Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The novel sets the individual reader 's response above authorial determination of meaning , orthodox critical interpretations , and other ‘ closed ’ forms of response . |
| 2 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 3 | The Medical Research Council 's trial of antihypertensive treatment in elderly people found that death from cancer was nearly twice as common in men receiving atenolol as in men receiving placebo . |
| 4 | Received The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 , for its patented in-can system . |
| 5 | The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer . |
| 6 | The work will build on experience gained from an earlier study , project PIPPA , which investigated the post innovation performance of thirty five British firms which had won the Queen 's Award for Technological Innovation in 1966 and 1967 . |
| 7 | We 're marking the release on video this week of the Dustin Hoffman movie Accidental Hero , which tells the story of a small-time petty thief 's rise from sleazy obscurity to fortitude and heroic deeds . |
| 8 | THE United States has discreetly intervened in the gathering of Lebanese parliamentarians in Taif by sending two State Department officials to emphasise Washington 's support for political reform in Lebanon . |
| 9 | WASHINGTON , D.C. Mr Frohnmayer , the former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts ( NEA ) forced to resign earlier this year by President Bush for the NEA 's support of risqué art in the past ( The Art Newspaper No. 17 , April 1992 , p. 1 ) , has received a slap on the other cheek now . |
| 10 | Pearson challenged the rest of British cinema 's reliance on middle-class theatre by commissioning original stories that could appeal o a more popular audience . |
| 11 | It accepted the policy review proposals for an open-ended programme of diminishing Britain 's reliance on nuclear energy despite demands led by Arthur Scargill , the National Union of Mineworkers ' president , for a commitment to complete the process within 15 years . |
| 12 | They are likely to renew interest in a former player , Manchester United 's Mal Donaghy , while keeping an eye on Brian Gayle 's progress under new management at Manchester City . |
| 13 | In 1859 he formalized Nicholas I 's reduction of military service from twenty-five years to fifteen . |
| 14 | During this period the Commission sought to win agreement for fundamental reform of the EC 's common agricultural policy ( CAP ) , in part to restrict the growth of intervention stocks ( or " food mountains " ) and in part as a result of pressure to reduce the EC 's level of agricultural subsidy in the context of the " Uruguay round " of multilateral trade talks of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , which ground to a halt in December 1990 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 15 | In specific instances the answer to either question may well be yes , but as a general proposition , three considerations must dampen anyone 's enthusiasm for economic brinkmanship with the Soviet Union : |
| 16 | Although it is doubtless significant that the two texts on the Soviet Union written by Nizan , " Le Tombeau de Timour " and " Sindobod Tocikiston " , are centred on man 's struggle for socialist construction against the forces of nature in Central Asia , far removed from the political intrigue of Moscow , their significance is to be located in a heightened awareness of metaphysical despair rather than in any fundamental disenchantment with the social and political advances of the Soviet experiment itself . |
| 17 | Equally important , however , are Nicaragua 's historical tradition of political violence and , above all , the heroic image of General Sandino 's struggle against imperialist occupation of his country ( Nolan : 1984 , p. 13 passim ) . |
| 18 | The suite features a substantial Pavarotti-sized shower where the Yeltsins can prepare for their visit to the Stock Exchange , laying a wreath at Westminster Abbey , and that night 's banquet with Prime Minister at the Royal Naval College , Greenwich . |
| 19 | Following Mr Singh 's purchase of neighbouring land for a supermarket , it has come to my knowledge that , reluctantly , customer car parking facilities demand that he also purchase ‘ The Tip ’ for a car park . |
| 20 | The workshop was convened by Graeme Pearman , an atmospheric chemist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 's Division of Atmospheric Research at Mordialloc , in Victoria , who summed up the issues . |
| 21 | China seriously escalated the dispute on Nov. 30 when it threatened to cancel , on Hong Kong 's reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 , all commercial contracts , leases and agreements between the Hong Kong government and the private sector signed without full Chinese approval . |
| 22 | Her oratory and organizational skills played an important role in her husband 's election as Labour MP for West Leicestershire in 1923 . |
| 23 | He went on to justify the ANC 's resort to armed struggle in 1960 , describing it as " a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid " , and declared : " The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today . |
| 24 | We also learn from the historical evidence that gender has been an important source of variation in people 's experience of financial support within families . |
| 25 | She hopes to put this year 's experience to good use by eventually becoming a primary school teacher . |
| 26 | In the light of revisionist work it is difficult to treat Nicholas 's resistance to liberal reform as a matter of chance or historical accident . |
| 27 | Collision Damage Waiver which covers the renter 's responsibility for accidental damage to the vehicle . |
| 28 | Britten 's first librettist was W. H. Auden , later to become Hofmannsthal 's successor as prime librettist of the age , with operatic books written , in collaboration with Chester Kallman , for Stravinsky ( The Rake 's Progress ) and Hans Werner Henze ( Elegy for Young lovers , the Bassarids ) . |
| 29 | Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi and Air Chief Marshal Anan Kalintha ( Issarapong 's successor as Interior Minister in the caretaker government appointed on May 24 ) on June 16 refused to testify before a House of Representatives committee inquiring into the deaths resulting from the May military crackdown . |
| 30 | Pankin 's successor as Soviet ambassador to Czechoslovakia , Aleksandr Lebedev , presented his credentials on Sept. 30 . |