Example sentences of "'s [noun] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barrow was a White Knight — headhunted to fight off a corporate raider — for whom Kennecott had to pay over $1m. in order to match a clause in Barrow 's contract with Exxon which allowed him bonuses in line with the rising price of the company 's stock . |
| 2 | On Sotheby 's activities in Berlin he was candid about the difficulties experienced by this ‘ very interesting experiment ’ so far but felt that the company could build on the pool of new private ( West ) German buyers that had emerged from the sales . |
| 3 | erm so er it 's sometimes possible to borrow from the university but they usually , they usually make it very difficult for one so er oh thanks , erm so erm anyway because with a thing like people 's accounts of dreams you may want to sort of go back and look at them , you know , sort of how people have expressed them in their own words , they may have er you know produced some nice interesting quotes or something like that |
| 4 | As chairman of the Commission 's Joint Research Centre 's board of governors he has told the commissioner for science , Viscount Davignon , that European decision-making on science ought to be reformed to stop a repetition . |
| 5 | British Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher was among four members of the European Tour 's Board of Directors who heard the appeal at Wentworth , and decided the original punishment was too severe . |
| 6 | Even in Derry 's hour of glory he could n't but be impressed with the sheer physical presence of the senior players from Dublin and Galway . |
| 7 | London Marathon : Tolstikov 's prizes bring little comfort in a changing world Ken Mays talks to last year 's men 's winner from Siberia who is preparing on the coast for his double attempt |
| 8 | He was tolerant of his brother Neil 's attempts to piggyback his way into the movies on the Connery name , and understanding of his mother 's very Scottish shame at his success ; she took to booking even her hair appointments in her maiden name . |
| 9 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 10 | More remarkable , as it now seems , while awaiting the king 's decision at Northampton they ravaged the surrounding countryside , and are said to have eventually returned home with hundreds of captives and much livestock . |
| 11 | But some of Buckmaster 's requests for data I suspect emanate from Morgan … ’ |
| 12 | But what are men 's attitudes towards women who are prepared for safe sex ? |
| 13 | This account of the treaty may , as Florence claims , have been a lie , but it , or something like it , could well have been what Cnut preferred people to believe , for he may have been aware that it had not been unusual within the West Saxon dynasty for brother to follow brother : it was the succession of King Æthelwulf 's sons in turn which brought Alfred to the throne in 871 , despite the fact that his brother Æthelred I had male issue . |
| 14 | His comments arose after The Scotsman revealed that the Commission for Racial Equality has begun an unprecedented investigation into possible breaches of education and race relations law in the region 's assessment of children who speak English poorly and may have learning difficulties . |
| 15 | It is understood the investigation will focus on alleged breaches of education and race relations laws in the region 's assessment of children who are believed to have learning difficulties and whose first language is not English . |
| 16 | It is understood the investigation will focus on alleged breaches of education and race relations laws in the region 's assessment of children who are believed to have learning difficulties and whose first language is not English . |
| 17 | Such clues would add to the embarrassing riches of intelligence which had recently flooded in to Napoleon 's headquarters from Belgians who desperately wanted to be part of France again . |
| 18 | At dawn Charles and Louis moved northwards with about a third of their troops to occupy the wooded hill overlooking Lothar 's camp at Fontenoy itself . |
| 19 | By this time Odinga had formed his own party , the KPU ( Kenya People 's Union ) , but following an incident in Kenyatta 's presence at Kisumu he was jailed in October 1969 and the KPU banned . |
| 20 | While a failure to adhere to the provisions of this Code by an individual registrant may not necessarily amount to negligence or a breach of an implied contractual term by that registrant , such a failure may evidence an infringement of the Council 's Rules of Conduct which could lead to disciplinary proceedings . |
| 21 | And their shared taste for rich cake with coffee late at night restored her faith in their friendship a little , so that when he asked her about her family 's plans for Christmas she was able to answer in a relaxed and natural way . |
| 22 | With the vicar 's views on hellfire she was sure she would not go unpunished , that he would feel obliged to deputise for God . |
| 23 | ( 10 ) Similarly , although the requirements of fairness under the Code and CA 1985 , s459 do not necessarily coincide , the Code is a helpful guide to the City 's views on fairness which the court can take into account when deciding whether a shareholder has been unfairly prejudiced for the purposes of s459 ( see Re a Company [ 1986 ] BCLC 382 ) . |
| 24 | In order to appreciate the significance of Dicey 's views on democracy we should recall , in particular , the fact that political opinion during the last decades of the nineteenth century was dominated by a concern with the rise of democracy . |
| 25 | The paper had called earlier in 1990 for a purge from the FLN 's ranks of members who had established links with the FIS . |
| 26 | Since the plant manager was never able to make up a day 's loss of output which pulled down his monthly overall efficiency figures on which he was judged , it was never difficult for Clasper to prove his point . |
| 27 | I do n't want to bump too hard against the plane 's fuselage in case we do actually come into contact with it . |
| 28 | Kilmarnock manager Jim Fleeting and part-time assistant Jim McSherry have resigned following Saturday 's defeat by Partick which ended their Scottish first division promotion hopes . |
| 29 | In Eastern Province 's defeat against Natal he was first sent to the cooler for head-butting , then dismissed for immediately raking a player in a ruck . |
| 30 | The Washington-based Public Citizen group alleged that GATT 's intention of lowering what it referred to as " technical barriers to trade " could allow foreign governments to flout US laws on environmental standards . |