Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] an [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A close lawn laps the feet of the giant church 's ancient heights , and some of the long-departed community 's living quarters are as smoothly preserved as an abbot 's jowls . |
| 2 | ‘ Given a pitch more worn than an umpire 's eardrum , ’ he wrote ( if that is the word ) , ‘ 99 was not a straightforward target , and when the temperature was threatening to melt the mercury in the thermometer , Graham Gooch could scarcely have been more grateful for having buried the hatchet with Hampshire 's intrepid aviator . ’ |
| 3 | According to this principle , as Bentham understands it , the ideal method for determining whether an individual 's action , or a legislative enactment , is right or wrong would be through evaluation of its total tendency to promote happiness , on the one hand , and to promote unhappiness on the other ; if the former predominates the action is right , if the latter it is wrong . |
| 4 | The degree of disruption caused by the need to travel further to work is taken into account in determining whether an employee 's refusal of alternative employment is reasonable . |
| 5 | Maybe Brando agreed with Clift ; in any case , sensing he had more to offer than an actor 's tools , he decided to take his destiny into his own hands and he set about producing One-Eyed Jacks , a western , in 1960 . |
| 6 | There is no authority for saying that the court applies any other rules other than those of contract law when assessing whether an expert 's decision shall stand . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal considered whether an adjudicator 's decision in a construction contract ( see 6.8.5 ) was enforceable as an arbitration award , and decided that it was not , but their judgment was based on the interim nature of the adjudicator 's decision pending arbitration to which the decision would be subject , and not on any of the usual characteristics of experts ' decisions : the interim nature of adjudicators ' decisions is itself untypical of experts ' decisions . |
| 8 | Mis–perceptions tend to occur when an individual 's limited capacity to give attention to competing information under stress produces tunnel vision or when a preconceived diagnosis blocks out sources of inconsistent information . |