Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenerife has an excellent all year round climate , especially on its sun-drenched southern coast , where many of the island 's superb , modern resorts are situated . |
| 2 | She looked up at the ceiling , where one of the room 's many odd columns flared into the flat , thick , pale green glass . |
| 3 | Down below me the surf thrashed and thundered : the Tonga Trench , a precipitous crack in the ocean floor where two of the planet 's great tectonic plates crunched together and were folded downwards to melt again , lay a score of miles away . |
| 4 | Now most of the camp 's 700,000 yearly visitors , coming from Israel , Germany , America and elsewhere , think of the second world war as the distant past . |
| 5 | Many of these people are migrants from the lowlands , where most of the country 's agriculture is located , who have little money to invest to ensure success in the longer term and who lack security of tenure to make farming the heritage enterprise that it is in many nations . |
| 6 | The bigger population nations , where most of the world 's population live , are largely self-sufficient in telecommunications services and equipment , in the press , and in most types of radio and television programming . |
| 7 | This child had not been embalmed and his preservation was due to nothing more than the construction of the coffin , for the wood was no less thick — 1½ inches — than that of an adult 's coffin , and the lead was likewise no different in gauge . |
| 8 | By virtue of the transfer of cattle the woman 's biological offspring are ordinarily deemed to be members of the descent group of the husband rather than that of the woman 's father ; payment of the cattle makes the children legitimate ; cohabitation alone does not . |
| 9 | Worse than that from the Government 's point of view , I do not think that he will arrive in time for the general election . |
| 10 | Oceans cover more than two-thirds of the earth 's surface , and in places reach a depth of eleven kilometres . |
| 11 | To pursue that vision Mr Levin is giving up a lot : after Toshiba , ITOCHU and US West , Time Warner is left with just 63% of TWE , which produces more than two-thirds of the group 's cash flow . |
| 12 | More than half of the country 's qualified teachers have left the profession . |
| 13 | By 1966 little more than half of the country 's urban population enjoyed local air pollution control ; of almost 600 counties with a population greater than 50,000 , fewer than 90 had control programmes , and most of these programmes were far from adequate ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | Despite the PT 's successes , the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ( PMDB ) continued to control more than half of the country 's municipal governments . |
| 15 | Only 300,000 cereal farms would be too large to qualify for full compensation — but they farm no less than half of the EC 's cereals fields and produce almost two-thirds of its cereals crop . |
| 16 | Six branches , usually including South Shields , Cardiff and Barry , accounted for more than half of the union 's funds and year by year the phenomenon of the " non-paying " branch continued , nine out of thirty-two in the bad year 1906 , two out of twenty-nine in the good year 1899 . |
| 17 | In 1992 , achieved exports of £55.7m , accounting for more than half of the UK 's total malt exports . |
| 18 | More than half of the Shipman 's Tale consists of dialogue ( 237 lines out of 434 ) , a figure that increases if we count odd lines introducing a change of speaker or place in dialogue as part of the dialogue . |
| 19 | Despite a rise in Britain of 37,530 , the number of people out of work fell in more than half of the region 's local authorities . |
| 20 | Its language , after 1945 , suddenly became the lingua franca of the world — the first mankind has ever known — and more than half of the world 's mail , it is said , is now in English . |
| 21 | In each of these products , Europe accounted for more than half of the world 's output ; most of the rest came from the United States . |
| 22 | The report , the result of a three year survey and third in a series named Seabirds at Sea , found that more than half of the world 's total number of breeding pairs of Manx shearwater , puffin , gannet and black guillemot live off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea . |
| 23 | At a meeting of the Party 's Central Committee yesterday , a Politburo member , Leszek Miller , said that a nationwide plebiscite also showed that more than half of the Party 's two million members agreed that ‘ the present form of the party is outdated and can not face the new conditions ’ . |
| 24 | Beer drinkers predict more than half of the town 's 28 John Smith landlords will be out of their pubs by the end of the year . |
| 25 | Fewer than half of the district 's households that include a pensioner have a car . |
| 26 | Although some of the West 's Arab partners have hinted that they might be able to live with this and that a settlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue is no longer at the top of the Arab agenda , this is unlikely to hold true for long . |
| 27 | Respondents are less than convinced by the Government 's assertion that unemployment is not linked to a breakdown of law and order — 75 per cent disagree with the statement ‘ unemployment has nothing to do with crime ’ . |
| 28 | Bach 's ear-catching sonorities are savoured to the full , although much of the score 's inner vitality and extraordinary sense of forward momentum is sacrificed in the process . |
| 29 | The former take little account of the latter although much of the HMI 's thinking has become known over the same period i.e. the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 30 | The withdrawal of the Aga Khan means that Maktoum al Maktoum and his brothers own more than 650 of the country 's 6,500 flat horses . |