Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does n't mean the manager should n't take a considerable share of the act 's income at the beginning . |
| 2 | Senior officials in Borders education department will be challenged today at an education committee meeting to justify termination of the Heiton teacher 's contract at the end of next week . |
| 3 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |
| 4 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if annual rates of inflation over the period are as shown . |
| 5 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 6 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 7 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the years shown if the yearly rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |
| 8 | Akram 's hour at the crease saw him punish Salisbury , take his side into the lead , survive at catch to Malcolm 's outstretched hand at deep mid-off , and finally go , bamboozled , when Salisbury put a googly , from wide of the crease , around the wicket , between the batsman 's legs and into the stumps : 263 for 7 . |
| 9 | Miles had now completed the cat 's cradle at the end of his line , and had loaded the perspex tube of his swimfeeder with a porridgy mash of bread and maggots . |
| 10 | As the war dragged on Modigliani 's horror at the waste of life increased . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the affidavit sworn on 24 May 1990 of Mr. Richard Small , the defendant 's counsel at the trial , deposes that on 29 July 1982 the Director of Public Prosecutions of Jamaica issued to all Crown counsel and clerks of the court a memorandum which stated : |
| 12 | It was doubly difficult for Unionists to resist the substitution of Sir Henry Wilson for Robertson , for Wilson was the most Unionist of all the General Staff and Robertson had not enjoyed good relations with Unionists ; Derby 's weakness at the War Office and Law 's loyalty to Lloyd George were sufficient to defuse the situation . |
| 13 | The idea is that the court should give only very cursory consideration to the applicant 's case at the leave stage , and that leave proceedings should not be used as a surrogate for a full hearing in order to test the strengths and weaknesses of the parties ' respective cases as an aid to settlement out-of-court . |
| 14 | The emperor and empress had foreseen and tried to forestall resentment on Louis the German 's part at the grant to Charles . |
| 15 | ‘ Is the count 's sister at the hacienda ? ’ she asked offhandedly , trying to look bored . |
| 16 | Quivers of movement , like trickles of electricity , danced over Meredith 's skin at the sound of his velvety voice . |
| 17 | As this is the speech in which we see Cassius 's motives for killing Caesar , the other one I am looking at is Brutus 's soliloquy at the beginning of Act II scene I , giving his reasons for joining the conspiracy . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , during Antony 's soliloquy at the end of the scene he refers to the murderers as ‘ butchers ’ , and ‘ bloody men . ’ |
| 19 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 20 | This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued . |
| 21 | On the face of it , the Bundestag 's decision at the end of last month to abolish refugees ' automatic right to asylum was reasonable . |
| 22 | They were but it 's the recession and no-one 's building at the moment . |
| 23 | Verdeţ was pushed into the porter 's cabin at the entrance to the mine and obliged to telephone Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest with the miners ' message . |
| 24 | He dived headlong as he reached the top , but Burun stepped out of the way , caught his son 's sash at the back as he passed , swung him round and threw him into the wreckage of the bed again . |
| 25 | Main 's removal at the instigation of Cunningham 's enemies , and the appointment shortly thereafter of Cunnan to act in his place , had , as Provost Cunningham remarked , made ‘ a very great noise ’ , and by providing this evidence of their influence , the Haldane party could argue plausibly that all of the partisans of the Cunningham faction then in office would not retain their places for much longer . |
| 26 | Youth For Peace , another branch of the Peace People , is also run from the organisation 's base at the Peace House , or ‘ Fredheim ’ ( Norweigan for peace ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Tara 's performing at the marina hotel tonight . |
| 28 | While the train is accelerating , the driver 's watch at the front goes faster than the guard 's . |
| 29 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 30 | In 460 , two years after his success at the Pythia , Arkesilas achieved the crown of human ambition by winning the chariot-race at Olympia , fulfilling Pindar 's prayer at the end of the Fifth Pythian . |