Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happily , she retains enough of Daddy 's money to live in comfortable circumstances in the Home Counties . |
| 2 | I mean I said to him oh er what he 's really got to get really is a cooker erm cos I said to him , I , I said to him if you really want to try and move in next week then you have n't got another week 's money to pay for that , you know |
| 3 | The feebleness of the Wilson government 's attempts to deal with national economic growth or industrial relations in the 1960s discredited the ideals of the planner and central state still further . |
| 4 | Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley 's decision to abide by European Commission rules on the distribution of regional aid from Brussels immediately unlocked £18.9m of investment earmarked for the stricken former coalfield communities of Durham , Tyne and Wear , and Northumberland . |
| 5 | A referendum on Dec. 1 , 1989 , approved King Hassan 's decision to extend by two years the term of the current Chamber of Representatives . |
| 6 | A referendum on Dec. 1 , 1989 , approved Hassan 's decision to extend by two years the term of the current Chamber [ see p. 37219 ] . |
| 7 | Simon 's decision to dispense with normal syntax implies that stylistically the intention is to render the real more satisfactorily than the conventional novel would allow . |
| 8 | The announcement of the deal in the ballroom of the Statistics Office in Budapest was temporarily hijacked by the European Community 's ambassador to Hungary , Hans Beck , who used the occasion to dish out European Community tie pins , lecture the local press on the absence of a ‘ Hungarian Way ’ , and launch a fierce attack on Hungary 's decision to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures against an import ban on meat products introduced by the European Community two weeks ago following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Italy . |
| 9 | The announcement of the deal in the ballroom of the Statistics Office in Budapest was temporarily hijacked by the European Community 's ambassador to Hungary , Hans Beck , who used the occasion to dish out European Community tie pins , lecture the local press on the absence of a ‘ Hungarian Way ’ , and launch a fierce attack on Hungary 's decision to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures against an import ban on meat products introduced by the European Community two weeks ago following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Italy . |
| 10 | On Friday the US charge d'affaires in Beijing was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to hear a ‘ strong protest ’ about President Bush 's decision to execute by administrative means the provisions of a congressional bill he had vetoed , allowing some of the estimated 40,000 Chinese students in the US to extend their visas . |
| 11 | The first is an attempt to rectify Realism 's inability to deal with economic issues . |
| 12 | We must be prepared to focus unsentimentally on antiracism 's inability to respond to other distinctive aspects of these new forms of racism . |
| 13 | But these have been relatively rare phenomena , with small , alternative media constantly struggling to survive and dependent on financial support from donor agencies due to women 's inability to pay for such information flows . |
| 14 | They also modify the accountant 's certificate to refer to controlled trust money . |
| 15 | They placed great emphasis on the individual 's freedom to enter into personal relationships independent of church or state . |
| 16 | There is nothing in the black youth 's experience to compare with that of javelin thrower Paul Brice , a white boy , whose father carefully supervised and monitored his training programmes and competitions at considerable financial expense . |
| 17 | You will recall that at an Open Meeting in May 1987 governing bodies were provided with details of the Council 's plans to move to new office premises at South Gyle , Edinburgh . |
| 18 | Originally two Pacific island countries Kiribati and Nauru , who fear Japan 's plans to dispose of radioactive waste near their shores , tabled a binding amendment adding radioactive waste to the convention 's annex of banned substances . |
| 19 | It will also help the US company 's plans to focus on international markets and ‘ position us for faster growth , particularly in Europe and the Asia/Pacific region ’ , said FMC chairman R. N. Burt . |
| 20 | On Dec. 20 the Riksdag approved the Social Democratic government 's plans to apply in 1991 for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 21 | What I do remember so vividly was the great surge of relief when VE Day came , and people rushing into each other 's houses to shriek with unbounded joy : " It 's all over . |
| 22 | It is however seen as an important signal of Mexico 's willingness to respond to environmental concerns . |
| 23 | On the one hand , she was able to temper President Reagan 's willingness to engage in long-term negotiations over intermediate-range and other missiles based in western Europe . |
| 24 | However , the West 's cool attitude towards the King over his pro-Iraqi stance was partly offset by Jordan 's willingness to take in vast numbers of refugees from Iraq and Kuwait during August . |
| 25 | The practical importance of this legal bias for parents ' and children 's readiness to co-operate with residential staff and make use of the placement is clarified by Packman when the association between compulsory admissions and emergency admissions is made . |
| 26 | On March 8 Labour Minister Norbert Blüm announced the government 's intention to extend by six months ( to end-1991 ) its " short-time " policy , whereby employees for whom there was little or no work nevertheless received 70 per cent of their salary rather than be made redundant . |
| 27 | The Environment White Paper — ‘ This Common Inheritance ’ announced the Government 's intention to consult on this amendment along with various others proposed to the 1979 Act . |
| 28 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 29 | It took from the Edinburgh summit in December nineteen ninety two , when the current Prime Minister first announced the government 's intention to legislate on this issue , until the thirtieth of June nineteen ninety three before the European parliamentary elections bill had its first reading . |
| 30 | In this context , the Military Committee agreed on unspecified overall force reductions , but its most significant contribution was a plan ( subject to approval by Defence Ministers ) to create a " rapid reaction " force , which would be a key element in the alliance 's capability to respond to any future security threat to the territory of its member states . |