Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [vb -s] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applicant 's case depends on the evidence and opinions of Miss Massiter … |
| 2 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 3 | FoE 's case rests on the fact that levels are above the standards laid down by the European Commission . |
| 4 | FOE 's case hinges on the " undertakings " made by water suppliers as part of the privatization process , under which the government allowed them a period of grace in which to bring water quality up to legal minimum standards . |
| 5 | Almost 40 per cent of the country 's budget goes on the 57,000-strong civil service . |
| 6 | Instead , the quality of a Christian 's experience depends on the quality of his faith , just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God 's truth . |
| 7 | The case of City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1992 ] 2 EG 172 came to the surprising conclusion that unless the lease provides otherwise ( eg by providing that the original tenant 's obligations will remain in place during a statutory tenancy ) , where the lease has been assigned and the present tenant is holding over , the original tenant 's liability ends on the contractual term date . |
| 8 | The Library Association 's Guidance notes on the Code of Professional Conduct contain much that is pertinent to the question of censorship and access of information , as one might expect . |
| 9 | ‘ As William Waldegrave 's recent White Paper highlighted , the country 's future depends on the effective exploitation of science and technology . |
| 10 | This month 's gallery concentrates on the varied forms of Loricarid catfish . |
| 11 | To Shulevitz , ‘ A picture 's readability depends on the ease and interest with which the viewer can perceive its content and form . |
| 12 | If anything , David Pountney 's staging errs on the side of ultra-respectability and operatic convention ; and even he fails to solve the problem of the ending when the mysterious apparition of the ghost of Charles V ‘ saves ’ Carlos from the Inquisition by supernatural intervention . |
| 13 | The Bank of England is , of course , free to respond as it chooses to any such bids or offers but , as well as being concerned to finance the government 's borrowing needs on the best possible terms , the Bank has a publicly-expressed interest in the liquidity of the gilt-edged market . |
| 14 | Join the heady decadence of Berlin 's Kit Kat Club , singing and dancing while Hitler 's profile rises on the city 's skyline , and a society heads inexorably towards extinction . |
| 15 | This year 's festival focuses on the Norwegian composer , Edward Grieg , as 1993 also marks the 150th anniversary of his birth . |
| 16 | Mrs Hamilton 's husband works on the oil rig . |
| 17 | Thus the modified node 's behaviour depends on the sum |
| 18 | In Bilbao at the moment , the truth hurts so much that club employees — players and coaches included — have been banned from attending any social event where Mr Toshack 's name appears on the guest list . |
| 19 | This was done with government support , and our own King George III 's name appears on the decree establishing the school , in his capacity as King of Hanover . |
| 20 | Recognizing that most of an individual 's development occurs on the job |
| 21 | Moran 's opera concentrates on the Family 's life together at the remote Spahn Ranch , the Tate murders and Manson 's subsequent trial , all of which is delivered in an impressionistic style with no real narrative structure to hold the separate elements of the tale together . |
| 22 | where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones |
| 23 | Concern about the outlook for Mr Gonzalez 's policy focuses on the attitude of not only businessmen , but also union bosses who control the dominant right wing of the ruling Peronist mass movement , and large swathes of Argentina 's obstructive bureaucracy . |
| 24 | I like it when a Prince song is overwrought , has been worked at neurotically ( Prince 's music teeters on the brink of being addled by perfectionism , but never is stifled by attention , because every superfluous squiggle or quiver in the sound is a carnal appendage of the man 's polyrhythmic perversity ) . |
| 25 | Jessop 's critique rests on the following grounds . |
| 26 | Similarly in 69 , which has eleven instances of Thou and none of I , the analysis of the Friend 's misbehaviour focuses on the discrepancy between his outward beauty ( ‘ thy fair flower ’ ) and his mind and action ( ‘ the rank smell of weeds ’ ) , an inconsistency given more biting expression by the double pun in the couplet : ‘ But why thy odour matcheth not thy show , /The soil is this — that thou dost common grow . ’ |
| 27 | He is prepared to forgive Patricia Hodge 's platitudinous children 's book reviews on the grounds that she is very beautiful . |
| 28 | This year 's show concentrates on the height of the movement at the turn of the century and includes furniture by Heals and the Cotswold School as well as Liberty 's own make . |
| 29 | Baroness Hooper 's letter states on the first page with regard to student loans : ‘ Students are not obliged to take up a loan if they do not need to do so and indeed Jeffrey has not availed himself of the facility . ’ |
| 30 | Most of Scott 's discussion focusses on the core of the business class . |