Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TUC 's response to such criticisms has been characteristically heavy-handed : McIlroy was barred from teaching on TUC courses , and it is alleged that attempts have been made to stifle debate . |
| 2 | Gorbachev 's response to these developments appeared to be twofold , so far as foreign policy was concerned . |
| 3 | The membership 's response to these developments has been quite predictable . |
| 4 | Lavandera 's response to these difficulties is to propose an initial examination by the analyst of discourse function rather than of surface grammatical form , followed by consideration of the functions which are served by the form — the subjunctive in this case . |
| 5 | The Government 's response to these changes in market conditions has , however , been woefully inadequate . |
| 6 | As part of the government 's response to these disturbances , all housing responsibilities were removed from local authorities and a review body was established ‘ with three Protestant and three Catholic members under the Chairmanship of Patrick Macrory ’ ( Rowat 1980:296 ) . |
| 7 | The administration 's response to these dilemmas is , first , to keep as secret as possible what the state is doing and , second , to operate through organizations not formally part of the state apparatus . |
| 8 | the BBC 's response to those pressures and the new broadcasting environment . |
| 9 | The following observations are submitted as the Regional Council 's response to those comments : |
| 10 | The Gagosian Gallery has opened its season with a loan show , ‘ Max Beckmann : The self portraits ’ that gathers together numerous examples of the artist 's response to those persecutions and torments . |
| 11 | Brittan also said in early December that he was to look into the UK government 's award of some pounds 38,000,000 of secret financial inducements to British Aerospace , at the time of its purchase of the Rover car group in September 1988 . |
| 12 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 13 | I may say that I have great confidence in Doctor Maingay 's judgement in such matters . |
| 14 | Golding 's technique in such passages is almost a reversal of the procedure which marks such a great step in the development of Lok 's reasoning capacity . |
| 15 | Apart from the fact that Havana 's support for these adventures added up to little more than ‘ a limited amount of old weapons ’ in the chaotic early months of revolutionary power ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 188 ) , ‘ it must … be recognised that giving aid to revolutionaries seeking to overthrow dictatorships is a long-standing tradition for Latin America 's democratic Left . |
| 16 | Baker 's part in such compromises angered conservatives in the country who saw him as a closet liberal subverting the president 's conservative instincts . |
| 17 | After an indifferent game against Costa Rica and an inspirational performance against Sweden when he saved Scotland 's skin on several occasions , Leighton 's luck finally ran out . |
| 18 | Of course , some issues will require longer-term work ; items on the page opposite indicate SCOTVEC 's progress on these issues to date . |
| 19 | The rapid progress of military and naval technology , organisational changes , the sheer growth in the size of armies and navies , meant that states scrutinised each other 's progress in these respects with increasing care , while the few serious armed conflicts of 1871 – 1914 became laboratories in which new weapons and methods could be studied and their effectiveness tested . |
| 20 | A well-loved monument to the devotion of a little terrier who kept vigil on his master 's grave for many years . |
| 21 | Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours . |
| 22 | To a large extent , Bolinger 's division between those adjectives that qualify referents and those that qualify sense is presented as if it were a classification of adjectives as word types , that is , as one might find them categorized in the dictionary , thereby giving an impression that Bolinger might regard this almost as a lexical division , similar to that dividing adjectives that can qualify animates from the rest . |
| 23 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 24 | In addition , they suggested that the effectiveness of the annual accountant 's report in giving early warning of possible default could be re-examined in the light of the Law Society 's experience of those solicitors who had already been made subject to this requirement as a condition of their receiving a practising certificate . |
| 25 | It is an expression of the child 's experience at several levels , especially an awareness of a love of nature . |
| 26 | But after 1917 Lenin 's resistance to all forms of ‘ revisionism ’ and the ideological closure enforced in the Communist International institutionalized a petrified Marxism , asserting the accuracy of every syllable which Marx or Engels ever wrote . |
| 27 | Holding his vanquished foe 's hair in both hands , he was rhythmically smashing his head against the pavement . |
| 28 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |
| 29 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 30 | Assessing the extent of Cnut 's association with these texts is therefore no simple matter . |