Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun sg] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother knew of the foster mother 's application for judicial review , but was told ( correctly ) that she was not directly involved with those proceedings . |
| 2 | She was not told of the foster mother 's application for leave to apply for a residence order and knew nothing about it until after leave had been granted . |
| 3 | The judge 's failure to apply the correct test in this respect was compounded by the fact that he was deprived of the material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion because of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the foster mother 's application for leave under rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 . |
| 4 | I accept that it was not mandatory upon the judge to require that the mother be given notice of the foster mother 's application , but he knew in general terms from the evidence before him that the mother had maintained an active interest in the children and that she was unhappy about the children 's placement with the foster mother . |
| 5 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 6 | In my judgment therefore the exercise of his discretion was vitiated on the additional ground that by failing to require that the mother be given notice of the foster mother 's application , he was deprived of material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion . |
| 7 | Such actions could only be activated at the request of the immediate lord 's vassal and the notion of French royal sovereignty remained largely theoretical and judicial throughout this period . |
| 8 | ‘ She said no more , ’ repeated Mrs Bumble calmly , showing ( unlike Mr Bumble ) no fear of the strange man 's violence . |
| 9 | Although amounting to no more than 3 per cent of the average household 's income , the rates bill arrived on people 's door mat as a single lump sum annual charge . |
| 10 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |
| 11 | Of the average family 's £47.66 food bill , £9.52 is spent outside . |
| 12 | The increase in the cost of repaying mortgages ( the greatest component of the average family 's budget ) caused a reduction in the amount of money available for general consumption and hence a reduction in living standards . |
| 13 | Most of your working life , one and half years of the average employee 's working life is lost is stress related . |
| 14 | He had immense difficulties to overcome , partly because of the average Englishman 's prejudice against foreigners ( especially perhaps the French ) and partly because of the then prejudice of society against a science — veterinary medicine — which was not yet established as respectable . |
| 15 | Caroline 's comment : Commercial baby foods make up a substantial part of the average baby 's diet and they are very convenient . |
| 16 | On April 2 , 1990 , at a meeting in Luxembourg with members of the Arab League 's intifada committee , EC Foreign Ministers promised to use their influence to try to stop the settlement of Soviet Jews in the occupied territories , including East Jerusalem . |
| 17 | So far as the main thrust of the honourable gentleman 's question is concerned er he will know that we believe it to be right and indeed in the interests of all the people in Northern Ireland that the British and Irish government should work closely together . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman might be referring to the fact that on receipt of the Southern board 's investment appraisal for the refurbishment of Banbridge hospital it became clear that there were a number of deficiencies in the document , as certain issues had not been properly addressed . |
| 19 | Taking the menu out of the nearest gentleman 's hand , she laid it flat on the table , and with her pencil pointed to the first item , then mimed drinking . |
| 20 | Further confirmation of the bare infinitive 's ability to express a coincident potentiality is provided by uses in exclamations where it does not occur in relation with a modal : ( 7 ) What ! |
| 21 | Yet further confirmation of this analysis is to be found in the explanation of the bare infinitive 's use after dare in what Quirk et al. |
| 22 | There have been conflicting reports about much of the 36-year-old bachelor 's background . |
| 23 | Logically , even consumption activities such as eating could be viewed as an investment required to sustain the producer ; this is perhaps clearer in the case of the agricultural labourer 's meal which is essential to production , than the executive 's expense-account lunch which may actually impede it . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Colonel Haldane did not succeed in winning the vote of the burgh of Inverkeithing itself , a failure which may perhaps be linked to the lasting hostility of the burgesses occasioned by his own quick temper two years earlier , for in 1752 he had given Provost John Cunningham a black eye when he had encountered the chief magistrate on the steps of the tolbooth , an error of judgement which served to undo much of the Haldane party 's work in that town , and indeed ran the colonel some risk of being mobbed . |
| 25 | • Logistics worthy of the Ninth Army 's move to the Gulf saw all the stands arrive , intact with exhibits at Paris having left Birmingham straight after the show closed there on Sunday night . |
| 26 | Details of the 92 season 's results will appear in future issues . |
| 27 | The US firm Tacoma Boat is in line to update two of the Egyptian navy 's submarines with American components and financing . |
| 28 | Moreover , director Paul Haines said that one of the London-based group 's tactics for boosting profits was to look for bargains among the competition — the stake in Total was bought at a very low price , he says — then buy a small stake , and cash it in . |
| 29 | International sales , equally divided now between corporate and retail sectors , rose 64% to £15.8m , and currently generate over half of the London-based group 's turnover . |
| 30 | The meeting ended with the questions of recognition for the HCS and acceptance of the political bureau 's resignation unresolved , pending a further session the following month . |