Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [coord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his resignation letter Garrett reiterated his ignorance of what had occurred , but accepted " full responsibility " for the Navy 's response and for the " leadership failure " which had allowed " the egregious conduct at Tailhook to occur in the first place " . |
| 2 | Market conditions were seen as buoyant , and OPEC Secretary-General Subroto said that the member countries were satisfied with the market 's response and with the operation of the February agreement . |
| 3 | But in a two-hour interview with reporters of the Scottish Daily Record he listed some fifteen details of the layout of the Ross bungalow and what was in it , information not mentioned at Meehan 's trial or in the newspapers , and which he could only have known if he had been there , all of which Mr Ross confirmed ( ‘ Colour of bedroom quilts was pink ’ , ‘ A light tan suit was in the bedroom wardrobe ’ , ‘ An alarm clock with black face and luminous hands stood in the hatchway to the kitchen ’ , etc . ) . |
| 4 | I had a bad time at the hands of male journalists during Julian 's trial and in the period leading up to it : some residual paranoia sticks . |
| 5 | In the first picture he catches John Snow off Daniel 's bowling and in the second he celebrates as Murray catches Alan Ward off Holding . |
| 6 | erm , I read a book this summer er by Kurt Vonnegut called Cat 's Cradle and in the book erm there 's this , there 's this er country and the country has outlawed this certain religion |
| 7 | ‘ Will delight fans of Boswell and Rumpole alike , ’ claims one critic , but it 's McKern 's TV incarnation which is the draw , and such audience involvement as exists is not with Edgeworth 's text but with the actor 's genial clowning . |
| 8 | Samways made a vital interception to snatch the ball off Taylor 's foot and in the 71st minute Thomas hammered the ball inches wide from a Connolly pass cleverly dummied by substitute Steve Watkin . |
| 9 | ‘ The doctor gave me a month 's course and by the time I had finished it , the spots had completely gone . |
| 10 | The circumstances of Goldberg 's case and of the present case were distinguishable from those of The Palermo , and of Watson v Cammel Laird in the way indicated in Watson v Cammel Laird when explaining the decision in Chadwick v Bowman . |
| 11 | To dismiss them out of hand is a sign either of defective knowledge or lack of imagination on the reader 's part or of the author 's incapacity to convince . |
| 12 | Miller respected Holland 's expertise and in the Dictionary stressed plant rarity with the qualification : ‘ there being very few in the Dutch gardens at present . ’ |
| 13 | For example , a successful validation exercise in Singapore enabled the Board to add a manuscript transcription component to both the Private Secretary 's Certificate and to the Secretarial Studies Certificate . |
| 14 | It must be appended to the document either by the signer or by some person acting at the signer 's direction and in the signer 's presence . |
| 15 | There can be little doubt , however , that a sense of God 's presence and of the supernatural in general were long-standing characteristics of Irish popular religion , along with magical and semi-magical local religious practices . |
| 16 | The women stood in silence , glad of each other 's presence and without the need to say as much . |
| 17 | Because all believers are affected by these developments , each of us is called to adapt to changing situations and to discover effective and responsible ways to use the communications media for God 's glory and for the service of his creation . |
| 18 | Now if you can just say on that , that that excludes any resources for the economic development action plan and for the time being resources for that initiative are being held centrally into Personnel and Finance sub-committee 's budget and as the action plans develop then money will be released from a contingency there to er go to the Planning Department or to whichever department that has actually been implementing that particular part of the action . |
| 19 | Courses for multilingual groups ( eg for teaching English in the UK , Australia or the USA ) rely more on the author 's experience and on the collective experience of his colleagues . |
| 20 | These are concealed either within the fitting 's baseplate or within the recessed connection box . |
| 21 | There was no sign of this Devil 's Ridge and by the time we reached the summit of Sgor an Iubhair I was imagining a knife edge of rock , hanging above an abyss full of red scaly demons , holding pitch forks and hissing to one another , ‘ She has n't got the security of a rope . ’ |
| 22 | Yonge 's father sat in Richard Cromwell 's Parliament and at the Restoration was active for religious comprehension . |
| 23 | One can go to Roget 's index and under the word ‘ include ’ find an alphabetically sorted list of words that are alternatives to ‘ include ’ . |
| 24 | At about the same time several young Ragusan aristocrats were writing love poems in Croatian , in the manner of Petrarch 's Canzoniero and of the troubadours who followed the Tuscan tradition . |
| 25 | A meander through Becket 's Park and along the riverside in the town centre . |
| 26 | Arousal in this study appeared to have a beneficial effect on memory for both types of information quite contrary to the predictions of Easterbrook 's hypothesis and to the results of the Christianson and Loftus ( 1987 ) study . |
| 27 | that talk about the company of which I 'm chairman is that there is a personnel and compensation committee which in the absence of a chief executive sets the chief executive 's remuneration and with the presence of the chief executive , although he 's not , I 'm not a member of that committee we work on the other senior executives of the company , it 's quite similar to the process used here in your company . |
| 28 | In the null output direction the signal changes are almost solely due to angular movement of the earth 's field and over the small range involved are linearly proportional to angle . |
| 29 | The noise thus created is thought to be passed up the animal 's windpipe and into the sinus cavities of the skull , where it resonates to produce the purring sound . |
| 30 | All of these aspects of the production of the text affect its meaning , both from the point of view of the author 's intention and of the most probable interpretation , even before we consider the wider social situations in which it may be encountered . |