Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University 's funding in future will come through a contract , awarded by the Universities Funding Council , to teach a certain number of students in certain subjects for certain prices . |
| 2 | This extended critical evaluation is a rarity in a survey , but very welcome in the way it spells out a connoisseur 's response in formal terms to a work of art . |
| 3 | during which some part of the story was told in conventional gesture , e.g. the casting of Carabosse 's spell and the Lilac Fairy 's response in the first scene of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 4 | These coffins , England 's response in lead to the Egyptian mummy case , became fashionable in the fifteenth century and were still to be seen in some areas in the last decade of the seventeenth century , though they were beginning to decline in popularity during the 1660s and 1670s . |
| 5 | He was now showing his own responsiveness to Dave and Dave 's response in return , which made Mr E more hopeful about him . |
| 6 | The first is Mrs Whitehouse 's relationship with , and attitude toward , the Church , and in particular the Church leaders ' response , or lack of response , to the claimed blasphemy of the poem , in contrast to the Church 's response in the Thorsen case . |
| 7 | The hotel 's response in writing confirming the booking is an acceptance of the guest 's offer to contract . |
| 8 | But his sudden withdrawing of his Fourth Symphony and his artist 's response in his Fifth Symphony had made the young revolutionary acutely aware of the precarious role of the creative artist in Stalin 's Soviet Union . |
| 9 | In ( 10 ) the child 's response in ‘ normal ’ conversation would be entirely successful in eliciting the response , ‘ No , the small one ’ . |
| 10 | The Government 's response in the White Paper on Reform of the Law on Consumer Credit ( 1972 ) Cmnd 5427 , para 14 stated : The Government accept that there are aspects of the existing law in this field which cause difficulty , but they do not have sufficient evidence either of a need for such major recasting of existing law on new principles or of general support for the particular solution proposed by the Committee . |
| 11 | These changes in society seem irreversible , especially when the household 's standard of living comes to depend more on the wife 's income in dual earner households ( 60 per cent of all households with two adults under retirement age in 1987 , compared with 52 per cent in 1973 ) . |
| 12 | They were equivalent to 0.57 per cent of an individual 's income in 1975 but fell to 0.35 and 0.4 per cent in the early 1980s . |
| 13 | Mortgage loans in particular were granted for higher multiples of the borrower 's income in the late 1980s , although falling prices in the housing market have made lenders more cautious in 1991 and 1992 . |
| 14 | The rebuilding of the Berlin orchestra was begun by Karajan in 1955 with great patience and care — he had a lifetime 's contract in the process of final negotiation . |
| 15 | He buys off Jingle after his elopement with Miss Wardle , acts as Slumkey 's agent in the Eatanswill election , and after handling Pickwick 's defence in Mrs Bardell 's action for breach of promise , secures his release from the Fleet , and later negotiates the payment of costs with Dodson and Fogg . |
| 16 | Peter Wall was a fast and clever full-back whom Manager Bert Head brought to Selhurst Park to add proven 1st Division quality to Palace 's defence in the summer of 1970 , in an attempt to avoid further embarrassment for the club in Division One . |
| 17 | Their forwards took too much out of the ball when the simple option would have been more productive , but all credit must go to a well-drilled St Mary 's defence in which full back Sean McIvor was outstanding . |
| 18 | The Chief of the General Staff of the People 's Army , Kico Mustaqi , was appointed Minister of People 's Defence in place of Prokop Murra . |
| 19 | Peschisllibo ravaged Derby 's defence in an exhilarating first half when Birmingham rocketed into a three goal lead . |
| 20 | Colin Saynor , dominant in Porthmadog 's defence in the Konica League of Wales , picked up two awards at the club 's end of season celebration . |
| 21 | Stup is the key to Sarajevo 's defence in the west . |
| 22 | The new developments of Morningside and Chelsea in the Antelope area of Sacramento clearly met the demands of today 's buyer in terms of value and quality , but other subdivisions had mixed results . |
| 23 | Because I put Bella 's money in the bank . |
| 24 | Her mother announced that she was now going to her lady friend and put grandfather 's money in her bag . |
| 25 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 26 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 27 | He was about to bank the club 's money in London 's Old Kent Road when the men , claiming they had a gun , bundled him into his car and dumped him bound and gagged 20 miles away in Surrey . |
| 28 | He went through hundreds of pounds of his mother 's money in a spending spree , buying friends extravagant gifts like computer games and going to amusement arcades . |
| 29 | I thought he could do more good with Miss Oliver 's money in England , than as a missionary under the baking sun in the East . |
| 30 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |