Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1889 the new Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway took over the lines and Melton was further developed as the new Committee 's locomotive building and repair centre . |
| 2 | In the same sale the top price of £11,700 was given for a twelve-piece Ring 's Pattern set of table cutlery in an oak canteen which was made in Sheffield in 1931 and £950 for a George IV coffee pot of panelled baluster form decorated with acanthus leaf motifs made in London in 1825 , probably by Joseph Angell . |
| 3 | Marietta of Patras was a woman of birth , honoured as a dead monarch 's permanent mistress . |
| 4 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 5 | I 've just sent a cable to the club : list of delegates expected for the next week 's visit — does that sound okay ? |
| 6 | The restaurant was subdued as the Conservative Party 's young ‘ spin doctors ’ settled in for a brisk dinner . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Birmingham City player-coach Ian Atkins will today be interviewed for the vacant manager 's job at Cambridge United . |
| 8 | KEVIN RATCLIFFE is to be interviewed for the vacant manager 's job at Cambridge United . |
| 9 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 10 | It is indeed remarkable — and perhaps a comment on the tunnel vision of many in academic life — that no previous scholars have looked for the Belgian detective 's literary antecedents in the most obvious of sources , the Medieval Mystery Play . |
| 11 | In consequence , therefore , any one of these three procedures will be considered as a normal evening 's work . |
| 12 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 13 | They are surrounded by " ifs " and " buts " — and they will be so surrounded in the social worker 's experience of them . |
| 14 | Sometimes he felt like a middle-aged man trapped inside a young man 's body . |
| 15 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 16 | The intensity deepened in the old woman 's voice . |
| 17 | Some deputies proposed that footage of the exchanges concerning the ANT affair should be omitted from the coming evening 's edited television broadcast of Congress proceedings , but this was defeated in a vote by 1,250 to 637 . |
| 18 | On other issues , crucial victories have been won before the Labour Party 's annual conference opens . |
| 19 | Congratulations are offered by members to the following whose names are included in the New Year 's Honours List : . |
| 20 | And I am almost certain that each one was included in the following year 's NIBA team . |
| 21 | Information about materials and techniques of manufacture , geography of find-spot and manufacture , and a short free-text description of the object are examples of the information categories currently included in the British Museum 's inventory . |
| 22 | In terms of policy , Heads of Departments have been instructed to produce detailed guidance based on the principles contained in the Regional Council 's policy document to be issued to all groups of employees within the Department concerned . |
| 23 | A similar paragraph was contained in the subsequent year 's report , but otherwise no information was given to council members about the deals . |
| 24 | The University of British Columbia is committed to the Federal Government 's employment equality program and encourages applications from all qualified individuals . |
| 25 | It may be that some wavering ex-Tory voters , worried by the imminent prospect of a Labour government , have responded to the Tory Party 's warnings that a vote for Paddy Ashdown would be ‘ a vote to let Labour in ’ . |
| 26 | In at least two areas of the city , voters were misdirected by official polling cards to the wrong polling stations — a clever way of discouraging them from voting without actually disenfranchising them — and when the final count was made , 1,000 votes were added to the Tory candidate 's total . |
| 27 | The findings and proposals will be reported to the Chief Executive 's Management Group . |
| 28 | More immediately , while realism dictated that Mary would go to England when she married , Henry was told very bluntly that she must not go sooner : such a demand would be ‘ a right high and right great inconvenience to the realm of Scotland ’ , and parliament trusted to the English king 's ‘ high wisdom ’ , and assumed that he would not insist . |
| 29 | While GRIST courses can help to raise awareness of particular issues , the benefits of providing a programme of in-house courses addressed to a particular school 's needs may have much more relevance for the staff . |
| 30 | He was encouraged to assume this double burden by Arthur Ponsonby , the younger brother of Fritz , who after nine years in the Diplomatic Service had resigned to sit in the Commons as a Liberal ; finding his colleagues inadequately radical , Ponsonby had then joined the Labour Party and in January 1924 was installed at the Prime Minister 's elbow as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs . |