Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distributing next year 's maintained payment between the two new companies has clearly not been an easy task and question marks must remain over the board 's decision just to split the 1993 payment straight down the middle with the promise that each company will not pay less than 27.5p a share . |
| 2 | HUNDREDS OF thousands of Scots face potentially crippling increases in their heating bills as a result of Norman Lamont 's decision yesterday to extend VAT to domestic fuel and power . |
| 3 | LEADING Liberal-Democrat MP David Alton will quit at the next election in protest at the party 's decision yesterday to back pro-abortion policies . |
| 4 | Although it is the coroner 's court 's function simply to find the cause of death , under what circumstances it happened and who , if anybody , is to be charged and with what , many members of the public plus the national papers were speaking as if Drew had already been indicted . |
| 5 | Iraq 's military might and Saddam 's willingness openly to challenge Israel appealed strongly to a PLO leadership deeply disillusioned with the faltering Middle East peace process . |
| 6 | Maybe that is why — unlike some drivers with a more refined sense of a balance sheet — it was Mario 's practice always to travel and live first class . |
| 7 | hoping to dominate … the world of athletics this weekend is Gloucester hammer thrower Lorraine Shaw … she 's UK champion … the first from the city 's club ever to win a senior outdoor title … this weekend Lorraine takes on the best in the world as she competes in the AAA championships in Birmingham … the amazing thing is that up until this year she was a discus thrower … |
| 8 | It was McLaren 's pleasure always to up the ante … |
| 9 | Now she wished fervently for an old-fashioned attendant to match the commissionaire downstairs and the man who had driven Luke 's car away to park it . |
| 10 | Menem 's plan radically to restructure the economy provoked widespread looting of supermarkets in February and March 1990 [ see pp. 37244 ; 37501 ; for March , August and September austerity measures see pp. 37500 ; 37710 ] . |
| 11 | What Chris Bonington has achieved in terms of single-minded organisation and drive , or what Reinhold Messner has demonstrated by his speed and panache , have been matched by Doug Scott 's determination always to try for something different and never to be satisfied by the more obvious and easier routes to success . |
| 12 | In fact the writer goes on to say , ‘ It would be the embalmer 's dream never to see another ‘ posted case ’ , and he would like to see the usual procedure altered with regard to the requesting of a post-mortem examination . |
| 13 | Part of Neil MacDonald 's task in visiting Chile is to write a book about Oxfam 's work there to try to bring the problems home to the British public . |
| 14 | A day 's work still to do before the Sabbath and they would have sore heads in the morning . |
| 15 | Again , there is no real need to comment — except that it is the media planner 's job both to discourage the creative group from trying to produce massive , spectacular ads when the budget is minimal , and to keep them aware of new ideas and ways of using the media . |
| 16 | It was Doctor Teesdale 's job afterwards to make sure that the man was dead . |
| 17 | She was well aware of her sister 's reluctance ever to speak of that fateful year when she had borne Gervaise 's child . |
| 18 | The therapist also understood the behaviour in terms of Pamela 's need both to show her parents how desperate she was feeling , and to try and change their behaviour towards her . |
| 19 | IF 80 minutes of dynamic non-stop dance , combined with reverberant rock music seems like an irresistible combination , then head for Glasgow 's Tramway fast to catch the stunning new show from the Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs — Chummlees and Fanshaws to you and me — as conjured out of choreographer Lea Anderson 's febrile imagination . |
| 20 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 21 | If the trial goes so badly that the plaintiff wants to take the money out during it he must , as was decided in Gaskins v British Aluminium Co Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 524 , make an application to do so , and he must have the defendant 's consent even to make the application . |
| 22 | In F v West Berkshire Health Authority [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 545 , Lord Goff stated : where the state of affairs is permanent or semi-permanent , as … in the case of a mentally disordered person … there is no point in waiting to obtain the patient 's consent … the doctor must act in the best interests of his patient , just as if he had received his patient 's consent so to do … the lawfulness of the doctor 's action is to be found in the principle of necessity … the doctor must act in accordance with a responsible and competent body of relevant professional opinion … it may be good practice to consult relatives and others who are concerned with the care of the patient . |
| 23 | For Labour , Mr Clive Soley said that there was a housing crisis , with people being squeezed between the collapse of the housing market under the weight of mortgage interest rates , and the Government 's failure properly to maintain the council housing stock while forcing councils to increase rents . |
| 24 | Despite this demonstration of the Department of Energy 's failure adequately to foresee a threatening situation , it was not to safeguard its own reputation that the department refused originally to give information on the lease to a Magill reporter : ‘ these leases are negotiated individually between the company and the department . |
| 25 | That factor , on top of the Government 's failure actively to pursue policies to attract manufacturing industries to the regions , has made the position even worse . |
| 26 | A White Paper of July 1937 had stated it to be the government 's aim further to reduce the price of liquid milk to local authorities in order to improve distribution ; throughout 1938 there were discussions within the Board of Education , and in July 1939 a Milk Industry Act was passed . |
| 27 | This part of Majorca is the most popular area on the island and each summer more and more 18–30 's flock here to enjoy the sunshine , the beach , the nightlife and the company of more young people than you could possibly imagine . |
| 28 | Neil is wounded every year by his team 's refusal even to score at Old Trafford ( they managed a goal up there 21 years ago , but he makes the long trek every season anyway ) , and by the permanent car boot sale that Luton indulge in . |
| 29 | The government 's refusal fully to implement the Disabled Person 's ( Services , Consultation and Representation ) Act 1986 leaves users dependent on the good practice of service providers , without clear cut rights to assessment or explanation when services are not provided . |
| 30 | Opponents of Sunday trading will be upset by the scheme , which comes on top of the Government 's refusal yesterday to enforce the Sunday shopping law in general . |