Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 2 | Baker immediately praised Assad 's response as positive , saying that it had demonstrated that Syria was now more willing to enter direct peace talks with Israel than at any time in the past . |
| 3 | However , in a statement on July 23 , Shamir described Assad 's response as " a phenomenon similar to what happened in Egypt with President Sadat when a revolution occurred in his concepts that ultimately led to negotiations with Israel and to peace " . |
| 4 | Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers , who said around 130 people had contacted him complaining of nausea and headaches , has described the airport 's response as ‘ exemplary ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Former Otago and NZ wicketkeeper Watten Lees 's contract as coach had expired . |
| 8 | ‘ How have you found us ? ’ the headmaster asked me — masochistically — one warm summer 's afternoon as we sat watching a cricket match . |
| 9 | The Queen 's worry as to how the Dolls ' House opened was a perfectly reasonable one . |
| 10 | Tug had just one glimpse of the girl 's horror as her mouth and her eyes opened wide . |
| 11 | After they had quarrelled , Gina lurked at a bend of the stairs and trod hard on Nigel 's foot as he came up . |
| 12 | It 's a terrible thing to say , but I think the lad may have pulled the iron over Damien 's foot as he let him go . ’ |
| 13 | Weedy guitars nervously brush at the hem of one 's robe as the singer evokes the force and passion of his discourse in a voice unintroduced to Mr Tune and Mr Singing Lesson , ‘ Do n't Slip Away ’ is the sort of record that will one day consume all of indiedom in its lolloping , lardy inertia . |
| 14 | A review in this month 's Health and Fitness magazine describes Cindy 's technique as ‘ atrocious ’ . |
| 15 | Dismissing Paisley 's support as ‘ a fascist organization masquerading under the cloak of religion … deluding a lot of sincere people … hell-bent on provoking religious strife in Northern Ireland ’ , he seemed unprepared for the reaction against him within his own party . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Spain was still deeply divided by the war and the choice of its commemorative dates ( such as " Victory Day " , or 18 July ) for the announcement of important political decisions was a tactic frequently used by Franco , reminding people that it was the outcome of the war that had given him the power to alter the country 's course as he thought fit . |
| 18 | In the paragraph of which she complains I was briefly putting each side 's case as outlined to the inquiry . |
| 19 | Carrie had Nick 's case as well as her own and a carrier bag with a broken string handle . |
| 20 | Although the wife 's case as presented below had depended on establishing agency , the court expressed the view that that might not have been the correct test . |
| 21 | Despite the fact that Bill was in his mid-fifties and had a chronic heart condition , which meant he could only play for a maximum of five minutes a match , it was a good move on Fred 's part as the pub owned the cricket pitch at the rear and naturally , as captain , Bill felt obliged to hand it over to the club , and so ‘ The Tip ’ was born . |
| 22 | The flowers caught Von Lemke 's fancy as ruined but at least not forbidden toys , perhaps . |
| 23 | It should be added that some influential and interesting recent developments of linguistic or stylistic criticism , notably Roger Fowler 's Literature as Social Discourse , propose a kind of functional analysis that is rather different from those we have been considering . |
| 24 | James Stephen the elder took Wilberforce 's sister as his second wife and in the next generation James Stephen the younger — the under secretary at the Colonial Office in the crucial emancipation period — married a daughter of John Venn , the rector of Clapham . |
| 25 | If you approach God 's existence as you would approach any scientific hypothesis , you 're forced to recognize , he says , that it 's highly improbable . |
| 26 | His pale eyes ice-burned Jess 's skin as she hastily pulled the remnants of the shirt around her . |
| 27 | However verbally reticent he was , though , there was nothing wrong with McEnroe 's play as he overwhelmed poor Kulti , who knocked the 33-year-old superstar out of the French Open in the first round this year . |
| 28 | P&O European Ferries described the DTI 's decision as surprising . |
| 29 | Describing NAB 's decision as ‘ outrageous ’ , Bond Corporation is today applying for a restraining order to prevent the receivers taking any action until a full court hearing on Tuesday . |
| 30 | This is so notwithstanding the fact that the doctor may regard the patient 's decision as wrong or ill advised . |