Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Prime Minister John Major also praised Yeltsin 's response but stressed that the UK did not envisage any cuts in plans to deploy the Trident missile . |
| 2 | But the ever-increasing majority of church members who want women to be ordained as priests have consciences too : they are hurt by the slowness of the Church of England 's response and feel bound to follow what they see as a movement of the Holy Spirit in our time . |
| 3 | The parents need to know how to gauge the child 's response and achieve their aim without anger or upset . |
| 4 | Albert Einstein 's response when asked to smile for his birthday in Princeton , 1951 |
| 5 | The question doubtless uppermost in the vendors ' mind will be price and the purchaser 's response when pressed on this point should be carefully considered in advance . |
| 6 | This arises from the fact that unemployment or underemployment will reduce the household 's income and constrain the demand for goods . |
| 7 | Prospero 's Books ( April 25 ) is the new one from Greenaway whose previous movies include The Draughtsman 's Contract and Drowning by Numbers . |
| 8 | Whenever anybody started to make fun of Lennie , calling him cuckoo or crazy , George jumped straight to Lennie 's defence and said that Lennie had been kicked in the head when he was a little boy . |
| 9 | It would , after all , be a lunatic commander-in-chief who relied solely on nuclear missiles for his country 's defence and dispensed with infantry , tanks , aircraft and submarines . |
| 10 | If the police persevered , they were bound to crack Audrey Sweet 's defence and find out about the family blackmailing business . |
| 11 | Unlikely as it may seem now , it was Evelyn Waugh who came to Wilson 's defence and acknowledged the brilliance and aptness of the book 's main conceit , which — given the turn of events in Eastern and Central Europe — is apropos once more . |
| 12 | She struggled and was nearly countered , but then negated Wu 's defence and slipped in for a one-armed shoulder throw . |
| 13 | The students spar lightly , each trying to score a point by striking to a certain area of the body , employing everything he knows in his kung fu arsenal to overcome his opponent 's defence and attack procedures . |
| 14 | The last seven years have seen a considerable expansion of the museum 's activities but have been coloured by the drama and eventual scandal surrounding the controversial restoration by Daniel Goldreyer of one of the museum 's principal paintings , Barnet Newman 's monumental ‘ Who 's afraid of red yellow and blue III ’ which had been vandalised in 1986 ( see p.15 ) . |
| 15 | Note was also taken , if regretfully , of the questionable conduct of our Legal Adviser de Palfrey — I even got my de back * — who had failed to justify his use of the Home Secretary 's delegated authority in the full knowledge that this was required of him by the secretly agreed Procedures Governing the Service 's Activities as Amended by etcetera , and in accordance with paragraph something of a deniable Home Office protocol . |
| 16 | Possibly the most terrifying of Rodley 's activities whilst attached to No 5 Group was a remarkable escape from destruction when he took off from Coningsby on a special mining raid , with a full load of Admiralty aerial mines , and suffered engine failure almost immediately after take-off . |
| 17 | Again , the atmosphere is friendly with everyone recounting the day 's activities whilst making new friends and meeting old adversaries . |
| 18 | For instance , the finding that women are ‘ cooperative ’ or ‘ conciliatory ’ speakers may be explained , as we have seen , in terms of women 's activities and peer-group norms . |
| 19 | ‘ My first job is to learn Saatchi 's activities and to do a good job of selling the consulting businesses , ’ he said , in a reference to the company 's previously announced plans to sell its management consultancy arm . |
| 20 | My role as a lawyer within the company means that my work is directly linked to the development of the company 's activities and encompasses everything from handling acquisitions and disposals to advising on minor matters on an ad-hoc basis , and problem solving for the company . |
| 21 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 22 | He was a co-founder of the CNAC , involved in programming the Centre 's activities and looking after its collections from the early days . |
| 23 | The accounting policies of the Institute have regard to accounting standards and presentational aspects of the Companies Act where these are relevant to the Institute 's activities and do not result in misleading information . |
| 24 | Commercial manager Philip Felcey said : ‘ The Quality Improvement culture is firmly established throughout C&P and Myron Tribus and Peter Wickens , both world class quality practitioners , were able to bring a broader perspective to C&P 's activities and to provide real impetus . ’ |
| 25 | MINIS , at its simplest , represents ‘ an … attempt to collect information about a Department 's activities and to place responsibility for using this information with the Department 's top management , Ministerial and official ’ ( Richards , 1987 , p. 26 ) . |
| 26 | But the caribou knew nothing of man 's activities and following the ancient trail they found their way barred . |
| 27 | The Enterprise Centre 's ‘ local ’ LEC — LEEL has been supportive of a number of areas of the centre 's activities and sponsored the 1993 Napier Enterprise Lecture . |
| 28 | However , our role is more central , even on the most banal basis — the £2 billion of the Government 's money that goes into that bottomless abyss year after year . |
| 29 | They will advise on the distribution of the fund 's money and act as local contacts , as well as promoting the grants , advising potential applicants and monitoring projects that receive the grants . |
| 30 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |