Example sentences of "[noun sg] ['s] [noun] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his four years in office the Association 'S branches numbered more than one hundred for the first time , and he was constantly visiting them and planning new ones . |
| 2 | In Box v. Jubb the defendant 's reservoir overflowed partly because of the acts of a neighbouring reservoir-owner and the defendant escaped liability . |
| 3 | Vice-President Salvador Laurel , speaking on Dec. 4 during a visit to Hong Kong , went so far as to cast doubts on the President 's ability to continue even if the coup was put down : " If Aquino insists on staying in power I do n't think that would assist in solving the problem . |
| 4 | So that means it is the turn of the guard 's watch to go faster than the driver 's . |
| 5 | The council hopes Lydiard will stage the festival for at least 5 years , but Rod Gunner 's ambitions go further than that . |
| 6 | The 30-minute score for orchestra and boy 's choir completes more than one personal circle . |
| 7 | An executive , , was engaged on a short term contract to help get the committee established and to assist in the coordination of a survey jointly commissioned by the Bar Council and the Lord Chancellor 's Department to determine objectively whether discrimination exists against women at the Bar and , if so , the extent of such discrimination . |
| 8 | But if , as seems likely , the Chancellor 's commitment to take more than £6 billion out of the economy in 1994-5 and £10 billion in 1995-6 has done enough to reassure the foreign-exchange markets , the risk of a big misjudgment of market sentiment will diminish over the next few days . |
| 9 | The girl 's face darkened slightly when the woman stepped into view . |
| 10 | Accordingly , where the broker is a member and is required by the exchange 's rules to deal only as principal ( as on LIFFE ) , the contract for the client is in effect split in two : one contract is between the broker and the market ( another member ) , and the other — a matching contract — between the broker and the client . |
| 11 | ( b ) Transfer to the county court A magistrates ' court may transfer any public law case ( other than proceedings relating to emergency protection orders , contribution orders ( see Chapter 16 , 5 ) and certain appeals relating to privately fostered children ( see Chapter 18 , 6 ) , child minders and day care facilities ( see Chapter 19 ) ) to a county court care centre where it is in the child 's interests to do so because : ( i ) the case is exceptionally grave , important or complex ; ( ii ) it is appropriate for the case to be heard with other family proceedings pending in the county court ; or ( iii ) transfer is likely significantly to accelerate the determination of the proceedings ( APO , art 7 ) . |
| 12 | Also from Booth 's conversation with Dicke it can be concluded that Dicke knew long before World War II that wheat products contained the offending agent ; ‘ It was a young mother 's statement of her coeliac child 's rash improving rapidly if she removed bread from the diet , that alerted his interest , when he was a paediatrician in The Hague in 1936 . ’ |
| 13 | The Leeds striker 's world fell apart when a hamstring injury cost him his first-ever place in a senior England squad in Spain tomorrow . |
| 14 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |
| 15 | These Teacher 's Extras contain more than four hundred ideas for communicative activities . |
| 16 | The Collector 's mind wandered again as he thought of the baptism of his own children how long ago it now seemed that the eldest had been baptized ! |
| 17 | In the next example the character 's thought spans more than one sentence . |
| 18 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 19 | But this week 's guerrillas numbered more than 1,000 , some of them with heavy weapons . |
| 20 | The dog 's eyes glittered unnaturally because they were made of pieces of coloured glass stuck onto the canvas . |
| 21 | Despite that , Dane 's eyes glinted appreciatively when she joined him in the hotel foyer , and to her annoyance she felt a pleasant little warm glow deep inside . |
| 22 | Few things earned more pleasant congratulation than abstinence : " No thank you , " to a second chocolate , and Maman 's face lighted gently as she snapped the lid back on the choc box before Nicandra could change her mind . |
| 23 | If the foliage was closely arranged around the figure this would allow for the cutter 's inability to carve deeper than the distance between its projecting edge and the body of the angle grinder that powers it . |
| 24 | My companion 's eyes glittered impishly as he said we would be combining The Five Sisters with The Saddle and Sgurr na Sgine , hoping to be finished by 5 p.m . |
| 25 | And the prospect of the world 's leaders prattling away while the Earth burns around them is a pretty gloomy one . |
| 26 | The furore has hit Hamilton Oil 's £2bn plans hardest because it has come while they are locked on hold by a full-scale public inquiry , a report by brokers County Nat West claimed . |
| 27 | The furore has hit Hamilton Oil 's £2bn plans hardest because it has come while they are locked on hold by a full-scale public inquiry , says a report by broker County Nat West . |
| 28 | THE City 's mood improved yesterday after a big buying order for sterling gave the currency an early boost . |
| 29 | Reports claimed that the elfin figured star 's weight plunged terrifyingly until she tipped the scales at a mere five stones . |
| 30 | Last year 's run raised more than £20,000 in sponsorship for the relief and rehabilitation of famine victims in Africa . |