Example sentences of "by [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite input from the tactician , David Barnes , the local team led by Rod Davis was always wrong-footed by Gilmour 's ability to get to the left hand side of the course ( favoured all day ) and defend it . |
| 2 | The situation was not helped by Rigby 's parents who originally would not allow her to stay overnight in Leeds . |
| 3 | The coup attempt constituted the severest test faced by Najibullah 's regime since the Soviet military withdrawal in February 1989 [ see pp. 36448-50 ] . |
| 4 | Hands-on experience of studio machinery rendered somewhat rhetorical the question posed by Kael 's subsequent essay , ‘ Why Are Movies So Bad ? ’ |
| 5 | Fears that the US-EC trade talks were on the brink of chaos were compounded by MacSharry 's abrupt resignation as EC negotiator on Nov. 5 , amid allegations that his negotiating brief at Chicago had been severely constrained by threats from Jacques Delors , President of the European Commission , that he would veto any agreement involving cuts in the volume of EC farm exports [ see p. 39170 ] . |
| 6 | Not in day-to-day practice , perhaps , but by Trent 's accepting his relationship to the Colonel as an inevitable part of his life . |
| 7 | This was provided in 1747 by the establishment of a national Merchant Seamen 's Fund , similarly supported by seamen 's contributions , and administered in practice port by port . |
| 8 | Wacky shape of Volkswagen 's two Varios the work of students , but tidies up in-house by VW 's own team |
| 9 | As a young gay man , I was deeply saddened by Jason 's actions . |
| 10 | Frank 's inability to stand up for himself was brought home to us by Mazzin 's relationship with him . |
| 11 | Her patience in equally short supply , she found herself exasperated , not for the first time , by Peony 's snide tongue . |
| 12 | As the years passed , telephone , telex , facsimile and computer data traffic all came under this original warrant , so that not a single communication enters or leaves Britain without being subject to interception by GCCS 's successor , GCHQ . |
| 13 | An equally famous expression of the same view was given by Kant 's pupil , the philosopher Fichte ( 1762–1814 ) , ‘ The metaphysical only , and not the historical , can give us blessedness . ’ |
| 14 | Schleiermacher was deeply impressed by Kant 's philosophy , and accepted Kant 's demolition of rational , philosophical knowledge of God . |
| 15 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 16 | Maturity brings new perspectives and the idea that they are often manipulated for their sporting prowess brings with it a clarity of perception , a perception succinctly summarized by Birchfield 's sprinter Lincoln Asquith : ‘ I was used by school teachers 'cause I was good at sport . |
| 17 | Unschooled Wolof children know when to make certain things explicit in their own culture ; it would appear that they are not triggered off to do so by Greenfield 's questions . |
| 18 | If we recognise the possibility of such an argument in relation to the concept ‘ multiple points of view ’ , then we must recognise that the ability to exercise multiple points of view is not very fully tested by Greenfield 's school tests . |
| 19 | By Faraday 's time , the problem was more acute ; electrically charged objects were known to repel or attract each other , as did magnetic poles . |
| 20 | by Aysha 's I think |
| 21 | But I will not be held hostage by Lucker 's desire to glow and simmer into the night . |
| 22 | A third possibility is one of the small amp simulators ; SansAmp was the first of these , followed by Award 's SessionMaster . |
| 23 | Does our Newtonian physicist consider that the deviation was forbidden by Newton 's theory and therefore that , once established , it refutes the theory N ? |
| 24 | Newton 's mechanics provided such a programme for eighteenth and nineteenth-century physicists , the programme for explaining the entire physical world in terms of mechanical systems involving various forces and governed by Newton 's laws of motion . |
| 25 | By Newton 's time , the Ptolemaic theory was decidedly a degenerating one . |
| 26 | A geodesic in flat space ( a straight line ) is the path of a free body as described by Newton 's first law of motion . |
| 27 | The application of a shear stress to a viscous liquid on the other hand , is relieved by viscous flow , and for small values of σ s can be described by Newton 's law where η is the coefficient of viscosity and is the rate of shear sometimes denoted by γ . |
| 28 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 29 | Airdrie appeared determined not to give their opponents any room — a tactic typified by Stewart 's marking of Robertson , who looked unusually ineffective . |
| 30 | Gustason 's ( 1983 ) findings on positive views of ASL by teachers is augmented by Stewart 's ( 1983 ) finding of attitudinal change towards ASL being part of deaf children 's bilingualism . |