Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What disturbed Tammuz more than Zambia 's unexpected visit was Roirbak 's parting shot to hir . |
| 2 | Harry 's ghost called to her from the stone skull of the castle . |
| 3 | After pledging £20,000 for wheelchair races , the region 's support increased to £95,000 after a substantial shortfall in the commercial sponsorship which now appears certain to be repeated this year unless additional major supporters can be found . |
| 4 | IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ? |
| 5 | Here we have a repetition of the childhood in which the parent 's weakness contributed to the unconscious need for punishment . |
| 6 | The almost inherent suspicion the police have of strangers was in the RUC 's case added to by worries about whether their personal security would be compromised and concern over the intentions of the police management . |
| 7 | He did n't add that controlling the Seneca was child 's play compared to the brute force of the Ferrari F40 . |
| 8 | Creating this world and all the , the millions of worlds and spa , and galaxies and , and all the rest of creation , that was child 's play compared to forgiving you and me . |
| 9 | Standing on a stage in front of hundreds of people was child 's play compared to this . |
| 10 | Forgetting Guy Ferris would be child 's play compared to her other problem . |
| 11 | But in fact Holt C.J. 's decision related to the escape of filth and his formulation of principle was limited to that and to cattle-trespass ; it was not nearly so sweeping as the rule expressed in Rylands v. Fletcher , which was reached by methods extremely characteristic of judicial development of the law — the creation of new law behind a screen of analogies drawn from existing law . |
| 12 | In N.D. Wines ( Inverness ) Ltd. v. Inverness District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 73 , it was held that a request for written reasons for the board 's decision required to be in the hands of the clerk within the specified 48 hour period , and that the time limit is mandatory . |
| 13 | Lord Cholmondeley 's correspondent referred to the Smiths as ‘ very good Workmen ’ , and when Francis died in 1738 Sir Edmund Isham of Lamport , Northamptonshire , lamented the loss of ‘ our honest Builder Mr. Smith of Warwick ’ . |
| 14 | The purchaser ( If a licensed business from the trustee of a bankrupt certificate-holder must with reasonable dispatch get the bankrupt 's certificate transferred to him . |
| 15 | The newspaper changed sides and the public 's antagonism changed to vocal support as the safety and environmental benefits became clear for all to see . |
| 16 | At position M the weight of investment in security1 is zero ( i.e. ) and the investor has concentrated his investment solely in the market portfolio ( where the investor has only invested in I to the extent of the share 's capitalization compared to that of the market as a whole ) . |
| 17 | Seb 's look returned to the farmer . |
| 18 | He proposed that a plan for the area should be considered first , which could show the Horse Guards and the Admiralty removed , and St James 's Park extended to the river . |
| 19 | His chin rose quickly in a proud gesture and George 's heart warmed to him . |
| 20 | The Government 's health record provoked one of the largest backbench rebellions during the last session of Parliament , with the Government 's majority cut to eight over eye charges . |
| 21 | Two policemen were standing across the way and when the attack began John 's girlfriend rushed to the police asking for help . |
| 22 | The Economic Directorate of the Russian President 's Administration transferred to its budget the personnel and funds ( including hard currency ) of the Kremlin , the USSR President 's Administration and the Interstate Economic Committee — IEC , which was set up in November [ see p. 38581 ] . |
| 23 | She does not deny the philosophical impetus toward a Horatian retirement , but suggests that garden retreats often had less to do with spiritual delights than with ‘ the bodily and social pleasures of a fashionable men 's club transposed to rural surroundings … |
| 24 | In the 1983 election Labour 's vote slumped to its lowest since 1918 . |
| 25 | Nor is Craven 's reminiscence confined to his considerable experiences of watching his beloved Gloucestershire , although the tone of the book as a whole laments the county 's continued failure to win the County Championship , and as a supporter of Sussex one sympathizes . |
| 26 | The theory of the operation of a Pitot tube is contained essentially in eqn ( 10.19 ) , Bernoulli 's equation applied to the streamline that ends at the forward stagnation point of an obstacle placed in a stream . |
| 27 | Hertz 's experiment referred to above provides a nice example . |
| 28 | Cawkell 's study related to acoustics , but Price 's work does not refer directly to any particular subject field , so that it is not possible to be sure that like is being compared with like . |
| 29 | There seems little doubt that a number of deficiencies and miscalculations , both strategic and tactical , on Mrs Thatcher 's side contributed to her defeat . |
| 30 | Richie Richardson 's side slumped to 233 all out — 162 runs short of Australia 's first innings total of 395 — after starting the third day on 62-3 . |