Example sentences of "'s [noun] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | With cries of joy , it has been announced that women need not depend upon men for companionship and understanding ; women 's groups have become a commonplace , and support and friendship between women re-evaluated . |
2 | The prince 's decision has drawn a hostile reaction from many conservation organisations , including the Countryside Commission , not least because of the unprecedented length of the licences . |
3 | To help acquire the market lead in environmental information management systems , for example , Carroll 's division has concluded a major joint venture agreement with Environmental Resources Ltd , Europe 's largest environmental consulting company , which has offices in six countries and 300 consultants . |
4 | Gerald 's mum 's got a deep fat fryer , let you borrow that first see how th , ah , what they 're like . |
5 | [ By July 1972 the People 's Park had become a dusty , informal campsite for wayfarers ( Los Angeles Times , 30 July 1972 ) . ] |
6 | It would have been helpful if the report 's compilers had included a clinical virologist . |
7 | I took the tapes up to the embassy for analysis , and sure enough , it turned out that Yasser Arafat 's PLO had installed a listening post right next to ours . |
8 | In a bold and innovative move , Collins Children 's Books has forged a new and enhancing link with the Pre-School Playgroups Association . |
9 | Thin streaks of cirrus lay parallel to the horizon , and between them the sun 's orb had become a well-defined sphere of a rich rose-crimson . |
10 | P&O 's Rajputana had enjoyed a spotless record as an armed merchant cruiser before she fell victim to German submarine attack . |
11 | But as well as sharing in the donkey work , Platt 's goals have become a vital part of England 's armoury and before last week 's 4–0 win over Turkey he scored his country 's previous five goals . |
12 | Quinn 's goals have instilled a renewed belief that they will be involved in the title run-in . |
13 | Fakrid 's eyes had turned a livid yellow . |
14 | Verhoeven 's movie has lit a small bonfire under the gay community in America . |
15 | Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests . |
16 | The cat 's independence has encouraged a widespread view that it is asocial and unco-operative . |
17 | Deborah 's parents had had a tumultuous relationship in which frequent violent arguments would be followed by tender love scenes . |
18 | Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution . |
19 | Ipuky 's confession had lit a bright torch in the dark labyrinth of his investigation . |
20 | Nothing daunted , the BBC 's engineers have designed a clever re-recording technique for receiving the sound and this could help them to win a prestigious international prize next month . |
21 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
22 | Holford 's planners had to have a broad cultural background and were to be ‘ enablers ’ , building up from research and synthesis to a design end-product . |
23 | Thompson 's work has emphasised a tradition-based resistance to emerging capitalism but , Medick suggests , concentrates on only one dimension of the relationship between plebeian culture and the expansion of capitalist markets . |
24 | Dicey 's work has had a major and lasting impact . |
25 | The second way in which Hobhouse 's work has had a potent , if delayed , influence is through the later elaboration of his notion of ‘ citizenship ’ . |
26 | In the past 15 years Denison 's work has had a direct influence on the conservation movement in the North of England . |
27 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
28 | As far as he could see , Viola Machin 's marriage had followed a familiar pattern : begun from sheer sexual passion , aggravated by loneliness and perhaps desertion , it had quickly gone sour ; it sounded as if Viola had suffered disillusion and frustration — the sexual side had not proved enough , and other aspirations , social ones perhaps , or aspirations of Walter making a mark in the literary world , had not been fulfilled . |
29 | Dave Bassett 's team had to resist a late siege to ensure a place in the quarter-finals . |
30 | Shortly before this great day Vigilant 's crew had made a large seizure from a Finnish vessel berthed in the Thames , the goods concerned being unearthed from a very clever concealment , and the Queen was very interested to hear about the incident . |