Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whether the prosecution can prove attempted rape rather than the lesser offence of indecent assault will often depend on proof of the defendant 's intention to go beyond the indecent acts already committed . |
| 32 | The room started to fade , as Grant 's mind succumbed to the strong sedative the doctor had administered to him . |
| 33 | These rather artificial bridges from one group of questions to another are useful for keeping the candidate 's mind focused on the right area of response and for helping the interviewer see his/her way through the prearranged structure of the interview . |
| 34 | The killing in Hrothgar 's meadhall described in the ensuing passage was clearly the origin of the many Country House murders which were to feature in Hercule Poirot 's investigations . |
| 35 | Now half the income of the city 's administration comes from the federal government . |
| 36 | As former champions , Queen 's Club rested in the fourth round — head and shoulders above the Area 5 pack . |
| 37 | That is just one reason why TODAY will not weep if tonight 's vote goes against the Prime Minister . |
| 38 | Jack 's glance fell on the tiny computer screen , which seemed to be going crazy — flashing up numbers , graphics and a kind of blue fuzz , each image speeding into the next . |
| 39 | Preston 's glance took in the broad shoulders , a black beard , a lean , dark face and a big nose . |
| 40 | It is one of the several enzymes involved in the central process of a cell 's metabolism known as the citric acid or Krebs cycle . |
| 41 | However , as has already been pointed out , Thorndyke 's study differed from the two earlier ones in that he used passages which maintained clear temporal sequencing , and clear clausal connections in both narrative conditions . |
| 42 | The year 's programme began with the National Monuments Record of Scotland Jubilee Exhibition and continued with ‘ The Architect and the Carpenter ’ . |
| 43 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Laura 's mouth parted beneath the soft pressure of his tongue as he groaned against her lips . |
| 46 | The strategies of splitting are essential for the infant 's attempt to deal with the genuine contradictions it encounters in struggling to form some image of itself and the part-objects it confronts . |
| 47 | However , its broader significance was in marking a major step in Jordan 's attempt to return to the Arab mainstream in the aftermath of the Gulf war . |
| 48 | HP figures it has done the same against Sun Microsystems Inc at the low end , claiming Sun 's attempt to break into the commercial market is based only on price . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 51 | ‘ As William Waldegrave 's recent White Paper highlighted , the country 's future depends on the effective exploitation of science and technology . |
| 52 | John Prescott , the shadow transport secretary , said the announcement confirmed ‘ further delay , uncertainty and planning blight with the line 's completion pushed into the next century , not the end of the decade ’ . |
| 53 | Neil Kinnock has again declined an invitation to brief the media 's industry hacks at the Labour party conference . |
| 54 | De Gaulle 's plan touched off the first major political storm of the postwar era , which rumbled on throughout the rest of the summer . |
| 55 | Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth . |
| 56 | This month 's gallery concentrates on the varied forms of Loricarid catfish . |
| 57 | Helen 's , Helen 's girl goes to the big school next year . |
| 58 | Tom Bull-Dwyer , his unhappy skipper and six-beige faced middle managers watched as Vita 's Girl ploughed into the three other boats . |
| 59 | His conclusion was that the field increased with depth and was related to the Earth 's core according to the inverse cube law . |
| 60 | These are clearly more formal models than those which the modern letter-writer is used to , yet Shakespeare 's range stretches from the intimate and occasional to just such formal rhetorical structures as Day 's category of the ‘ Epistle Deliberative ’ , which uses a mixture of praise and criticism in its ‘ Hortatory ’ or ‘ Dehortatory ’ intent , and may legitimately subject the recipient to moral pressure : Yet , while acknowledging the relevance of Day 's treatise on letter-writing and its tactics of persuasion , we may note that in Shakespeare one of Day 's categories is absent , namely the ‘ Responsory Epistle ’ , which ‘ dependeth of the partes of a former letter ’ and must refer back to it . |