Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But very often the major part of an individual 's activities stem from the duties and reciprocal obligations which fall to him by virtue of his roles as a social person . |
| 2 | Under the provision of the Companies Act 1989 the Secretary of State has powers to seek a ruling from the courts , under a new civil procedure , on whether a company 's accounts comply with the provisions of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 3 | Li Yuan might as well try to harness Change itself as try to force the boy 's talents to conform to the needs of State . |
| 4 | Yoshida 's decision resulted from the deductions he had drawn from Acheson 's major speech on 12 January 1950 in which he had indicated the principles of American policy in East Asia . |
| 5 | A tragic number of those best equipped to explain the Council 's teaching retired from the clergy in the later 1960s and the 1970s , and thereafter were disqualified from teaching as a ministry in the Church , though there is no moral justification for a general judgement that such persons become unworthy to teach . |
| 6 | Instead of trying to explain the extinction and replacement of species in terms of observable causes , Lyell 's opponents looked to the patterns revealed in the fossil record to explain the history of life on earth . |
| 7 | A preoccupation common to all the papers in the book springs directly from the difficulties involved in reassessing how the ‘ facts ’ of one 's experience correspond to the descriptions of them offered by others . |
| 8 | US West Inc 's plans to get into the fun-and-games end of the telecommunications business with Time Warner Inc has received a mixed review from the junior among the credit rating agencies , Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co of Chicago , which placed the securities of US West Inc , US West Capital Funding and US West Financial Services on rating watch . |
| 9 | The violence reached a peak in August and September and threatened to disrupt the ANC-government talks , with ANC leaders questioning the government 's willingness to act against the perpetrators of the violence and alleging that members of the security forces were involved . |
| 10 | She watched the kiln 's flames flicker on the walls . |
| 11 | Talbot and Van Gelder looked at each other in silence , then bent forward over Theodore 's shoulders to look at the figures he had added up . |
| 12 | Have Labours 's modernizers run into the buffers ? |
| 13 | Since construction has already been covered in Section 2 , this section is limited largely to ‘ internal ’ interpretation and the cases regularly cited as instances in which the testator 's intention triumphed over the words he had used . |
| 14 | The appearance of the two documents , and the Government 's intention to legislate upon the proposals they contained , dealt a sideways , but nonetheless mortal , blow to Brooke 's Royal Commission which was simultaneously subjecting the entire penal system to critical review . |
| 15 | In the distance he could hear a woman 's heels catching on the cobbles as she ran to keep an appointment . |
| 16 | People 's poet feared by the Tories |
| 17 | Two policemen were standing across the way and when the attack began John 's girlfriend rushed to the police asking for help . |
| 18 | This is possible because only half of the tape 's width travels past the heads on each run . |
| 19 | Vincent 's demands mounted over the years until they seemed to flood in — as they often did — by every other post . |
| 20 | With control over Korea and Taiwan secure , Japan 's eyes turned to the territories of Northeast China and Manchuria , and Japan 's search for the acquisition of control over greater portions of Asian territory governed the development of Asian Japanese relations during the four decades up to 1945 . |
| 21 | Pa 's eyes close above the tips of his fingers then pop back open , catching me out . |
| 22 | The country 's top airshow acts kept the crowd 's eyes glued to the skies . |
| 23 | Or try the heart-in-mouth sensation when you 're strolling with your lover at some secret rendezvous and you suddenly see a neighbour across the street or your husband 's car waiting at the lights . |
| 24 | The walls of Culwiniac Farm provided no real protection , being easily breached by the Argyll militia , after which ‘ Hangman ’ Hawley 's dragoons poured through the gaps and round behind the rebel right . |
| 25 | A second factor weakening the Heath government 's attempt to dictate to the unions on the basis of its ‘ mandate from the nation ’ was the rather agnostic attitude taken up by large employers . |
| 26 | Mr Perez de Cuellar described South Africa 's attempt to interfere with the elections as ‘ highly problematical ’ , and announced new procedures for the vote , over four days beginning on 7 November . |
| 27 | The archdeacon , in traditional role , gave the pope the pallium ( the narrow strip of lamb 's wool worn over the shoulders ) , the symbol of the fullness of power of the pontifical office . |
| 28 | As the Goods sit in Kelly 's bedroom surrounded by the bits and pieces that made up her world , Mike picks up her diary . |
| 29 | Jay 's ears rung with the words . |
| 30 | And was not Lady Chatterley 's Lover defended on the grounds that it was a work of literary genius ? |