Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For in a similar vein to the criminal ‘ enemy ’ , the researcher 's activities are across the bounds , a challenge to be taken on , attacked , and , destroyed or at least to be denied . |
| 2 | Wasps can only wish then that this weekend 's activities are as fruitful , the students putting on a brave show with two second-half tries from their dashing wing , Andy Parton , but Wasps — fielding only two of this season 's first-teamers — winning with something to spare thanks largely to the goal-kicking of Paddy Young . |
| 3 | The same message is coming over time and time again : man 's activities are destroying the planet , and the environmentalists are the most likely people to save the planet . |
| 4 | LAMP 's activities are expanding each year , reaching a growing network of people . |
| 5 | The group 's activities are located in new purpose built laboratories . |
| 6 | In the UK , ICL 's activities are now concentrated in three areas : Commodity Products — the personal computer side of the business , organised through reseller Technology Plc ; mainframe-based Industry Solutions ; and Cross Industry Services , comprising the Sorbus hardware and software services arm ; facilities management company CFM in which ICL has a 75% stake ; disaster standby venture Guardian Computer Services ; and newly formed ICL Enterprises . |
| 7 | Some parts of Bull 's activities are viewed as more important strategically for France than others , an industry ministry official told Reuter , declining to give details , but noted that even in a nationally strategic sector like electronic components , France contents itself with owning 45% of SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV , with Italy as an equal partner and a small private holding held by Thorn EMI Plc . |
| 8 | Some parts of Bull 's activities are viewed as more important strategically for France than others , an industry ministry official told Reuter , declining to give details , but noted that even in a nationally strategic sector like electronic components , France contents itself with owning 45% of SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV , with Italy as an equal partner and a small private holding held by Thorn EMI Plc . |
| 9 | Children 's activities are also a high priority , with art workshops and dance courses taking place on a regular basis . |
| 10 | It should be noted , however , that no special children 's activities are organised . |
| 11 | Special children 's activities are also available during some holiday periods . |
| 12 | Letterman 's activities are characterized by bustle and urgency . |
| 13 | Many of the natural elements which cause damage are , under more normal circumstances , sources of livelihood and man 's activities are closely integrated with them . ’ |
| 14 | The purchase of the Stockholm group already means that more than 60% of Wolters Kluwer 's activities are now outside the Netherlands , an objective that the company had originally set out to achieve in 1994 . |
| 15 | Outside the North Sea and Indonesia , the Company 's activities are focussed on ventures that offer potential for discoveries that will have a material impact on the Group 's reserves . |
| 16 | At Sunbury , XTP 's activities are directed towards helping the business add value by early and expert use of technology — much of which originates from outside in the contractors , competitors , and at BPX sites . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most visible of the union 's activities is the financial sponsorship of events such as the ICA/MU Rock Week held in May 1989 . |
| 18 | To achieve all this , and monitor it , requires detailed preparation , preferably including a presentation by the manager of the hotel in which the place of the scheme in the hotel 's activities is explained , and the expectations made of students , including working hours ( not necessarily the same as those of the college ) , lines of communication and responsibility , and details of accommodation and remuneration ( free food ? dormitories ? ) . |
| 19 | The other major element in the Open School 's activities is the Community Programme . |
| 20 | Indeed , it might be suggested in this context that to use the concept of subsidiarity to restrict the Community 's activities is hardly compatible with the achievement of a ‘ level playing-field ’ throughout the Community . |
| 21 | The legal challenge to GCHQ 's activities is certain to cause concern among ministers and intelligence officials . |
| 22 | In the mid-1970s , it was seen by the Labour administration as part of a comprehensive strategy towards regional economic and physical development in that the SDA 's activities were to be mirrored in Wales by the Welsh Development Agency ( WDA ) and in England by the National Enterprise Board ( NEB ) . |
| 23 | By the mid-1980s , the SDA 's activities were primarily directed towards attaining four major objectives ( Aitken and Sparks , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 25 | A cynic might say that Obispal 's activities were directly responsible for triggering the rebellion , and thus for all the deaths , including those of millions of bystanders . |
| 26 | During the time of William Nicholl 's service the Regiment 's activities were as follows : |
| 27 | Gorbachev resigned on Aug. 24 as the general secretary of the CPSU ( Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) , a post which only two days earlier he had appeared unwilling to renounce ; the party 's activities were suspended and its central committee dissolved . |
| 28 | The CP 's activities were suspended for six months on Aug. 30 . |
| 29 | It was also notable that large areas of the BBC 's activities were not apparently included in the efforts to defend Mr Birt . |
| 30 | Even where the state 's activities were productive , in the sense of producing a surplus , the capitalist logic of accumulation was undermined by the fact that the production of that surplus did not respond to the signals of profitability characterizing private capitalist activity ( Frankel 1979 ; Offe 1975a ) . |