Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rebuilding of the Berlin orchestra was begun by Karajan in 1955 with great patience and care — he had a lifetime 's contract in the process of final negotiation . |
| 2 | Stup is the key to Sarajevo 's defence in the west . |
| 3 | Peter Wall was a fast and clever full-back whom Manager Bert Head brought to Selhurst Park to add proven 1st Division quality to Palace 's defence in the summer of 1970 , in an attempt to avoid further embarrassment for the club in Division One . |
| 4 | For an RFL who has practised mainly from an office or offices in England and Wales as principal of an MNP which has held or received client 's money in the period to , the fee is £600 . |
| 5 | For an RFL who has practised mainly from an office or offices overseas as principal of an MNP which has held or received client 's money in the period to , the fee is £150 . |
| 6 | And if they really were the murderers , would they have been so foolish , after leaving Ayr and with Ross 's money in the car , to have picked up as they did two girls who had been stranded by their boy friends , and taken them to their homes in Kilmarnock ? |
| 7 | Mr Kobold 's money in the morning , remember ? ’ |
| 8 | Because I put Bella 's money in the bank . |
| 9 | But Yusuf could no longer allow the continuance of El Cid 's foothold in the east . |
| 10 | Here is Dr Johnson 's 1784 rendering of the first strophe of " Diffugere nives " ( incidentally his only translation from Horace — he evidently found Juvenal more to his creative purpose ) : And here , 110 years later , is William Ewart Gladstone , at leisure from Prime Ministerial cares and the alternative recreation of tree-felling on his Hawarden estate : But here again , almost a century on , is an American poet and scholar , Burton Raffel : What has happened to Horace 's text in the course of these centennial transformations ? |
| 11 | Both gave glamorised summaries of Nicola 's rise in the space of ten years from being a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Keighley to ‘ stardom ’ at TV London . |
| 12 | The defendant 's breach of duty may be a cause of the plaintiff 's damage in the sense that it satisfies the but for test , but some other factual cause , intervening after the breach , may be regarded as the sole cause of some , or all , of the plaintiff 's damage . |
| 13 | Thirdly , you should hook the opponent 's foot in the direction that it is pointing because this is the line of least resistance . |
| 14 | The same research team found that cow 's milk in the mother 's diet could cause colic in breast-fed babies . |
| 15 | Local businesses are more directly involved in school affairs since the 1986 Education ( No. 2 ) Act 's change in the make-up of school governing bodies . |
| 16 | We would of course acknowledge Aspinwall & Co 's support in the document . |
| 17 | Mr John Garrett , the former Industry spokesman and MP for Norwich South , has been a given a new job of trying to improve Labour 's support in the South . |
| 18 | The traditional association of the Democrats with minority interests was seen by many Republicans as an issue which would continue to erode the former party 's support in the South , a crucial common factor in the Democratic candidate 's defeat in five of the six presidential elections since 1968 . |
| 19 | Director Nick Hardwick said the charity had been ‘ much heartened ’ by Diana 's support in the past . |
| 20 | During Yeltsin 's visit , Yuriy Korolev secured the President 's support in the matter of keeping the Tretyakov Gallery building on the Krymskaya Naberezhnaya , where part of the gallery was located during reconstruction . |
| 21 | On April 18 Ali Salim al-Bid , the YSP secretary-general , visited Iraq , conveying to President Saddam Hussein his country 's support in the face of what he described as Western and Zionist aggression [ see p. 37389 ] and receiving in turn Saddam 's expressions of strong support for Yemeni unity . |
| 22 | And I rarely consider the fact that Scottish MPs form the bulk of the Party 's support in the House of Commons . |
| 23 | The maps were in rolls on an architect 's easel in the corner of the office . |
| 24 | In fact , it is only a slight exaggeration to say that the main deterrent effect of monopoly policy has been not the threat of what changes might be required as a result of the MMC investigation , but the threat of having to tie up a large quantity of senior executives ' time to argue the firm 's case in the event that its activities attract a reference to the MMC . |
| 25 | The remaining employers , during the negotiations which followed the mass meeting of 31 August and the threat of a strike , were still sticking at a compromise formula , one which Amelia McLean , putting the women 's case in The Vote , said she was prepared to accept , viz : a five-year ban on women entrants from 1 January 1911 , and the establishment of a 50 per cent distribution of Monotype keyboards between men and women . |
| 26 | The neurosurgeon who had been in charge of Guy 's case in the hospital would give them no help or advice , and neither did the doctors . |
| 27 | If there is an element of design on Pechorin 's part in the duel he fights , an element which incorporates a knowledge of the loaded dice to be employed by his opponent in the form of an unloaded pistol , the outcome can still be ascribed to chance , in a sense that must be meant to characterise the hero 's fine indifference . |
| 28 | Prince later wrote to Gould when he was in Australia , complaining that Alfred Newton had been ‘ far , far too complimentary ’ about Lear 's part in the publication , ‘ particularly when we know that most of the subscribers are of the opinion that his plates are almost the only exceptionable part of your work . ’ |
| 29 | Dot 's part in the affair leads John to suspect her unjustly of infidelity , but in the end he learns the true explanation . |
| 30 | But critics of the twenties , knowing nothing of Pound 's part in the poem , and ignorant also of Eliot 's private sufferings through his wretched first marriage , saw no need to go so far around , to support their conviction or assumption that The Waste Land was a poem with a message . |