Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the expert clause itself may lay down that the parties are to be responsible for the fees and expenses of the expert in equal shares , which is quite common , or that they are to be met by some other party ( see 8.12 ) , the clause itself may not be sufficient to establish the expert 's entitlement unless its terms are clearly incorporated into the expert 's contract to conduct the reference . |
| 2 | This lead time allowed LIFFE 's contract to exploit the process generating endogenous economies of scale and become sufficiently liquid to attract substantial hedging demand in German long term interest rates . |
| 3 | The outset of Doctor Who multiplied those worries fourfold , in that each of the regular cast was ( a ) unused to science fiction ; ( b ) unused to each other ; and ( c ) stuck with a year 's contract to do the part , like it or not . |
| 4 | Alder Valley 's contract to provide the peak time 213 service to and from Alton for school and college journeys will be provided by Oakley Coaches . |
| 5 | Now , a backlash from a public consultation exercise has convinced the NRA 's board to drop the proposal . |
| 6 | ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and |
| 7 | Mammalian babies , when they do finally emerge into the outside world , still need their mother 's milk to complete the building of their highly complex bodies and they may continue to suckle for years . |
| 8 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 9 | This weekend 's show looks at man 's attempts to predict the weather . |
| 10 | Grilly 's attempts to adjudicate the question had failed , and Pierre Flote was deputed to bring the affair to the cognizance of the court of France . |
| 11 | The event is part of the Rugby Football Union 's attempts to promote the game . |
| 12 | Thru literalizes this defining characteristic of narrative by constantly thwarting the reader 's attempts to assign the text to a given ‘ voice ’ . |
| 13 | Man 's attempts to tame the flood have not always progressed smoothly . |
| 14 | The company 's attempts to mislead the public simply highlight how it profits by wrecking one of the Earth 's greatest natural treasures . " |
| 15 | Pre-dating the Act , and in some respects in contradiction to the aims of the national curriculum that forms the core of the legislation , were the government 's attempts to improve the structure and quality of vocational and technological education . |
| 16 | Urban violence , inadequate infrastructure and , at 3.1 per cent a year , the fastest population growth in southern Asia were among the chief obstacles in the way of the Bhutto government 's attempts to revitalize the economy . |
| 17 | Mr Jones 's attempts to control the situation by speech , his speech forms being in all probability m the mode of command , are reported as leading amazingly rapidly to the offer of violence . |
| 18 | Marx 's attempts to explore the wreck were unsuccessful ; fourteen years later Captain Herbert Humphreys Jr negotiated a deal with the Bahamian government which gave him three-quarters of the profits of all items found . |
| 19 | The inverse of the use of this sweet spice comes with the kissing of Alison 's arse , " " ful savourly " " ( 3734 – 5 ) and Absolon 's attempts to take the taste of that away : — note here the details appropriate to this action taking place in a carpenter 's yard . |
| 20 | Later , however , she resisted the creditor 's attempts to enforce the security on the ground , first , that the document was void as being an unregistered bill of sale and , secondly , that she had been procured to sign by her husband 's undue influence and had had no independent advice . |
| 21 | But the moment the military dictatorship resorted to armed aggression against British subjects the radical student protester , who cared for nothing but his ideals and for justice , freedom and equality , unhesitatingly sided with the invaders and began to protest , not against them , but against his own government 's attempts to restore the freedom , democratic rights and civil liberty of those who had lost them ! |
| 22 | It is arguable , too , that he was over-anxious to dismiss people 's attempts to preserve the family as ‘ ideology ’ , one distracting attention from the class basis of fascism . |
| 23 | Mr Bond 's attempts to use the cash in Bell Resources — acquired from the toppled Australian raider , Robert Holmes a Court , last year — have been hampered from the start by Mr Spalvins . |
| 24 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 25 | Joseph 's attempts to end the dominance of the Hungarian county assemblies by the local gentry , and to substitute German for Latin as the language of administration , provoked deep and passionate national resentment . |
| 26 | THE Palace 's attempts to make the Queen seem more accessible to her subjects are becoming increasingly obvious . |
| 27 | Threats of a Lords revolt remain , with Mr Patten 's attempts to defuse the row having failed . |
| 28 | The Russian Federation government 's attempts to prevent the referendum included appeals from President Boris Yeltsin and a ruling by the Russian Constitutional Court that the wording of the referendum question was unconstitutional . |
| 29 | The programme marked perhaps the beginning of Mrs Whitehouse 's attempts to influence the content of particular programmes . |
| 30 | The latest jobless figures show that even if the Chancellor 's attempts to revive the economy are working , too many of the British people still are not . |