Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are essentially of two kinds : ‘ fair rent ’ , a system by which tenants pay a rent determined by a rent officer , and ‘ co-ownership ’ , where part of the tenant 's rent goes towards partial ownership of the dwelling . |
| 2 | The ‘ foreign interests ’ of the Federal Republic of Germany , in terms of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis , were seen as particularly compelling and no good cause had been shown for doing other than resort to the Convention 's procedures . |
| 3 | Both Mr Mitterrand and Mr Balladur seem happy to accept that foreign policy and defence should now be shared ( domaine partagé ) rather than part of the president 's exclusive preserve ( de Gaulle 's famous domaine réservé ) . |
| 4 | Thinking of a boy 's name is harder than thinking of a girl 's . |
| 5 | The wearing of pig badges by a large group of staff , many of whom were members of middle management , after the Deputy Head , Peter Moors , had suggested that pork was less suitable than turkey for the school 's Christmas dinner , since it prevented Muslim boys from taking part . |
| 6 | This has since been employed in the wide variety of commercial designs that have arrived following the introduction of the Hawaiian ; but for a simple and long-standing development one need look no further than Top of The Line 's own ‘ Spin-Off ’ . |
| 7 | It could seem as if nothing except attendance at the church 's services divided a pagan intellectual such as the professor Marius Victorinus from the educated clergy of a city such as Milan . |
| 8 | Certain chemical substances , if present in the mother 's body during the earlier weeks of development may have dire effect ( for example the thalidomide affair ) . |
| 9 | If jealousy for the wife 's attentions can arise on the husband 's part , envy of the husband 's relative freedom can exist in the wife and mother . |
| 10 | Anarchist risings in January 1932 , January 1933 and December 1933 , while highly regionalized and easily suppressed , provided evidence of the Republic 's failure to embrace a large part of the Spanish lower class and at the same time helped convince many middle-class Spaniards that Republican democracy was the breeding ground of disorder and revolution . |
| 11 | If word of the DUS 's discomfort reached beyond his office then there would be a titter around Century House , from Library in the basement to Administration on the Tenth . |
| 12 | It can also be argued on behalf of management that transfer notices should not be mandatory if cessation of the executive 's employment with the company results from wrongful dismissal , redundancy , retirement at normal age , retirement due to ill-health or disability or death ; or if a majority of the non-executive directors and/or the directors so resolve with the investors ' approval . |
| 13 | ‘ If information on a person 's political allegiance gained from ballot papers fell into the hands of unscrupulous individuals such as paramilitaries , then that person 's life could be at risk . ’ |
| 14 | While information about the Earth 's interior and the ocean floors was so sparse , most geologists preferred the safety of the established doctrine of stationary continents . |
| 15 | The USA had never needed to undertake such policies previously , since acceptance of the dollar 's role as a key reserve asset had meant that she could meet any payments deficit simply by increasing the supply of dollars . |
| 16 | While dependence on the King 's pleasure may have been nominally less secure than the other forms of tenure , in practice there was probably not much difference between them . |
| 17 | After hearing of the youngster 's plight , charity group Help International 's local representative , Mike Whiting , of Woolton , Liverpool , set about raising £5,000 to pay for both the boy 's flight to Britain and medical treatment . |
| 18 | ‘ This particular part of Wychwood wo n't be coming down , Boz , but it will be passing into private hands-as part of the manor 's lands . |
| 19 | As chairman of the council 's transport committee he reminds opponents the pedestrianisation plan is not final . |
| 20 | It was there , in fact , that when Cliff Drysdale had to leave his place as chairman of the ATP 's seminar on power tennis to begin his day 's television commentary , that Arthur Ashe took over the role , with customary authority and enthusiasm . |
| 21 | Takeo Nishioka , a former Education Minister , was named as chairman of the party 's general council , and Mutsuki Kato , a former Agriculture Minister , was appointed chairman of the LDP 's policy research council . |
| 22 | As chairman of the Commission 's Joint Research Centre 's board of governors he has told the commissioner for science , Viscount Davignon , that European decision-making on science ought to be reformed to stop a repetition . |
| 23 | The " subsequent actualization " sense of the to infinitive also involves this double position of the support : person as support of the event of the finite verb is represented as prior in time to person as support of the infinitive 's event . |
| 24 | Postulating the presence of a generalized person in the infinitive whose position in time as support of the infinitive 's event is either coincident or subsequent to another position of this same person , at which it is often represented as support of some other event , thus leads to a more profound comprehension of the motives underlying the use of to . |
| 25 | Tomorrow , in his capacity as president of the Prince 's Trust and the Prince 's Scottish Youth Business Trust , he will attend a reception at the Palace of Holyroodhouse at which an exhibition of his own watercolours will be previewed . |
| 26 | Any part of a deposit that is not required as described above must be held as stakeholder by the seller 's solicitor until completion . |
| 27 | As co-ordinator of the council 's work he will be brought daily into contact with the council 's officers to whom he should become guide , counsellor and friend . |
| 28 | In addition to the planned introduction of the right to obtain a passport , Myftiu announced that in future defection would be considered as trespass on the country 's borders and not as " betrayal of the homeland " , which had carried the death penalty . |
| 29 | The parliament has called for a more rational approach to trade and aid schemes as well as investigation into the EC 's role in granting funds in certain cases . |
| 30 | A long-standing Mitterrand ally , he worked as Secretary-General in the President 's office from 1981 and then as Minister for Social Affairs and National Solidarity in 1982-84 . |