Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 2 | Larkin 's humiliating defeat did not prevent his becoming president of the Irish Trades Union Congress , and he had their blessing when he left for the United States in October 1914 , hoping to retrieve his union 's fortunes . |
| 3 | Victor 's facial expression did n't change . |
| 4 | The takings from Mr Miah 's reatuarant business do n't go to the house and there 's no important jewellery there . |
| 5 | You 've got six month 's free membership do n't worry about it . |
| 6 | Australia 's wedge-tailed eagle does not breed till it is six years old , and then breeds only when conditions are good . |
| 7 | But Lebanon 's foreign community did not view the operation with the same enthusiasm or sense of drama as Ford , who ostentatiously spent the night in the Oval Office in Washington waiting for news of the evacuation . |
| 8 | ( The PLAYER 's grave face does not change . |
| 9 | ‘ The record 's commercial success does n't matter , it 's the commitment that really counts . ’ |
| 10 | Others suspected the truth : that Hitler 's public stance did not represent his real feelings on the issue . |
| 11 | She had suffered at the sharp end of the tongues of some of Dej 's more sophisticated barons ' wives in the 1950s and Dej 's favourite daughter did not respect her . |
| 12 | Gramsci 's originality as a Marxist lay partly in his conception of the nature of bourgeois rule ( and indeed of any previous established social order ) , in his argument that the system 's real strength does not lie in the violence of the ruling class , or the coercive power of its state apparatus , but in the acceptance by the ruled of a ‘ conception of the world ’ which belongs to the rulers . |
| 13 | It is clear from extract ( 11 ) that some elements in a speaker 's personal topic do not become salient elements in the conversation if neither the other participant nor the speaker herself mention them again . |
| 14 | I hear that editor David Thomas 's valedictory piece did not go down too well either . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | The Asian client 's basic pension does not take him or her above income support levels . |
| 17 | H. M. Bateman 's little man did not have that particular situation to face . |
| 18 | The White-house says the meeting on Thursday with the country 's Prime Minister does n't signal a change in U S foreign policy . |
| 19 | The Whitehouse says the meeting on Thursday with the country 's Prime Minister does n't signal a change in U S foreign policy . |
| 20 | It seems more likely that the tusks are used in hostile encounters between rival males , though , unlike the antlers of a deer , the babirusa 's backward-curving armament does not appear to be best designed for fighting . |
| 21 | Scotland 's record-breaking captain does not see himself as a future Scottish Rugby Union president . |
| 22 | Except that they did not go , as promised , to the Rotunda , but went instead to a rival attraction advertised in Saunder 's News-Letter & Daily Advertiser : one , indeed , which ensured that Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture did not triumph in Dublin as it had done in London . |
| 23 | Kohonen 's net algorithm does not invent a partition of the training set into clusters . |
| 24 | As it happened , in spite of General Marshall 's fears , France 's colonial policy did not become a Congressional issue in 1947 nor did it , contrary to what Marshall feared , have much effect on public opinion in the US . |
| 25 | The King 's good will did not survive Tyndale 's next book , The Practice of Prelates , which , in attacking Wolsey and the English clergy , argued that they had influenced the King in his decision to divorce Catherine of Aragon . |
| 26 | Jim 's forged telegram did not convince him . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman 's cracked record does not seem to recognise that we are now in the age of disks . |
| 28 | Analysis of Brian 's nursing history does not show a structured approach of this nature ; such support was provided as the need for it was noticed by individual staff members , which is theoretically unsatisfying , although it may have worked in practice . |
| 29 | This ended in the closure of the French Consulate in Canton , and a freeze on contracts to French companies — and the company 's ultimate ownership does not seem to have got through to the Chinese . |
| 30 | The queen 's apparent reasonableness does indeed seem to have paid off , and the granting of military commands to Dorset and his uncle met with no recorded opposition . |