Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus where during the trader 's unsolicited visit an offer is made which is accepted only later , the customer effectively has a longer cooling-off period . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) Provided that where after a partner 's death the partnership business is continued in the old firm-name , the continued use of that name or of the deceased partner 's name as part thereof shall not of itself make his executors or administrators estate or effects liable for any partnership debts contracted after his death . |
| 3 | The mass of people of all classes of society , except for the Earl 's house guests , moved off towards the exits , and a sorry sight they were . |
| 4 | The divorce stage no longer requires a court appearance , except for the children 's appointment in chambers , at which the petitioner attends . |
| 5 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 6 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 7 | A growing number of large companies are including information on environmental issues in their annual reports , although as the Institute 's Financial Reporting 1991–92 points out , it ‘ is as yet at an experimental stage and assessment of its value is still tentative ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Karen was telling me you are writing about the workforce rather than about the plant 's operational side . |
| 9 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 10 | The fees for a fuller report are , of course , higher than for the society 's valuation report , because the surveyor will spend more time both inspecting the property and preparing a fuller report suitable for your needs . |
| 11 | ‘ So they 're a splinter group working for their own evil purposes rather than for the island 's status quo ? ’ |
| 12 | Fleury was beside himself with distress , but more for Louise 's sake than for the Doctor 's ( he had privately come to consider his prospective father-in-law as an opinionated old fool ) . |
| 13 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 14 | I simply did n't need any more , although after a year 's work the headmaster put me up to £7 a week . |
| 15 | They concluded that the wary response is more characteristic of the social circumstance than of the individual 's level of development . |
| 16 | John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was presented in a new production in 1989 as a study of a failed marriage rather than of the playwright 's early ideological concerns . |
| 17 | the engagement of supply teachers by schools direct , rather than via the LEA 's personnel section . |
| 18 | The Law society is seeking a ten year term for the contract , with some crucial provisions entrenched so that they can not be altered for the duration of the contract , except with the Society 's agreement . |
| 19 | The call must not be made before 8 am or after 9 pm ( local time for the investor ) except with the investor 's specific agreement . |
| 20 | The general rule is that no one may use a goods vehicle on a road for the carriage of goods for hire or reward , or for or in connexion with any trade or business carried on by him , except under an operator 's licence ( commonly known as an O licence ) . |
| 21 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 22 | As Golding was to remark in Stockholm in 1983 , on receiving the Nobel prize for literature , fiction has far more to do with the general mind of mankind than with the writer 's own quirks and obsessions : ‘ not just what the writer is thinking , but what a huge segment of the world is thinking . ’ |
| 23 | So , too , if a man teaches his parrot to slander anyone , that is neither more nor less the ordinary tort of defamation than if he prefers to say it with his own tongue rather than with the parrot 's . |
| 24 | She was in her own body again — although with the pirate 's disabilities and in her ruined evening dress . |
| 25 | When children were engaged in sustained collaborative activity in pairs or groups , this had in most cases been initiated by themselves , albeit with the teacher 's blessing . |
| 26 | The floors were covered with green figured Wilton pile carpet laid on grey felt throughout the saloon , except in the attendant 's compartment and balconies . |
| 27 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 28 | This shows a developing scale of value , not dissimilar to the adult 's hierarchy , although in the child 's case there will special reasons , fortified by fairy stories , for promoting animals . ) |
| 29 | It is basically the function of the designer to protect the client 's interest and ensure that the food service planning is carried out from a food service operator 's point of view , rather than from the architect 's or interior designer 's point of view . |
| 30 | This chapter will examine the rules of competition from the competitors ' point of view , rather than from the referees ' . |