Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Below : A late evening view taken as Oak 's engine runs for the first time since restoration . |
| 3 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 4 | It 's a carpenter 's tool tuned for the top notes . |
| 5 | England 's failure to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals saw Moore 's departure from the national scene . |
| 6 | Coach quits AMERICAN Kevin Cadle has resigned as England men 's basketball coach following the team 's failure to qualify for the 1993 European Championship finals . |
| 7 | Flaubert 's niece asked for the traditional cast of the writer 's hand to be taken . |
| 8 | No one , he thinks , who is unfamiliar with ‘ Pound 's P.T. Barnumising for the visual arts ’ will know what to make of it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , there is also evidence the emergence of serious skill shortages in some occupations which may prejudice the county 's ability to prepare for the longer term challenges of the Tunnel and the Single European Market . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Motorola Inc 's design wins for the 88000 are beginning to melt away . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He watched the vicar 's face waiting for the thunderous ‘ thou shalt be cast into the eternal fires ’ glare but he only smiled and shook her hand . |
| 16 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 17 | Last night , members of Pringle 's family spoke for the first time about police handling of the siege . |