Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | It slipped back to 4.2% in May , perhaps because of the party 's failure to offer new policies , perhaps because of reports of the party leader 's dalliances . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was only because of the Substitute 's presence that he added , ‘ At eleven o'clock , ’ and then turned away quickly because the technician was about to protest . |
| 3 | Obviously because of the leech 's habit of resting for periods without causing any trouble , this process will have to be repeated regularly in order to attract all the hungry leeches . |
| 4 | While some were happy to espouse them without question , others were more critical , the more so because of the Authority 's failure to consult any but a small number of heads about their content . |
| 5 | 5.4.1 To repair the Premises and keep them in repair excepting damage caused by structural or inherent defects or by an Insured Risk other than where the insurance money is irrecoverable in consequence of any act or default of the Tenant or anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority ( but only while under the Tenant 's control and in the course of employment ) Provided that where the insurance money is not wholly irrecoverable such sums as are recoverable shall be made available as soon as possible to apply to the repair of the Premises |
| 6 | the engagement of supply teachers by schools direct , rather than via the LEA 's personnel section . |
| 7 | ( c ) The most efficient delivery arrangement will be direct from the builders ' merchant or manufacturer to an individual site , rather than to the builder 's store . |
| 8 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 9 | No contemporary source attributes Louis 's firm dealings with Lothar , Pippin and Louis the German to the designs of Judith rather than to the emperor 's own wishes . |
| 10 | ‘ So they 're a splinter group working for their own evil purposes rather than for the island 's status quo ? ’ |
| 11 | Hughes advocated the use of low potencies prescribed on pathological grounds rather than on the patient 's general symptom picture . |
| 12 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 13 | John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was presented in a new production in 1989 as a study of a failed marriage rather than of the playwright 's early ideological concerns . |
| 14 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 15 | So , too , if a man teaches his parrot to slander anyone , that is neither more nor less the ordinary tort of defamation than if he prefers to say it with his own tongue rather than with the parrot 's . |
| 16 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 17 | The use of CCL as a common type of interface for many systems is based on the provision of translating software somewhere in the communication channel between host and the user , rather than in the user 's own terminal equipment , as in the previous examples . |
| 18 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 19 | The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name . |
| 20 | Muddles in language often occur ( as is only to be expected ) in the petitioner 's question rather than in the jurist 's answer . |
| 21 | It is basically the function of the designer to protect the client 's interest and ensure that the food service planning is carried out from a food service operator 's point of view , rather than from the architect 's or interior designer 's point of view . |
| 22 | Thus where during the trader 's unsolicited visit an offer is made which is accepted only later , the customer effectively has a longer cooling-off period . |
| 23 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 24 | Although Australia possessed some 30 per cent of the world 's known uranium , it provided only 10 per cent of output , largely because of the left 's traditional hostility to the nuclear industry . |
| 25 | This identity of provincial synods with convocations was strengthened because such synods were seldom assembled thereafter except on the king 's initiative and for the principal purpose of consenting to royal taxation . |
| 26 | The Soviets ended a mission early because of the crew 's cardiovascular problems and , says Smith , a ‘ lot of fighting ’ . |
| 27 | Simple statements , questions and commands should be introduced early because of the student 's immediate need of communication with the people among whom he/she is living . |
| 28 | Dissent increased in the 1983 Parliament , partly because of the government 's larger majority , which enables rebels to dissent without jeopardizing the government . |
| 29 | After fighting a war at least partly because of the Gulf 's oil , he certainly should be . |
| 30 | This came about partly because of the executive 's inherent advantages , as outlined above , and partly because tradition and crisis seemed to point to the need for a strong executive . |