Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finnegan has made arrangements for his wife 's income to cover those outstanding debts . |
| 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 | Does this cause Milton 's text to become compromised , its message rendered politically neutered ? |
| 4 | Mr Wu then enlisted Mr Zhao 's support to clear bureaucratic obstacles to his risky brainchild , a 186-mile tollway linking Hong Kong with Canton and the special economic zone of Shenzhen . |
| 5 | At 10 minutes to midday , Gower square-drove Aqib to the Wilson 's Stand to reach 34 and ascend the pedestal as England 's highest Test runscorer . |
| 6 | Father Wright said : ‘ It takes , perhaps , a special sort of leadership on the priest 's part to draw young people into the larger parish community . |
| 7 | Ross , for one , fully endorsed the doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy , but he held that it was a bad mistake on Moore 's part to define such expressions as ‘ right ’ , ‘ wrong ’ , ‘ ought ’ ’ obligatory' by way of ‘ good ’ . |
| 8 | This effort on Nizan 's part to promote orthodox sectarian communist party ideology within a bourgeois context found no greater expression than during the year he spent in Bourg-en-Bresse , when he was at one and the same time philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande and communist party candidate at the general election of 1932 . |
| 9 | It was then the best part of a week 's work on Malcolm 's part to get that saw running sweetly . |
| 10 | Outstanding among those contributions are his Math Vab Mathonwy ( 1928 ) and Rhiannon ( 1953 ) which , in spite of some evident shortcomings , particularly a failure on the author 's part to make sufficient use of the comparative method , testify to Gruffydd 's originality of mind , his general perceptiveness , and his clarity of exposition . |
| 11 | ‘ Now it 'll take all Wings Balsdon 's tact to get any parcels issued before next Monday . ’ |
| 12 | The tough talk seemed at odds , however , with some recent US policies , including President Clinton 's decision to continue favourable trade benefits for China for at least another year , and the United Nations ' own treatment of Tibet 's exiled Dalai Lama . |
| 13 | In their view this Soviet withdrawal , and the policy of ‘ Finlandisation ’ which Finland ostensibly embarked on , had been enabled by Sweden 's decision to remain neutral after the war . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do women always think another woman is behind a man 's decision to remain free ? ’ |
| 15 | LABOUR 'S Barry Jones protested in the Commons last night at British Aerospace 's decision to sell Corporate Jets , of Broughton . |
| 16 | A priest in Friuli , commenting on the Vatican 's decision to allow non-alcoholic wine at Mass to help priests with an alcohol problem |
| 17 | As early as December 1939 , angered by Franco 's decision to declare Spanish neutrality in the European war , a group of radical Falangists had plotted to oust him . |
| 18 | Two regulars , Messrs Dodman and Harrop , arrived but most were new faces following Peter 's decision to opt this time for newly graduated advisers . |
| 19 | In a very low-key , matter-of-fact way he described the meeting in Muldoon 's office and explained Detroit 's decision to eliminate regional management . |
| 20 | THE Director of Public Prosecutions is to appeal against the High Court 's decision to halt criminal proceedings against seven police officers charged following clashes outside Mr Rupert Murdoch 's News International plant at Wapping in 1987 . |
| 21 | Meanwhile NATO 's decision to deploy intermediate nuclear weapons in West Germany enraged the neutralists in the SPD , who became increasingly vocal and uncontrollable . |
| 22 | Although there is little criticism of the foundation 's decision to support such research , other medical charities argue that its explicit exclusion of research on animals may encourage other smaller research-funding bodies to take a similar stand , a move that could make life increasingly difficult for medical researchers . |
| 23 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 24 | The NUS paper presented to Whitley led to the Group 's decision to allocate two re-assigned Model 30s for student computing use , as per item ( 2 ) above . |
| 25 | In June India finally agreed to restore trade and transit concessions which in March 1989 it had withdrawn , partly in protest at Nepal 's decision to purchase Chinese weaponry . |
| 26 | Several factors influence an author 's decision to cite another . |
| 27 | They were protesting against the council 's decision to stop female employees from using the car park there . |
| 28 | MI6 was greatly upset by Churchill 's decision to create Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) , which it saw as infringing upon its sacred duties . |
| 29 | Each step is but a different way of helping the class to begin to internalise the gravity of a family 's decision to lace unknown dangers . |
| 30 | The meeting comes amid fresh allegations from members of the music panel that they were press-ganged into rubber- stamping the council 's decision to withdraw all subsidy from Kent Opera , although full information about the company was kept from them . |