Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both adverse US payments figures and US budget deficits are familiar stimuli to dealers in dollars , as are hints of any prospect of the money markets ' interest rates being raised ( a classic central banker 's response to market pressure on the currency in which the bank operates ) . |
| 2 | Finnegan has made arrangements for his wife 's income to cover those outstanding debts . |
| 3 | The lessee was protected , not by a real action , but by a personal action against his lessor , in which he could recover , not the land itself , but only damages to the breach of his landlord 's contract to allow him the use of the land . |
| 4 | While working on Wimpey Construction UK , Northern 's contract to refurbish homes on the estate — a notorious inner city blackspot — the likeable foreman went out of his way to ensure that relationships with the local community would run smoothly . |
| 5 | While the expert clause itself may lay down that the parties are to be responsible for the fees and expenses of the expert in equal shares , which is quite common , or that they are to be met by some other party ( see 8.12 ) , the clause itself may not be sufficient to establish the expert 's entitlement unless its terms are clearly incorporated into the expert 's contract to conduct the reference . |
| 6 | This lead time allowed LIFFE 's contract to exploit the process generating endogenous economies of scale and become sufficiently liquid to attract substantial hedging demand in German long term interest rates . |
| 7 | The outset of Doctor Who multiplied those worries fourfold , in that each of the regular cast was ( a ) unused to science fiction ; ( b ) unused to each other ; and ( c ) stuck with a year 's contract to do the part , like it or not . |
| 8 | There may be a need to consider changes to the general practitioner 's contract to encourage research , such as relaxing the regulations of hours committed to patient services and creating a practice development allowance to encourage practices to work with commissioning authorities to adopt and evaluate health gain strategies . |
| 9 | Alder Valley 's contract to provide the peak time 213 service to and from Alton for school and college journeys will be provided by Oakley Coaches . |
| 10 | Moves to lift the clause inserted in the company 's contract to prevent asset stripping after de-regulation of the buses would set a national precedent . |
| 11 | In its Final Report , the Criminal Law Revision Committee has recommended that there should be a full scale extension of the young man 's defence to cover men of all ages . |
| 12 | He expanded the firm 's activities to include technical and ‘ home education ’ publications ; fiction soon followed . |
| 13 | WHAT a waste of taxpayer 's money to create a monstrosity such as the proposed cross town route . |
| 14 | Thomas Wilcox could hardly believe his good fortune and immediately put Midland 's money to use by expanding Crocker 's lending at a phenomenal rate . |
| 15 | Insolvency — Transaction at undervalue — Service out of jurisdiction — Director transferring company 's money to bank in Jersey — Bank having no place of business in England — Company 's administrators seeking order for recovery of money from bank — Whether jurisdiction to make order against foreign bank — Insolvency Act 1986 ( c. 45 ) , s. 238 — Insolvency Rules 1986 ( S.I . |
| 16 | Happily , she retains enough of Daddy 's money to live in comfortable circumstances in the Home Counties . |
| 17 | TWO company directors spent at least £450,000 of their firm 's money to fund jetset lifestyles , an industrial tribunal was told yesterday . |
| 18 | I mean I said to him oh er what he 's really got to get really is a cooker erm cos I said to him , I , I said to him if you really want to try and move in next week then you have n't got another week 's money to pay for that , you know |
| 19 | Yes but cost 's money to have a phone set up . |
| 20 | We have no idea whether the music matches the nomenclature , but it must be worth £5 of anyone 's money to encourage them . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a shocking situation , and I am spending every single minute of every single day and every last dollar of my father 's money to correct this evil . ’ |
| 22 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 23 | This effect , called " leverage " or " gearing " , increases the investor 's exposure to price fluctuations . |
| 24 | Lewis , meanwhile , intends to turn up at each of Bowe 's fights to shame the IBF and WBA champion into fighting him . |
| 25 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 26 | In a contested bid , an offeror which offers consideration shares must expect the target 's board to turn its attention to the offeror 's financial condition and performance in an effort to dissuade shareholders from accepting the offer . |
| 27 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 28 | In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow . |
| 29 | Now , a backlash from a public consultation exercise has convinced the NRA 's board to drop the proposal . |
| 30 | Our offer secures Wheway 's future and I urge Wheway 's board to recommend it . ’ |