Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] have the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rural life had denied her Jane Sharpe 's fashionable pallor ; instead Lucille 's skin had the healthy bloom of country weather . |
| 2 | The girl 's bike has the same specification as the boy 's but comes with mudguards and a carrier at the back . |
| 3 | The 11th 's badge had the Chinese dragon in outline with a two-part scroll below inscribed : BORDER REGIMENT . |
| 4 | The sun 's light has the greatest significance for plants , which use it to manufacture their food through photosynthesis . |
| 5 | The idea was sound , but events of 14 July made it futile , for Bismarck 's telegram had the desired effect . |
| 6 | Critchley 's party-piece has the rounded phrasing , the well-turned punchline of frequent rehearsal ( it 's claimed that some of his fans can recite it back to him ) , but it captures the tone of the Tories in those days perfectly . |
| 7 | Mary Scott 's work has the elusive quality of a childhood memory . |
| 8 | A lawyer 's work has the same value as that of a barber in that all men have the same right to cam a living from their labour . |
| 9 | Like news rooms everywhere , it was WTN 's business to have the latest information and pictures on any given story . |
| 10 | His neighbour 's mongrel had the unfortunate habit of strolling next door and urinating in his police dog 's food . |
| 11 | By way of contrast , the Army 's re-equipment has the greatest flexibility in that it consists of many smallish programmes , each involving the production of large numbers of relatively low-cost weapons or equipments . |
| 12 | Faulhaber 's example has the following structure : The cost of supplying any one of three communities with water , C(1) , is £300 The cost of supplying any two of the three communities , C(2) , is £400 The cost of supplying all three , C(3) , is£650 Notice that the cost structure is subadditive , i.e. How will revenues be collected in order to support the natural monopoly in the supply of water ? |
| 13 | THE flurry of worry about the absence of women in John Major 's cabinet had the odd effect of making Mrs Thatcher s premiership look almost progressive on women 's issues . |
| 14 | Paulette 's questioning had the guileless innocence of a child . |
| 15 | A seventy-two-year-old boot and shoe maker living with his daughter 's family in Outram 's Yard had the splendid name of Euclid Shufflebottom . |
| 16 | Hazel suspected that Strawberry 's talking had the real purpose of preventing his own questions . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , winter , ’ the Minister 's voice had the rueful edge common to Germans when speaking of that season . |
| 18 | Her Majesty 's Government have the greatest respect for the International Court of Justice and we look to co-operating with it . |
| 19 | This Przewalski 's stallion has the typical dun coat of a truly wild horse . |
| 20 | Is he the one who 's dad had the electrical shop ? |
| 21 | The physical and emotional violence McBurney brings to the tormented king as he rages among the toys in his young son 's nursery has the sickening impact of a kick in the solar plexus . |
| 22 | Wall Street 's decline had the usual effect on the drug sector , with Glaxo falling 9 to 747p and SmithKline Beecham ‘ A ’ off 22 at 830p . |
| 23 | Castro 's declaration had the immediate effect of widening the gap between himself and the people who were against socialism , and it narrowed the circle of those he could count on for support against the invasion . |
| 24 | The actor 's face has the perfect blend of boyish innocence masking a darker psyche to add buoyancy and depth to Almodóvar 's weighty psycho-sexual thrillers , which explore the nexus of male lust and violence . |
| 25 | The two speeches which I have just analysed are probably the two greatest ones in the play as they both change the storyline dramatically , but Marc Antony 's speech having the better effect on the plebeians which seems unfair , as he was dishonest and Brutus was n't , yet he won the ‘ word ’ battle and lead on from there to become greater and greater in power . |