Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 2 | The question was whether the captain 's decision to put out the boat amounted to a novus actus interveniens . |
| 3 | At a cost of £10 million a year , the additional funding is nearly double the NCC 's annual budget prior to last year 's decision to split up the organization . |
| 4 | Neighbours of the site are being asked to send their comments on the plans to a Government inspector who will decide whether to uphold Sedgefield District Council 's decision to turn down the extension for the social club . |
| 5 | Opposition MPs mocked the Government 's decision to take over the Student Loans Company as its first act of nationalisation . |
| 6 | The king 's willingness to build up the power of his trusted allies , it is argued , set up tensions not only between the beneficiaries and those excluded from power , but within the circle of royal supporters itself . |
| 7 | The king 's willingness to build up the power of his trusted allies , it is argued , set up tensions not only between the beneficiaries and those excluded from power , but within the circle of royal supporters itself . |
| 8 | I welcome the Secretary of State 's intention to fill in the student gap , but I am bound to say that I can see no logical reason for attempting to collect the 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Association chairman , Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson , said : ‘ We are extremely fortunate that Orient were prepared to allow a man of Frank 's talent to take on the job . ’ |
| 10 | This is Digital Equipment 's attempt to take on the Intel Pentium chip . |
| 11 | Rangers needed all of 20 minutes to catch their breath , responding to this constant raiding with play that was neat but frantic , despite Seaman 's signals to slow down the game . |
| 12 | That evening , when Mrs Hollidaye crept into Dot 's bedroom to damp down the fire for the night and check that the guard was securely in place , she had filled a trug basket with garden produce . |
| 13 | A total of 58.7% of shareholders voted against Mr Sugar 's proposal to buy back the shares . |
| 14 | Their driving force is the government 's determination to open up the market ; to increase choice for viewers and listeners ; to allow new entrepreneurs access to a highly regulated system ; and to appease the advertisers , whose protests about the cost of TV advertising have reached a crescendo . |
| 15 | Now housing organisations have got together to make a private tenant 's manifesto to push forward the rights of tenants to be protected . |
| 16 | 10.30am It 's Alan 's job to set up the picture , arrange various props and decide on the complicated lighting . |
| 17 | It was left to the capital 's campuses to take up the baton . |
| 18 | Despite Buckley 's reluctance to play up the siege of Derry as a key myth and his preference for general categories of interpretation derived from various historical experiences , it does seem that the siege has particular significance . |
| 19 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 20 | The government 's desire to play down the incident was set against a background of high political tension fuelled over recent months by widespread protests against austerity and official corruption and the persistent rumours that a repeat of the February military coup attempt was imminent [ see pp. 38759-60 ; 39048 ] . |
| 21 | The difference was exacerbated by Parliament 's refusal to pay off the army 's arrears of pay . |
| 22 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 23 | If SCO lets its MIPS development ride , one reason is certainly Intel 's efforts to pump up the performance — now reported at over 100 MIPS — and accelerate delivery schedules for the P5 . |
| 24 | This body in turn can not compel the tip 's owners to clean up the area until regulations provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act have come into force , which may not be until at least 1993 . |
| 25 | 6.2 Services To observe and perform [ its ] obligations contained in the sixth Schedule There should be a landlord 's covenant to carry out the services and this covenant should not be qualified by a condition that the landlord 's covenant is subject to the tenant having paid the service charge in respect thereof . |
| 26 | The Duc d'Orléans refused Stair 's demand to hand over the ships and their contents to Byng but did agree to unload the weapons and remove them for safe keeping to a French arsenal , a notable diplomatic triumph . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most important single decision taken by the District during the twenties was to accept the Carnegie Trust 's offer to support financially the appointment of a tutor for the development of rural adult education . |
| 28 | It ranges from the Dean 's having been arrested for murdering Paul Gray to the Bishop 's having hired Lord Cumbermound 's beagles to track down the corpse . ’ |
| 29 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 30 | Writing for children in other schools might be a useful way of developing the ability to do this , and certainly many schools have found this " experience-exchange " a very valuable means of increasing children 's motivation to improve both the content and the presentation of their writing . |