Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the experiment illustrated at the top , the toad 's response to a small black object revolving in its visual field is measured . |
| 2 | Seen in this gallery context it invites us to view it as an individual 's response to a constructed drama . |
| 3 | Gains are treated as a person 's ‘ top slice ’ of income and are accordingly taxed at : 20 per cent ( the new lower rate ) , 25 per cent ( basic rate ) , 40 per cent ( higher rate ) or a mixture of two rates , i.e. in instances where a gain , or gains , pushes part of an individual 's income into a higher rate bracket . |
| 4 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 5 | Paul Rogers missed an even easier chance when Adrian Littlejohn split Liverpool 's defence with a low cross , and Brian Deane sent a point-blank header wide , both in a second-half come back that had Liverpool wilting . |
| 6 | The producer is a catalyst between account group , creative team and media department who have allocated the client 's money to a particular schedule . |
| 7 | The move followed fresh evidence which threw doubt upon the veracity of the testimony during Bond 's trial of a key witness , Laurie Connell . |
| 8 | Above : Cat 's Cradle on a typical scoop kite links leading edge and the cross-spar with two triple bridles . |
| 9 | Latzsch , who has played 56 times for her country , made the first goal then got Germany 's winner with a sensational solo effort , after England equalised . |
| 10 | Eventually these ideas coalesced into the belief that Germany 's rise as a new state and as an industrial power was being hampered by uncertainty over the unreliable national loyalties of the Slav peoples in the east , by the back-stabbing machinations of the Jews inside Germany , and by the threat of communism that came in both Slav and Jewish forms . |
| 11 | Rosenthal then restored Liverpool 's advantage with a stinging shot in the 44th minute before Wimbledon replied again in the 65th minute when Clarke converted another Miller cross . |
| 12 | Since the Third International 's change to a popular front policy in 1935 , groups such as the Jewish People 's Council against Fascism and Anti-Semitism , the International Labour Defence of Britain and the London Ex-Servicemen 's Defence against Fascism were part-Communist party front organizations and part spontaneous working-class resentment against the incursion of the fascists into the East End of London . |
| 13 | Now that Essex Man has demonstrated his backing for one winning team , the Conservatives , the men of Essex will be keen to show that they , too , deserve the people 's support for a second term at the head of the Championship table . |
| 14 | Denktash 's position was rejected by Resolution 649 approved by the UN Security Council on March 13 , 1990 , which reaffirmed the Council 's support for a bicommunal federal republic excluding " any form of partition or secession " . |
| 15 | Khan emphasized Pakistan 's support for a proposed conference on nuclear non-proliferation in the region to be attended by China , India , Pakistan , Russia and the USA . |
| 16 | In approaching the question of the primacy of Canterbury , we need once more to examine the roots of Anselm 's support for a local claim which ran counter to one of the most powerful principles of papal policy at this time . |
| 17 | This is cold-blooded business indeed , just as was the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that gave Britain 's support to a Jewish homeland providing that ‘ nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine ’ . |
| 18 | The acts of weighing involve probing the box 's interaction with a gravitational field . |
| 19 | Again , there is likely to be a serious breach of natural justice if a manager , after hearing an employee 's case at a disciplinary interview or appeal meeting , has a private discussion with the person who presented the case on behalf of the company , or with a witness , before reaching his decision . |
| 20 | Moreover , there were four years before the last National Serviceman would leave the Army , in which time world instabilities would , in the General Staff 's opinion , make the Army 's case for a higher manpower ceiling . |
| 21 | An interim deal with Seveso would also help the company 's case for a further postponement of the trial . |
| 22 | Gladstone 's case for a balanced budget was above all a moral not a technical one . |
| 23 | Others , like Clifford or J. B. Paton , were leaders in various reform movements : in Clifford 's case for a national health service and the abolition of capital punishment ; in Paton 's , for rural colonization . |
| 24 | Private insurance policies against earning a low income per se are hard to find , because once you paid the premium the moral hazard problem central to Baumol 's case for a public enterprise ( see chapter 5 ) would then loom very large indeed . |
| 25 | Eventually Howard and Bill Saltman meet back home , two blocks away from the RCA building ; but in Howard 's case with a great sense of velocity from his journeyings . |
| 26 | I was most impressed by the effective way in which my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford destroyed the hon. Gentleman 's case during a short intervention . |
| 27 | Football : Bingham 's heated argument : Joe Lovejoy reports on Dublin 's faith in a reserved passage to Italy |
| 28 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 29 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 30 | She had also made her mark in the plum role of Jo in the original London and Broadway productions of A Taste of Honey , Shelagh Delaney 's play about a working-class girl who reluctantly faces motherhood after an affair with a black sailor , and finally chooses a life without men . |