Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " 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 | Since 1979 , the Government has taken three measures to lower the replacement ratio — that is , to increase the gap between a person 's income when in work compared with when he or she is drawing the dole . |
| 4 | At the end of both the Reeve 's Prologue and of his Tale , a measure-for-measure attitude to the governing of human affairs , and , most significantly , human relationships , is enunciated : and : with no sense anywhere of grace , mercy or forgiveness , the essentials for human salvation in the Christian view . |
| 5 | 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 . ) . |
| 6 | Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Queen 's worry as to how the Dolls ' House opened was a perfectly reasonable one . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All local winners will receive a Chief Executive Officer 's award and in February 1992 will attend a ceremony hosted by Ralph Hodge . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 15 | If all were re-appointed , in a replay of 1964 , the claim that franchises were ‘ competitive ’ would begin to look hollow , and would simply confirm the Pilkington Committee 's judgement that to all intents ‘ the appointment of a programme contractor is virtually irrevocable ’ ( Pilkington , 1962 , p. 165 ) . |
| 16 | Several WEA students had benefited from the LEA 's support and at least two , E. W. Gurney and Arthur Kempster , were to become prominent figures in the civic life of the county in later years . |
| 17 | The combined effect of Perot cutting into Clinton 's support and of evidence that Bush 's standing in the polls was showing some signs of improvement rejuvenated the President 's campaign in the final days of the contest and forced the Democrats to concede that the election could be much closer than had earlier been thought likely . |
| 18 | A suitable compromise is for both parties to rely on the opinion of a leading Queen 's Counsel as to whether or not and to what extent the purchaser 's claim is likely to succeed . |
| 19 | ‘ We are intending to expand our share both under the Harrison 's brand and through developing our own label business ’ . |
| 20 | Appearing as witnesses in court , some physicians have suggested that it is foolhardy to jeopardise a person 's livelihood because of a laboratory report when the worker appears to be performing his job normally . |
| 21 | ‘ The doctor gave me a month 's course and by the time I had finished it , the spots had completely gone . |
| 22 | Although the issue did not arise in Pickin 's case nor in other authorities cited above , it was there assumed that the only possible barriers to validity were the procedural ones there considered . |
| 23 | My Lord the started sum of money originally , sixty thousand pounds was the total loan and there were further overdraught facilities and and it 's the plaintiff 's case that without it it was simply not going to be manageable and as a result of that having thought carefully about erm , position it is his case that he rang Peter , told him that there were major problems in the financing of the deal and asked him if he could get him out of the contract because the finance he anticipated was no longer going to be available and it was his case that Peter advised him that there was no way out because contracts had been exchanged , er Mr was told very clearly that he was committed legally now to the deal and that he 'd better try and rearrange some finances since clearly they were moving towards er the completion date . |
| 24 | He is consistently hostile to Lothar , and that means he has almost nothing to say about Lothar 's case or about those who " bought " it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Thompson 's and Anderson 's choices of their respective definitions are clearly the fruit of a more fundamental attachment — to the underlying assumptions of individualism in Thompson 's case and to holism in Anderson 's — and as the tone of their exchange reveals , they will not lightly give these up . |
| 27 | Such haste inevitably resulted in cursory recording being a characteristic of research at this time , which is particularly regrettable in Faussett 's case because of the scale of his activities in Kent . |
| 28 | It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The clinical purpose stems from the fact that in many instances the co-operation of the patient and the patient 's faith or at least confidence in the efficiency of the treatment is a major factor contributing to the treatment 's success . |