Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | Software Developer 's Co has turned in third quarter net losses of $461,000 down from losses of $3.8m last time , after $200,000 gains from discontinued operations this time and $2.6m losses last time as well as $429,000 restructuring charges last time , on turnover down 22.1% at $7.9m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $361,000 down from losses of $3.6m last time , after $2.7m losses from discontinued operations last time , on turnover that fell 3.2% to $26m . |
| 2 | ACET 's response has been to provide clients with special tubes for the disposal of dirty needles and syringes or help them if they wish to cease injecting . |
| 3 | Delhi 's response has been complicated by the existence of the lame-duck Kashmiri state government of Dr Farooq Abdullah , who fought last month 's general election in alliance with the then governing Congress party , and which is deeply unpopular in the valley . |
| 4 | The government 's response has been to impose an unpopular and inflationary emergency programme . |
| 5 | The Soviet Union 's response has been a relentless increase in its chemical warfare capability . |
| 6 | To these weapons , NATO 's response has long been the Polaris and Poseidon missiles carried on nuclear submarines . |
| 7 | Officialdom 's response has been to throw more money at the problem . |
| 8 | This draft response indicates which DTAC responses he has taken into account , and any member whose DTAC 's response has arrived late or has been omitted for some other reason can ensure that relevant points are not missed . |
| 9 | The BMC 's response has been to offer to install abseil points and lower-off stations on the Horseshoe Bend area and to apply for assistance from the Sports Council for stabilising work |
| 10 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 11 | And the public 's response has been fantastic … |
| 12 | The Government 's response has been inadequate and that is why I initiated the debate . |
| 13 | The most extraordinary feature of the Opposition 's response has been the deafening silence of their principal spokesman in relation to the proposals . |
| 14 | Since 1983 , prices of food and clothing have risen markedly and her husband 's income has failed to keep pace . |
| 15 | " As you know , Sara , your aunt 's income has been dwindling of late years — she was very careless of investments and spent too much of her capital . |
| 16 | Does he regard as sensible the position revealed by Graham Jackson , the cardiologist at Guy 's opted-out hospital , where local people are unable to be treated because the local district health authority 's contract has run out ? |
| 17 | The score at Dens Park and Parkhead decreed that Willie Miller 's defence has now conceded fewer goals than any other club in the top flight of the Scottish game , the Aberdeen rearguard having been breached only 26 times . |
| 18 | Kay 's money has come and as I am spending nothing else it will be perfectly alright . |
| 19 | Moran said : ‘ Director Jack Walker 's money has enabled the manager to put down a good foundation and if we can get Roy coming in alongside the likes of Alan Shearer , the club will really be going places . ’ |
| 20 | The Arbroath guidebook 's glossary has some of these — ‘ clearstorey : the range of windows in the upper part of a building ; Frater : a monastic refectory or dining hall [ alas not taken from the Latin for ‘ brother ’ , but from a French reduction of ‘ refreshment' ] ; Gablet : a decorative design in the form of a small gable , often above a window ; Pend : a vaulted passageway [ several pends in St Andrews ] ; Slype : a passage ; Triforium : the arcaded gallery between the main arcade and clearstorey ; Tympanum : the enclosed space within the head of an arched doorway [ does that mean it has a space behind like a drumhead — an open space inviting impressions to be made upon it ? ] ’ |
| 21 | The value of Mrs Alliss 's award has n't yet been decided , but lawyers expect it to be ’ substantial ’ . |
| 22 | But to get them , Midland 's board has put a price on its business , and is left with no defence against a bidder prepared to offer more . |
| 23 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 24 | Lautro should reconsider its practice of issuing a press notice and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had an opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded , to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board has ruled in the application ( post , pp. 581F–G , 582A ) . |
| 25 | SCOTVEC 's Board has agreed that the local officers should now be known as Field Officers , rather than their former title of External Moderator , because the new title reflects much more faithfully the way in which their jobs have evolved over the five years of National Certificate 's life . |
| 26 | ( 15 ) If the bidder itself is the subject of a bona fide offer ( or the bidder 's board has reason to believe that a bona fide offer may be imminent ) then under General Principle 7 and Rule 21 ( no frustrating action without shareholders ' approval ) any takeover by the bidder will require the prior approval of its shareholders ( see para 18.2.2 below ) . |
| 27 | Africa 's hour has struck ! |
| 28 | After the stories of the last few chapters , since the point when the promises were first given , our confidence in Abraham 's reliability has been shaken nearly to pieces . |
| 29 | Tonight 's winner has until mid-December to agree a purse offer with Lewis , who won the right to fight for the title with his second-round knockout of Razor Ruddock . |
| 30 | Harsnett 's text has long been seen as one of the established sources for Lear , but in Greenblatt 's analysis a more challenging question is posed : which way was the borrowing ? |