Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 2 | Daily total caloric requirements were calculated from Long 's equation modified for ideal body weight . |
| 3 | Marchers and speakers at this year 's demonstration called for immediate British withdrawal from Ireland and for self determination for Irish people . |
| 4 | XEROX 's XSOFT LOOKS FOR BIG BUCKS IN EUROPEAN MARKET |
| 5 | Most wheats in his area look ‘ superb ’ and a plant 's capacity to compensate for blind sites should not be forgotten , he adds . |
| 6 | USL 's suit asks for unspecified compensatory , treble and punitive damages as well as ‘ an accounting and disgorgement of BSDI 's profits derived as a result of its wrongful acts … |
| 7 | So why did ( tabloid hack 's name withheld for legal reasons ) write that article about you being horrible womanisers ? |
| 8 | I gave warning in 1987 that it is part of Gorbachev 's character to search for absolute personal power . |
| 9 | ‘ The People 's Charter called for universal male suffrage . |
| 10 | Abigail 's will provided for numerous relatives , i.e. a married son , his wife and 4 children , a married daughter , her husband , 6 children and 1 grandchild , and a brother , a sister and 2 brothers-in-law . |
| 11 | Babble of voices below — a man 's voice calling for quiet . |
| 12 | Yet it is normally said that it is a breach of an agent 's duty to act for competing principals . |
| 13 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with . |
| 14 | Bryan Gould , shadow environment secretary , has said the ‘ Fair Rates ’ system would be related to people 's ability to pay for local services . |
| 15 | Postal workers in the eastern Länder , whose salaries were 60 per cent lower than their western counterparts , went on strike on Jan. 24 in support of demands for a one-off payment equivalent to a 13th month 's salary to compensate for increased living costs . |
| 16 | In other words , where yesterday 's historian looked for the history of an oppressed working class , today 's historian looks for marginalized groups , and those who have transgressed social norms . |