Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ What are we doing wasting the public 's money this way ? |
| 2 | Thank you Mr chairman , just one point Mr , we 're not voting ourselves five percent more , we 're taking five percent off next year 's allowance and putting it to this one so it 's a negative rollover , so we 're actually spending some of next year 's money this year . |
| 3 | But at Meehan 's trial this same argument — that evidence against Griffiths in the matter of the planted bits of paper should not be considered competent as evidence against Meehan — was rejected by Lord Grant ( Lord Grant being as keen to see Meehan convicted as Robertson was to see Waddell acquitted ) . |
| 4 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 5 | Edward Pearce 's Sketch Some people really should put a sock in it |
| 6 | Alas for them , Faber was not in Santa 's sack this year , and is unlikely to be for a long while . |
| 7 | You could n't have missed last year 's winner that way . |
| 8 | 2.00:LAST year 's winner Another Coral bids to emulate Half Free , who won back-to-back Mackesons in the mid-eighties . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard is going to try to steal some of Sun 's thunder this week by getting their top honchos to roll out a high-end multi-processor , reportedly code named Emerald , that will come to use the recently announced 7100 PA-RISC chip . |
| 10 | In addition , Pickwick plan to release Kaplan 's Adagietto this autumn as part of a compilation disc featuring all of Mahler 's adagio movements from the nine completed symphonies : the finale of the Third , the third movement of the Fourth , Kaplan 's Adagietto , and the finale of the Ninth . |
| 11 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 12 | In Nilsson 's terminology this process would create the explicit graph . |
| 13 | In Nizan 's case such an interpretation is entirely false . |
| 14 | It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant . |
| 15 | ( In Leonard 's case this is well marked , sign no doubt of superior knowledge ! ) |
| 16 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 17 | In the PLO 's case this was compounded by its mercurial and ambiguous policy statements , and by the acts of terror committed by members of the Palestinian movement . |
| 18 | Like other competitors , he also produced a written explanation , but in Scott 's case this was a thirty-page printed booklet . |
| 19 | In Cézanne 's case this was because at first he struggled to compose in the Renaissance manner , and did it badly . |
| 20 | The basic idea of electrolysis is that an electric current passes through some liquid , in Tanberg 's case this was water , and the liquid breaks down into its constituent elements ( in this case , hydrogen and oxygen ) . |
| 21 | In deaf people 's case this becomes ‘ BSL is the only method of teaching deaf children ’ . |
| 22 | In Mrs Fry 's case this meant prison reform , but also , at least formally , antislavery . |
| 23 | In Ruffo 's case this necessitated a striking change of style from his Madrigali a notte negre ( Venice , 1545 ) and Madrigali cromatici of 1552 . |
| 24 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |
| 25 | In Britain 's case this requires a specific Act of Parliament . |
| 26 | In Rachel Webb 's case this meant losing the right to see her daughter , ’ The judge said I gave up my rights as a parent the day I had my operation ’ . |
| 27 | In her brother 's case this is Creole , but in her father 's case , London English . |
| 28 | In Fazisi 's case this was not true . |
| 29 | In Eva 's case another surprise was in store . |
| 30 | From Wyeth 's description this seems to have been the approach followed in the PET case . |