Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles II 's response fitted the occasion . |
| 2 | M. Chaillot 's response included the information that there was not much money for new work in his budget . |
| 3 | The Doctor 's response gave the poet no confidence , but choice was limited ; he either went along with the Doctor or he remained behind . |
| 4 | While the expert clause itself may lay down that the parties are to be responsible for the fees and expenses of the expert in equal shares , which is quite common , or that they are to be met by some other party ( see 8.12 ) , the clause itself may not be sufficient to establish the expert 's entitlement unless its terms are clearly incorporated into the expert 's contract to conduct the reference . |
| 5 | This lead time allowed LIFFE 's contract to exploit the process generating endogenous economies of scale and become sufficiently liquid to attract substantial hedging demand in German long term interest rates . |
| 6 | The outset of Doctor Who multiplied those worries fourfold , in that each of the regular cast was ( a ) unused to science fiction ; ( b ) unused to each other ; and ( c ) stuck with a year 's contract to do the part , like it or not . |
| 7 | Alder Valley 's contract to provide the peak time 213 service to and from Alton for school and college journeys will be provided by Oakley Coaches . |
| 8 | The successful execution of the DEPARTMENT 's activities involves the use of staff skills and the best available equipment to provide the greatest benefit for the DEPARTMENT 's customers . |
| 9 | Central Statistical Office Many aspects of the state 's activities involve the routine collection of statistics , and these are regularly published in booklets . |
| 10 | I appreciate the minister 's difficulty representing the Home Office with no specific responsibility for these matters as far as er er Europe is concerned er but nevertheless this is a matter that does affect the electorate and one that I think the house should take er notice of . |
| 11 | The statement of the treasurer 's accounts included the expenditure of £1.7s.6d. ‘ for poor 's rates for the building ’ . |
| 12 | Yesterday 's award follows the collapse of another BR case in which MP Harry Greenaway had been accused of corruption involving a rail engineering firm . |
| 13 | Rugby 's board said the slump had continued to depress UK sales , but US sales and profit margins had improved . |
| 14 | Now , a backlash from a public consultation exercise has convinced the NRA 's board to drop the proposal . |
| 15 | Having failed to persuade Mr Shankly to change his mind , Liverpool 's board resisted the temptation to appoint another charismatic manager . |
| 16 | ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and |
| 17 | The responses by these members of the Frankfurt School of Sociology to Hitler 's rise represent the kind of perspective we are looking for . |
| 18 | The force of a runner 's foot deflects the pavement very little in running , and therefore does little work ( in the Newtonian sense ) on his environment . |
| 19 | The property of springiness is easy enough to detect : it is in direct relation to the speed with which a runner 's foot leaves the surface after contact with the ground . |
| 20 | Mammalian babies , when they do finally emerge into the outside world , still need their mother 's milk to complete the building of their highly complex bodies and they may continue to suckle for years . |
| 21 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 22 | This weekend 's show looks at man 's attempts to predict the weather . |
| 23 | Grilly 's attempts to adjudicate the question had failed , and Pierre Flote was deputed to bring the affair to the cognizance of the court of France . |
| 24 | The event is part of the Rugby Football Union 's attempts to promote the game . |
| 25 | Thru literalizes this defining characteristic of narrative by constantly thwarting the reader 's attempts to assign the text to a given ‘ voice ’ . |
| 26 | Man 's attempts to tame the flood have not always progressed smoothly . |
| 27 | The company 's attempts to mislead the public simply highlight how it profits by wrecking one of the Earth 's greatest natural treasures . " |
| 28 | Pre-dating the Act , and in some respects in contradiction to the aims of the national curriculum that forms the core of the legislation , were the government 's attempts to improve the structure and quality of vocational and technological education . |
| 29 | Urban violence , inadequate infrastructure and , at 3.1 per cent a year , the fastest population growth in southern Asia were among the chief obstacles in the way of the Bhutto government 's attempts to revitalize the economy . |
| 30 | Mr Jones 's attempts to control the situation by speech , his speech forms being in all probability m the mode of command , are reported as leading amazingly rapidly to the offer of violence . |