Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] have the [adj] [noun] " 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 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 4 | The 11th 's badge had the Chinese dragon in outline with a two-part scroll below inscribed : BORDER REGIMENT . |
| 5 | The sun 's light has the greatest significance for plants , which use it to manufacture their food through photosynthesis . |
| 6 | The idea was sound , but events of 14 July made it futile , for Bismarck 's telegram had the desired effect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mary Scott 's work has the elusive quality of a childhood memory . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Like news rooms everywhere , it was WTN 's business to have the latest information and pictures on any given story . |
| 11 | His neighbour 's mongrel had the unfortunate habit of strolling next door and urinating in his police dog 's food . |
| 12 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Which members of John Major 's Cabinet have the middle names |
| 17 | Paulette 's questioning had the guileless innocence of a child . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Hazel suspected that Strawberry 's talking had the real purpose of preventing his own questions . |
| 20 | ‘ Ah , winter , ’ the Minister 's voice had the rueful edge common to Germans when speaking of that season . |
| 21 | Her Majesty 's Government have the greatest respect for the International Court of Justice and we look to co-operating with it . |
| 22 | This Przewalski 's stallion has the typical dun coat of a truly wild horse . |
| 23 | Is he the one who 's dad had the electrical shop ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Andy Harris 's set has the monumental angels from a graveyard standing alongside the benches in the workshop where young Phil and Spanky once blustered and bullied , inflicting and suffering pain . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It also looks after United Distillers and Guinness Brewing Worldwide employees and makes sure that those who travel to the far flung parts of Guinness 's empire have the right inoculations and advice for their trips . |