Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 2 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 3 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 4 | The name change , Avalon says , represents the company 's decision to reposition itself in the client/server market . |
| 5 | IRAS 's orbit takes it round the Earth every 100 minutes , passing within 9o of the poles on a path 900 km high , well above the water vapour in Earth 's atmosphere which absorbs much of the infrared radiation from space . |
| 6 | Subsequent analyses of observations from that day , when the satellite was well-placed for observations , showed a short burst of gamma and X-rays followed about a minute later by energetic neutrons that kept on coming until the satellite 's orbit carried it behind the earth . |
| 7 | The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock . |
| 8 | The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock . |
| 9 | Miss Fogerty 's heart smote her at the sight of her patient 's distress . |
| 10 | United almost contributed to their own downfall , but Blackpool 's finsihing let them off the hook . |
| 11 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 12 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 13 | ‘ The centre 's management supplied us with the display screens , upon which we quickly pinned up posters , photographs and press-cuttings . |
| 14 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 15 | At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand . |
| 16 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 17 | Scotland 's determination to take something from the night was shown in the 64th minute , too , when a defender , Wright , was replaced by a forward , his Aberdeen team-mate , Scott Booth . |
| 18 | The artefact 's capacity to separate itself from the immediacy of a relationship embodied in the concept of utility is most evident in the manner in which it is used for precisely the opposite function , that is , to separate the individual from productive activity . |
| 19 | In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus . |
| 20 | There 's little in Marshall 's CV to prepare you for the way this story , awash with sentimental pitfalls , is turned into a deeply stirring , full blooded drama . |
| 21 | Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall . |
| 22 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 24 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 25 | Tonson 's title-page said nothing of the sort ; only that the word-book offered for sale in 1693 was a new improved version . |
| 26 | She used Rosalind 's flashlight to take her across the kitchen 's frayed linoleum to the corridor . |
| 27 | Labour also moved towards more concern for the consumer , towards an acceptance of the need for legal curbs on the power of the unions , and the party 's need to confirm itself as the defence of the law and order sought by working-class citizens . |
| 28 | But if there is any real doubt in marginal cases the officer 's need to cover himself against the possibility of criticism from above normally resolves the issue in favour of sampling . |
| 29 | Then Edward 's papa took us on the lake in a rowing-boat . ’ |
| 30 | Edward 's desire to rid himself of the burden and embarrassment of Scotland was shared not only by his subjects but also by the pope , whose concern for peace in England , a prerequisite for a crusade , was once again evident . |