Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis Healey 's slogan about squeezing the rich until the pips squeak has been rewritten to include practically everyone . |
| 2 | The Conservative Government 's attempts at reviving the private-rented sector have met with very little success though in due course more substantial results are expected from the 1988 Housing Act . |
| 3 | Iago 's technique of offering a false surface , designed to appear false and encourage his dupe to penetrate to what is only another false bottom , reaches its climax at the opening of Act IV , where master and pupil enter , already engaged in conversation : That Othello should be accusing Cassio and Desdemona of hypocrisy , the devil 's weapon , is the sign of Iago 's total triumph in creating false perception . |
| 4 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 5 | I do not therefore consider that I should be departing from the Vice-Chancellor 's decision by reaching a different conclusion on the present Act . |
| 6 | Part of the reason is the firm 's expertise in developing the ground-breaking Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology . |
| 7 | Early responses to the information questionnaire will assist the purchaser 's solicitors in tailoring a standard sale agreement to the vendor 's business . |
| 8 | The Renegades were 6–5 ahead and looking good , but Robert Hunter was the Kop 's saviour by taking the last game . |
| 9 | No doubt its humorous common name has more to do with the countryman 's enthusiasm for worrying the gullible , than with the local wise woman 's magical powers . |
| 10 | Unesco 's proposals for helping the National Library are also of interest : one suggestion is to connect the library 's book stores by satellite with the information network in other countries . |
| 11 | He effectively won the argument for the creation of an elective presidency , by arguing that the republic 's leadership needed new powers to implement his report 's proposals for overcoming the socio-economic crisis . |
| 12 | For example , Nigel Lawson chaired the Sub-Committee that dealt with Lord Mackay 's proposals for reforming the legal system which were later embodied in the Courts and Legal Services Bill . |
| 13 | Soften up the tough biker 's look by combining a black leather jacket with a cream crêpe T-shirt and tailored red trousers . |
| 14 | CD 's notes for writing the first instalment of Hard Times reveal that the object of his satire here was ‘ Marlborough House Doctrine ’ and ‘ Cole ’ , i.e. Henry Cole ( 1808–82 ) , civil servant and one of the main organizers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 15 | Information sessions will cover the first year of the pilot and one college 's experience of offering the additional assessment . |
| 16 | Oxford 's experience in making a major shift of data-processing infrastructure in 1980–81 gives us some ‘ feel ’ for what would be involved . |
| 17 | At the least , President Reagan 's plans of involving the private sector could disrupt this system . |
| 18 | Offering the meagre purse of local gossip , news from Buttermere , Nicholson spoke about Mr Skelton 's plans for building a large stone manor house in the area ; dwelt longingly on the prospect of Miss Skelton and said something about the wrestling which included a mention of Mary of Buttermere and a young man from the north of the county walking thirty or forty miles just to see her and make his feelings known to her . |
| 19 | The house would not approve the prime minister 's plans for scrapping the social security system . |
| 20 | For his part , Moon managed to fry a sizeable portion of Townshend 's hair by misjudging a flash powder explosion in his drum kit during the making of an American TV Special . |
| 21 | Ilona seems to have won Jeff 's heart by embodying an American adolescent boy 's fantasy of dirty sex . |
| 22 | Pickering ( 1985:473 ) points out that members of West Ham United 's Inter City Firm once settled an old grudge against Millwall 's Bushwackers by throwing a rival hooligan under a passing train and stabbing another before leaving their personalised calling card : ‘ Nothing personal . |
| 23 | The timing of this constituent session was influenced by the impending vote in the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies on creating a new executive presidency [ see pp. 37297-99 ] , and specifically by fears that new presidential powers would be used to block Lithuania 's progress towards independence . |
| 24 | Coxswain Keith Stuart was equally thrilled with the amount raised and intends to mark the Institution 's appreciation by placing a commemorative plaque in the boathouse . |
| 25 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 26 | Havel 's move prompted Meciar to withdraw his party 's support for Havel 's candidacy in the presidential elections on July 3 and to reiterate his party 's intention of getting a new Slovak constitution approved by the Slovak National Council . |
| 27 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 28 | In September he startled Italians by lashing out at one of Sicily 's most popular fighters against the Mafia , Leoluca Orlando , an ex-mayor of Palermo , who was guilty in Mr Cossiga 's mind of damaging the Christian Democratic Party . |
| 29 | Amid much grand talk about the dawn of a new era , an assorted bunch of international players , only some of whom are world-class , set out tomorrow to add to New Zealand 's miseries by ruining a 100th birthday party , writes John Mason . |
| 30 | They are described as ‘ Fearful Symmetries ’ , a title suggested by William Blake 's famous poem , The Tyger , and referring to Tillyer 's practice of cutting a geometric shape into his landscape compositions of swirling brushwork . |