Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader 's relationship to Proust 's text switches from the closeness , produced by paraphrase and quotation , of listening to the text speaking for itself , to a more removed perspective from which de Man and his reader stand back from that text and speculate on a general rule about language . |
| 2 | As the attacker 's foot lifts from the ground , the defender is immediately warned that a kick is coming . |
| 3 | The applicant 's case depends on the evidence and opinions of Miss Massiter … |
| 4 | FoE 's case rests on the fact that levels are above the standards laid down by the European Commission . |
| 5 | Nozick 's case rests on the view that so long as one is not acting for the reason that one 's action will favour one of the parties or hinder the other , but for a valid independent reason , then one 's neutrality is intact . |
| 6 | There is no question that Leapor 's play concludes with a reaffirmation of patriarchal values . |
| 7 | Claude Simon 's fiction provides for the possibility of retrieval , if we accept the mimetic claim that the form of the novel must be dictated by the incoherence and instability of memory and perception : in Le Vent ( 1957 ) , L'Herbe ( 1958 ) , La Route des Flandres ( 1960 ) , Le Palace ( 1962 ) and Histoire ( 1967 ) , the fragmentation and discontinuity of reality is conveyed in the narrative syntax itself . |
| 8 | The first thing someone familiar with Christine Brooke-Rose 's fiction notices about the novel is that it reads almost like conventional science fiction . |
| 9 | The muted colours of Pavlos 's objects derives from the relation of the many cut edges to the printed colours of the paper , which are only visible where it has been spread open . |
| 10 | The Transport and General Workers Union 's decision comes amid a row with Labour leader John Smith over plans to limit union votes on party matters . |
| 11 | Blyth 's decision comes as a surprise because of their opposition to the pyramid during the Eighties , while Northallerton 's letter is indicative of their ambition to progress beyond the Northern League . |
| 12 | Olivetti 's decision comes despite the fact that it is the controlling shareholder in Acorn Computer Group Plc , originator of the ARM RISC now owned by its Advanced RISC Machines affiliate . |
| 13 | To all Americans , the fear of facing illness and expensive hospital bills is a constant nightmare ; in these tightly-knit mining communities , Pittston 's decision reaches into every family . |
| 14 | Moon 's orbit moves toward the quadrature . |
| 15 | Mr Mathew 's story begins with a death , that of his elder brother , Theobald , in July 1983 , who left a will stating that his £1 million estate should be split among his four younger brothers . |
| 16 | Luke 's story closes with the centurion pronouncing the innocence of Jesus : |
| 17 | The general 's cuirass appears as a support beside his left leg . |
| 18 | The fourth of Ashby 's proposals consists of the introduction of special incentives to employers , both in the private and public sector , to take on to their payrolls those who have failed to find work , even though they have done everything asked of them — are actively seeking work , registered for a job , been a member of a Job Club and been on an ET course . |
| 19 | Celtic 's patience hangs by a thread |
| 20 | Floyd 's Algorithm works with the adjacency matrix representation of G. For convenience , let us assume that the vertex set of G is so that G is represented by a variable A of type |
| 21 | " The white tiger and the blue dragon , which are often in conflict , rest peacefully with one another on the precise spot where the emperor 's throne stands inside the palace . " |
| 22 | the lessons the RIC 's experience offers in the context of current policing problems in Ireland . |
| 23 | Instead , the quality of a Christian 's experience depends on the quality of his faith , just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God 's truth . |
| 24 | Some of it belongs to the years directly after 591 , when Gregory 's narrative comes to an end , and has the additional significance of casting some light on the later years of the reign of Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) , which are otherwise poorly represented in the sources . |
| 25 | Sister Martha 's hair shows under the drift of her veil , it 's a dark cloud of seaweed around her pale and drowning face . |
| 26 | Tod 's heart cowers like an oyster at any quick movement from the other bodies in our car . |
| 27 | In addition , a number of local factors can be responsible for sea level change ( Goudie , 1983 ) and these include glacioisostasy whereby the earth 's crust responds to the development or removal of large ice sheets , and hydroisostasy when a similar response occurs as a result of large bodies of sea water or lake water from continental shelves and lake basins ; orogenic and epeirogenic activity ; compaction of sediments ; and the increased gravitational attraction associated with large Pleistocene ice-sheets . |
| 28 | Atlanta , Georgia is to host the 1996 Olympic Games , the city 's mayor shrugs off the disappointment of the Athens contingent who were hot favourites . |
| 29 | It is one of the commonplaces of interpretation of the Nun 's Priest 's Tale that the reader/listener is spoilt for choice of morals to be drawn from the tale at the end , when the Nun 's Priest refers to the moral with a throwaway carelessness that seems to suggest the moral is so obvious that he need not state it . |
| 30 | But on the other hand , as much as Novell might be just the right tug boat to guide Unix to safe harbour , much of the industry 's optimism stems from the fact that Unix is no longer in AT&T 's hands . |