Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The acquisition of Palatine would result in a dilution of Anglo-Welsh 's earnings per share . |
| 2 | It is believed senior executives of the company in Boston are aware of the strain on Scottish and Irish employees waiting to hear which of the plants will suffer as a result of Digital 's rationalisation of its European manufacturing operation , forced by world-wide recession and changes in the computer industry . |
| 3 | Being part of the natural world and a proper object of scientific study , X is predictable on the basis of X 's preferences and information , which are in turn the result of X 's nature and nurture . |
| 4 | Put another way , ‘ The protection given by the law of copyright is against copying , the basis of the protection being that one man must not be permitted to appropriate the result of another 's labour ’ ( LB [ Plastics ] v. Swish ) . |
| 5 | As it takes time for these reactions to occur , one country 's acid rain may be the result of another 's emissions . |
| 6 | With the example before him of the exclusion from the succession of the line of Eorcenberht 's brother , Eormenred , and the murder of Eormenred 's sons , Aethelred and Aethelberht , Eadric , son of Ecgberht , may have feared exclusion by his uncle , Hlothhere ( see Appendix , Fig. 1 ) . |
| 7 | How come a club of United 's stature can no longer compete in the transfer market , and are now overshadowed by humble Blackburn when it comes to buying players ? |
| 8 | DJ Kevin Cameron hosts a Saturday afternoon programme of 60 's and 70 's hits which Moira claims she 's too young to remember … but she listens anyway . |
| 9 | The second book is a comparative French/British study of 1980 's communications policymaking and deregulation ; it concludes by stressing the similarities in French and British policy in these areas . |
| 10 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 11 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 12 | That his own son could achieve a measure of success so late in the day is the greatest single indication of Æthelred 's incapacity , and hints at the resilience of English government . |
| 13 | The cost would be immeasurable , but there would be green on either side of Zayed 's desert highway in his lifetime . |
| 14 | RMC jumped 24 to 630p after some flattering words from broking analysts in the light of 1991 's results , announced on Tuesday . |
| 15 | But the Chronicle itself is not comprehensive enough to make such doubts irresistible ( see below ) , and skaldic poetry is sometimes a valuable supplement to our other sources , especially on the fighting of Æthelred 's reign and Cnut 's activities in Scandinavia . |
| 16 | He denounced the immoralities which had prevailed in Northumbrian society since the days of King Aelfwald and contrasted the adornments of dress and hair and the luxurious standard of living of Aethelred 's court-circle with an absence of concern for the poor and the starving . |
| 17 | There is therefore a clear place for an EC policy to oversee State aids , and so to ensure that they do not unjustifiably favour one member 's industry at the expense of another 's , and thereby mitigate the intentions of EC competition policy . |
| 18 | The fact that the undertaking is not speaking with its own voice but is merely the echo of another 's soon becomes known . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | The fundamental weakness in Oswine 's position was not necessarily so much the challenge from Swaefheard as the lack of support within the kingdom for a prince of Eormenred 's line . |
| 21 | Their importance will undoubtedly be misjudged however if we persist in the error of thinking that perceptual judgements , or those about consciousness , involve the replication of another 's inner experience , human or non-human . |
| 22 | It could not bear the bright inspection of another 's sorrow . |
| 23 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 24 | This is at the heart of UNCED 's Agenda 21 , the European Community 's Fifth Action Programme and the UK Government 's Environment White Paper . |
| 25 | After the interval , Swindon sharpened their wits and began to make the heart of United 's defence look ponderous . |
| 26 | It would be unrealistic to assume that any assessment process based solely on one assessor 's judgement of another 's competence would always be regarded as completely valid and reliable . |
| 27 | For all the turbulence and excitement that erupted with the Gang of Four 's break with Labour in 1981 , Britain looked as much a two-party system at the end of the decade as it did in 1980 . |
| 28 | At the early shows their basic set was augmented with frantic cover versions like Orange Juice 's ‘ Felicity ’ and The Gang Of Four 's ‘ I Found That Essence Rare ’ . |
| 29 | The nobleman Berhtfrith subsequently attributed Osred 's victory over his enemies at Bamburgh to the decision of Osred 's party to do justice by Wilfrid ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) and the indications are that Wilfrid came to an understanding with Osred 's party following his rejection by Eadwulf . |
| 30 | People found their way round such systems by linking issues to file series based on subject , organisational provenance , or function — the Ministry of X 's file series about Y , the registered files of the Ministry of X 's Y Branch , or the Ministry of X 's files on its discharge of Act of Parliament Y. Since paper records were designed to fit into such registry systems , they carried pointers to their position within them ; file covers , file numbers , cross references to other files in the same series or related file series , and so on . |