Example sentences of "[noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may help to increase the bladder 's capacity . |
| 2 | This will help them to become sensitive to the bladder 's warning signals . |
| 3 | PHIL THOMPSON : ‘ So that mean 's I get my job back does it ? ’ |
| 4 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 5 | They are a cold , northern intellectual 's idea of Venice . ’ |
| 6 | Law could become once more an intellectual 's chess-game . |
| 7 | ‘ Too English for me , ’ she will sometimes add , in her impeccably English middle-class intellectual 's voice . |
| 8 | If it feels like an extreme observation — and , in parts , not unprescient for the great financial débâcles of the nineteenth and late twentieth centuries — Johnson was also voicing an intellectual 's fashionable enquiry into the lastingness of common interest . |
| 9 | Before proceeding any further , it is important to be clear about the falsificationist 's usage of the term ‘ falsifiable ’ . |
| 10 | Theorists operating in this way are guilty of the fortune-teller 's evasion and are subject to the falsificationist 's criticism . |
| 11 | The closely associated demands for precision and clarity of expression both follow naturally from the falsificationist 's account of science . |
| 12 | However , exclusive attention to falsifying instances amounts to a misrepresentation of the more sophisticated falsificationist 's position . |
| 13 | The borough plans to house its archives in this ‘ lilla huset ’ ( Swedish for ‘ little house ’ ) , together with an urban study centre for local schools and a business studies centre for the borough 's training programme . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State , however , ‘ knew best ’ and overruled his inspector who had supported the borough 's view . |
| 15 | Under the borough 's jurisdiction , electricity was readily made available and residents were encouraged to have their home wired at very low cost , if necessary payable on weekly hire terms . |
| 16 | Little enough of the borough 's wealth appears to have filtered down to the townsfolk . |
| 17 | The blanket ban on the publishers not only would have led to virtually nothing being bought for the borough 's libraries , but it would have denied the borough those titles which do serve the fight against racism . |
| 18 | I am concerned here merely to reconstruct a broad outline of the borough 's socio-economic character . |
| 19 | Here over half the total workforce was unskilled , and here resided nearly half the borough 's pool of unskilled labour . |
| 20 | It is sadder still that the weight of being given funding may soon be lifted from FAB by the London Borough 's Grants Unit proposal to cut FAB 's grant . |
| 21 | Last week 's meeting of the borough 's policy and finance committee was all but devoid of dissenting voices , a mood summed up by one Labour councillor afterwards : ‘ What 's the point of arguing ? |
| 22 | To mark the start of this latest project at The Railway Age , the Borough 's Mayor , Councillor Dorothy Hassall was on hand to help Railway Age Chairman John Williams launch the project in traditional style with a wave of the green flag and a blow on the guardsman 's whistle , with the Princess Elizabeth providing the appropriate background . |
| 23 | The borough 's team hopes to maximise a mother 's chances of continuing to care for her children by providing independent counselling and advocacy to help her survive the investigation intact . |
| 24 | These social workers were based in the borough 's Special Services Team . |
| 25 | He claims he was framed by Islington because he revealed incidents of abuse in the borough 's children 's homes . |
| 26 | The court decided that the leaflet was not sufficiently misleading to justify finding in the Borough 's favour ; but implicit in the court 's decision is a further decision that the court had jurisdiction to decide the issue of legality — in other words , that the decision to distribute the leaflet was amenable to judicial review . |
| 27 | The borough 's numerous municipal housing estates and legacy of dockland neighbourhoods house people suffering from levels of deprivation and unemployment as severe as anywhere in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | The Council 's initiative to set up a multi-professional group to address the borough 's drugs problem was well conceived for it allowed , for the first time , the information and concerns picked up by various parties in relation to heroin to be pulled together . |
| 29 | One from whom we heard lends collections of books to the borough 's hundred or so preschool organizations , which include day nurseries , playgroups and private nurseries . |
| 30 | You may recall we overcame a spirited Chamden side in the opening fixture , then handed out a 1–0 demolition to Scrimley Arsenal ( Marley 58 mins ) , slaughtered Hellingborough on their own ground 2–1 ( three own goals by ‘ Borough 's one-eyed left back , Hazlett ) , then massacred Frampton Rovers in last Saturday 's impressive 1–1 draw . |