Example sentences of "['s] [noun] of [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sidney 's Defence of Poetry for instance assumes a hostile critical environment , maintaining that there are important groups who mistrust poetic fictions altogether . |
| 6 | He had been openly critical of his own archbishop 's defence of discrimination against homosexuals in church employment . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The relative scarcity of ethnographic descriptions of peaceful societies has resulted in focusing a good deal of interest on those that do exist : Colin Turnbull 's description of the Ituri Forest Pygmies ( 1961 ) , Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ' characterization of the ‘ harmless people ’ , the Kalahari Bushmen ( 1958 ) , Robert Dentan 's description of the Semai as ‘ non-violent people of Malaya ’ ( 1968 ) , Robert Levy 's ethnography of the Tahitians ( 1973 ) , Jean Briggs ' descriptions of the Inuit ( 1970 , 1975 ) , and Melford Spiro 's accounts of life on Ifaluk ( 1950 , 1952 ) , being among the most notable . |
| 10 | It also underpinned some of the Schools Council 's programmes of work in the period 1980 to 1983 , which were more concerned with supporting and developing existing initiatives , taken at the ‘ periphery ’ , than devising new ones from the ‘ centre ’ . |
| 11 | Goebbels 's eulogy of Hitler in an article in Das Reich on 31 December was said to have been well received by ‘ only a few people 's comrades and naturally the old loyal fighters ’ . |
| 12 | She had been a member of the bank 's board of management since November 1991 and had worked at the bank for 30 years . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Coventry City manager Bobby Gould has slammed West Bromwich Albion 's board of directors as the row over his banning from The Hawthorns rumbles on . |
| 14 | COVENTRY CITY manager Bobby Gould has slammed West Bromwich Albion 's board of directors as the row over his banning from The Hawthorns rumbles on . |
| 15 | Birmingham City 's chairman Samesh Kumar is to be voted off the club 's board of directors at an extraordinary general meeting next month . |
| 16 | A scientist has resigned from FoE 's board of directors in protest against the organisation 's decision to adopt a low profile over oil spills caused by the Gulf war . |
| 17 | According to a report presented on June 14 by the AMA 's Board of Trustees at the organisation 's annual meeting in Chicago , the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution severely restricts the US government 's power to set prices or to limit an individual 's spending . |
| 18 | But last year 's wave of violence against immigrants , which claimed 17 lives and provoked a series of mass candle-light anti-racism marches , has increased pressure to do something to ease tensions between Germans and foreigners . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Joseph Farrell reports on the theatre company 's change of direction with Sophocles 's ‘ Antigone ’ |
| 22 | Crucially , it was air reconnaissance that informed the Allies , on 3 September , of Kluck 's change of direction from west to east of Paris . |
| 23 | Thus instead of following the traditional linear progression of the allegory — a development towards contemplation based on Jacob 's union with Rachel after his marriage to Leah — Hilton is more interested in emphasising the coexistence of the two wives : In his reference to another facet of the story , that concerning Jacob 's change of name to Israel , allegorised as a man seeing God , Hilton does suggest a progression in contemplation for his pupil saying that he will become Israel , that is , fully contemplative , in the next world , certainly , and possibly even in this if his circumstances change so that he is relieved of worldly responsibility altogether . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In November 1985 he resigned from the government in protest at the signing that month of the Anglo-Irish Agreement [ see pp. 34070-73 ] , stating that he could not support the government 's change of policy on Northern Ireland , including " the involvement of a foreign power in a consultative role in the administration of the province " , which he claimed would prolong and not diminish " Ulster 's agony " [ see p. 34072 ] . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A former Methodist minister from Victoria and a leading member of the ALP 's left wing , Howe 's appointment was widely interpreted as a reward for the left 's support of Hawke in the leadership contest . |
| 30 | Mubarak confirmed that Assad was now willing to renew contact with Yassir Arafat , chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , but stated that many obstacles still remained to prevent an early reconciliation between Assad and Iraq 's President Saddam Hussein , between whom a bitter personal rift existed due to Syria 's support of Iran in the Gulf War . |