Example sentences of "['s] [conj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This application should still be made even if , because of the student 's and/or parents ' income , it appears unlikely that there will be any assistance towards maintenance , because fees are payable in full by the grant-awarding body without regard to the income of student , parent or spouse . |
| 2 | changes in the group 's and/or company 's pension arrangements . |
| 3 | Some people can be quite sensitive or allergic to baker 's or brewer 's yeast and this can cause skin reactions , including urticaria ( nettle rash ) and eczema , and sometimes bowel problems . |
| 4 | And the state functions in response to the political power of the hegemonic class : the functioning of the bureaucracy corresponds to the political interest of this class or fraction , but this is because of the state 's complex relations with this class 's or fraction 's political power and not because of the bureaucracy 's class affiliation or recruitment . |
| 5 | Mosley 's own experience of the First World War was less traumatic than either Chesterton 's or Williamson 's . |
| 6 | The main consents required are discussed later , but include landlord 's consent to assign leases and major customer 's or supplier 's consents to assign contracts . |
| 7 | Under the SGSA 1982 , in any contract of supply the seller 's or supplier 's duties will normally be strict and excludable only in limited circumstances ( see Chapter 5 ) , whereas , in contracts for the supply of services , the supplier 's duties will be duties of care which will be excludable subject to the reasonableness requirement of UCTA 1977 . |
| 8 | Stones would be produced to order , to the mason 's or customer 's preferred design ; as there was no standard pattern the variations in size , shape and weight could make matches farcical . |
| 9 | This includes any director 's or consultant 's fees you may still be receiving , as well as more obvious income . |
| 10 | Money is demanded both to finance day-to-day transactions and as an asset , perhaps being part of an individual 's or firm 's speculative activity . |
| 11 | So far the taxes we have discussed ( except the poll tax ) have been assessed on the size of an individual 's or firm 's income . |
| 12 | ‘ Charles 's or Gray 's ? ’ |
| 13 | Soars , often with angled wings , but normal flight more buoyant and harrier-like than Black Kite 's or Buzzard 's . |
| 14 | Whose streets are cleaner — Westminster 's or Camden 's ? |
| 15 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |
| 16 | It 's the same in every prison , men 's or women 's . |
| 17 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 18 | These factors , while nothing to do with technical tax rules , must nevertheless figure clearly in any individual 's or company 's considerations when weighing up whether or not haven-based tax planning is really appropriate . |
| 19 | When a drover 's or farmer 's beasts went missing , they were liable to find their way into rogues ' hiding-places such as the deep cleft of the Devil 's Beef Tub near the source of the River Tweed above Moffat , where encircling hills seemed , according to Sir Walter Scott , to be ‘ laying their heads together to shut out the daylight from the dark hollow space between them ’ . |
| 20 | Although it is a parent 's or guardian 's statutory responsibility to ensure children 's regular attendance at school , schools generally see it as their responsibility to monitor attendance , to seek explanation from parents for pupils ' non-attendance and to ensure that once pupils come to school they attend their classes . |
| 21 | Of course , it is difficult to pre-empt a jury 's or judge 's decision on damages , but the fact that a very rich plaintiff might hand over his damages to charity should and could be taken into account in any assessment . |
| 22 | ‘ That was no carver 's or miniaturist 's craft , but black magic , for that was the castle in which I lived , and the forests and meadows round it were mine , where I roamed freely , with my beloved brother , until the black artist came one night seeking shelter from foul weather . |
| 23 | Similar unsuccessful arguments have been raised in other construction cases where a dispute has halted a contractor 's or subcontractor 's cash flow . |
| 24 | Erm children 's pensions they would be half the widow 's or widower 's pension and they 're payable for dependant children up to the age of seventeen and for children who are in full time erm higher education and for one child the payment would be actually half the widow 's or the widower 's pension . |
| 25 | So if you like the that pension plus the the widow 's or widower 's would equate to your pension . |
| 26 | In future years , it is quite possible that both husband and wife will enjoy a healthy level of pension in their retirement and that both will continue to derive a good income from their partner 's pension scheme when that partner has died — as a widow 's or widower 's pension being paid in addition to the continuing pension from his or her own scheme . |
| 27 | In these schemes , a widow 's or widower 's pension can only be achieved if the member gives up part of their own retirement pension . |
| 28 | On Saturday evenings , he 'd fold open the newspaper at the fixture list and sing the refrain ‘ £75,000 ’ to the signature tune of Sports Report ( £75,000 was then the top prize dividend paid out by Littlewood 's or Vernon 's football pool ) . |
| 29 | This will influence the teacher 's or therapist 's decision regarding whether or not the test is likely to be useful for a particular child and for a particular purpose . |
| 30 | It is not hard to see that in Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound is centrally concerned with just this question , and is defending his own scale of priorities against Hewlett 's or Newbolt 's . |