Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Bank 's funding of a highway that cut through central and west Brazil with " devastating " results was also cited . |
| 2 | Canon J Stafford Wright , an evangelical scholar and former principal of Tyndale College , Bristol , believes that the psychic might be man 's link with the rest of the animal world . |
| 3 | In addition to Saudi Arabia 's installation of the east-west ‘ Petroline ’ linking the huge Ghawar oilfield to the Red Sea coast , Iraq had also laid a strategic line to enable oil from its southern fields to be sent out via Syria in the event of difficulties in the Gulf . |
| 4 | ‘ Aha , ’ came Googol 's response over the radio , ‘ but you may say you are those same three people inside those suits … ’ |
| 5 | The allegation comes in the TUC 's response to a Government consultation paper on scrapping the holiday . |
| 6 | It 's the body 's response to a threat . |
| 7 | David Chin Kah Hin 's response to a question about adventurousness , adaptability and tolerance typifies the spirit and imagination of the 35 applicants for a Guinness Earth Science Award . |
| 8 | The survey sponsored by the CLR was a market survey testing the library consumer 's response to a product in a new package . |
| 9 | The notes cover the Stamp Office 's response to a number of questions on which the Faculty sought clarification following the publication of Statement of Practice SP 11/91 in September 1991 . |
| 10 | Often children 's response to a picture is limited by their vocabulary and their ability to describe features . |
| 11 | Where the boss 's response to a complaint might well be ‘ If you do n't like it you can always leave ’ , then sticking with a job you do not like implies that you lack the motivation to go and find something more satisfactory , or that you are incapable of finding anything better . |
| 12 | According to this model , deviance is a property which is created and sustained by a community 's response to an act as deviant . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the same day he told the defendants that he was interested in making an offer for Caliban and asked the first defendant to sound out what would be the plaintiff 's response to an offer in the range of $2m. to $2.5m. gross i.e. the plaintiff to bear the agent 's commission . |
| 15 | An attitude is a mental state of readiness , organised through experience , exerting an influence upon an individual 's response to an object and the situations with which it is related . |
| 16 | This is Teresa 's response to the proposal . |
| 17 | The casuals realized , quicker than most commentators , that the radical aspect of the Thatcher government 's response to the recession is its rejection of the Protestant Ethic . |
| 18 | But while pleased , Mr Elton was scathing about Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley 's response to the Ombudsman 's report to which the Government refused to accept responsibility for the affair . |
| 19 | In this sense , the author 's intention does play an indirect part in determining the meaning of the words in question , because that meaning is decided by the ordinary reader 's response to the question : " What on earth is the author getting at ? " |
| 20 | The government 's response to the problem of teacher shortages was to launch new kinds of teacher training programmes . |
| 21 | The EEC 's response to the disintegration of Yugoslavia is an equally important indication of what might be expected from the Common Foreign and Security policy . |
| 22 | Any fishkeeper who has seen the fry 's response to the flicking of the black pelvic fins of their mother will have no doubt that communication is taking place . |
| 23 | The Algerian media gave prominent coverage to the army 's response to the incident , in which weapons were said to have been seized from the military by the armed group . |
| 24 | It is the blinkered approach typified by Mr. Kent 's response to the nurse that we want to eliminate from the NHS . |
| 25 | THE ABILITY of Lothian 's employees to provide cost effective services at local level was highlighted in the Regional Council 's response to the Government 's reform document . |
| 26 | THE COUNCIL 'S response to the government 's proposals for the future of water and sewerage services showed that Lothian 's current arrangements would be the most efficient , cost-effective and democratic way to provide these services in the future . |
| 27 | The images can be , but they 've also got an edge of grim humour — Heartfield and police president Zorgiebel ( below ) shows the artist 's response to the man held responsible by the Communists for the killing of May Day demonstrators in 1929 . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman 's response to the Budget is as empty as that of his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition , whose comments yesterday , I thought were proof positive that the Michelangelo virus was alive and operating inside the Labour party . |
| 29 | Television 's response to the struggle around Clause 28 reflected the status the campaign achieved in the political arena . |
| 30 | Legal aid , in the words of The Laws of Scotland : the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia , is society 's response to the criticism that there is one law for the rich and one law for the poor . |