Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other is that Mr Rabin 's decision to seal off the occupied territories — the closure is now in its second month — has made most Israelis feel a lot safer , and some of them a lot happier about giving up the territories altogether . |
| 2 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 3 | Idi Lala , leader of the exiled MCLN , described the RDC 's decision to stick to a one-party system as " thoughtless and dangerous " , because it ignored recurrent social unrest and mass support for a multiparty system . |
| 4 | Sophia 's decision to pay for a private nurse was a super gesture . |
| 5 | Marxism 's inability to deal with the political interventions of other oppositional groups has meant that its History can no longer claim to subsume all processes of change . |
| 6 | Dr Bailey believes that Infolink 's willingness to respond to the changing requirements of its customer base has helped the company to maintain a leading position in the credit industry . |
| 7 | The SPD 's willingness to talk with the Eastern bloc , whilst maintaining the Western alliance , seemed a more realistic policy . |
| 8 | He went on to tell his uncle about Stella , and Lucy 's willingness to assist with the next day 's barbecue for the rafting party . |
| 9 | The loss of Simpson makes Oxford 's fight to stay in the second division even harder . |
| 10 | Even worse , if they 'd fancied a bottle of Bell 's whisky to toast in the New Year , it would have cost them £23.04 , almost twice the UK price . |
| 11 | Whether the prosecution can prove attempted rape rather than the lesser offence of indecent assault will often depend on proof of the defendant 's intention to go beyond the indecent acts already committed . |
| 12 | The process had ground to a halt by early 1990 [ see p. 37199 ] , largely as a result of Likud 's hesitancy to proceed with a first-stage meeting of Egyptian , Israeli and United States officials without first receiving certain US " guarantees " ( the first-stage meeting was supposed to discuss a second-stage Israeli-Palestinian meeting in Cairo on the proposed elections ) . |
| 13 | The three related complaints concerned a National Executive Committee 's attempt to renege upon a ten year old conference agreement without a vote at conference . |
| 14 | Some sections of the local press , however , stated that a " sudden " reshuffle of this size was Zamora 's attempt to deal with a real crisis and the corruption which allegedly existed within ministerial bodies . |
| 15 | The strategies of splitting are essential for the infant 's attempt to deal with the genuine contradictions it encounters in struggling to form some image of itself and the part-objects it confronts . |
| 16 | However , its broader significance was in marking a major step in Jordan 's attempt to return to the Arab mainstream in the aftermath of the Gulf war . |
| 17 | HP figures it has done the same against Sun Microsystems Inc at the low end , claiming Sun 's attempt to break into the commercial market is based only on price . |
| 18 | A speechwriter 's attempt to compensate for the public relations lapse in not going to the Berlin Wall , Mr Bush 's prime time statement went out on all television channels on Thanksgiving Eve . |
| 19 | In Australia , W.G. Grace captained Lord Sheffield 's side to defeat in a three-match series , while Walter Read led England in the solitary Test at Cape Town ( Harry Wood scored the first Test century by a wicketkeeper and England won by an innings ) . |
| 20 | INVITING Mussolini 's grand-daughter to speak at the Tory Party conference has caused outrage . |
| 21 | Landsbergis was referring to a spate of attacks on improvised customs control points which the Lithuanian government had set up along its borders with the rest of the Soviet Union as a demonstration of Lithuania 's determination to act as an independent state . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's every lad 's dream to play in the All Ireland final and now that we have got this far we want to make sure and win . |
| 23 | Like most players it was always McGurk 's dream to play in an All Ireland senior final , but there was the danger it would remain simply that , a dream . |
| 24 | Past experience of losses of the same nature as a current loss was found to reduce the person 's capacity to deal with the current loss . |
| 25 | ‘ Representative processes , ’ says Hallowell , ‘ are at the root of Man 's capacity to deal with the abstract qualities of objects and events , his ability to deal with the possible or conceivable , the ideal as well as the actual , the intangible along with the tangible , the absent as well as the present object or event , with fantasy and with reality . |
| 26 | Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour 's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery . |
| 27 | Darwin 's reluctance to publish in the 1840s can easily be understood in terms of the still active controversy over Lamarckism and Chambers ' Vestiges . |
| 28 | The UK government has since tried to use Acheson 's opinion to argue for an upwards revision of the 50 mg/litre limit . |
| 29 | In a speech in Gloucester tonight he 's expected to launch a bitter attack on the Government 's failure to deal with the current wave of crime . |
| 30 | [ That this House regrets the Government 's failure to deal with the imminent threat of wholesale breaches of the law on Sunday trading ; expresses concern that Ministers appear to be running away from their responsibility to uphold the law as soon as one or more large commercial organisations express their intention to ignore the law ; greatly regrets the way that this situation puts pressure on responsible and law-abiding retailers to open on Sundays simply to protect their market share ; further regrets the damage that is likely to be done to small shops and family businesses as a consequence ; considers that sensible progress to modernising the law should be made on the basis of the REST proposals put forward by Keep Sunday Special ; and calls on the Government actively to pursue the regulation of Sunday trading in a way which deals fairly with employees , their families and with community and commercial interests . ] |