Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 2 | Leaseholders were found to have experienced a variety of problems with the management of their block , including failure on the landlord 's part to carry out repairs , too little or excessive refurbishment , estimates ‘ rigged ’ by landlords or managing agents , failure to consult leaseholders and difficulty in obtaining information about accounts and insurance . |
| 3 | The deal is not affected by this week 's decision to slow down part of the emergency aid agreed upon by the Twelve in December because of the repression in the Baltic republics . |
| 4 | Churchill 's decision to set up S Branch and his support for the economists within the Cabinet Office stemmed from an enduring distrust of official advice on economic policy which can be dated back to his unhappy time at the Treasury in 1924–29 , particularly his much criticised decision , taken on official advice , to return to the gold standard in 1925 . |
| 5 | FRANCE 'S decision to sweep away exchange controls to mark the Euro decade of the 1990s is important enough to have caused even Mrs Thatcher to give some ground in her opposition to the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 6 | But the most notable act of all this trans-Pacific ambition — when seen from today 's vantage point , if not necessarily so at the time — was President Fillmore 's decision to send out Commodore Perry and his ‘ black ships ’ , to bring sense to the isolationist shoguns who in almost Carthusian seclusion , ran the state of Nihon . |
| 7 | BZW 's decision to break off talks came after a top-level meeting between executives at the investment bank and Morgan yesterday . |
| 8 | Until Lockwood took over , all four curators had keys of their own strongrooms ; Lockwood 's decision to hand over strongroom keys to the security staff is said to have incurred ‘ considerable resentment ’ . |
| 9 | Daimler 's inability to turn around AEG since buying it in 1985 , after AEG had already itself failed to stem heavy losses , has damaged morale at the company . |
| 10 | Cambridge 's inability to shake off Oxford , who poignantly named their boat the John Hebbes after one of their oarsmen who died recently , by the end of the Surrey bend was the crucial factor . |
| 11 | During an interview in a television documentary about the Parry 's struggle to understand why Tim was murdered , his father Colin explained why he wanted to meet Mr Adams . |
| 12 | Diplomatically , Soviet success at exploiting Europe 's division to bring about changes in Western policy has , in turn , given Western Europe inroads into the USSR 's own preserve . |
| 13 | Welsh dairy farmer Sirrell Griffiths is hoping enough rain will fall at Kempton Park before Boxing Day to allow his former point-to-pointer Norton 's Coin to take on Desert Orchid in the King George VI Rank Chase . |
| 14 | RJR Nabisco 's plans to buy back $1.5 billion of its debt were received in much the same way . |
| 15 | It is the county council 's responsibility to bring forward proposals to enable progress to be made . |
| 16 | The tenant 's liability to carry out repairs will be covered by a covenant to keep " the demised property " in repair ; but a covenant to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairing party structures not included in the demise must be separately imposed . |
| 17 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 18 | The final result of Sugar 's plan to buy out Amstrad for 30p a share will not be known until this morning , but the board has already accepted defeat . |
| 19 | And , according to Mrs Aitken , Jake had no objections , so arrangements were made for Carol 's parents to pick up Kirsty on the appointed day . |
| 20 | A bitter debate over cuts opened with Labour 's proposal to cut about £700,000 from pre-five education . |
| 21 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 22 | Sir Robert Mark 's campaign to root out corruption in the Metropolitan Police is well known . |
| 23 | The Issak had been the main casualties in the government 's campaign to stamp out support for the rebel Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 24 | Certainly it has been a main object of Derrida 's texts to show how philosophers , from plato to Husserl , have striven and failed to suppress the signs of rhetorical disruption in the discourse of philosophic reason . |
| 25 | The project 's battle to break down barriers between communities has finally been won in spite of an atmosphere of very insecure funding . |
| 26 | It 's the wife 's job to send out invitations and manage a couple 's social life , not the husband 's . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You could bring along your daughter , ’ he added , scenting out the conspiracy of affection and design between father and daughter and sensing Burkett 's reluctance to do strictly servant work . |
| 28 | The beginning of this slowing down process is frequently said to be Allied 's failure to take over Boddingtons in 1969 ( Boddingtons were part of the Whitbread ‘ umbrella ’ , and Whitbread threw its weight behind the family shareholders ) . |
| 29 | Friends of the Earth 's Campaigns Director , Andrew Lees , claimed that the advocate general 's opinion " points to the government 's failure to bring in controls over the use of artificial fertilizers , the root cause of this illegal problem " . |
| 30 | Lee Chapman helped himself to a hat-trick in that 6-1 victory but the onslaught really stemmed from Wednesday 's failure to cut out Dorigo 's overlapping runs . |