Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If scientists can make all the dye 's molecules react photochemically , and make a product that absorbs in a different part of the spectrum , the material will now appear transparent in the region that the dye molecules originally rendered opaque . |
| 2 | But this emphasis on the reader 's response does not mean that Riffaterre accepts that literary analysis is subjective . |
| 3 | After a sound start from Gooch and Broad , England 's response belonged primarily to Gatting , and his 82 not out saw his team home with six wickets in hand . |
| 4 | To these weapons , NATO 's response has long been the Polaris and Poseidon missiles carried on nuclear submarines . |
| 5 | Dirk 's response reflects why he has succeeded where many have failed . |
| 6 | Ten percent of last year 's income had again been designated for outward giving , the sum of £1,754 going to such national charities as the Emily Fund for abused children and the Church Housing Trust , and £844 for Kurdish and Romanian victims and other overseas causes . |
| 7 | All these obligations are designed to ensure that the tenant keeps up the real value of the scheme and that the landlord 's income remains as high as possible . |
| 8 | MG Kent TN4 8XP THE difficulty faced by many younger pensioners is that the husband 's income derives mainly from occupational pensions and this can not be transferred to the wife . |
| 9 | Rates developed as a direct tax on an individual 's income levied so as to take into account his or her capacity to pay . |
| 10 | Is everybody like that though , is to mean here 's Jan , where 's Jan 's contract go too ? |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal held that as the main purpose of Mr Stark 's contract had merely been the regular and efficient distribution of newspapers and since there was no evidence he should personally engage in distribution , it followed that the contract was not a ‘ contract personally to execute any work or labour ’ and therefore Mrs Gunning was not employed under such a contract . |
| 12 | When Checkland 's contract came up for renewal , it was renewed only for a token year . |
| 13 | Mrs Rymer 's contract runs out on March 31 but the council said it will be renewed . |
| 14 | In the meantime , yesterday 's contract sets up EDS as KF 's partner in managing the Stockholm-based company 's computer systems , making it more of a ‘ cosourcing ’ than an ‘ outsourcing ’ contract , Carroll said . |
| 15 | Alton 's defence played soundly and the team looked dangerous on the break . |
| 16 | Thompson took a fine ball from Pugh after 12 minutes and again raced clear but Swansea 's defence snuffed out the danger . |
| 17 | Bath looked as if they were going to win , but Gloucester 's defence held out well . |
| 18 | The score at Dens Park and Parkhead decreed that Willie Miller 's defence has now conceded fewer goals than any other club in the top flight of the Scottish game , the Aberdeen rearguard having been breached only 26 times . |
| 19 | John Paul Jones 's activities had strikingly demonstrated the vulnerability of the coastline and the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser accompanied its report of the raid on St Mary 's Isle with some distinctly sharp observations : |
| 20 | An inquiry into that case showed that the head 's activities had probably been common knowledge among the staff for years . |
| 21 | The addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife . |
| 22 | But the addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife . |
| 23 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |
| 24 | Crail 's activities declined long ago and now there are only a few shellfish boats , but its seventeenth-century Customs House is still an attractive feature of the harbour . |
| 25 | If they make Æthelred 's activities appear considerably rosier to us than they did to contemporaries , this at least does something to explain how the king in whose name these high-sounding utterances were issued could be charged by his subjects in 1014 with hateful practices and injustice . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , Charles 's activities have not to my knowledge been examined , certainly not with such thoroughness , from this angle before . |
| 27 | The insurers also sought to distinguish Lawrence by contending that in that case the student 's money had not passed to the taxi driver and that the student had not conferred on the taxi driver the rights of an owner . |
| 28 | Having left the Army , Drew Benedict had spent a great deal of Sukey 's money buying really good ponies . |
| 29 | From the start , ITV programme scheduling was almost entirely determined , apart from the IBA 's requirements , by the need to get advertising revenue ( in its early years , one-quarter of ITV 's money came simply from the great washing-powder war ) . |
| 30 | But , sure enough , when Swansea 's money ran out , so did the players . |