Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | These simple changes to her father 's response enable this mildly handicapped child to acquire the socially necessary ability to wait in a definite and positive manner . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a shocking situation , and I am spending every single minute of every single day and every last dollar of my father 's money to correct this evil . ’ |
| 3 | If Mr. Collins had sought to base an argument on the omission from the rules which I have characterised as unfair , we should have had to consider whether the opportunity given to Winchester on 6 November 1990 to make representations to Lautro 's board rectified this defect . |
| 4 | But the first parliament of Mary 's regency anticipated this , for reasons which were purely political rather than moral , when it utterly banned ‘ Robert Hood nor Little John Abbot of Unreason ( and ) Queens of May ’ in both town and countryside . |
| 5 | Unless a Christian 's faith includes this level of understanding , he is short-changing himself . |
| 6 | So our Carl got it back , you know , soon as had seen it , he brought it back , he said I 'm not letting Rosie 's sister see this . |
| 7 | Anna 's sister has this message for him . |
| 8 | Two regulars , Messrs Dodman and Harrop , arrived but most were new faces following Peter 's decision to opt this time for newly graduated advisers . |
| 9 | While Hewitt 's decision to use this term is based partly on his belief that there is no characteristic variety of English used solely by ethnic Caribbeans , it is also motivated by the lack of symbolic meaning attached to this variety : it was not the case that the London English of young blacks took on any specialized symbolic meaning of race or ethnicity . |
| 10 | TWO MILLION employees and directors of British firms will face higher bills for the privilege of using their company cars following the Chancellor 's decision to tax this perk at its true value . |
| 11 | Airtours 's progress reflected this by notching up its sixth successive year of profits . |
| 12 | John Prescott , transport spokesman , has largely been frozen out of the national campaign , which is surprising given his adept performance on BBC 's election call this week . |
| 13 | The National & Provincial 's experience contradicts this . |
| 14 | It is the user 's responsibility to do this if required . |
| 15 | It was seen as healthy for the British-American relationship and a good omen for Mr Bush 's re-election hopes this autumn . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , it was Major 's readiness to use this language ( which , interestingly , Mrs Thatcher , in her effluvial megalomania , regards as Marxist ) that allowed people to vote Conservative , albeit not with a clear conscience . |
| 17 | would suggest that the only reason for this application is one of profit , there has been no attempt to recognize or implement the views of the village in terms of the type of accommodation which is required , I would suspect that it 's Grant Development 's intention to develop this site and then walk away , and leave the villagers to suffer the consequences . |
| 18 | It remains AEA 's intention to achieve this on a voluntary basis to the greatest extent possible . |
| 19 | Mr Pavlov 's programme recognises this . |
| 20 | The legitimisation in the Maastricht Treaty of the EEC 's attempt to promote this identity represents an acknowledgement of the ultimate goal which inspired it . |
| 21 | Despite Citrine 's attempt to settle this issue by firmly rejecting the proposal , this organisational option still had many advocates within the industry whose views were to surface in later years . |
| 22 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 23 | The current emphasis on systems analysis tends to hide this fact , yet in both Konrad Lorenz 's famous hydraulic model and Niko Tinbergen 's attempt to relate this to the functioning nervous system no feedback loops at all were incorporated . |
| 24 | Figure 4.3 was McKinsey and Co 's attempt to spell this out in more detail . |
| 25 | The Mediterranean-Dead Sea Project is part of the government 's plan to diversify this narrow structure . |
| 26 | Apparently Reader 's Digest do this kind of thing all the time , though nobody that anybody has ever known or met has won a brass halfpenny . |
| 27 | Four months after the People 's Liberation Army stormed central Peking with the loss of hundreds of lives , few can have any doubt about the party 's determination to enforce this Maoist maxim . |
| 28 | Vaquero 's creator offers this explanation : ‘ In every Mexican there resides an idyllic feeling for the countryside his ( sic ) parents knew . |
| 29 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 30 | It is of tremendous value to prepare your own draft of the house description , even though it is the agent 's job to do this . |