Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On The Record 's obtained a paper prepared by a committee including senior civil servants and the Treasury and Transport Department , called the Restructuring Working Group , the report forecasts an increase in the amount of taxpayer 's money subsidizing the railways , this year it will be eight hundred and fifty million pounds , after privatization , the paper says , the central government grant requirement would total some two billion pounds in nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 2 | The user 's acceptor represents the users and approves the specifications from the users ’ point of view before construction starts , and the user will use the operational system . |
| 3 | TV host 's oscars raise the stakes at auction |
| 4 | Pat 's sketch offers the dimensions used on Carole and Alan 's winning kite . |
| 5 | Alford was equally staunch in championing the rights of the Commons against the Lords , whether protesting at the Upper House 's attempts to control the negotiations over the Scottish union or complaining against their insistence on members ' ‘ standing so long bare ’ at conferences . |
| 6 | Feminism 's attempts to explore the subjectivities of female subjects who are ignored or silenced by western discourses have led it to develop some methodological preferences of its own . |
| 7 | Good as the concert was , it was rather too middle of the road for a tour titled ‘ The The vs The World ’ and , sadly for fans of the more paranoid earlier work , Johnson 's attempts to darken the proceedings ended up looking silly . |
| 8 | The individual 's attempts to avoid the pitfalls of sin were assisted by the spiritual food of grace , which was transmitted through the seven Catholic sacraments : baptism , confirmation , confession , the eucharist , marriage , ordination , and the last rites . |
| 9 | TRANSAID 's support to Save the Children has again proved invaluable in responding to the challenges facing Africa in 1992 . |
| 10 | This meant that despite Meehan 's pardon , the proceedings to some extent would be a retrial of Meehan as well as a trial of Waddell ; and one of its more lunatic aspects was hearing Mr King-Murray as prosecuting counsel , who for two years had strenuously refused to entertain the notion of Meehan 's innocence and Waddell 's guilt , now deploying arguments to show that very thing ( although unlike Griffith-Jones at Ward 's trial , he did not seem to have his heart in it ) ; and conversely to hear Waddell 's counsel echoing the arguments of the prosecutor at Meehan 's trial to demonstrate Meehan 's guilt and Waddell 's innocence . |
| 11 | There was a desire on Mr. Cottrell 's part to retain the services of the plaintiff so that the work could be completed without the need to employ another sub-contractor . |
| 12 | It did not require much effort on Gehlen 's part to convince the Americans that the real enemy was Russia and with his help they could have a ready-made intelligence organisation . |
| 13 | Finally , the commissions appointed in July 1471 to arrest Warwick 's associates provide the names of other northerners regarded as reliable by Edward IV , among them Ashton 's son-in-law John Nesfield and Edmund Hastings . |
| 14 | Finally , the commissions appointed in July 1471 to arrest Warwick 's associates provide the names of other northerners regarded as reliable by Edward IV , among them Ashton 's son-in-law John Nesfield and Edmund Hastings . |
| 15 | Just as her childhood amusements could have originated from the pages of a 1930s ' children 's book , so Diana 's upbringing reflected the values of a bygone age . |
| 16 | The East German government 's decision to let the refugees leave across their own country came as a surprise to many , including some West German diplomats . |
| 17 | At first , there had been great enthusiasm over the Collector 's decision to suppress the rights of property in the food that was to have been auctioned and to give a share to everybody . |
| 18 | But the two judges overturned Judge Owen 's decision to stop the proceedings because of delays in bringing the case . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal reversed the judge 's decision to refuse the injunctions sought . |
| 20 | But their efforts were brushed aside at an angry meeting of Durham County Council , which approved the social services committee 's decision to close the homes . |
| 21 | I urge Conference to condemn this uncaring cynical government 's decision to abolish the Wages Council and call for the establishment of a National Wages Council . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 23 | MR NORMAN Tebbit 's decision to raise the stakes in the Conservatives ' Hong Kong immigration row with a brutal attack on the Cabinet 's policy last night convinced some MPs that he is preparing a bid for the party leadership when Mrs Thatcher retires . |
| 24 | I , too , must express slight surprise at the Minister 's inability to give the figures that were requested in the original question . |
| 25 | The budget deficit is running at 10 per cent of GDP , reflecting the Gorbachev administration 's inability to resist the demands of special interest groups . |
| 26 | Indeed some people in high places in Australian cricket administration now admit to the opinion that their team 's inability to scale the peaks of their expectations stemmed from its failure to adapt and meet unusual challenges . |
| 27 | Generally , however , loss incurred as a result of the plaintiff 's inability to deliver the goods under a lucrative contract of sale is too remote unless the defendant is aware of the contract . |
| 28 | A careful study of the gestures of the characters in The Rake 's Progress reveal the trades of the tailor , jockey , dancing-master , gambler and others . |
| 29 | Though depleted by robbery in Thrace on the way home , Vulso 's loot astonished the Romans for its size and quality . |
| 30 | Keturah 's sons became the ancestors of a number of north Arabian peoples . |