Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] of [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Associated Tunnelling Co Ltd the Employment Appeals Tribunal ( EAT ) held that the tribunal had correctly concluded that there was an implied term in Mr Jones 's contract of employment to the effect that his employer had the right to transfer him to any site within reasonable daily commuting reach of his home . |
| 2 | Nor am I convinced by Marnham 's defence of Simenon against the charge of anti-Semitism — that he was simply ‘ politically inexperienced and intellectually naive ’ . |
| 3 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 4 | In 1927 Variety 's judgement of Rose of the Tenements was that ‘ New York 's pictorially hackneyed East Side ’ had been used as the setting for ‘ a drab colourless presentation offering little in either entertainment or box office value ’ , and that family problems had not been ‘ dramatized to an extent where the mob can be made to forget the obvious ordinary scheme of things ’ . |
| 5 | England 's change of captaincy since the end of the summer and the make-up of their various winter tour squads suggests a belief a that hard work is the first component in the rehabilitation plan . |
| 6 | Both appeared to be insuperable problems until the evening when Clarissa 's change of plan for the sixth or seventh time put a pattern into perspective . |
| 7 | So Protestant opinions had not been silenced by Arran 's change of heart after the initial heady days of 1543 ; and the Rough Wooing had not broken the link between the English and the hopes of Scottish Protestants . |
| 8 | Labour 's change of policy on the European Community puts it in a strong position to argue that economic and industrial decisions are increasingly likely to be made on a European basis and it is essential that Britain plays a more constructive role . |
| 9 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 10 | These include : ratings of satisfaction/dissatisfaction with housework , child-care , marriage , employment work and life generally ; an assessment of the women 's level of identification with the housewife role , and the level of definition applied to housework standards and routines ; an assessment of the marriage relationship as ‘ segregated ’ or ‘ joint ’ on the two dimensions of leisure activities and decision-making , and , lastly , an assessment of the husband 's part in the division of labour as reported by his wife . |
| 11 | But has proposed that NASA spend an additional $ 550 million over the next four years on civil aviation research , raising the government 's level of support beyond the limit if , as seems likely , sales remain stagnant . |
| 12 | This approach has many parallels with empowerment in the developmental model , the main differences lying in the social worker 's level of commitment to the existing social order . |
| 13 | Airmen Anonymous ( Merlin Books , 45pp , sbk , £3.95 ) by Trevor Holman is one man 's story of life in the RAF as a member of the groundcrew . |
| 14 | Press on Regardless by Stanley Humphrey , is one man 's story of life in the RAF from 1934 to 1946 . |
| 15 | The contractor 's provision of float within the programme is there to cover items that are at the contractor 's own risk and in general should not be used to abate any extension of time to which the contractor may be entitled . |
| 16 | After three-and-a-half years at Rugby Park , Fleeting decided that last week 's 3–1 defeat by Partick Thistle had effectively closed the door on Kilmarnock 's hope of promotion to the Premier Division this season . |
| 17 | Until the watershed of 1979 , few restraints on a Home Secretary 's freedom of action in the mainstream stemmed from the political ideology of his party or ministerial colleagues . |
| 18 | If there are to be significant changes in people 's experience of work in the future , these are , concludes Gallie , much more likely to be brought about by changes in cultural values , in institutional arrangements , or in management attitudes or trade union objectives ( Gallie 1978 , 317 ) . |
| 19 | Swan Hunter 's experience of shipbuilding for the navy makes it well placed to win a contract . |
| 20 | Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) show that much of a child 's experience of language in the classroom , in terms of teacher-pupil exchanges , is marked by a pattern of Initiation — Response — Feedback . |
| 21 | The charter recording Aethelbald 's grant of land to the monastery of Abingdon in Berkshire between 726 and 737 , in which he is styled ‘ king of the Angles of Britain' ( CS 155 : S 93 ) , is a forgery and unacceptable as an authentic record , but its attestation by Aethelheard , king of the West Saxons , while on expedition beyond the Severn against the Britons , could derive from a genuine fragment . |
| 22 | The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study . |
| 23 | Popular discontent subsequently resulted in the government 's loss of support in the October local government election results and the taxi-drivers ' strike at the end of the same month [ see p. 37791 ] . |
| 24 | The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas . |
| 25 | Mr justifies abandoning the approach in and on the basis that the decision was arrived at in a different housing market , when it was reasonable to conclude that the plaintiff 's loss of interest on the capital employed would be exceeded by the increase in the value of the property . |
| 26 | The Festival is the brainchild of the Prime Minister John Major and is intended to celebrate Britain 's term of presidency of the European Council , which runs from July to December 1992 . |
| 27 | Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments . |
| 28 | Britain 's stock of plutonium from the civil power programme is estimated to be enough to build 14000 missile warheads . |
| 29 | In one sense , this can be read as the Eastern District 's response to the Ashby Committee 's vote of confidence in the WEA little more than three years before . |
| 30 | The scheme forms part of the Ecu62 million second phase of the EC 's programme of assistance to the nuclear industry in the former Soviet Union . |