Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week NATO 's defence ministers called for a halt to cuts in defence spending , lest they undermine the cohesion of the alliance . |
| 2 | I have already said that the success of a Government 's defence policies depends on the conviction that those policies and their spokesmen carry in the eyes both of prospective opponents and of present friends . |
| 3 | Controversy over Israel 's defence capabilities continued with the publication on Oct. 20 of The Samson Option by a US investigative journalist , Seymour Hersh . |
| 4 | The street is closed by the Black Tower , part of the castle 's fortification system dating from the first half of the 12C . |
| 5 | Incidentally , the McHugh family set a record in Irish bowls , as Colm 's sister Bernie played in the Irish ladies team which was competed in their Home International Series in Portrush , also last week-end . |
| 6 | Most of the trouble is at a children 's play area known as the Fort . |
| 7 | Hoping no one was watching , Coleman climbed the tower 's inspection ladder to look at the frequency allocation on the antennae . |
| 8 | The cat miaowed piteously again , and suddenly Virginia 's kind heart broke through the spell of fear and doubt that kept her feet glued to the path . |
| 9 | For example , the APU 's assessment framework consists of the following related dimensions : content ; learning outcome ; context ; mode of assessment . |
| 10 | But while Harwell 's bird-watching boffins revel in the habitat around them there 's just one snag . |
| 11 | Gorbachev 's resignation offer came in the middle of the second day 's debate . |
| 12 | The ITV 's Chart Show dispenses with a presenter entirely . |
| 13 | Dim scratchy advertisements for Ernie Calvert 's Watch Repairs and Gus Bentley 's Bike Shop appeared on the screen . |
| 14 | The nilgai 's woodland ancestry shows in the fact that it inhabits areas where there are at least some trees to give shelter during the hottest part of the day . |
| 15 | GROOM Chris White 's mum Cara laid on a huge spread through the catering firm she runs . |
| 16 | In an industry where proprietary technical standards are all but history , the cradle-to-grave customer loyalty on which IBM could once depend ( and often enforce ) is also a thing of the past : today 's computer users buy from the best , not the biggest . |
| 17 | The Garden 's computer facilities consist of a mixture of stand-alone and networked PCs . |
| 18 | He went along to Diana 's breathing classes to prepare for the birth and was there by her side in the private Lindo Wing at St Mary 's Hospital in Paddington when William emerged after sixteen hours of labour . |
| 19 | Hence , an operation in this task 's search space consists of a pair of play operations . |
| 20 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 21 | NICK KNIGHT 'S fighting qualities came to the rescue of champions Essex as they were made to struggle for runs in reply to Northants ' 444 for nine declared at Chelmsford . |
| 22 | The world 's stock markets crash in the biggest nosedive since 1929 . |
| 23 | The Dorset Youth Orchestra 's coaching sessions culminated in a joint Prom with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra last month . |
| 24 | A GUIDE TO NORTHERN IRELAND 'S PICNIC SITES PREPARED BY THE FLOUR ADVISORY BUREAU |
| 25 | • Britain 's best loved soap opera , Coronation Street , will also have a smoky flavour later this autumn after filming took place on the Cheddleton-based North Staffs Railway 's picnic area looking towards the Knotty 's attractive base . |
| 26 | The department 's postgraduate students come from a wide range of academic backgrounds and from many different countries . |
| 27 | Also , my machine 's QVision card sits in a slow 8MHz ISA expansion slot , which restrains it considerably . |
| 28 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 29 | To take this into account , economists measure ‘ real commodity prices ’ — the Third World 's export prices compared with the prices of manufactured goods . |
| 30 | At this point , the weapon 's guidance system switches into a preprogrammed routine in which it selects data about the particular target that it is aiming for . |