Example sentences of "of an [noun sg] 's [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , supervisors are not often in a position to make first-hand assessments of an officer 's skills in the field ; they have to learn indirectly about his work , his negotiating abilities , the demands he makes , and his integrity . |
| 2 | These indicators , however , suggest little of an officer 's abilities in the field , where outputs are vaguer and defy quantification . |
| 3 | Member States must be assumed to have actual or at least constructive knowledge of an organisation 's actions , so that they can not claim ignorance of them . |
| 4 | A manager id the first recipient of an organisation 's problems and he must : |
| 5 | The scope of an organisation 's activities |
| 6 | The statement sets out general principles — appropriate to all computer users — relating to efforts to minimise disruption of an organisation 's activities and business , and potential financial loss as a result of computer failure . |
| 7 | The complexity of an organisation 's activities in turn increases with differentiation , interdependence , uncertainty and as the uncertainty in an organisation increases , the greater is the amount of information that needs to be processed by decision- makers to ensure coordination . |
| 8 | ‘ All these lead to a decentralisation of an organisation 's activities and the requirement of an interactive communications system . |
| 9 | Software can form part of an organisation 's assets , but may need continual adaptation and enhancement in order to keep it effective . |
| 10 | But then one often comes across other entries to amuse one on the way , such as the record of an enumerator 's problems in compiling part of the 1871 census for Sheffield shown in Table 2 . |
| 11 | There is no specific procedure for control by the courts of the amount of an expert 's fees , as there is with arbitrators under s19 of the Arbitration Act 1950 . |
| 12 | The transition from rookie to fighter pilot starts with two days of selection tests at Cranwell where computer games , each testing some facet of an entrant 's abilities , quickly turn frustratingly impossible . |
| 13 | Finnis illustrates the notion of a determination by the example of an architect 's instructions to an artificer to put a ‘ doorway ’ in a wall of a building . |
| 14 | The scale of Fujimori 's problem was highlighted as troops moved to take control of Lima 's Castro Castro prison , where the high-security rating is no more than a wistful reminder of an architect 's intentions . |
| 15 | Most managers want to deal with all of an artist 's activities in the entertainment business throughout the world . |
| 16 | And that is , when , I ca n't remember what it 's called , and erm when the sex cells are made exactly half of an individual 's genes go into each , and when sex cells er come together in a fertilized exactly half of each parent 's genes are fitted together , so that 's completely fair , well almost completely fair , because there are a few genes outside the nucleus that only get they 're , they 're in a rather minority . |
| 17 | But very often the major part of an individual 's activities stem from the duties and reciprocal obligations which fall to him by virtue of his roles as a social person . |
| 18 | The recurrent descriptions of bishops restoring their cities may be inspired more by notions of the ideal bishop than the reality of an individual 's activities . |
| 19 | pehunan refers to a state of extreme vulnerability to dangers of all sorts that results from the frustration of an individual 's wishes ( see Dentan 1968 ; Robarchek 1977b , 1986b ) . |
| 20 | This privileged position of an individual 's wishes over the wishes of others also finds its expression in the concept of segat . |
| 21 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the introduction of money causes the complication that changes in the price of money relative to real capital affect individuals ' incomes ( capital gains should be included in disposable income ) and savings ( the increase in the value of an individual 's assets is , in effect , savings ) . |
| 23 | Additionally the right qualification ensures that employers have a good idea of an individual 's capabilities . |
| 24 | Another paper describing the use of bibliometrics in research evaluation is Narin 1987 , but this restricts itself to publication counts and citations , deriving a new indicator , the Top Decile Performance , which is that percent of an Institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 25 | It is defined as the percent of an institute 's papers which are amongst the more highly cited 10% of papers in a field . |
| 26 | Yet here they were needling one another as if the position of an aeroplane 's wings on take-off ; the true nature of Kennedy 's presidency or the price of fish were matters that somehow impinged on their honour or real worth as human beings . |
| 27 | Size is often difficult to judge , but the rounded wings of the buzzard are so much shorter that once the sheer length of an eagle 's wings has been experienced , it is impossible to mistake the two . |
| 28 | Mr. Jeffreys contended that on a fair reading of the subsection it can not have been the intention that every one of an owner 's rights had to be assumed by the alleged thief before an appropriation was proved and that essential ingredient of the offence of theft established . |
| 29 | ‘ Moreover , on general principles , it would in my judgment be a plain interference with or usurpation of an owner 's rights by the customer if he were to remove a label which the owner had placed on goods or put another label on . |
| 30 | ( b ) Appropriation requires an act of adverse interference with or assumption of an owner 's rights , i.e. , some unauthorised dealing with the property . |