Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I phone Yvonne and William 's house but there 's only William 's voice on the answer-machine . |
| 2 | Thus Mendel 's paper on the inherited characteristics of peas , published in an obscure journal in what is now part of Czechoslovakia , was uncited for many years , but the ideas contained within it are now an integral part of the genetics paradigm . |
| 3 | Thus Moore 's position on the rightness and wrongness of actions is a form of rigoristic utilitarianism in which effects in terms of intrinsic good and bad replace effects in terms of pleasure and pain . |
| 4 | Thus Evans-Pritchard 's work on the magic and religion of the Azande , and on the political systems of the Nuer , and Malinowski 's investigations among the Trobriand islanders established a new style and standard for this kind of academic scholarship . |
| 5 | Usually God 's blessing on the fruit of the land is sought , with a reading and prayers said in some field or farmyard . |
| 6 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 7 | At Christmas he had insisted on hanging up Robert 's stocking on the end of his bed , and had suggested the two of them visit the Cranborne School carol service . |
| 8 | Tom has to get back tomorrow , so Odd-Knut decides to circle the peak ahead and rejoin our outward trail to pick up Nat 's sledge on the way back . |
| 9 | And there are compensations , notably Venus 's arrival on the 13th in the romantic , creative and social centre of your horoscope . |
| 10 | The group claimed to have executed him in October 1985 following Israel 's air-raid on the PLO headquarters in Tunis . |
| 11 | When the police straightened out Innocent 's body on the ground , know what they found in his hand , hey ? |
| 12 | Wycliffe asked Curtis to point out Riddle 's yard on the map . |
| 13 | We will encounter here Williams 's emphasis on the city as a ‘ front ’ region : a romantic place representing a better life over the horizon is common . |
| 14 | The one to watch would be tomorrow morning 's debate on the Government 's immigration policy . |
| 15 | Rain said not quite , and enquired how Emelda 's book on the subjection of Italian women was going . |
| 16 | Sometimes Greece 's place on the map can even help , in the periods of history when Europe is on easy terms with its neighbours to the east . |
| 17 | Nick Cave surfaced at a time when post-punk 's handle on the workings of desire was diagrammatic and programmatic . |
| 18 | It was definitely Tim 's voice on the yacht that night . ’ |