Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is arguably the practitioner 's responsibility for creating such a climate . |
| 2 | Presumably the bat 's image of the world in which it is cruising is being updated 10 times per second . |
| 3 | State officials and eventually the government 's Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) in Atlanta , Georgia were called in . |
| 4 | Roman Remeynes took on the frontman 's job with aplomb . |
| 5 | Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 6 | In practice , many family members look to the female members to take on the lion 's share of responsibility for children , elderly relatives , the sick and the disabled , as well as domestic work , sometimes in addition to taking employment outside the home . |
| 7 | Even when one member of the family takes on the lion 's share of caring , there is no reason why brothers and sisters should not make some contribution . |
| 8 | v. Stanford said that the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher does not extend to making the owner of land liable for the consequences of the escape of a dangerous element brought on the owner 's land by another person , not for the purposes of the owner but for the purposes of that other person . |
| 9 | The Commission may extend the period of suspension until a final decision is taken on the merger 's compatibility with the Common Market . |
| 10 | If this is n't enough the IDB 's range of financial incentives and on-going support is the most flexible in Europe . |
| 11 | Ships first began thundering down the yard 's slipway into the Mersey in 1828 . |
| 12 | She whistled , hitching up her skirt and petticoats so she could run more easily down the tradesman 's path to the gate . |
| 13 | By having the individual numbers logged at a central computer , it is then possible to track down the dog 's owner without difficulty . |
| 14 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 15 | Turner 's Mercury and Herse suffered a similar fate , dragging down the sale 's total to £1.2 million with a punishing 42 per cent bought in by value . |
| 16 | The National Executive Committee was warned that watering down the party 's commitment to sexual equality in the policy review , out of a fear of losing votes , could backfire . |
| 17 | ‘ … to shut down the ratskag 's terminal with massive overinvestment ? ’ |
| 18 | She ate a solitary breakfast in the hotel dining-room , turning down the waitress 's offer of bacon and eggs with as much grace as she could muster , feeling faintly sick at the thought of food . |
| 19 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 20 | Perhaps the lion 's share of the costs of formation is the professional fees of the solicitors and accountants involved in a formation . |
| 21 | So the household 's demand for money has risen even though its income has remained unchanged . |
| 22 | So the laibon 's son from up there , up the valley past Lengai , he is a descendant of Mbatian , the great laibon , he tries to persuade Turnbull to let him take out his animal from the ones which have been selected . ‘ |
| 23 | So the author 's polemic against the seminal work of , who clearly recognized and formulated the fundamental role of these dynamics , is not only unfounded but misleading . |
| 24 | Even with this explanation , one is not necessarily convinced that Ulimwengu was in the wrong , since we have only the Government 's side of the story . |
| 25 | These companions lie within 30 000 light years of the quasar — only the Sun 's distance from the centre of our Galaxy — and they appear unusually small . |
| 26 | For this reason , assessments intended to provide a basis for making decisions about placement should consider not only the child 's performance under ‘ test ’ conditions , but also the child 's capacity for engaging in linguistic interactions in ‘ naturalistic ’ settings . |
| 27 | The on board statement establishes a direct link between the goods and the vessel , a link that facilitates not only the holder 's recovery of the goods or insurance proceeds , but also his arrest of the vessel in the event of loss of or damage to the cargo . |
| 28 | But it is not only the system 's legitimacy with outside observers and the general public which is important . |
| 29 | Furthermore , we have only the patient 's word for what he or she smoked ; such estimates are often wildly ‘ out ’ and can be affected by what the patient thinks the doctor wants to hear . |
| 30 | It was seldom frequented since only the Empress 's suite of rooms lay here in the south-west tower . |