Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he was delighted with the aunt 's response and now he and his wife Diana are preparing the papers for an adoption . |
| 2 | Much more important than the Duchy was the royal household , whose financial institutions , the Chamber and the Wardrobe , not only consumed a large part of the Crown 's income but also assisted , from time to time , in national government . |
| 3 | Section 663 provides that where there is a settlement , and during the life of the settlor any income is paid to or for the benefit of a child of the settlor in any year of assessment , the income shall , if at the time of payment the child is unmarried and below the age of 18 , be treated as the settlor 's income and not the income of any other person . |
| 4 | A mortgage valuation may be considered sufficient for a lending institution able to spread the risk across many loans , and which also has the benefit of the security of each borrower 's income as well as the property . |
| 5 | Well , with Mum 's income as well as Dad 's , and stretching things to the limit for the mortgage , I suppose it was a bit of a mansion , from a tramp 's viewpoint . |
| 6 | Most women were more cautious and conscious about how they spent the household 's money but about half were just ‘ living from week to week ’ , struggling to meet their financial commitments with every penny of the weekly budget accounted for . |
| 7 | Some people have said that the N H S should be financed from the tax payer 's money and not through what is , it is n't quite a charity , but basically other means . |
| 8 | Absolutely , I mean I feel more so about my phone number and address , my phone number particularly erm you know money 's money and so what , but when it 's when it 's your personal safety I think I think it 's appalling . |
| 9 | The following is a list of the major board types , starting with the separate category of the beginner 's board and then recognising the four distinct types of funboard . |
| 10 | He slipped a hand beneath Corbett 's cloak and deftly drew out the clerk 's knife which he stuck into his own sturdy leather-studded belt , and almost dragged the horse across the market-place . |
| 11 | She had protested at their taking the Friar 's sack but now she allowed herself to be swept along by them without resistance . |
| 12 | It does n't really matter if you succeed in catching the opponent 's foot or not : the main objective is to move out from the opponent 's centre-line while turning to face him . |
| 13 | The example is the famous case in which a man unintentionally drove his car on to a police-officer 's foot and then declined to remove it , for a minute or two , when asked . |
| 14 | But it was clearly to any one firm 's advantage if somewhere was elsewhere . |
| 15 | The drug also finds it way to the mother 's milk and so could exert its effects on newborn children . |
| 16 | A second Acropolis plaque , with a warrior ( fig. 95 ) is very close in style both to the Athena-plaque and to Euthymides 's red-figure , and is painted not in vase-painter 's technique but partly in outline , mainly in brown wash outlined in black , like the Therm on metopes of a century earlier ( above , p. 13 ) ; only the cloak knotted round the waist is black with incised folds . |
| 17 | One of the tabloids got a couple of columns out of it — Teen Lovers ' Nude Death Ride on Dizzy 's Yacht but mostly the papers left it alone . |
| 18 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |
| 19 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 20 | Carrie had Nick 's case as well as her own and a carrier bag with a broken string handle . |
| 21 | In almost all cases an obstructive landlord will be able to find some subsisting breach of covenant on the tenant 's part and thereby defeat the option . |
| 22 | He is , after all , an actor 's part and perfectly accessible — he prefers , too , to be acted rather than to be read . |
| 23 | In resolving doubt , how much is God 's part and how much is ours ? |
| 24 | Gigant Street was most interesting for it not only housed Gibbs Mew & Co 's Brewery but also Tylee 's Rag and Bone store or more correctly , as the large sign at the front of the building proclaimed , ‘ C.E. TYLEE , Wool , Horsehair , Rag , Metal and Skin Merchant and Marine Store Dealer . ’ |
| 25 | Spilsby was the birthplace of Sir John Franklin , and Wainfleet , once notorious for its smuggling associations , is the home of the well known Bateman 's Brewery and also the birthplace in 1484 of William of Waynflete : founder of Magdalen College , Bishop of Winchester , Provost to Eton , Lord Chancellor to Henry VI and tutor to Edward , Price of Wales . |
| 26 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 27 | Librarians provided library induction courses , further courses in the bibliography of education and other subject fields , in school librarianship , children 's literature and even , on occasions , participated in the supervision of students on teaching practice . |
| 28 | A postmodernist option , which we have encountered briefly in Sukenick 's fiction and now seen in Barth 's protagonists composing their story in opposition to political forces devoted to secrecy ( to a silent plot in other words ) , is developed to extraordinarily intricate lengths in the novels of Thomas Pynchon . |
| 29 | The CBR is black-body radiation at 2.74 K that bathes the Earth 's orbit and presumably permeates the whole Universe . |
| 30 | He had returned his father 's shirt and now wore his own vest , washed in the tin bath and dried over the kitchen pipes . |