Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hangovers are actually the body 's response of shock at being subjected to a substantial dose of a poisonous substance . |
| 2 | The embarrassing parallels between the party 's response to discontent in Peking and Lhasa also embrace rhetoric and ideology . |
| 3 | Exodus 16 and Numbers 11 belong to two series of passages which are concerned with God 's response to complaints of the people during their years in the wilderness . |
| 4 | Scaling : the relaxation ( time-correlation ) functions ( which characterise a material 's response to changes in an applied mechanical or electromagnetic field ) , measured at different temperatures , may be made to coincide on a single ‘ master ’ curve by scaling the time axis with a temperature-dependent characteristic time . |
| 5 | The body 's response to alterations in fluid balance varies according to the rate and volume of fluid loss , the effects being more apparent when loss is rapid or when the patient is already debilitated . |
| 6 | The Forth studies will include other transport developments proposed last month in the Government 's response to consultation on possible improvements to road , rail , bus , traffic management and public transport west of Edinburgh and between Lothian and Fife . |
| 7 | At the same time , however , there is a new urgency to the West 's response to events in Moscow . |
| 8 | There seems to be a struggle , which Milton perhaps did not intend , between the reader 's response to Satan as a powerful and convincing character and the way in which one should react to such a malevolent force . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , workers are trying to alter the body 's response to disease by adding information to its cells . |
| 10 | I wonder what was heaven 's response to Henry of Winchester when he achieved the bishopric ? |
| 11 | These coffins , England 's response in lead to the Egyptian mummy case , became fashionable in the fifteenth century and were still to be seen in some areas in the last decade of the seventeenth century , though they were beginning to decline in popularity during the 1660s and 1670s . |
| 12 | There is money to be made from ivory worth an average family 's income for years at the risk of six months in gaol at no expense to you . |
| 13 | Appeals director Charles Holden said the planned pit closures will reduce the charity 's income by £175,000 through lost donations from miners . |
| 14 | For instance , if an amount is included in a person 's income by virtue of TA 1988 , s421 ( assessment in respect of loan from close company ) in respect of any loan or advance , there is to be a corresponding reduction in the amount which can be included and taxable under TA 1988 , s677 ( TA 1988 , s677(3) ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was held that the defendant had not repudiated the plaintiff 's contract of employment by refusing to allow her to carry out her duties until her fixed-term contract had expired . |
| 17 | Similarly the court in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis took note of the duration of a restrictive covenant in a former employee 's contract of employment in determining how long it would restrain the defendant from using an index of customers removed from his former employers . |
| 18 | Correction : our Moscow correspondent has had second thoughts , and now advises us that Hewlett-Packard Co 's contract with Asuneft in Siberia is worth $3m ( CI No 2,118 ) . |
| 19 | Sidney 's Defence of Poetry for instance assumes a hostile critical environment , maintaining that there are important groups who mistrust poetic fictions altogether . |
| 20 | He had been openly critical of his own archbishop 's defence of discrimination against homosexuals in church employment . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Chief of the General Staff of the People 's Army , Kico Mustaqi , was appointed Minister of People 's Defence in place of Prokop Murra . |
| 24 | Assessors scrutinised all aspects of the laboratory 's activities from receipt of a sample through to the final report . |
| 25 | Not everyone was wholly approving of Wigg 's activities in relation to Profumo — and indeed on many other matters . |
| 26 | The new developments of Morningside and Chelsea in the Antelope area of Sacramento clearly met the demands of today 's buyer in terms of value and quality , but other subdivisions had mixed results . |
| 27 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 28 | Then she remembered she 'd put the children 's money for Monday on one side already , and Rory had collected his shoes from the menders . |
| 29 | But the court says that deals are only allowed to protect rate payer 's money from fluctuations in interest rates , and ca n't be carried out for trading purposes . |
| 30 | The Institute 's Tax Faculty has issued a guidance note on a company 's exposure to penalties on submitting a corporation tax Pay and File return containing estimated figures . |