Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-1863 , therefore , the regime had given several indications that its interest in remodelling the state 's institutions had survived the shock of emancipating the serfs . |
| 2 | At an extraordinary general meeting last Thursday , Spectrum 's shareholders agreed to form a consortium , Harmony Investments , which has pledged to inject at least £600,000 into the station to cover debts estimated at £450,000 . |
| 3 | LASMO Canada 's shareholders have approved a change in the company 's name at a meeting held at the end of October . |
| 4 | The Bank 's shareholders have welcomed the institution 's own desire to improve the implementation of its projects . |
| 5 | Some of Shepherd 's associates have taken the argument further , in various directions . |
| 6 | While Smart 's contemporaries failed to appreciate the sublimity of his Song to David , later critics have signally failed to agree on its construction and Smart 's own note of explanation does not quite match the case . |
| 7 | The Authority 's proposals had involved the imposition of import controls and production quotas . |
| 8 | Then a formation of Fif 's mandroids shouldered thought the throng , and I followed in their wake . |
| 9 | After all , ITN 's bulletins have made no attempts to deceive us about the influence of Iraqi minders over Sadler 's reports . |
| 10 | The Government 's policies have sent the construction industry into a nosedive , brought a 30 per cent . |
| 11 | Michele 's fingers moved to hold the warmth of her nape and his mouth covered hers . |
| 12 | IN TURNING to Gary Klesch , Heron International 's bondholders have found a man with first-hand knowlege of debt . |
| 13 | Since the beginning of the year , Germany 's enemies had penetrated the borders of the Reich in east and west . |
| 14 | This was where Jackson 's enemies needed to break the neck of his campaign . |
| 15 | Re-Solv 's plans have received a cash boost from the Department of Trade and Industry and supermarket giant Sainsbury . |
| 16 | Mr Robertson says he 's particularly worried because Rabina 's employers have received a letter of resignation , written in broken English . |
| 17 | After backroom lobbying by presidential aides , the organising committee of the Congress of People 's Deputies agreed to drop a resolution that would have recommended that Mr Yeltsin should be deprived of his post of Prime Minister and the right to select his Cabinet . |
| 18 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 19 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 20 | Since 1928 , Harry 's clients have got the result wrong only once . |
| 21 | The thought provoking verses of the songs and Sister 's words served to challenge the ministers to be open to meeting Christ in the daily situation of life . |
| 22 | But somehow her mother 's words had struck a chord . |
| 23 | It was many years since the assassin 's eyes had taken the pleasure they did now , seeing him . |
| 24 | A recent study of London 's trades has noted the spread and organisational development of unionism during the period . |
| 25 | Even more crucially , the TUC 's tactics had turned the press against them and provoked the opposition of the nurses ' negotiators . |
| 26 | The increasingly high profile of problems such as the greenhouse effect , the hole in the ozone layer , agricultural pollution and the state of Britain 's waterways has pushed the environment to the top of the political agenda , and the government is keen to be seen responding . |
| 27 | A coalition of nearly 50 civil rights , Hispanic , black and women 's organizations had opposed the nomination of Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp of Miami , on the grounds of his alleged hostility to minorities . |
| 28 | Moments after sentencing , a crowd of several hundred of Gotti 's supporters attempted to storm the Brooklyn courtroom . |
| 29 | Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river ! |
| 30 | But one of the councillors who has been revierwing the county 's homes has defended the move : |