Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it is realized that signals that change cells ' behaviour do not really carry intricate information , then it can be seen that any complexity of behaviour lies in the cells ' capacity to respond rather than in complexity in the signals . |
| 2 | Every single criminal case in the country , trivial or serious , starts in the magistrates ' court . |
| 3 | Maria Morgan , editor of the Guinness Book 's literary section , says of the publishers ' advertisement : ‘ The trouble is that as yet we do n't have a category for most widely read author . |
| 4 | The chaos then results from the compilers ' eagerness to compress his discussion of several variants into one example burdened with exceptions and qualifications . |
| 5 | It rests on what is bound to be , to some extent , subjective assessment , as in playing a game when there are rules and communal experience to draw on , but ultimately it depends on the players ' awareness and skill . |
| 6 | This depends on the manufacturers ' software . |
| 7 | Thus Bond Men Made Free by Rodney Hilton ( London 1973 ) , which deals with the peasants ' revolt of 1381 , would be classified in the column of the fourteenth century , and the row of , say , ‘ Social Structure ’ ; and The Hungry Mills by Norman Longmate ( London 1978 ) which describes the Lancashire cotton famine of 1861–65 , would appear in the column for the nineteenth century and a row possibly designated ‘ Trade and Industry ‘ . |
| 8 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 9 | At Comdex Spring in Chicago last week Microsoft Corp gave a clean bill of health to the Hardware Abstraction Layer , HAL , which resides in the MIPS ' ARC specification , and is designed to facilitate this differentiation , saying that running NT on the R4000 , HAL does indeed meet its claimed potential . |
| 10 | Organisers held full safety checks on the Migs ' routine were held last week . |
| 11 | The Adjutant abandons the idea of a coffee and hurries towards the Officers ' Mess Where the Inspecting Officer is due to arrive shortly . |
| 12 | What accounts for the Tories ' success in winning again against the odds ? |
| 13 | Now the curtain rises on the friends ' meeting . |
| 14 | This section turns to the functionalists ' claim that stratification is inevitable . |
| 15 | It all goes on the conservationists ' bill . |
| 16 | The reservation houses , half-hidden in cactus and mesquite , are solidly built , the jeeps new ; an enormous four-lane highway sweeps past the gamblers ' den . |
| 17 | She strongly objects to the chimps ' tea party in Brooke Bond tea ads : ‘ I still want to know how the chimps are made to move their mouths like that . |
| 18 | Note : We have deliberately avoided the idea that owners ' equity relates to the owners ' investment in the business as with the historic cost model this is fraught with obvious difficulties . |
| 19 | The ‘ old , old story ’ becomes under the critics ' needle the ever-unravelling story , and the drama is lost . |
| 20 | Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association . |
| 21 | He was replaced in the closing minutes in Dublin by Rob Wainwright , who returns to the replacements ' bench . |
| 22 | There 's a saying which is n't entirely true that the politics stops at the waters ' edge . |