Example sentences of "'s [noun] [noun sg] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The nasturtium salad provides a deliciously spicy flavour , with trumpet shaped blooms which come in a variety of colours ; the Mixed Edible Flowers contains marigold , nasturtium , pansy , viola and borage flowers along with nasturtium leaves , and Sainsbury 's Speciality Salad contains a variety of flowers as well as lamb 's lettuce and feuille de chene . |
| 32 | It was some twenty years since Major Pond 's visit and the visitor from Booth 's enquiry team observed a communion service on a Sunday evening in 1901 : |
| 33 | The best place to sample the mouth-watering local dishes is a Gaststätte , a cross between a bar and a restaurant Pavement cafés , bars , beer gardens and jazz clubs abound and in the sunny summer months , Munich 's concert season offers a feast of classical music with concerts in the Residence Schleissheim and the Baroque Nymphenburg Palace . |
| 34 | She had barely skimmed over the last few paragraphs of information , used to Debbie 's ridiculous ideas about a person 's birth sign giving a clue to his character , but now the temptation to find out proved too great . |
| 35 | Lincolnshire 's pilot scheme giving a group of seven pilot secondary schools control over teacher staffing . |
| 36 | Alan 's Sunbeam Tiger negotiates a water splash without any trouble . |
| 37 | At the back of Radway 's enquiry into women 's romance reading lies a question about the political impact of such activity . |
| 38 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 39 | For any member who wishes to read the book in full , the Bishop 's Castle Library has a copy . |
| 40 | Moreover , NT 's graphics performance takes a hit . |
| 41 | Then each respondent 's ACORN category becomes a variable against which his or her responses can be cross-tabulated , for instance for market segmentation purposes . |
| 42 | In essence CW 's matrix table identifies a source of information , means by which that information can be communicated , and the targets for that information . |
| 43 | One week after the settlement was announced , West Virginia 's insurance commissioner filed a $55m suit against the firm , claiming negligence and breach of contract in its audits of the state 's health insurance plan , Blue Cross and Blue Shield , which collapsed in 1990 . |
| 44 | If a child 's vision report gives a figure of distance vision as 6/24 and near vision as N8 with corrective glasses , this would indicate that the pupil should be able to read quite small print , but has a lowered visual acuity in terms of distance vision . |
| 45 | Films such as Citron 's Daughter Rite adopted a format borrowed from the personal testimony ( the diary , the autobiographical voice ) but exposed the illusory nature of ‘ unmediated ’ film-making by revealing in the credits that the two women who had been reminiscing in the film were in fact actresses playing sisters . |
| 46 | A minnow , called the satinfin shiner , purrs , the cod grunts , while the haddock 's love song resembles a motorbike and it will keep up its unmelodious call for 20 minutes at a time . |
| 47 | Just before Christmas , the St John 's Innovation Centre conducted a survey amongst 600 senior executives to find out the levels of understanding of Open Systems concepts and of practical implementation issues . |
| 48 | I used Mark 's FAX method to get a ticket , and it worked a treat . |
| 49 | Before we leave the mall with our senses battered , I drop my plastic card on a bookstore 's check-out counter to buy a pop-up book for my daughter . |
| 50 | Permission has been requested by Darlington Council 's recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane as part of general improvements . |
| 51 | THE organisers of the Harp Masters men 's hockey tournament exhaled a sigh of relief last night when the only visiting team — Glasgow Western — scraped into the quarter-final stage with a hard fought 2-1 win over section two side Collegians at Blaris . |
| 52 | The national executive 's consultation paper suggests a trade union/constituency party split of 70/30 . |
| 53 | This month 's Star letter carries a warning from Paul Carter of Goxhill , South Humberside . |
| 54 | The 1987 Language Survey conducted by ILEA found 23 per cent of the Authority 's school population using a language other than or in addition to English at home , with 170 different languages spoken by its pupils . |
| 55 | After the collapse of Farrow as well as of two major banks in Victoria , the state 's Labor government arranged a line of credit to support other building societies with short-term liquidity problems and announced that it would reform the state 's banking laws to improve protection for depositors . |
| 56 | It took America 's Treasury secretary to find a formula to bail out both with honour ; property debt , more diffuse , inspires far less urgency in the political breast . |
| 57 | For tragic Tony Hancock 's TV career had a lot more going for it than the poorly-performed Blood Donor in 1961 , still his most famous show , even though it was all acted off cue cards . |
| 58 | Mr MacGregor 's discussion paper has a tinge of greenery , but its main interest is conveyed by its title : ‘ Paying for Better Motorways . ’ |
| 59 | It 's been suggested that the crowd was too large for the organisers to handle , and at today 's police authority meeeting Gloucestershire 's Chief Constable announced a review into how the event was run . |
| 60 | Usually the girl shown is nothing to do with the product anyway ; the Cadbury 's Flake advert shows a pretty , pouting blonde woman wearing a slip . |