Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures they gave us from surveys carried out for the Inter-Bank Research Organisation by the British Market Research Bureau confirmed this , but showed that people in social classes A , B and C1 are still twice as likely to have a bank account as people in social classes D and E , and that the higher someone 's income the greater is the likelihood of their having a bank account . |
| 2 | In the Medical Research Council 's trial the relative risk of dying from cancer for men receiving atenolol was 1.9 compared with placebo ( 1.2 to 2.8 ) and 1.4 ( 0.9 to 2.2 ) compared with diuretic . |
| 3 | Sacheverell 's trial the next spring sparked off widespread rioting in London , and although Sacheverell was eventually found guilty , he received the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching . |
| 4 | The bidder will usually wish to discuss with the target 's board the best way of dealing with optionholders ( eg cash cancellation and/or roll-over into new options of the bidder ) . |
| 5 | The boy raised his face , and to Jean-Paul 's horror the black eyes were welling with tears . |
| 6 | Corals have promoted last year 's winner The Fellow to 5–4 for Kempton , although that may well change again today after the Hennessy . |
| 7 | It imputes to Proust 's text the ability to contradict itself without intervention . |
| 8 | The coffee industry , until tourism 's rise the country 's biggest earner , is in semi-collapse . |
| 9 | They 'll be waitin' fer us an' once the load 's orf the motor Tony can take it back on 'is own . |
| 10 | In Cherry 's case the magistrate 's conclusion was that the delay was extreme but justifiable and there was no prejudice . |
| 11 | But their Lordships had concluded that in Cherry 's case the magistrate 's finding that the delay was justified was wholly untenable . |
| 12 | It was perfectly proper to infer prejudice from the mere passage of time : in Cherry 's case the magistrate 's decision was based on two flawed findings of justification and no prejudice . |
| 13 | In Spark 's case the answer was no , but the story does not stop there . |
| 14 | There is no reason why a lyricist should elucidate but in Gedge 's case the lack of chimera can make surveying his words an unrewarding exercise . |
| 15 | ( i ) Ulpian discusses the same problem as Celsus , a bequest of an office ( militia ) , but in Ulpian 's case the beneficiary is a slave . |
| 16 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 17 | William II , Henry I and Stephen all won the throne by holding rivals at bay , and in each case warfare played its part ; in Henry 's case the battle of Tinchebrai ( 1106 ) enabled him to imprison his elder brother for life and made him secure in Normandy as well as in England ( see pp. 289 ff . ) . |
| 18 | In the Navigation 's case the ground floor food preparation area was obtained by converting an old-fashioned and unwanted small private bar : similar areas suitable for conversion can not be guaranteed in more than 50 per cent of the units , though equivalent areas could be made available in the remainder through ‘ building out ’ . |
| 19 | In Kempe 's case the problem is slightly eased by the fact that even she recognised her state after the birth of her first child as a sickness of mind and we should not regard this as an isolated episode of ‘ puerperal psychosis ’ that was unconnected with her continuing aberrant behaviour . |
| 20 | In the Falange 's case the principal issue was leadership ; when José Antonio Primo de Rivera , jailed in Alicante since before the start of the war , was executed in November 1936 , he left behind him a movement riddled with factionalism and cursed with second-rate would-be successors . |
| 21 | In John 's case the stated reason for referral for formal assessment was his behaviour in school . |
| 22 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 23 | In Graham 's case the skin appears normal and , since there 's no inflammation or eczema type lesions , anti-inflammatory creams and so on are n't particularly helpful . ’ |
| 24 | It was flooded with water that in my case came up to my armpits and in Jeff 's case the back of his knees . |
| 25 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 26 | The United States is considered to have entered this phase sometime in the 1950s ; in Britain 's case the date is less clear — either in the mid-1960s or in the 1980s depending upon which aspects of service growth are emphasized . |
| 27 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 28 | In Laker 's case the minister was seeking to require the Civil Aviation Authority to follow his policy but he chose a way of doing this which the Court of Appeal considered not to be within his powers . |
| 29 | Gramsci argued , like Banfield did some thirty years later , with a direct political aim , but in Gramsci 's case the problem was to develop a political strategy for the Communists adequate to the conditions in the rural , clerical-dominated and agricultural south , as well as to the conditions in the much more urban , secular and industrialised north of Italy . |
| 30 | In Leeson 's case the General Medical Council had disqualified a doctor for infamous misconduct in a prosecution brought by the Medical Defence Union , an organisation designed to uphold the character of doctors and to suppress unauthorised practitioners . |