Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and |
| 32 | Under such an arrangement ( known as an open offer and clawback ) underwriters agree to purchase the requisite number of consideration shares from accepting shareholders at the agreed price , to the extent that the latter elect to receive cash , subject to the right of the bidder 's shareholders to buy such shares at the same price in priority to the underwriters . |
| 33 | Does this cause Milton 's text to become compromised , its message rendered politically neutered ? |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | So it is to most fish 's advantage to grow to their maximum size as quickly as possible . |
| 36 | When Granny ( or Grandpa ) comes to live with the family in old age , it will be to everyone 's advantage to encourage the close bond between them and the children , since it always contributes much to their enjoyment of life , and consequently to the happiness of the whole household . |
| 37 | It was clearly to France 's advantage to advance her south-eastern frontier by the acquisition of Savoy and Nice , while the building of railways in the region would give her a strong economic and strategic position in northern and central Italy . |
| 38 | These parties are ideologically sound , all likely in Moscow 's judgement to evolve into fully fledged Communist parties : no ideological hybrids here which owe more to Mussolini than to Lenin . |
| 39 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |
| 40 | Simon shouted this aloud , throwing out his challenge into the dark , as if daring Mr Bishop 's ghost to haunt him again . |
| 41 | They learnt to take food from me , and soon I had goat 's milk to drink every day . |
| 42 | Israel is not to resort to the Canaanite practice of boiling a kid in its mother 's milk to increase fertility . |
| 43 | Mammalian babies , when they do finally emerge into the outside world , still need their mother 's milk to complete the building of their highly complex bodies and they may continue to suckle for years . |
| 44 | I welcome the Government 's measure to protect hedgerows and their management , but among the worst offenders in grubbing up hedgerows are local highway authorities . |
| 45 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 46 | Topped with the typical cynical yet liberal chorus , ‘ William It Was Really Nothing ’ appeared as a complete condemnation of the ‘ Glenda Brownlow ’ approach towards marriage ; simply another of Morrissey 's attempts to dispense with a traditionally Northern , working class system , an assault on an institution which effectively freezes two people into whatever mundane existence they live , as a blindly accepted method of halting all ambition . |
| 47 | This weekend 's show looks at man 's attempts to predict the weather . |
| 48 | The Diary 's attempts to arrange a late night drink with her ( ‘ she has to be home by 10.30 , ’ said her secretary , stealing 90 minutes on Cinderella ) were re-routed into breakfast at 8.15am . |
| 49 | They preferred undisguised military occupation to self-administration and refused to co-operate with Israel 's attempts to create an accommodationist Palestinian leadership in the territories . |
| 50 | Jazz shares many themes with its predecessor , the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved : the conflict between the interests of the community and the individual 's attempts to create and maintain a separate self ; the importance of communal responsibility . |
| 51 | This exhibition and its catalogue were the first to show the whole spectrum of Czech Cubism 's attempts to create a universal style in literature , music , theatre and cinema as much as in the visual arts . |
| 52 | Grilly 's attempts to adjudicate the question had failed , and Pierre Flote was deputed to bring the affair to the cognizance of the court of France . |
| 53 | I welcome Margaret Woddis ' and Celia Brackenridge 's attempts to push an analysis of the relationship between gender and physical culture further than I was able in ‘ Work Your Body ! ’ |
| 54 | By March 1990 the case took an unexpected twist when Jan Parsons , backed by her brother Paul and her divorced father , publicly opposed Jan 's mum 's attempts to sue Lowe . |
| 55 | Cuomo condemned the comments as indicative of racial stereotyping , and brushed off Clinton 's attempts to explain them away as " good-natured and jocular " . |
| 56 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds conservation officer for Lothian and Borders , Peter Gordon , said : ‘ The wanton killing of this beautiful bird is sickening in itself and also a setback to the peregrine 's attempts to recolonise this part of Scotland . ’ |
| 57 | The scandal and accompanying crash came as a severe blow to Finance Minister Singh 's attempts to open the Indian economy to foreign investors , and in addition hurt many smaller , first-time investors attracted by the soaring bull market of the previous six months , of which Mehta was described by the Financial Times of May 18 as the " driving force " . |
| 58 | Thus , their measurement is a valuable ‘ on-line ’ index of a reader 's attempts to derive a coherent representation of meaning . |
| 59 | USL brought suit against the pair because of BSDI 's attempts to commercialise an Intel Corp 80386 operating system called BSD/386 based on the university 's Network Release 2 which USL claims infringes on its code . |
| 60 | Another is that he disapproves of Mr Shekhar 's attempts to talk to terrorists in Punjab and Kashmir on terms that could threaten the unity of the country . |