Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To others , however , Gorbachev 's policies marked a skil-ful attempt to gain the initiative in the international field , to end Reagan 's massive rearmament effort , and allow the USSR to reform and strengthen itself for continued competition with the West . |
| 2 | Gramsci 's writings marked a major shift away from the one-sided economic determinism of writers such as Rusche and Kirchheimer . |
| 3 | This is a tradition in the Royal Navy when a ship 's being re-commissioned the youngest rate and the Captain 's wife cut a ceremonial cake cake using the Captain 's sword |
| 4 | It marks the beginning of the post-Conquest revival of Canterbury 's past ; more generally , Anselm 's intervention in Osbern 's career marked a turning point in saving the monastic and cultural tradition of pre-Conquest England , and the movement gathered impetus during the next half century . |
| 5 | However , the reports on morale and popular opinion which were reaching the regime 's leaders painted a different picture . |
| 6 | In 1899 the movement 's leaders achieved a striking coup when they published , without reference to the annual Council , a ‘ Free Church Catechism ’ . |
| 7 | Conscious that , if this buying-out aspect of the report was to be approved by the Committee the Club would , in losing its bondholders , also lose the long-term continuity and stability on its Committee previously created by their existence , Robert Naish 's Sub-Committee incorporated a contentious recommendation ( in which it fervently believed ) so as to ensure a measure of long-term Committee continuity . |
| 8 | The Duke 's success achieved a temporary lull in the violence of local smuggling activity but the enterprise continued more or less unabated . |
| 9 | After independence in 1980 , Zimbabwe 's government placed a new priority on the three quarters of a million black farmers who had hitherto been neglected . |