Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clearly to France 's advantage to advance her south-eastern frontier by the acquisition of Savoy and Nice , while the building of railways in the region would give her a strong economic and strategic position in northern and central Italy . |
| 2 | Parents say they 're furious over a school 's decision to allow its older pupils to smoke . |
| 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 | If Michael Peto is somewhat forgotten these days , it is perhaps partly due to his wife 's decision to leave his entire archive to the University of Dundee where , because of limited funding and the Scottish city 's relative geographical remoteness , it is not , for most of us , readily to hand . |
| 5 | THE highest ranking North Korean official to defect to the South yesterday poured scorn on Pyongyang 's decision to open its nuclear facilities to international inspection , saying it was a ruse . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The decision in Lambeth LBC v. Secretary of State for Social Services where Woolf J struck down the minister 's decision to use his statutory powers to suspend the members of an area health authority and to appoint commissioners in their place was strongly interventionist . |
| 8 | Despite continuing economic problems , Hawke 's chances of achieving a fourth successive election victory were improved by the government 's decision to ease its restrictive monetary policies and to allow a reduction in the country 's high level of interest rates . |
| 9 | In the not so distant future Wimpey 's decision to run its Middle East operation from Dubai under the directorship of Hugh Hayden will give a massive fillip to our ability to secure work in the region . |
| 10 | Coe 's decision to run his first marathon at London emerged from a wager with ADT President , Michael Ashcroft , who offered to donate a substantial sum of money to charity if Coe entered the event . |
| 11 | NCR Corp 's decision to build its entire product line around the Intel Corp iAPX-86 chip family greatly simplifies the effort required to create new models and quickly respond to market requirements , and the company says it has added a single processor version of the System 3450 server with a new low entry-level price and the ability to upgrade to multiprocessing capabilities . |
| 12 | PRINCESS Di 's decision to dump her German Mercedes backfired yesterday . |
| 13 | Gen. Tienchai resigned as leader of the Rassadorn Party on Feb. 28 , saying that he was deeply hurt by the junta 's decision to investigate his financial background . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wilson 's decision to found his new union on his own north-east coast was not lacking in rationality . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I do not accept that capping , or the threat of capping , is responsible for West Yorkshire 's inability to recruit its full establishment . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Keystone Cops brief sequence was great and Chaplin 's struggle to create his Little Tramp — the curled up , ill-fitting shoes , the baggy trousers , the tight dress jacket , the bowler and the cane . |
| 22 | For it is part of magic 's function to conceal its real dynamic under a smoke-screen of fustian and fantasy , precisely because magic is no longer magic if it ceases to be the monopoly of the class or section who practise it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Women 's freedom to purchase their own housing , should this be their desire , is thus severely limited . |
| 25 | At last , a sensible coupe with terrific looks and a main car-maker 's badge to make it acceptable to the company accountant and accessible to the ordinary man or woman . |
| 26 | The Uchikawa wetland , a seven-hectare tidal flat in Tokyo Bay , is becoming a test case of Japan 's willingness to protect its remaining natural habitats . |
| 27 | Abraham 's willingness to offer his only son Isaac has the innocent Isaac saying in Genesis 22.7 . |
| 28 | PLANS by British Aerospace and France 's Thomson-CSF to merge their guided weapons businesses moved a step closer yesterday after the United Kingdom 's Ministry of Defence opted for a European missile for the new generation of anti-aircraft frigates . |
| 29 | Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz expressed his country 's readiness to destroy its chemical weapons stocks on condition that Israel did the same and also signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty , to which Iraq was already a party . |
| 30 | Former President Bush indicated America 's readiness to offer US military lift , logistics , communications and intelligence capabilities to support peace-keeping operations . |