Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was philosophical about her stepson blaming her for allowing his father 's foot to become so black , saying that Alex had to look after himself . |
| 2 | Its reporter 's attempts to implement even the most modest of safeguards for the people affected by the proposals , were simply dismissed by the Scottish Secretary , this time wearing the ‘ non-interventionist ’ hat of adjudicator on the inquiry 's finding and recommendations . |
| 3 | He gave Marianne a none-too-gentle shove , grasped Shae 's hand firmly in his own , and walked resolutely along the corridor towards the make-up room , ignoring the interested looks of the other actors , and Marianne 's attempts to wriggle away . |
| 4 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |
| 5 | Somehow a mortgage was raised , but the diversion of resources frustrated Anna Essinger 's attempts to add further to the number of admissions . |
| 6 | Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn ‘ Labour will bring lasting prosperity to Darlington and put people 's talents to use rather than allowing them to go to waste . ’ |
| 7 | This was perhaps the final and clinching element of a strenuous programme of persuasion on the part of Gordon Thomas , for shortly after came the committee 's decision to go ahead at Foxton . |
| 8 | But it was Ayling 's decision to go ahead with it , Pascoe 's job was to see it through . |
| 9 | On July 25 the federal government approved the Slovak government 's decision to go ahead with the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , originally part of a joint Hungarian-Czechoslovakian scheme from which Hungary had withdrawn in 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] and to put the power station into operation from October as " a temporary measure " . |
| 10 | The plan was devised with the help of the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , which welcomes China 's decision to go ahead as a major step toward saving the panda . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the prime reason for the Bundesbank 's decision to go ahead with an interest rate cut will have been the solidarity pact which was agreed last Saturday between Chancellor Kohl 's government and the opposition to put Germany 's post-unification finances on a sound footing and help the revival of eastern Germany . |
| 12 | And I think I made it quite clear that it was not the quality of the Education Authority that was the basis of the Banbury School 's proposals , it was the County Council 's decision to go ahead on a consultation for tertiary education , an entirely different animal in Oxfordshire , and I , like Bob , would agree that the erm quality of education offered in Oxfordshire is first class . |
| 13 | President Clinton 's decision to airlift desperately needed aid supplies into Bosnia , his first major foreign policy decision , shows that America still has an outward-looking , fundamentally internationalist , leadership . |
| 14 | Environmentalists in Czechoslovakia are becoming increasingly critical of their government 's decision to proceed unilaterally with the project . |
| 15 | PRESIDENT Carlos Menem 's decision to pardon more than 200 military officers accused of human rights abuses , together with the members of the junta responsible for the conduct of the Falklands war in 1982 , has been attacked by human rights campaigners and political opponents . |
| 16 | The government 's decision to press ahead with the work , allegedly without carrying out an adequate environmental impact assessment , led to a threat of legal action from the European Commission [ see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 17 | Peter Porter , though he ultimately disagreed with Lonsdale 's decision to include so many unknown poets in the anthology , was emphatic : |
| 18 | The motive behind the Lithuanian party 's decision to move ahead against all the pressure from Moscow was made clear by Mr Donatas Morkunas , secretary of the Siauliai regional party . |
| 19 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 20 | Mr Fowler 's decision to close nearly half the country 's 2,000 JobCentres and unemployment benefit offices , to integrate the remainder , and to bring the much-reduced network under the control of a semi-autonomous agency has far-reaching implications . |
| 21 | It was reported on Aug. 19 that the Swedish bank Forex had become the second foreign bank to buy and sell kroons , following the Lithuanian bank Litimpex 's decision to do so in June . |
| 22 | FRANCE 'S decision to sweep away exchange controls to mark the Euro decade of the 1990s is important enough to have caused even Mrs Thatcher to give some ground in her opposition to the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 23 | Parents are protesting at a headmaster 's decision to send home an entire class because there 's no-one to teach them . |
| 24 | In The Dear Green Place , Archie Hind exposed the sap and pulp that was hidden under the hard shell of that surprisingly literary construct , ‘ Glasgow ’ , and then ‘ fell silent ’ ( by which the literary world apologised for Hind 's decision to communicate more directly with the city 's damaged youth ) . |
| 25 | If the foliage was closely arranged around the figure this would allow for the cutter 's inability to carve deeper than the distance between its projecting edge and the body of the angle grinder that powers it . |
| 26 | This , and the kitten 's inability to move away quickly when the male mounts it , act as sexual signals to the over-excited tom-cat and seal the fate of the unfortunate kitten . |
| 27 | I mistrust a literature that finds suicide more significant than death , and a man 's inability to communicate more sorry than the frenzy of his need to . |
| 28 | So that means it is the turn of the guard 's watch to go faster than the driver 's . |
| 29 | Dr Duncan Macmillan said he was supporting the university 's proposals to sell either a 16th-century bronze , Cain and Abel by de Vries , or a 17th-century landscape , The Banks of a River by van Ruisdael , because of a desperate need to raise money for the care of the remainder of the collection . |
| 30 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |