Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophia 's decision to pay for a private nurse was a super gesture . |
| 2 | In the meantime I have returned the draft Contract approved to the vendor 's solicitors providing for a reduced deposit of £2,600 instead of the full 10% deposit of £5,200 and I enclose one part of the Contract for signature by you both where indicated in pencil . |
| 3 | Japan 's chip-makers head for the good life |
| 4 | Man 's mind yearns for a rural existence — where 99.999% of his evolution occurred — but for many of us , mind and body have to take the daily buffets of urban , industrial civilization . |
| 5 | Isabel 's eyes closed for a despairing second . |
| 6 | A speechwriter 's attempt to compensate for the public relations lapse in not going to the Berlin Wall , Mr Bush 's prime time statement went out on all television channels on Thanksgiving Eve . |
| 7 | Balcon 's strengthened determination to impose his own world-view on the studio 's pictures accounts for the declining ambition of Ealing 's production at this time . |
| 8 | COLM MURPHY looks back to the future as Clandeboye 's golfers prepare for an All-Ireland double assault in the national Cup and Shield finals at Woodbrook next weekend . |
| 9 | The UK government has since tried to use Acheson 's opinion to argue for an upwards revision of the 50 mg/litre limit . |
| 10 | It 's a carpenter 's tool tuned for the top notes . |
| 11 | The IMF announced on May 21 that it had agreed to the government 's request to extend for an additional year its current three-year extended arrangement granted in 1989 . |
| 12 | WHAT WILDER 's Boulevard did for the fading grandeur of old Hollywood , Mackendrick did for the furious pulsating rhythms of New York 's sleazy showbiz scene . |
| 13 | This is just what Rosen and Burgess 's figures show for the Jamaican pupils they studied . |
| 14 | Flaubert 's niece asked for the traditional cast of the writer 's hand to be taken . |
| 15 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 16 | The sonnets may announce a compatibility between poetic convention and authentic expression ; or the sonnets may be the result of Astrophil staying within the muse 's domain , writing in imitation of familiar poetic norms and abandoning the muse 's advice to look for an authentic writing from the heart . |
| 17 | Conversely , a man 's wish to care for an elderly relative might conflict with the expectation that he should go out to work . |
| 18 | No one , he thinks , who is unfamiliar with ‘ Pound 's P.T. Barnumising for the visual arts ’ will know what to make of it . |
| 19 | in a recent sale Rod Stewart 's Lamborghini went for a mere sixty one thousand pounds , less than half what he paid for it . |
| 20 | Jack and Miguel got their pars and it was Harley 's turn to go for a closing birdie to put him well up the leader board . |
| 21 | But the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority has introduced a private member 's bill asking for a ten-year extension of its powers to reclaim Seal Sands . |
| 22 | Padding behind them were the demolition squads , Corran Purdon 's men held for a tense few moments in the open when every second might draw more fire as they smashed the northern winding-hut door ( 'A' ) . |
| 23 | Seventeen years later the Congregational Union 's Executive called for a Nonconformist equivalent but nothing came of it . |
| 24 | Much of the population of the village crowded into PC Hewett 's police house for the official inquest . |
| 25 | Hampshire County Council are asking EHDC to drop their community complex plans for part of the Liss junior school site as they want to maximise income from the school 's sale to pay for the new school . |
| 26 | The Plymouth yard 's company accounts for the financial year 1989/90 reveal the talks began after its managers anticipated a substantial cut in their future workload months before the Government announced the size of the Options for Change defence cuts . |
| 27 | I picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals hoping for a quiet hour or two by the river while they were manoeuvring . |
| 28 | It enhances a pub 's ability to cater for the different and sometimes conflicting activities and tastes of different customers under the same roof , and in so doing it keeps alive the healthy social and age mix that is a traditional hallmark of the true pub . |
| 29 | Afterwards Sharon 's stepfather appealed for a concerted campaign to end the spate of car thefts that so often ended in tragedy … |
| 30 | The government also interfered more sharply with individual freedom that ever before : men were drafted into the Army to man General Pershing 's expedition destined for the Western Front in France ; several laws were passed against spying ; a form of censorship was imposed on the foreign language press in the USA ; pacifists were harshly dealt with . |