to communicate in a form of shorthand based on this common database and can to some extent predict each other 's reactions to normal situations . |
| 26 | Thus , while Piaget emphasised the importance of the child 's actions upon the world , other researchers have focused upon the child 's reactions to other people and the interactions which occur when adult and infant act and react towards each other over a period of time . |
| 27 | Japan 's contacts with Tsarist Russia , the only Western power with which Japan shared a border , had remained relatively friendly while Japan was sufficiently weak to pose no threat . |
| 28 | A gradual reversal of the parent/child roles may have to be adjusted to , as the elderly parent moves further on into old age and becomes more dependent in every way , and sometimes the inner fears and insecurities of an old person express themselves in jealousy , possessiveness and resentment of the daughter 's contacts with other family members or friends , which can create many embarrassing situations , and the need for small deceptions to keep the peace . |
| 29 | Indica 's contacts with modern art had yielded , through the Robert Fraser Gallery a large American car which had been painted in fashionable stripes by New York 's Binder , Edwards and Vaughan , interior decorators . |
| 30 | The problem is , of course , that , with only a few exceptions , there is no unique relation between an industry 's inputs of imported materials or components and its exports . |