Example sentences of "of another ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only in law , but in ordinary life , we look upon an act done by one man in pursuance of another 's orders as done by the person who gives the order . |
| 2 | And they kill from spite : they despise the colour of another 's skin and resent the way another worships God . |
| 3 | Squatting is nothing less than the seizure of another 's property without consent . |
| 4 | Our lives begin with the influence of another 's heart upon us . |
| 5 | Third , it must strike an appropriate balance between the interests of the various parties involved , without putting in jeopardy certain fundamental commitments , such as , for example , the protection of the individual and the absolute prohibition on the taking of another 's life . |
| 6 | A similar and perhaps better appreciated situation can happen in yacht racing where it is possible to ‘ take the wind ’ out of another 's sail . |
| 7 | The impossibility of becoming aware of another 's inwardness without a readiness to let myself feel as he does is plain when someone tries to communicate what is inside his head . |
| 8 | There is also a simple desire to enhance one 's own well-being by widening the contrast with another 's distress ; and this too attracts towards his viewpoint , since it is only in awareness from other personal or temporal viewpoints that one 's well-being is experienced as relative arousing envy of another 's happiness or nostalgia for one 's own in the past . |
| 9 | Whereas pity has to overcome a reluctance to be drawn into subjective awareness of another 's suffering , cruelty welcomes it . |
| 10 | ‘ We no longer ride in procession through the City — and of late , our servants , some of whom have served us since infancy , have all but one been replaced with surly rascals of another 's choosing . ’ |
| 11 | Their importance will undoubtedly be misjudged however if we persist in the error of thinking that perceptual judgements , or those about consciousness , involve the replication of another 's inner experience , human or non-human . |
| 12 | Many were originally instinctive and , to that limited extent , occur naturally in animals : we normally make way for others in the street , keep promises or apologise , treat people politely and respect the sense of another 's property . |
| 13 | Thirdly , the criticism might be made that the distinction I earlier drew ( in the section on ‘ Autonomy ’ ) — between someone voluntarily being treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , and their being treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desires — is not adequate here . |
| 14 | Thirdly , the criticism might be made that the distinction I earlier drew ( in the section on ‘ Autonomy ’ ) — between someone voluntarily being treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , and their being treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desires — is not adequate here . |
| 15 | This suggests , I think , that I must refine my earlier criterion in the following way : it is wrong for a person to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desire , and only allowable for them to be treated , with their consent , as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , if no other means for their satisfaction can be made available . |
| 16 | This suggests , I think , that I must refine my earlier criterion in the following way : it is wrong for a person to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desire , and only allowable for them to be treated , with their consent , as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , if no other means for their satisfaction can be made available . |
| 17 | Egocentrism manifests itself in communicative terms as an inability to take account of another 's point of view ; instead , the world is seen rigidly from the standpoint of the self . |
| 18 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 19 | It shows that it is no use simply announcing that you can conceive of another 's pain on the grounds that you can suppose that what he has is the same as what you have . |
| 20 | It could not bear the bright inspection of another 's sorrow . |
| 21 | ‘ Whenever a death occurs as a result of a breach of another 's duty of care to the deceased , the death is unnatural and the coroner is under a duty to investigate . |
| 22 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 23 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 24 | Is n't that terrible ? ’ as though speaking of another 's transgression . |
| 25 | Put another way , ‘ The protection given by the law of copyright is against copying , the basis of the protection being that one man must not be permitted to appropriate the result of another 's labour ’ ( LB [ Plastics ] v. Swish ) . |
| 26 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 27 | Taking possession of another 's goods will normally be conversion as well as being trespass , but there will be no conversion where the interference is merely temporary and is unaccompanied by any intention to exercise any rights over the goods . |
| 28 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 29 | Rather than rejecting objectionable discourses past and present , this approach entails an unstable coexistence with that which it contests , and it manifests this textually as the parodic adulteration , manipulation , or ‘ doctoring ’ of another 's language . |
| 30 | The sentence is itself ‘ redundant ’ with respect to the opening sentence of Beckett 's Malone Dies which it self-consciously imitates , and the implication is that all discourse is but a re-hashing of another 's words . |