Example sentences of "'s [noun] [not/n't] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly a surprising omission on Banfield 's part not to take full account of the importance of patronage and clientelism in their own right as determinants of political action . |
| 2 | RICHARD Hannon yesterday defended Lester Piggott 's decision not to withdraw Mr Brooks at the start of the Breeders ' Cup Sprint . |
| 3 | RICHARD HANNON yesterday defended Lester Piggott 's decision not to withdraw Mr Brooks at the start of the Breeders ' Cup Sprint . |
| 4 | Stirling 's decision not to continue writer in residence is ill-advised |
| 5 | Israel 's decision not to respond , at least for the moment , makes perfect sense . |
| 6 | It calls Detective Chief Superintendent Eynon 's decision not to treat the death as suspicious ’ premature and ill-advised ’ . |
| 7 | Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson talked him out of an immediate announcement , but Graham Taylor 's decision not to retain Robson for next week 's decisive game in Poland made any further delay pointless . |
| 8 | Diana 's decision not to attend Princess Anne 's wedding to Commander Tim Laurence has stunned the Queen . |
| 9 | ‘ Carl 's decision not to go on the ranking devalues the No.1 position of Alan Cooke , ’ Douglas said . |
| 10 | Azeri pressure was also said to be behind Turkey 's decision not to go ahead with scheduled daily deliveries of 30-35 Mw of electricity , due to begin on Dec. 1 . |
| 11 | Azeri pressure was also said to be behind Turkey 's decision not to go ahead with deliveries of electricity amounting to 30-35 Mw per day , which had been due to start on Dec. 1 . |
| 12 | The Government 's decision not to refer Anglo-Welsh 's bid for Palatine to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission has set alarm bells ringing throughout the brewing industry . |
| 13 | On an application by the deceased 's mother for judicial review of the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest : — |
| 14 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 15 | THE CENTRAL Electricity Generating Board 's decision not to design the pressure vessel , the massive steel ‘ heart ’ of its proposed pressurised water reactor at Sizewell , in larger components came under fire last week from two eminent nuclear engineers . |
| 16 | In June opposition parties had boycotted parliament in protest against the government 's decision not to appoint a special tribunal to try Azam for war crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 war of independence [ see pp. 38967 ; 39007 ] . |
| 17 | Their puzzlement was not caused by the timing of declarations , the captain 's decision not to bowl the left-arm spinner on a turning pitch , or by the fact that England started to win Test matches . |
| 18 | All resigned in protest at parliament 's decision not to lift the immunity from prosecution of the former Socialist leader , Bettino Craxi . |
| 19 | When he publicly questioned Truman 's decision not to use Chinese Nationalist troops in Korea , Truman decided the pretensions of his Caesar had gone far enough . |
| 20 | An appeal against Langbaurgh Council 's decision not to allow the erection of a two-storey side extension at Abrams Buildings in Loftus has been dismissed by the Secretary of State . |
| 21 | Lisburn Council 's deputy chief executive Norman Davidson told Sunday Life the council welcomed the DPP 's decision not to press any criminal charges . |
| 22 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's decision not to support the French proposal to fix the conference date in Strasbourg highlights his concern that the question of European monetary union and the inevitable transfer of powers from West Germany 's Bundesbank to the new European central bank would get caught up in the German general election next autumn . |
| 23 | It was a further example of Peking 's present heavy-handed approach towards Hong Kong , and stemmed from the colonial government 's decision not to return swimmer Yang Yang to China last week , but to allow him to leave for asylum in the United States . |
| 24 | Clarke virtually admitted that he did not believe that these important issues should be discussed in public when he defended the government 's decision not to publish the advice on science funding which it had received from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils . |
| 25 | Eric Robinson expresses the view that Michael Stewart 's decision not to implement the Robbins proposal to put teacher training under the universities in fact ‘ committed the Wilson government to a ‘ binary ’ policy in higher education' . |
| 26 | King Hussein 's decision not to follow Egypt 's pro-Western path was heavily influenced by internal considerations . |
| 27 | As a result of Mervyn Davies J. 's decision not to require an undertaking in damages , many other local councils sought and obtained interlocutory injunctions on the same terms restraining Sunday trading by retail stores . |
| 28 | The school 's decision not to become involved in testing had been proved right . |
| 29 | Mark Hazell has been granted a judicial review of Avon County Council 's decision not to place him in the residential home of his own choosing , Milton Heights in Oxfordshire . |
| 30 | The French suffered enormous casualties , including Ring John of Bohemia , the Duke of Lorraine and the Counts of Blois and Flanders , and Froissart suggests that only Edward 's decision not to pursue the remnants of the French forces saved them from even more serious losses . |