Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the start , ITV programme scheduling was almost entirely determined , apart from the IBA 's requirements , by the need to get advertising revenue ( in its early years , one-quarter of ITV 's money came simply from the great washing-powder war ) . |
| 2 | More often than not , the producer 's money comes out of the artist 's record company royalty payment . |
| 3 | Jinkwa 's foot hovered eagerly over the firing button . |
| 4 | Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger . |
| 5 | Only a sixth of Paris 's milk came in on the Nord network , the biggest importer being Etat . |
| 6 | Lannaman 's exaltedness stood out against the bleak , colourless squalor of working-class Aston , cluttered with roads of derelict , condemned or should-be-condemned houses . |
| 7 | At first sight it would seem difficult to bring a restitutionary claim within this article , and Mr. Beazley 's case depends entirely on the construction which he seeks to put on the Court of Justice decision in Kalfelis v. Bankhaus Schrôder , Mûnchmeyer , Hengst and Co . |
| 8 | Boler 's case grinds wearily to the Court of Appeal . |
| 9 | Today 's case came out of a fight hear at the Coachmaker 's Arms , but the landlord says the days of Wallingford 's louts are numbered . |
| 10 | Abraham 's faith went far beyond the reach of understanding , but it is a travesty of the facts to ignore the elements of understanding which enabled him to do so . |
| 11 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the prime reason for the Bundesbank 's decision to go ahead with an interest rate cut will have been the solidarity pact which was agreed last Saturday between Chancellor Kohl 's government and the opposition to put Germany 's post-unification finances on a sound footing and help the revival of eastern Germany . |
| 13 | On July 25 the federal government approved the Slovak government 's decision to go ahead with the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project , originally part of a joint Hungarian-Czechoslovakian scheme from which Hungary had withdrawn in 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] and to put the power station into operation from October as " a temporary measure " . |
| 14 | And I think I made it quite clear that it was not the quality of the Education Authority that was the basis of the Banbury School 's proposals , it was the County Council 's decision to go ahead on a consultation for tertiary education , an entirely different animal in Oxfordshire , and I , like Bob , would agree that the erm quality of education offered in Oxfordshire is first class . |
| 15 | The plan was devised with the help of the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , which welcomes China 's decision to go ahead as a major step toward saving the panda . |
| 16 | Will not CBI ( Scotland ) take a dim view of the Government 's decision to opt out of a commitment to the single currency ? |
| 17 | But is not the Prime Minister 's decision to opt out of the social charter — — ’ opt out ’ were the words that he used — an admission that , after 12 years of Tory rule , the economy is not as sound , robust and healthy as the Government try to claim but is so fragile that it can not support the most basic workers ' rights that will be enjoyed in the rest of Europe ? |
| 18 | Environmentalists in Czechoslovakia are becoming increasingly critical of their government 's decision to proceed unilaterally with the project . |
| 19 | The government 's decision to press ahead with the work , allegedly without carrying out an adequate environmental impact assessment , led to a threat of legal action from the European Commission [ see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 20 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 21 | ENGLAND look clear favourites to stage cricket 's next World Cup following South Africa 's decision to drop out of the bidding . |
| 22 | ENGLAND now look clear favourites to stage cricket 's next World Cup following South Africa 's decision to drop out of the bidding . |
| 23 | Yesterday , the union claimed the first jobs casualty of the base rate rise — the Automobile Association 's announcement of 500 job losses , in the wake of the company 's decision to pull out of the air package holiday business . |
| 24 | Thousands of staff at two of Britain 's biggest aerospace companies are worried there may be yet more redundancies following Germany 's decision to pull out of the European Fighter project . |
| 25 | When the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Indochina met on 23 November 1946 and heard d'Argenlieu 's report it resulted in what Devillers affirms was obviously the government 's decision to face up to every infringement of the Franco — Vietminh agreement , if necessary by force . |
| 26 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 27 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 28 | BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley . |
| 29 | In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook … |
| 30 | Much of the Bible 's teaching goes back to the way we are made ; it goes back to creation itself . |