Example sentences of "of [det] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an author is unaware of another 's work , or of its relevance , it will not be cited . |
| 2 | Our lives begin with the influence of another 's heart upon us . |
| 3 | And they kill from spite : they despise the colour of another 's skin and resent the way another worships God . |
| 4 | There is also a simple desire to enhance one 's own well-being by widening the contrast with another 's distress ; and this too attracts towards his viewpoint , since it is only in awareness from other personal or temporal viewpoints that one 's well-being is experienced as relative arousing envy of another 's happiness or nostalgia for one 's own in the past . |
| 5 | It would be unrealistic to assume that any assessment process based solely on one assessor 's judgement of another 's competence would always be regarded as completely valid and reliable . |
| 6 | Is n't that terrible ? ’ as though speaking of another 's transgression . |
| 7 | Third , it must strike an appropriate balance between the interests of the various parties involved , without putting in jeopardy certain fundamental commitments , such as , for example , the protection of the individual and the absolute prohibition on the taking of another 's life . |
| 8 | A deep sense of another 's ingratitude invaded her — she found this foolish light-minded bird quite detestable in her desertion , in her stupidity and folly , in her lack of recognition of the comfort and safety arranged for her own good , contrived and given with heartfelt care and love . |
| 9 | Squatting is nothing less than the seizure of another 's property without consent . |
| 10 | Many were originally instinctive and , to that limited extent , occur naturally in animals : we normally make way for others in the street , keep promises or apologise , treat people politely and respect the sense of another 's property . |
| 11 | The contrary arguments are these : ( a ) If the crux of theft is the dishonest appropriation of another 's property , the intention permanently to deprive seems otiose . |
| 12 | Someone might say : it is a principle of personal morality that if someone shares in the gains of another 's action he must also share the responsibility for wrongs that other person does . |
| 13 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 14 | If a right of action be denied to the child it will be compelled , without any fault on its part , to go through life carrying the seal of another 's fault and bearing a very heavy burden of infirmity and inconvenience without any compensation therefor . |
| 15 | It could not bear the bright inspection of another 's sorrow . |
| 16 | ‘ Whenever a death occurs as a result of a breach of another 's duty of care to the deceased , the death is unnatural and the coroner is under a duty to investigate . |
| 17 | The impossibility of becoming aware of another 's inwardness without a readiness to let myself feel as he does is plain when someone tries to communicate what is inside his head . |
| 18 | It shows that it is no use simply announcing that you can conceive of another 's pain on the grounds that you can suppose that what he has is the same as what you have . |
| 19 | A similar and perhaps better appreciated situation can happen in yacht racing where it is possible to ‘ take the wind ’ out of another 's sail . |
| 20 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 21 | Rather than rejecting objectionable discourses past and present , this approach entails an unstable coexistence with that which it contests , and it manifests this textually as the parodic adulteration , manipulation , or ‘ doctoring ’ of another 's language . |
| 22 | This suggests , I think , that I must refine my earlier criterion in the following way : it is wrong for a person to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desire , and only allowable for them to be treated , with their consent , as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , if no other means for their satisfaction can be made available . |
| 23 | Egocentrism manifests itself in communicative terms as an inability to take account of another 's point of view ; instead , the world is seen rigidly from the standpoint of the self . |
| 24 | Put another way , ‘ The protection given by the law of copyright is against copying , the basis of the protection being that one man must not be permitted to appropriate the result of another 's labour ’ ( LB [ Plastics ] v. Swish ) . |