Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | OURSTORY present material from a new book on lesbian and gay Brighton lives in the 50 's and 60 's to be published by QueenSpark Books . |
| 2 | One looks at the accused 's state of mind . |
| 3 | This stems from the latter 's requirement that the shares must be freely marketable . |
| 4 | In s.2(1) ( b ) the phrase " let another do so " still refers to the accused 's own existing liability and it was another way of committing the offence . |
| 5 | The constitutionalisation of the trade unions and the police refers to the former 's growing commitment to procedural settlements and closer political alliance to the Labour Party , and to the latter 's growing independence from local political control . |
| 6 | But it contrasts with the latter 's general emphasis on religion as an abortive form of protest by the underprivileged : ' … the sigh of the oppressed creature , the sentiment of a heartless world , and the soul of soulless conditions … the opium of the people ! ’ |
| 7 | The requirement of belief relates to the accused 's own belief . |
| 8 | The difference between the old Keynesian and the new Keynesian approaches arises from the latter 's retention , albeit in radically modified form , of the notion of an equilibrium unemployment rate , and the former 's wholesale rejection of the usefulness of the NAIRU concept . |
| 9 | Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge . |