Example sentences of "'s [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various provisions of the Education Reform Act 1988 ( ERA ) , particularly those relating to LMS ( under which a school 's funding is based largely on the numbers and ages of its pupils ) and more open enrolment , are aimed at creating a climate of heightened competition between schools for pupils , and the present study will be conducted within this new context . |
| 2 | Much of Christian Aid 's funding is in support of Third World church groups ' practice of development . |
| 3 | Another example — we have not examined how the government 's funding is affecting housing trusts , or its impact on the local housing market . |
| 4 | As the BBC 's funding was ‘ assured ’ , it could pursue quality in programming without concerning itself with the needs of the public for , say , popular entertainment . |
| 5 | New York-based Judith Barry 's installation is also uninspiring , didactically retracing familiar issues to do with the dehumanising implications of technology , its potential to control rather than serve humankind. computer generated references to the history of communications fleet across the floorspace between two walls of words , one written as mirror writing but not as a direct reflection of the other . |
| 6 | According to Freedberg , the aim of Kosuth 's installation was to ‘ engender self-reflexiveness in each viewer 's judgment about the relations between art , morality and censorship ’ . |
| 7 | The analyst 's response is apt to consist of an ‘ … ’ |
| 8 | Leopold 's response is preserved , since he wrote a letter in three stages . |
| 9 | MK Electric 's Response is a more sophisticated ‘ answer-back ’ system based on the same technology . |
| 10 | In the case of ASB documents , the TAC 's response is made to the Financial Reporting Committee , which is delegated to respond to the document in the name of the Institute . |
| 11 | On this occasion , Murphy 's skill can only be admired visually , and the real force of his audience 's response is only to be guessed at . |
| 12 | For example , an elder 's response is likely to be inhibited if the practitioner uses baffling words , or the elder is flustered in a busy doctor 's surgery . |
| 13 | An elicitation procedure is designed to provide a child with the opportunity to respond to a specific set of stimuli ; the relationship between a stimulus and the child 's response is then taken as an indication of the child 's mastery of a particular aspect of language . |
| 14 | Quine 's response is instructive , although it may at first seem dismissive . |
| 15 | Mrs Whitehouse 's response is an interesting one . |
| 16 | One in seven primary-school children now suffers from asthma — but the Government 's response is simply that children who are at risk should be kept indoors when air quality is poor . |
| 17 | Rather , the young child 's response is determined by what the child thinks the adult 's question must mean . |
| 18 | John 's response is to say that they did not need false teachers , or any other teachers for that matter : ‘ you have been anointed ( lit . |
| 19 | The Council 's response is co-ordinated by a working group chaired by depute director of corporate services David Hume who was also the author of the three publications described in this feature : the Council 's main response on reform , the report on the future of water and sewerage services and ‘ Restoring the Balance ’ , a proposal for a system of decentralised local government . |
| 20 | Dame Sirith 's response is immediate and tellingly worded : ( " God Almighty reward you " ) |
| 21 | V 's response is a denial — the expected response to an accusation — and is in London English : " no I never … |
| 22 | In both ( 13 ) and ( 14 ) Valerie reports the exchanges as involving a change of codes between speakers : thus in ( 13 ) her cousin addresses her in London English but Valerie 's response is in Creole . |
| 23 | Clearly the minister 's response is inefficient , it 's it 's quite inadequate and what is required is a much more positive stance from the minister , and can the minister tell us whether or not he will be , he will be giving the opportunity to mature entrants to the apprenticeship scheme so that people that have been thrown on the scrap heap over this last fifteen years will have an opportunity and can he tell us whether or not he 's had discussions with British Coal enterprise to allow miners that have been made redundant to come into the new apprenticeship scheme so that they will have new skills which will help them to get new jobs . |
| 24 | A strategy is to be drawn up so environmental issues are given equal priority , and to ensure the council 's response is consistent . |
| 25 | But , with the budget deficit seeping £1 billion a week , the Government 's response is not greatly different from a decade ago . |
| 26 | This may seem a ridiculous assumption but , where there is an unvarying food supply , nature 's response is often somewhat like this . |
| 27 | McNair 's response was uncompromising ; that he should apply for , and prove himself in , a newly established Readership in Law and Politics at Hong Kong University . |
| 28 | Again , McNair 's response was unequivocal . |
| 29 | The Northern Irishman , second in the Order of Merit to Olazabal , went round in 66 to Reid 's 67 in the morning and when the American , at the 22nd hole , had his eighth birdie , Rafferty 's response was an eagle three . |
| 30 | Bevin 's response was implicitly to accept the strategic vulnerability of the Middle East in wartime , but to argue that Britain 's presence in that area was crucial to its role as a great political power . |