Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the EC Commission doubted America could provide a global standard , even though Europe 's attempts to set its own standard are mired . |
| 2 | This approach also suggests that the most important language is that which represents the child 's attempts to express her own needs and intentions rather than language which arises as the child tries to express ideas supplied by the teacher . |
| 3 | The massive $100m federal anti-trust suit that Addamax has lodged against the OSF ( UX No 331 ) , is believed to have influenced the FTC 's decision to put its own investigation on hold . |
| 4 | In reality it is all one process not susceptible to division , which is in relation to the grant or refusal of an advance because the borrower selected that form of report in his application for an advance and in consequence of the society 's decision to use its own employee it is contractually liable for any want of due skill or care . |
| 5 | He also noted that Russia 's decision to establish its own armed forces had forced other states to consider setting up armies and concluding a defence pact . |
| 6 | He also noted that Russia 's decision to establish its own armed forces had forced other states to consider setting up armies and concluding a defence pact . |
| 7 | At the same time , the Ulster Farmers ' Union was in Brussels to seek answers about the Commission 's decision to break its own rules by refusing meat-traders in the province the chance to submit an intervention tender in late August . |
| 8 | Under the pressure of the EC 's decision to accelerate its own internal integration , the sovereignty-conscious EFTA countries have agreed to give their association greater political authority to negotiate on their behalf as a united front . |
| 9 | A stable and egalitarian Asian military and economic alliance was bound to founder on Japan 's inability to submerge her own interests for the benefit of Asia as a whole . |
| 10 | The first , shown at the beginning of October , included an interview with Corporate Affairs Minister Neil Hamilton , discussed the Institute of Taxation 's fears about the ICAEW Tax Faculty 's proposals to set its own examinations , and looked at three training issues : cashflow statements , the new Inland Revenue rules on company cars , and the Government proposals on compulsory competitive training . |
| 11 | Where such a step-by-step approach is not appropriate , and it does restrict the contractor 's freedom to use his own judgement in areas where he may be better informed than his customer , an approach that divides risk and reward on a reasonably equitable basis between customer and contractor may be a useful option . |
| 12 | Women 's freedom to purchase their own housing , should this be their desire , is thus severely limited . |
| 13 | Armenia 's plans to introduce its own currency were completing their preparatory phase , according to Vice-President and head of the government Gagik Arutyunyan on June 6 . |
| 14 | According to Soviet claims the Brezhnev plan was also directed at Egypt 's intention to establish its own rapid deployment force with American and Israeli assistance to be deployed against Libya . |
| 15 | Turning up at Puddephat 's college to make her own inquiries was a much more daunting prospect than her leisurely visit to the Herald library . |
| 16 | The Social Democratic Party and the Clean Government Party , Japan 's two biggest opposition parties , have both failed to use the LDP 's disarray to improve their own poll ratings . |
| 17 | It affirms our faith in working people 's capacity to become their own experts , and take control of their lives . |
| 18 | But the NIC drivers will automatically read the card 's configuration to determine their own settings at run time . |
| 19 | Suffering achieves its greatest act of transformation when it forces us to see how helpless we are , without God 's help to overcome our own natural reactions of bitterness and despair . |
| 20 | From a more recent group of theorists whose work has not yet been categorised , I have selected Mintzberg 's work to analyse my own practice : while Fayol 's criteria are apparent in nursing practice , they do not reflect its complexity . |
| 21 | And now it would be Mosley 's job to reconcile it all , to guide this 20th century sporting monster towards the next millennium . |
| 22 | Within intellectual circles , this new uncertainty compounded an emerging assertion of Latin America 's need to seek its own identity rather than continually strive to emulate the United States . |
| 23 | They should be appropriate to the stated aims of the organisation , rather than to an individual or sub-group 's desire to maximise their own aims . |
| 24 | But Corca adds , ’ A man 's desire to conceive his own genetic child is transformed in the report into a ’ medical indication ’ for buying a woman 's body ’ . |
| 25 | If you are divorced , you may be able to use your former spouse 's contributions to improve your own pension entitlement , provided that you have not remarried before reaching pension age . |
| 26 | However , this does not preclude the firm from returning cash equivalent where the collateral matures ; ( 3 ) If the firm wishes to use the customer 's collateral to support its own ( or another person 's ) obligations : ( 4 ) If the firm holds or intends to hold client money with an approved bank which is in the same group as the firm . |
| 27 | Better still , for the first time in Sugar 's brief living memory , the sound is sufficiently balanced for Mould 's vocals to hold their own with his cranked-up guitar . |
| 28 | Lou Macari is now expected to take over at Celtic on Wednesday as the two parties continue to discuss Macari 's wish to nominate his own assistant . |
| 29 | This is hardly an average reaction to the piece , but the despairing Eliot was using Stravinsky 's music to underpin his own endeavours in The Waste Land . |
| 30 | The various relations did n't have time to help the bride because they had to get themselves ready , and when Ellie knocked on Terry 's door to offer her own help she found the bride-to-be face down on the bed in floods of tears . |