Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] 's [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to making an order for the child 's attendance the court may order any person who is in a position to do so to bring the child to court ( s95(5) ) . |
| 2 | For the solicitor 's work the fee will vary depending on a number of factors . |
| 3 | While we wait for the doctor 's diagnosis the patient may easily die . |
| 4 | I thank the Minister for that answer and the confirmation that during the Government 's tenure the burden has been placed firmly on the shoulders of those who are least able to bear it . |
| 5 | The Picasso Museum opened in 1963 and during the artist 's lifetime the collection rapidly expanded to around 2,000 works , largely donated by the artist . |
| 6 | During the poet 's lifetime the vicar of the town was Thomas Bowles [ Baker , 1 , 576 ] , a classicist whose preaching betrays some pedantry : |
| 7 | The numerous victims of their rapacity and greed had no reason to risk their necks for the king and his favourites ; nobles such as the king 's half-brother the Earl of Norfolk , who might have expected to enjoy some influence at court , hated the Despensers for their monopoly of the king 's presence ; and the heirs of the victims of 1322 had everything to gain from the overthrow of Edward 's regime . |
| 8 | Others again have taken as the play 's essence the need to reconcile not truth and falsehood but competing truths . |
| 9 | Through the king 's wisdom the people will become prosperous and successful and victorious . " |
| 10 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 11 | Immediately after the report 's submission the North Korean government did reverse its previously stated position by admitting that a small quantity of plutonium had been produced for experimental use only . |
| 12 | I simply did n't need any more , although after a year 's work the headmaster put me up to £7 a week . |
| 13 | After a year 's training the village nurses were placed in local dispensaries and went to look after mothers in childbirth in their own homes . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Provided that where after a partner 's death the partnership business is continued in the old firm-name , the continued use of that name or of the deceased partner 's name as part thereof shall not of itself make his executors or administrators estate or effects liable for any partnership debts contracted after his death . |
| 15 | The Delight was met with opposition at St John 's Harbour from the mixed fishing community , but on sight of the queen 's commission the squadron was admitted and Gilbert went through the ceremony of annexing Newfoundland to England and issuing passes to non-English vessels to fish there . |
| 16 | All kinds of difficult questions began to be asked and in the early heady days of the women 's movement the body came in for close scrutiny . |
| 17 | At the time of the campaign 's suspension the base remained in Karen hands . |
| 18 | During his life Hampden contrived the execution of the King 's advisor the Earl of Strafford . |
| 19 | Suppose also that at the time of the buyer 's liquidation the buyer owed £500 to the seller under another contract . |
| 20 | … there still survived of the Lord 's family the grandsons of Jude , who was said to be His brother , humanly speaking . |
| 21 | Here , G is the gravitational constant , c the speed of light , and M is the mass of the star , so the crucial radius , called the Schwadschild radius , depends only on the collapsing star 's mass ; for a star of the Sun 's mass the Schwarzschild radius equals about 3 kilometres . |
| 22 | If loss of amenities is for the rest of the plaintiff 's life the court will need to take into account in assessing damages his age and his expectation of life . |
| 23 | As we sat together in front of the Sheikha 's areesh the conversation began to move back and forth , gathering speed and laughter . |
| 24 | For ‘ Rameses ’ , Memphis sponsored the restoration of the exhibition 's centrepiece the 47-ton 27 foot Colossus of Memphis carried out by the staff of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation at a cost of $125,000 . |
| 25 | A wedding was a great earner , for on top of the handsome fee which was traditionally the obligation of the bride 's family the exuberance of the occasion invariably resulted in his being tipped quite generously by the groom 's family as well . |
| 26 | By inserting the word Soviet into the actual language of The Circle 's credo the Commission managed to invest this document with sinister implications : it was worthy of Joe McCarthy , though his technique had not yet been launched . |
| 27 | On the recent trip to Iasi , as well as carrying out a full survey of the children 's hospital the charity also delivered more than 30 tons of aid to ten orphanages , two children 's hospitals and the main hospital in the region . |
| 28 | In some cases , on receipt of the seller 's acknowledgement the buyer will send back another acknowledgement . |
| 29 | ( So crucial was the bike in everyday life that throughout the first two years of the Club 's existence the Committee discussed the erection of a permanent bike shed more than any other matter ) . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |