Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Gilbert , it appears , died shortly before or during Gilbert 's visit to Australia . |
| 2 | Madrid Visitors to Spain this summer — whether for sun , sport ( the Olympic Games ) or for Seville 's Expo 92 — are advised to bring buckets , mops and disinfectants in their suitcases in addition to Ambre Solaire and Jeffrey Archer . |
| 3 | Another thing : not enough men would be in the middle waiting for crosses when they came and like I said before the crosses were mostly aiming for heads — or for Deano 's head . |
| 4 | Electronic time recording can be done on terminals or through Psion 's Series 3 pocket computers . |
| 5 | Approach through the Abbey or through Dean 's Yard and the cloister . |
| 6 | Approach through the Abbey or through Dean 's Yard and the cloister . |
| 7 | It is uncertain how Cameron obtained an introduction to her but it was possibly through Clérisseau , who was known to her , or through Cameron 's book on the Roman baths . |
| 8 | No sign of rural poverty or of Wordsworth 's desolate vagrants or the growth of urban immigration . |
| 9 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 10 | In 1977 yet another alibi witness surfaced , one Richard Hurn , who knew nothing of the case or of McMahon 's imprisonment but told a friend that he remembered seeing McMahon in London on the afternoon of the murder , a date which for other reasons he had cause to remember . |
| 11 | There is plenty of lacrimae rerum here , and one may legitimately wish for a touch of Dryden 's bluffness or of Pound 's impatient suspicion of the elegiac note . |
| 12 | Take the rationality assumptions of microeconomics or of Morgenthau 's Realism , for instance . |
| 13 | Those who were safely beached on the shore of prosperity had the option of giving the credit to Providence , or arrogating it to themselves ; as they regarded those less fortunate ones who were struggling in the water , they could see them as victims of their own improvidence or of God 's ineluctable decree . |
| 14 | Clearly technology is not the only determinant of work organisation , or of people 's level of satisfaction at work . |
| 15 | A study of Ashton 's ways of using them , or of MacMillan 's , reveal how unnecessary it is to keep passing the arms through 1st position . |
| 16 | Or like Jenny 's mother , whose grey head trembled constantly , so that she reminded Winnie of a nodding Chinese doll she had owned as a child . |
| 17 | After all , the theist is seeking to conform with the verification principle and is listing observations which count for or against God 's existence . |
| 18 | Shall we , shall we still , we w w we still have the , the , the issue of voting now for or against Mr 's addendum . |
| 19 | The stage was set for a critical vote where members would be asked to decide whether they were for or against Reagan 's economic programme . |
| 20 | IN 1827 , ITS ACTIVE INGREDIENT , SALICIN , WAS ISOLATED ; & WITH MEADOWSWEET 'S SIMILAR SALICYLIC ACID PROVIDED THE CHEMICAL BLUEPRINT FOR ASPIRIN |
| 21 | Comparison of categorical data between the two groups was performed with the χ 2 test ( with Yates 's correction when necessary ) or with Fischer 's exact test . |
| 22 | Thus the freedom to act in a given way , e.g. to protest , attracts an obligation in doing so not to disproportionately interfere with other persons ' freedoms or with society 's interests . |
| 23 | He had rightly judged that it would have been unwise for him to associate himself with the movement of the Earl of Lancaster or with Rent 's conspiracy . |
| 24 | Malcolm Muggeridge about Mrs Marilyn Carr , a candidate in a Croydon by-election who was standing on a ‘ pro-life programme ’ ; against abortion and the medical termination of babies born deformed or with Down 's Syndrome . |
| 25 | All categorial data were statistically compared with the χ 2 test or with Fisher 's exact test , when appropriate . |
| 26 | But she was still slightly surprised when she found Father Barnes showing round groups of visitors , experts interested in Victorian architecture , who enthused over the baldachin , admired the Pre-Raphaelite paintings on the eight panels of the pulpit , or set up their tripods to photograph the apse , and who compared it , in confident , un-ecclesiastical tones ( surely even experts ought to lower their voices in church ) with the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice or with Blomfield 's similar basilica at Jericho in Oxford . |
| 27 | This computer is linked to Phonelink 's own computers via the group 's own ‘ fast connect ’ modem on the public telephone network ; via BT 's ISDN network ; or via BT 's Global Service Network . |
| 28 | Those ‘ indestructible barriers ’ which in the Clark lectures he saw as characterizing post-Cartesian society are all too apparent in The Waste Land where in Bradley 's words , quoted by Eliot , ‘ regarded as an existence which appears in a soul , the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul ’ . |
| 29 | Where in hell 's name was my sweater now ? |
| 30 | Where in hell 's name do you think they got their hands on it ? ’ |