Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While supporting the general thrust of the strategy and its emphasis on the importance of transport to the regeneration of the regions , the CIT 's response also comments on the absence to date of an effective structure that could apply any available EC funding and carry a regional strategy forward , as well as on the need both for considerable investment in public transport and for the best use to be made of the existing transport infrastructure in serving proposed strategic development sites . |
| 2 | The real basis of the Conservative government 's case then turns on the proposition that taxation is bad for the economy whoever levies it . |
| 3 | Several details have been omitted and I shall say nothing about the way Venus and the Sun move around their orbits , except that the point O on Venus 's orbit always lies between the Earth ( E ) and the Sun ( S ) , that V moves around O , and O and S move around the Earth . |
| 4 | The friend replies that it was A. For Wigner the electron 's wavepacket then collapses into the state in which the spin is definitely " up " . |
| 5 | The advisory committee 's recommendation now goes to the ESA 's science programme committee , representing the scientific communities of its 13 member states , which meets in early June . |
| 6 | THE expression ‘ nosey parker ’ has often been linked to people of that name but the epithet 's origin actually lies with the Hyde Park rabbits and the Great Exhibition . |
| 7 | The largest exhibition of Matisse 's work ever opens at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , this autumn ( 24 September-12 January 1993 ) . |
| 8 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 9 | The mill 's name clearly originates from the early 1720s . |
| 10 | The Halifax 's name always remains in the frame as a conversion possibility . |
| 11 | Indeed , Spranger 's tomb still rests in the cellars in an adjoining house ( 2/322 ) . |
| 12 | And the King 's writ hardly runs in the march , to take a felon out of the hold of such as Isambard . ’ |
| 13 | Yet Charlie 's method also hints at the method which Eliot would use in The Waste Land : |
| 14 | Besides which , butler 's argument really moves at the level of phenomenology only , as an account of the conscious character of desire , and hardly takes on the idea of someone like Spinoza that all activity at a deeper level is a manifestation of the organism 's disposition to preserve and enhance its own being . |
| 15 | The only other recorded detail of Sarah Dixon 's life also comes from the memorial stone at St Stephen 's . |
| 16 | But as the chill of doubt takes hold , underpinned by Lincoln 's development from an enchanting small boy into an adolescent from hell , Carroll 's novel abruptly veers off the rails , lurching from an interesting and astute study of an ordinary man faced with a monstrous moral dilemma into a considerably less interesting fantasy about ( I think ) cyclical existence and reincarnation . |
| 17 | Analysts estimate that 90% of the firm 's profit still comes from the sale of Mercedes cars , its original business . |
| 18 | Nicholson 's commemoration also rests with the intriguing interactions he had with other chemists , and raises questions on the objectives of chemical research which are still relevant today . |
| 19 | The information in the Labour party 's document all comes under the new education standards commission that will take over responsibility for Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and co-ordinate the work of local inspectors . |
| 20 | Lily 's painting also works in the novel as a figurative analogue for the conduct and conclusion of Woolf 's own narrative processes , her own imposing of order on chaos . |
| 21 | Within , the atmosphere is heavily ecclesiastical and Pugin 's soul still hangs in the air , despite some alterations to the internal layout . |
| 22 | Joyce 's material supposedly unfolds in the dreaming mind of a Dublin publican ; the story O'Brien 's narrator tells concerns a publican who operates his imagination altogether more systematically , locking up his fictional characters ‘ so that he can keep an eye on them and see that there is no boozing ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 35 ) . |
| 23 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |