Example sentences of "'s [noun] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 England 's bowling simply presented little threat .
2 LEADING Liberal-Democrat MP David Alton will quit at the next election in protest at the party 's decision yesterday to back pro-abortion policies .
3 One of the many major problems for this idea is that Broca 's aphasics usually show better performance with content than with function words even when the task is reading aloud single words : the patient given tie , and , the and ant to read aloud might well succeed with tie and ant but not with and or the .
4 Wordsworth 's accent frequently struck Southern ears as harsh : even though suburban gentility had not yet forced all regional speakers to conform to the colourless vowel-sounds of the Home Counties if they wished to be socially acceptable , and even though Coleridge , like Sir Walter Raleigh before him , spoke broad Devon all his life without being taken for a peasant , it is clear that Wordsworth 's accent did contribute to a general impression of roughness .
5 Social policy in Mussolini 's Italy and Hitler 's Germany also had broader aspects .
6 The Teacher 's Books also contain useful texts .
7 However , Mr Hurd 's pronouncement yesterday removes that incentive , leaving the Labour move almost certain to fail .
8 Moziruddin 's clients also include Labour frontbencher Michael Meacher and Party colleague Peter Hain .
9 ‘ B'nai B'rith International 's decision-makers now seek total control over their empire .
10 ‘ B'nai B'rith International 's decision-makers now seek total control over their empire .
11 Feminist psychology 's methods often echo traditional psychology 's broader male-oriented methodological principles .
12 In some other countries , however , McDonald 's can probably achieve higher margins given its ‘ status ’ symbol or its near monopoly .
13 Historically- and politically-oriented approaches to black women 's experiences occasionally reach feminist psychology 's notice , but they have not yet changed its psychologizing approach to black subjects .
14 Hunter 's committee clearly thought that Vial on his own could not conduct the course , while Morton 's committee appear to have accepted Vial 's claims regarding appointments which apparently he had never held .
15 According to the Washington Post , more than a third of America 's companies now have some kind of drug-testing programme .
16 The clock 's chime also stirs other things into action , as explained below .
17 Cayley 's work soon encouraged many mathematicians to invariant theory , described by Sylvester as " the essence of modern algebra " , and so many invariants were found that , to bring some order to the subject , minimal systems of invariants were sought in terms of which all others could be expressed .
18 But Emil Nolde 's work also registered several failures : the girl 's head in oils on the title page of the catalogue , for example , and several over-valued flower watercolours .
19 Ullman 's work also casts some light on our kingfisher cartoon .
20 Well I think it 's it 's a hiccup , nothing more , but I think the trend is clearly established , and it 's very much agreed , it 's recognized in the Labour Party , that the world outside has changed , women are now half the workforce , women are now half the college and university graduates , women 's work now represents forty percent of our G D P , so we have to increase women 's representation to recognize the world has changed .
21 Adding ICL 's business immediately swells annual turnover to somewhere around £250m , putting the company into the number one spot in the UK , ahead of P&P Plc .
22 Not much change there , though England 's cricketers actually won both Tests in South Africa .
23 For example , although MFI 's flotation undoubtedly represents robust management performance , two refinancings were necessary ; so will the original investors make much of a return ?
24 The huge opencast Dixon 's site currently occupies this area .
25 In the post-war period , both Weber and Schumpeter 's ideas considerably influenced pluralist theory , as we noted above ( pp. 51 — 3 ) , so much so that their fundamental acceptance of elite theory patterns of argument was often ignored or lost sight of .
26 We acknowledge that individuals drawn to WFS 's conference possibly had genuine intentions , but we have no confidence that the aims , objectives , and structure will set the path for building a women 's movement .
27 And still , where Fergie 's behaviour merely offered dire warnings — Never misbehave ; Never give in to self-indulgence ; Never , ever , buy bikini bottoms two sizes too small — Diana provided hope .
28 Mr Afo 's organisation also demands that Congress grant blacks the five southern states of Georgia , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and South Carolina to be established as a separate nation .
29 Which MP 's friend simply loved Minced Morsels ?
30 In an untypical display of linguistic diarrhoea , Mr Head 's character finally managed several sentences all in one go this week .
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