Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are the customary chases and close-shaves , the best of which has Ford and Connery 's car pursued by the flaming fuselage of a German plane . |
| 2 | Two of the government 's most important objectives are to reduce the proportion of the nation 's wealth consumed by the public sector and to reduce the extent to which individuals are held back by the public sector … |
| 3 | Three problems , in particular , confront us , the extent of the fall in England 's population caused by the Black Death and by subsequent epidemics , the chronology of decline and recovery , and the possible redistribution of population throughout the country . |
| 4 | Indeed , according to Hamnett and Williams ( 1980 ) , gentrification or ‘ Chelseafication ’ was already proceeding rapidly in London during the 1970s — to the extent that the proportion of professional , managerial and intermediate non-manual workers in Inner London 's population increased by the same amount as for Greater London as a whole ( Hamnett , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | David Cornish , a ship 's stoker , was among the members of his ship 's crew captured by the German raider Manyo Maru and was kept in the raider 's hold for five weeks on black bread , ersatz coffee , fat , margarine and jam while the raider roamed the seas attacking fresh victims in the Indian Ocean . |
| 6 | The description of Tristan 's education given by the great medieval German poet Gottfried of Strasbourg bears witness to the fact that this change in the pattern of a child 's life could be intensely felt and vividly remembered . |
| 7 | Venetiaan , a former Education Minister , received 645 votes from the 817-member United People 's Assembly summoned by the National Assembly , which in two ballots had been unable to decide on a president . |
| 8 | Amendments to Slovenia 's constitution adopted by the republican Assembly on Sept. 28 , which asserted the Assembly 's jurisdiction over the Slovene territorial defence force ( civilian units akin to a National Guard in the USA ) , brought Slovenia into conflict at the beginning of October with the federal Presidency , the federal Secretariat for National Defence , and the Serb-dominated JNA high command . |
| 9 | A recently released consultant 's report commissioned by the local authorities declared that the arrival of the Llangollen Railway in Corwen would be the single most important factor in the economic regeneration of the town which has for so long lived in the shadow of Llangollen , ten miles to the east . |
| 10 | The all-women crew on the British 58-footer , Maiden , skippered by Tracy Edwards , has now slipped to 70 miles behind Rucanor , but is expected to lead in Friday 's trio followed by the second cruiser , With Integrity , the old GBII , and the West German yacht , Schlussel von Bremen . |
| 11 | Britain 's standard recommended by the National Radiological Protection Board were many times lower than some other European countries . |
| 12 | The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 13 | In 1977 , for example , the TUC told the Windscale Inquiry that ‘ the nuclear industry will need to be able to make a sizeable contribution to Britain 's energy supplies by the late 1990s ’ . |