Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pa 's response comes in the flat voice I know , and fear , ‘ Talk properly , James . |
| 2 | Suppose the firm 's income consists of a 50 per cent chance of £2000 and a 50 per cent chance of nothing . |
| 3 | Moscovici 's defence refers to the destructive power of operational definitions to restrict intellectual advance . |
| 4 | Nead 's text takes in the conventional notions of feminine beauty , pornography and the tabloid press , the fine line between sexuality and the obscene and the recent reclamation of the nude by female artists . |
| 5 | But the whole point of the question is whether Grant 's case applies to a misdirected letter of acceptance . |
| 6 | Is it really any more rational to deny rather than affirm — am I , for example , sure that I mean by God what a religious person does , because if I do not then my dismissal of God 's existence rests on a logical non sequitur . |
| 7 | Perhaps surprisingly for a conductor who is also a singer , Jacob 's direction tends towards the fast and furious style of Handel interpretation , with dramatically accentuated rhythms and strongly articulated bass lines . |
| 8 | The case of City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1992 ] 2 EG 172 came to the surprising conclusion that unless the lease provides otherwise ( eg by providing that the original tenant 's obligations will remain in place during a statutory tenancy ) , where the lease has been assigned and the present tenant is holding over , the original tenant 's liability ends on the contractual term date . |
| 9 | Children 's talk indicates to the gifted teacher the intellectual and perceptual level which each child has reached . |
| 10 | Linfield 's search extends throughout the British Isles and the League of Ireland but until the championship is completed it will be impossible for them to open negotiations with certain players . |
| 11 | The Halifax 's surge contrasts with the 9 per cent profits setback to £564 million at its rival , Abbey National . |
| 12 | Man 's mind yearns for a rural existence — where 99.999% of his evolution occurred — but for many of us , mind and body have to take the daily buffets of urban , industrial civilization . |
| 13 | Cureton 's entry opens with a detailed and well-referenced history of stylistics , but suggests that it may have been suffering from a loss of confidence in the recent past . |
| 14 | Now half the income of the city 's administration comes from the federal government . |
| 15 | That is just one reason why TODAY will not weep if tonight 's vote goes against the Prime Minister . |
| 16 | All the more remarkable , then , that Honda should this year have upstaged its European class competitors by introducing standard-fit driver 's side airbags to no fewer than 13 models of its range , beginning with the £11,750 Civic VEi . |
| 17 | ‘ As William Waldegrave 's recent White Paper highlighted , the country 's future depends on the effective exploitation of science and technology . |
| 18 | Neil Kinnock has again declined an invitation to brief the media 's industry hacks at the Labour party conference . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This month 's gallery concentrates on the varied forms of Loricarid catfish . |
| 21 | Helen 's , Helen 's girl goes to the big school next year . |
| 22 | A perfectly elastic material obeying Hooke 's law behaves like a perfect spring . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A tenant in common or joint tenant of land can not sue his co-tenant in trespass , unless the defendant 's act amounts to the total exclusion or ouster of the plaintiff or destructive waste of the common property . |
| 25 | Below : A late evening view taken as Oak 's engine runs for the first time since restoration . |
| 26 | The answer to my hon. Friend 's question rests with the new research and development directorate of the NHS management executive . |
| 27 | DUNDEE 's player-manager , Simon Stainrod , may have to reconsider his on-field role after yet another ‘ talisman ’ contribution towards Dundee 's consolidation hopes in the Premier Division . |
| 28 | A 60-member President 's Council acts as an advisory body , to which are referred , among other things , disagreements on general affairs among the three chambers of Parliament . |
| 29 | A 60-member President 's Council acts as an advisory body , to which are referred , among other things , disagreements on general affairs among the three chambers of Parliament . |
| 30 | Restio 's father 's portrait belongs to a different tradition from that in vogue in the Hellenistic world ( contrast fig. 14 ; compare fig. 16 ) . |