Example sentences of "[that] an [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences rest upon the fact that an organisation 's actions are limited by its constituent treaty . |
| 2 | The report stressed the need for a safety culture , saying that , the danger exists that an organisation 's safety policy , plans and monitoring arrangements which appear , on paper , to be well considered and comprehensive may create an aura of respectability … |
| 3 | He points out that an animal 's life span is linked to its metabolic rate . |
| 4 | We must suppose that an individual 's experience of past events of a similar kind will equip him with expectations , hypotheses , about what are likely to be relevant aspects of context . |
| 5 | It is also assumed that an individual 's response to an item will be completely independent of his or her response to any other items in the test . |
| 6 | The model thus allows for the fact that an individual 's originality content is inherent , independent of education and in some cases stifled by it . |
| 7 | It follows that an individual 's patterns of thought are conditioned by the nature of his or her first language . |
| 8 | Further , the requirement that a State has standing before the International Court may mean that an individual 's interests are not raised on their merits before the Court . |
| 9 | The recent cognitive revolution in psychology has meant that an individual 's behaviour is now rarely viewed in simple behaviourist terms as solely a product of rewards and punishments , but is seen as influenced by the individual 's own , often idiosyncratic , view of their situation . |
| 10 | The fundamental ethogenic hypothesis that links acting and accounting is the idea that an individual 's ability to do either depends upon his stock of social knowledge . |
| 11 | It is possible that an individual 's echolocation system is impaired or disrupted when the whale is close to gentle sloping sandy beeches . |
| 12 | We must leave the Tyrone family in their foggy mist and emerge ourselves learning , as with King Lear , that an individual 's suffering can rarely avoid becoming an entire family 's tragedy . |
| 13 | Some sociologists claim that an individual 's class position is largely achieved ; it results from their personal qualities and abilities and the use they make of them rather than ascribed characteristics such as the status of their parents or the colour of their skin . |
| 14 | The fact that an individual 's perception of his or her needs will change over time and context . |
| 15 | These economists argued that an individual 's demand for cash balances ( or nominal money ) is proportional to the individual 's money income . |
| 16 | The most important of these controversies has arisen over the theological nature of the established state church , and in particular over the prevalence and popularity of the doctrine of predestination — the belief that humankind is divided into immutable groups of the saved and the damned , and that an individual 's salvation depends not on his or her actions while on earth , but rather on a predetermined and arbitrary decision by God ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 17 | A more general sense of difficulty in sustaining order and regularity in the early twentieth century underlies Lily Briscoe 's comments in To the Lighthouse when she remarks that an artist 's brush may be the ‘ one dependable thing in a world of strife , ruin , chaos ’ ( Woolf 1927 and 1973 : 170 ) . |
| 18 | For example , Thénard 's research into the chemistry of cobalt revealed the possibility that an artist 's pigment could be made from the metal . |
| 19 | The rape victim was able to give such a good description , that an artist 's impression has been recognised by several people . |
| 20 | It is likely that the court would imply a term that an expert 's decision is both final and/or binding ( see 8.17.5 ) , but the party seeking to establish that might face the cost and uncertainty of litigation . |
| 21 | It does not mean that an expert 's decision would be disallowed on the ground of conflict of interest : actual partiality would have to be shown . |
| 22 | In Nikko v MEPC ( cited at 13.6.1 ) , the judge said that an expert 's decision can not be challenged unless it could be shown that the expert had not performed the task assigned to him . |
| 23 | It was said , for example , that an expert 's report should provide an opinion which is straightforward and not misleading . |
| 24 | But , such is the pace of development , that an idiot 's guide to many of the most recent and fast-moving technological marvels , which often bristle with abbreviations , is not to be despised . |
| 25 | For the same reason , I fear that an accountant 's expert knowledge of tax havens may once again be a saleable commodity . |
| 26 | Administration is considerably more difficult to define briefly , but for our purposes may be taken to mean the application of general rules to particular cases by the making of some order ( for example , a demolition order ) , or some decision ( for example , that an immigrant 's entry certificate was obtained by fraud in contravention of some statutory regulation ) , or by performing some action ( for example , making a payment of social security benefit ) . |
| 27 | I wrote to Ivy ( more or less ) : ‘ People say that work is a comfort at such times , and I have always thought it very sad that an author 's work is no good at all , and indeed can not be done . ’ |
| 28 | The defendants denied liability , contending that an occupier 's duty of care to firemen attending his premises in the course of their work was limited to protecting the firemen from any special or exceptional risks over and above the ordinary risks necessarily incidental to a fireman 's job , and did not extend to protecting firemen from such ordinary risks which , on the facts , included an explosion of the kind which had taken place on the defendants ' premises . |
| 29 | Moreover , in Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 629 Stamp J said that an employee 's skill and knowledge " is in no sense the employer 's property and it is contrary to public policy to restrain its use in any degree " . |
| 30 | If the purpose of the fund is to collect ‘ lifetime ’ contributions in order to pay a pension that is related to final salary or earnings , it is obviously a fundamental requirement that an employee 's contributions be invested in a manner which keeps their value at least in line with rising real earnings . |