Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One game , called Net Trek , which has recently made the transition from PD to commercial product , uses sounds sampled from the Star Trek television series to accompany the user 's attempts to pilot around a galaxy of other Mac users , when all the machines are connected together by the network . |
| 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 | Bearing in mind the England team 's attempts to break out , cricket must have seemed an appropriate fund-raising event , and a knock-out competition among teams from the media will be played this weekend at North Middlesex CC , Park Road , Hornsey , London . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Over £100 000 was at stake in two cases , and the authority 's attempts to claw back some of this were being resisted fiercely . |
| 7 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 8 | Somehow a mortgage was raised , but the diversion of resources frustrated Anna Essinger 's attempts to add further to the number of admissions . |
| 9 | The debate over 1990 funding for the NEA , and Jesse Helms 's attempts to cut off federal funding for art that he and the fundamentalist lobby find obscene , continues . |
| 10 | like Algernon 's attempts to clear up his acne with Colgate instead of Clearasil |
| 11 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 12 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I invite them to examine the Opposition 's policies to see how they would fare under a Labour Government . |
| 16 | Accordingly , where the broker is a member and is required by the exchange 's rules to deal only as principal ( as on LIFFE ) , the contract for the client is in effect split in two : one contract is between the broker and the market ( another member ) , and the other — a matching contract — between the broker and the client . |
| 17 | Deputy Prime Minister Zivko Pregl said on Jan. 21 that the outcome of the congress would not affect the government 's plans to press ahead with legislation to change the federal Constitution and create the conditions for a multiparty system , and he observed that the LCY in future " will be relevant to the extent that it succeeds in elections which will be direct and secret " . |
| 18 | However , attempts to push through a programme for the privatization of the banking sector in January foundered on legal difficulties , while on Feb. 19 police in Karachi clashed with union activists protesting against the government 's plans to sell off state-owned industries . |
| 19 | LABOUR 'S transport spokesman John Prescott could step in over British Rail 's plans to sell off a Darlington sports ground . |
| 20 | Nirex 's plans to drill up to 6,000 test bore holes for an underground nuclear waste dump at Dounreay , Caithness , have been approved by Scottish Secretary Ian Lang . |
| 21 | After making huge rises in VAT in the past 12 years , what are the Government 's plans to make further increases in VAT ? |
| 22 | He said Advanced Micro 's announcement it plans to ship ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of 80486 chips this year amounts to about one week of Intel 's total productive capacity , and as for the latter 's plans to line up a manufacturing partner to boost production in 1994 , he said he doubts the company will find much excess capacity in the industry — and any company acting as a partner with Advanced Micro could face legal action , but he would not say what Intel might do . |
| 23 | Palmer also mapped out DEC 's plans to work more closely with its major partners Ing C Olivetti & Co and Microsoft Corp , as well as building up its systems integration side of its business . |
| 24 | Labour 's plans to establish home rule for Scotland will also strengthen the Unionists ' push for decentralised power , cutting across the Anglo-Irish treaty . |
| 25 | RJR Nabisco 's plans to buy back $1.5 billion of its debt were received in much the same way . |
| 26 | The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced . |
| 27 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 28 | Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc 's plans to get out of its current financial hole have left Standard & Poor 's Corp unmoved and seen the company 's subordinated debt downgraded to a dire CCC+ with the outlook negative ( CI No 2,111 ) . |
| 29 | So we come back around the circle to the capital side of the balance of payments , and the operationally interesting question : for how long can we expect the world 's savers to make up our domestic shortage ? |
| 30 | Because the polling system is new and complex , the results will not be known for several days , but most observers expect the local party 's candidates to come in far behind the Popular Front and other unofficial groups . |