Example sentences of "to [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 7 ‘ The Country of the Iguanadon ’ , frontispiece to Mantell 's Wonders of Geology , eighth edition , 1864 . |
| 2 | Marlow himself , listening to Jim 's confused , hesitant version of the affair as the court-martial proceeds , realises that ‘ with every instant he was penetrating deeper into the impossible world of romantic achievements ’ and cuts across the young man 's evident yearning to make some heroic restitution by the blunt reminder , ‘ If you had stuck to the ship , you mean ! ’ |
| 3 | She had been going up to admire her newly-painted room , but something took her to Jim 's door . |
| 4 | Mother also sent a message to Jim 's school , to tell them what had happened . |
| 5 | Then , then go on to Jim 's point of , come on lads . |
| 6 | My brain slammed into reverse — moving back to Jim 's words the other night . |
| 7 | Bedsitter accommodation was eventually provided but in the course of the investigation by the social work department it was discovered that in addition to Jim 's persistent truancy , he was also staying away from home , sleeping rough for days at a time . |
| 8 | Jim was due to leave another school in the area at Christmas 1984 and shortly before summer 1984 a panel hearing was requested due to Jim 's non-attendance at school and the theft of a pushbike . |
| 9 | I hauled him off to Jim 's Cafe . |
| 10 | The first response to Baker 's announcement came from Shevardnadze who welcomed the change , which , he said , brought US and Soviet approaches to Cambodia " much closer " . |
| 11 | Israel 's Foreign Minister David Levi , also responding to Baker 's statement , had said that " peace can not be imposed on Israel " . |
| 12 | Despite recognizing the need for theory to explain market-type control mechanisms within real-world firms , this chapter accepts that some use of direct , non-delegated authority is the necessary , defining feature of a firm , and turns to Williamson 's work for an explanation of the circumstances in which it has a comparative advantage over other control mechanisms . |
| 13 | Schneidau follows Pound 's own broad hints by tracing his gradual alienation or liberation from these early admirations according as Ford 's demands for a prosaic strength in verse writing gradually won Pound over from the Wardour Street language of his own early poems ( such as ‘ Canzone : The Yearly Slain' , written in reply to Manning 's ‘ Korè ’ ) . |
| 14 | Conservationists have communicated their concern about plans to erect a " buffalo fence " on the north-western fringe of the delta , to Botswana 's representative at the European Community in Brussels . |
| 15 | Time will bring an end to all things , even to Marlowe 's dream , as it is only a dream and exists in the temporal , real world . |
| 16 | Behind the bland terms of Scînteia 's unimposing announcement lay the greatest challenge to Ceauşescu 's power , in fact to communism 's control of Romania , to date . |
| 17 | The USSR 's commitment to Communism 's expansion and triumph seems to co-exist with a psychology of threat and a view of herself as victim . |
| 18 | In relation specifically to GP 's referrals others were consulted with exactly the same frequency whether male or female referrals . |
| 19 | Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries . |
| 20 | Was Darwin , then , mistaken in so relating his own science to Newton 's ? |
| 21 | In the case of Descartes , it eventuated in laws of motion , one of which resembles the principle of linear inertia that was so basic to Newton 's analysis of the relationship between force , mass , and acceleration . |
| 22 | The degree of support given to Newton 's theory by Galle 's observation of Neptune is no different from the degree of support given by a modern observation of Neptune . |
| 23 | In the Newtonian system , the realms of the celestial bodies and of earthly bodies were unified , each set of bodies moving under the influence of forces according to Newton 's laws of motion . |
| 24 | What could he say to Newton 's note ? |
| 25 | Another difficulty with the idea of a static universe was that according to Newton 's law of gravity , each star in the universe ought to be attracted toward every other star . |
| 26 | A finite collection of stars will fall together , and according to Newton 's law , adding more stars outside the region will not stop the collapse . |
| 27 | In the limit of low velocities and small gravitational effects GR reduces to Newton 's law with small corrections , and these corrections account precisely for the small residual advance of perihelion in the case of Mercury . |
| 28 | In the limit of slowly moving bodies and weak gravitational fields this equation will be shown to reduce to Newton 's law of gravitation . |
| 29 | Then according to Newton 's second law of motion the acceleration a of this mass is given by . |
| 30 | The value of the constant is fixed by the requirement that , in the limit of weak slowly varying gravitational fields , the Einstein equation should reduce to Newton 's law of gravitation . |