Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comes in dried and liquid forms and is basically reduced-fat cow 's milk with added vitamin D and iron — the two essentials missing from full cow 's milk . |
| 2 | This , however , was too much for the Government and , using the excuse that public opinion was not yet ready to accept the protection of many unpopular modern buildings , Lord Caithness , the Minister of State for the Environment , arbitrarily whittled down English Heritage 's list to 18 buildings - excluding Bankside — although it represented a more traditional approach in the Fifties to the now-unfashionable Modern Movement . |
| 3 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 4 | A distinguished and powerful draughtsman , Julian has ranged far and wide both in this country and abroad for his landscapes , from the extremely colourful Devil 's Dyke to the bold but featureless Birling Gap . |
| 5 | Soon he was only one day 's journey in front of me . |
| 6 | In 1980 , after only one year 's work with the ‘ entry ’ year of pupil intake ( the 12/13 year olds ) , the seventeen existing staff were asked to submit a written appraisal of their work . |
| 7 | Unlike the Treaty of Rome , where acceptance was totally contractual , membership of EFTA could be renounced upon giving only one year 's notice of withdrawal . |
| 8 | While in Tirana Andriessen was told that Albania had only one week 's supply of grain stocks left . |
| 9 | ( This applied to existing employees — new recruits asked to relocate received only one month 's salary as a disturbance allowance . ) |
| 10 | Producer stocks have been below five week 's consumption since the second half of 1989 . |
| 11 | LIFE is obviously just child 's play for husband and wife TV presenters John Stapleton and Lynn Faulds Wood . |
| 12 | The passage of time , however , is a concept seemingly grasped only by humans , so Western man 's search for Methuselahs seems to reflect his innate concern to fathom time . |
| 13 | The forecast tax charge for the year is thirty four per cent which is below last year 's rate of thirty five and we expect this low rate to continue in the future . |
| 14 | Obviously Christian Aid 's commitment to the course is more than financial ; we hope it can be a major contribution to thinking about development within the churches . |
| 15 | The Nevada Air National Guard helped open each day 's show with a formation pass of RF-4s followed by F-16s . |
| 16 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |
| 17 | In 1988 , this was over $US 40 , payable in this currency only and not the equivalent in Chinese ‘ people 's money ’ ( renminbi ) , which is approximately one month 's salary for a young teacher . |
| 18 | They 'll get just one week 's pay per year of service — the state minimum . |
| 19 | If there is indeed the same relativism in physics and in morals , should not one individual 's choice in his particular situation be as unimpugnably right or wrong as his measurements of distance and duration ? |
| 20 | And counting more women in among psychologists is not changing psychology 's understanding of gender as much as many feminists would like . |
| 21 | Nevertheless modern agriculture 's contribution to the energy crisis is that each of us eats the equivalent of approximately 100 gallons of petrol each year . |
| 22 | Presumably natural selection 's tolerance of their errors is intermediate . |
| 23 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 24 | Besides a US$70,000 million foreign debt , the country was struggling with a foreign-exchange crisis that had reduced reserves to under one month 's worth of imports . |
| 25 | The Kennedy Galleries have organised , until the 23rd of this month , a survey of that early American Modernist 's career in forty watercolours and oils , many of them landscapes either rural or urban . |
| 26 | As part of the same appeal , Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Bishops ' Conferences of Europe call on every Catholic Church in Europe to set aside New Year 's Day as a ‘ special day of prayer for peace in Europe , and in particular in the Balkans ’ . |
| 27 | AN ACCORD aiming to shake off local government 's image of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing was signed in Essex yesterday . |
| 28 | PUTTING aside last week 's question of the game that masqueraded under the name of alma , a more pressing question is where was the pub or hotel of that name ? |
| 29 | All in all , it is a most fascinating outsider 's insight into our industrial history . |
| 30 | To sum up this chapter 's survey of what people believe about sleep and dreaming — what seem to be the self-evident truths — it must be admitted that there is very little consensus . |