Example sentences of "'s [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If endorsed by the forthcoming 28th party congress ( brought forward from October to June or July 1990 ) , the new platform would renounce the party 's constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of power . |
| 2 | Moreover , in these works one can see the beginnings of Burn 's highly systematised manner of design : the Merchant Maiden and Greenock Custom House had the same strict 1:4 ratio of height to width as Covent Garden while standard scales were , as far as circumstances would allow , adopted for the orders and such things as doorcases . |
| 3 | THE THIRD series of Yorkshire Television 's highly acclaimed dramatisation of H.E . |
| 4 | They study for the CIMA 's highly respected qualification by distance learning in the evenings , topped up with full time revision courses . |
| 5 | p/b £15.95 Paperback reprint of David Watkin 's highly esteemed history of architecture from Knossos to Quinlan Terry . |
| 6 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 7 | In no recent case has the Court of Appeal gone further in its attempt to control trade union activity than in the dispute over the Government 's suddenly announced decision in April 1989 to abolish the National Dock Labour Scheme . |
| 8 | Among the ever-increasing demands on the world 's mysteriously limited pool of capital , is aid to the former communist countries and help for other debtor countries . |
| 9 | Matteo Fargion 's specially composed music for piano , strings and brass does much to set the tone of the piece , with its clouded dissonances and flurries of bright jazzy melody . |
| 10 | Guido 's totally unexpected reference to Arnie , and the way he 'd cocked his head at her and smiled as he 'd said it , had thrown her and made her feel totally vulnerable . |
| 11 | He furnished much of the office from his own resources although his annual salary of £250 was some 20% below the WEA 's nationally recommended minimum for District Secretaries — a reflection yet again of the District 's precarious financial position , then in deficit in excess of £100 . |
| 12 | Reagan 's notoriously detached style of management made high-quality staff essential , and in his first term he appears to have been particularly well served by those responsible for ushering his economic policy proposals through congress . |
| 13 | Terry Nation had succeeded in carving a foreign world every bit as believable as Lucarotti 's carefully researched account of life in twelfth-century Cathay . |
| 14 | But a victory by Elliott in the final event of General Portfolio 's grandly mis-named Mile of Miles series was all that mattered to selectors three days after they chose him ahead of Cram for the Commonwealth Games . |
| 15 | Volunteers have been forced to leave the movement 's centrally situated shop in Skinnergate while renovations are carried out by council workers . |
| 16 | John Caird 's opulently staged direction of Pinero 's multi-layered drama makes much of the bones and sinews of this play about players , stressing the crisis which overtook the older , hammier generation of actors in the 1880s , one signalled by the presence of Tom Wrench ( Adam Kotz ) as scrutineer , bit-part actor and embryo playwright of the naturalistic new wave . |
| 17 | The ostensible reason was Mr Moussa 's supposedly unauthorised dialogue with representatives of the main radical religious group , the Jamaat Islamiya . |
| 18 | His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration . |
| 19 | Geoffrey Howson 's meticulously researched study of mathematics education in England is written along biographical lines , and it 's compulsive reading ; not least because of a pervasive sense of déjà vu . |
| 20 | Both sides now hastened towards it , Dundee with a single troop of horse , 2500 ‘ irregulars ’ on foot and 300 supposedly trained soldiers from Ireland , Major-General Hugh Mackay , William 's newly appointed Commander-in-Chief in Scotland — he had commanded the English and Scottish contingent in the 1688 campaign — with 3000 infantry , eight troops of cavalry and dragoons . |
| 21 | Officers stormed the elite regiment 's closely guarded HQ after complaints about music booming from behind the razor wire . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , there were widespread claims that , despite the government 's officially stated position of neutrality , the authorities had intervened in a variety of ways to support the candidacy of Kim Young Sam . |
| 23 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 24 | The completion of this work was undertaken mainly by David Brien , a senior research fellow of Durham University , and Liz Scott-Gibson , the BDA 's recently appointed Director of sign language services . |
| 25 | Acer UK Ltd 's Christopher Hay says the company is ‘ comfortable ’ with SCO 's recently declared intention to edge towards Unix SVR4 and says Acer 's collaboration in the ACE initiative has provided the firm with the experience of RISC and Microsoft NT should that be required in the future , though it only has Intel 's P5 part in its sights at present as far as chip technology goes . |
| 26 | Glasgow University 's recently published study of homelessness among the young in Scotland simply highlights the facts which have been known to anyone who had been working in the social security system in whatever capacity for a number of years . |