Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Aboyeur 's blinkered head showed in front soon after the start as he took the field along from Craganour and Aldegond , with Shogun , Nimbus and Louvois all handy . |
| 2 | ‘ So why is n't Berowne 's right shirt-sleeve soaked with blood ? |
| 3 | Zurich : Uncertainty over the market 's short-term trend combined with interest rate fears to push the all-share index down 15.5 points to 1,161.2 . |
| 4 | The recommendations had been set out in the Commission 's interim report published in May . |
| 5 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 6 | Martin 's greatest achievement came in West Indies ' second innings . |
| 7 | In 1843 Smith 's elder brother died of consumption , a disease that had already carried off a sister some years earlier . |
| 8 | BORO manager Lennie Lawrence won a tactical battle to prevent a repeat of Pompey 's 4–0 League win at Fratton Park . |
| 9 | Eastern Bengal 's broad engine works at Saidpur feature two superb examples of inter-war Stephenson 0–6–0 tender heavy goods locos , slightly modified in West Bengal in 1936 I was reliably assured by the works ' superintendent that both of the black-painted engines were recently in steam . |
| 10 | Then , almost assuming his mother 's shape , he observed that Tommaso 's broad back shifted in rhythm to Caterina 's movements , that he swivelled on his angled chair , sometimes on one leg , sometimes on two , to keep her not in his sights but outside them . |
| 11 | That was six days before Black Wednesday , when the Government 's economic policy collapsed in shambles and Britain quit the ERM . |
| 12 | President Clinton 's economic package proposed to Congress on 17 February calls for restoration of the pre-1986 tax benefits for gifts to non-profit institutions . |
| 13 | That was a cutting reference to Lewis 's triple title flattening of Londoner Derek Williams , when before the third round knockout punters were growing tired of Lennox 's labours and chanted ‘ Bruno , Bruno . ’ |
| 14 | Thus Houston attempts to think through the difference which television 's textual specificity presents to theories of the psychoanalytic and semiotic subject , while recognizing at the same time the interrelationship between that specificity and the specificities of institution and viewing . |
| 15 | That is a perverse reversal of Japan 's controversial government backing for export drives in other industries . |
| 16 | Then , thanks to Labour 's controversial election broadcast on health , that issue , too , was effectively neutralised . |
| 17 | A Decca coupling of Mozart 's Prague Symphony and Schubert 's Unfinished Symphony came from Benjamin Britten and the English Chamber Orchestra ; Aaron Copland conducted the LSO in his Appalachian Spring , A Lincoln Portrait ( with Henry Fonda as speaker ) , and Fanfare for the Common Man . |
| 18 | In particular Donal Lunny 's assured production allows for moments of rain-washed clarity in what could 've been a groggy hotchpotch . |
| 19 | As he listened with mounting alarm he began to realise that the flames would almost certainly have reduced some of the world 's finest baroque woodcarving to lumps of featureless charcoal . |
| 20 | Books : Marital discord , family confabs Lucasta Miller enjoys Shelley Weiner 's subtle satire set in Golders Green |
| 21 | And if it is part of the head 's job to assist in that process , it should be part of the teacher 's professional equipment to respond to stimuli and opportunities to do more ( J. M. Worrall , conversation , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | Well connected in the city and an enthusiastic supporter of the Conservative party — he is the Librarian at the Carlton Club — Silverman 's professional career began with Procter & Gamble . |
| 23 | Prime Minister Oscar de la Puente Raygada of the " national and emergency " government , installed following the presidential coup of April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] , confirmed on June 27 that opposition parties had been invited " separately " , and not as a bloc , to participate in a dialogue on the country 's political future starting on June 30 . |
| 24 | The party 's political bureau voted on July 12 in favour of Rabin 's proposal to hold a leadership contest before the end of the month , but on July 22 the party 's central committee voted by 54 per cent to 46 per cent against this attempt to force a contest . |
| 25 | ‘ If information on a person 's political allegiance gained from ballot papers fell into the hands of unscrupulous individuals such as paramilitaries , then that person 's life could be at risk . ’ |
| 26 | DAVID MELLOR 'S political career ended on Monday September 14 in tiny Court 11 in the High Court . |
| 27 | A manager 's persistent failure to pay over money to the artist would constitute such a breach , as would constant failure to make him or herself available to the artist , or the wilful neglect of the artist 's career . |
| 28 | Why could n't he have a Ford ? ) was outside No. 16 and there was a builder 's flat-backed truck parked in front of it . |
| 29 | If at any time the whereabouts of a child on the register are not known , it is the custodian 's specific responsibility to set in hand immediate action to try to trace the child . |
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