Example sentences of "[adj] ['s] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line ( 0 ) is the reaction function of manufacturer 1 whilst is the reaction function of the retailer of 2 's product when charged an input price ( costs are assumed here to equal zero ) . |
| 2 | Although everyone has the innate capacity to love and to enjoy another 's happiness as well as their own , and to get themselves loved and their happiness enjoyed by others , not everyone can risk the experience in adult life . |
| 3 | It is about creating an expectation that children will share ideas , help one another and make the most of one another 's resources while the teacher is busy elsewhere . |
| 4 | There is a full discussion of this case at p76. 1.5 The employee 's duty to disclose to his employer information which may be of use to that employer ( and not personally to profit from it ) If , during the course of employment , an employee receives information which is or may reasonably be relevant to his employer 's business then he is under a duty : ( a ) to disclose all relevant information received to the employer ; and ( b ) not to use that information for his or another 's benefit unless the employer consents . |
| 5 | Not only in law , but in ordinary life , we look upon an act done by one man in pursuance of another 's orders as done by the person who gives the order . |
| 6 | On the last day of the Sale one senior elder was heard to say in response to another 's query as to how he was faring , ‘ Well , I 've just make 40p which I 'm very pleased about ’ . |
| 7 | In the case of instruments proof of the accused 's intent when entering the building with the instrument would be required , i.e. was the instrument only used to gain entry ( no entry ) or was it used to intimidate or to steal goods ? |
| 8 | A court should now consider the effect of the provocation on ‘ a person having the power of self-control to be expected of an ordinary person of the sex and age of the accused , but in other respects sharing such of the accused 's characteristics as they think would affect the gravity of the provocation to him ’ . |
| 9 | The outcome of the key features review will normally be a short report summarising MAS 's factual findings and a covering letter dealing with MAS 's recommendations as to how any problem areas might be overcome . |
| 10 | ‘ There is obviously more to Froggy 's murder than meets the eye and , despite the bullying phone call , my editor , God bless him , wants me to do a little more digging . |
| 11 | Well no , if you remember they they 've just started now a review of nineteen ninety three 's reorganisation because everything that moved from Newark to West Bridgford has moved back again |
| 12 | Apple reportedly hopes to offer the machine at approximately Macintosh LC II prices , but it will deliver up to 30 times the LC II 's performance when running software written for the new RISC CPU 's native mode . |
| 13 | On Russian television on July 4 , Yeltsin said that Kozyrev 's remarks had been assessed at the Security Council as " harmful " , and suggested that if Kozyrev wanted to " be a prophet like [ Eduard ] Shevardnadze , then act like Shevardnadze " ( a reference to the latter 's resignation as Soviet Foreign Minister in December 1990 after warning of an impending coup — see p. 37903 ) . |
| 14 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 15 | In either case the problem for X is the same , namely what is X 's position if Y Ltd. having taken delivery then becomes insolvent and goes into liquidation before paying for the goods ? |
| 16 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 17 | IBM Corp 's position is not seen by Standard & Poor 's Corp as likely to deteriorate any further any time soon : the ratings agency affirmed IBM and its units ' double-A-minus senior debt and A-1-plus commercial paper ratings , affecting about $19,000m in debt . |
| 18 | Trevor Magee had passed the small entryway to Long 's Court when he noticed it . |
| 19 | NORWEGIAN international Tore Dahlum could be just the first addition to Manchester United 's staff as manager Alex Ferguson seeks a goalscoring hero to revive their Premier League title prospects . |
| 20 | Adalard 's grandfather had been Pippin I 's choice as count of Paris , a countship then held successively by Adalard 's uncles and his brother . |
| 21 | Now that we 're into the Nineties , the agencies have changed tack , and such Eighties ' characteristics as greed , selfishness and sad Paisley ties have become passé . |
| 22 | He continued Henry VII 's chapel until its completion in 1519 , and at Windsor undertook a further contract to vault the lady chapel between 1511 and 1514 . |
| 23 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 24 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 25 | Well , I suppose it 's better than nothing , but I 'd be grateful for a month or two 's notice when you do decide to go . |
| 26 | Hardback , 244 pages , illustrated it includes copious extracts from 627 's ORB while at Oakington and Woodhall Spa , a list of aircrew personnel , aircraft operated and aircraft incidents . |
| 27 | She came to Gentle 's aid as soon as he appeared , the exchange between them short and functional : was he badly hurt ? |
| 28 | We were discussing the order of Henry VIII 's wives when suddenly Nigel started to make extraordinary labial noises , like a baby . |
| 29 | Miss Hepburn , best known for starring roles in such 1960s ' classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's , recently toured refugee camps in famine-ravaged Somalia as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nation 's children 's fund . |
| 30 | These losses , politically damaging , and bad for morale ( they were seen in Louis the Pious 's entourage as divine retribution on former rebels ) , weakened Lothar 's resistance to his father 's pressure . |