Example sentences of "to [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother also sent a message to Jim 's school , to tell them what had happened . |
| 2 | She had been going up to admire her newly-painted room , but something took her to Jim 's door . |
| 3 | Jim was due to leave another school in the area at Christmas 1984 and shortly before summer 1984 a panel hearing was requested due to Jim 's non-attendance at school and the theft of a pushbike . |
| 4 | Then , then go on to Jim 's point of , come on lads . |
| 5 | I hauled him off to Jim 's Cafe . |
| 6 | Israel 's Foreign Minister David Levi , also responding to Baker 's statement , had said that " peace can not be imposed on Israel " . |
| 7 | The first response to Baker 's announcement came from Shevardnadze who welcomed the change , which , he said , brought US and Soviet approaches to Cambodia " much closer " . |
| 8 | Despite recognizing the need for theory to explain market-type control mechanisms within real-world firms , this chapter accepts that some use of direct , non-delegated authority is the necessary , defining feature of a firm , and turns to Williamson 's work for an explanation of the circumstances in which it has a comparative advantage over other control mechanisms . |
| 9 | Conservationists have communicated their concern about plans to erect a " buffalo fence " on the north-western fringe of the delta , to Botswana 's representative at the European Community in Brussels . |
| 10 | Time will bring an end to all things , even to Marlowe 's dream , as it is only a dream and exists in the temporal , real world . |
| 11 | An attempt was made in SPAR to reflect these factors by temporarily , during the application of the focusing rules to each anaphor , augmenting the existing focus registers with intrasentential candidates , ordered according to Hobbs ' algorithm . |
| 12 | The USSR 's commitment to Communism 's expansion and triumph seems to co-exist with a psychology of threat and a view of herself as victim . |
| 13 | Behind the bland terms of Scînteia 's unimposing announcement lay the greatest challenge to Ceauşescu 's power , in fact to communism 's control of Romania , to date . |
| 14 | Another difficulty with the idea of a static universe was that according to Newton 's law of gravity , each star in the universe ought to be attracted toward every other star . |
| 15 | A finite collection of stars will fall together , and according to Newton 's law , adding more stars outside the region will not stop the collapse . |
| 16 | In the limit of low velocities and small gravitational effects GR reduces to Newton 's law with small corrections , and these corrections account precisely for the small residual advance of perihelion in the case of Mercury . |
| 17 | In the limit of slowly moving bodies and weak gravitational fields this equation will be shown to reduce to Newton 's law of gravitation . |
| 18 | The value of the constant is fixed by the requirement that , in the limit of weak slowly varying gravitational fields , the Einstein equation should reduce to Newton 's law of gravitation . |
| 19 | It is instructive to check that in the limit of weak slowly-varying gravitational fields Einstein 's equation reduces to Newton 's law of gravitation . |
| 20 | What could he say to Newton 's note ? |
| 21 | In the case of Descartes , it eventuated in laws of motion , one of which resembles the principle of linear inertia that was so basic to Newton 's analysis of the relationship between force , mass , and acceleration . |
| 22 | The degree of support given to Newton 's theory by Galle 's observation of Neptune is no different from the degree of support given by a modern observation of Neptune . |
| 23 | It had been deepest at the moment just inside the Bleech-Palmer front door when , as always , Daphne set her plump hands on Cecilia 's shoulders and lifted her lips to Cecilia 's cheek . |
| 24 | He went to Bathsheba 's house , where the maids told him their mistress was watching the sheep-washing . |
| 25 | Sergeant Troy picked up his bag and was about to take the road to Bathsheba 's house , when Boldwood stepped forward . |
| 26 | They called to Joseph Poorgrass , who was picking apples , and soon he came along the path to Bathsheba 's house . |
| 27 | Responding to Chervov 's call for the inclusion of naval forces in the current Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) talks , the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff , Gen. Colin Powell , said that " the real threat in Europe [ did ] not come from the US Navy but from the overwhelming Soviet ground forces , backed by air forces " . |
| 28 | to Acton 's Co-op Hall for Sunday School . |
| 29 | ‘ To Kemp 's place ? ’ |
| 30 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |