Example sentences of "[adj] ['s] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cross-complications were dangerous and Elfed 's part has suffered . |
| 2 | The 14 year old 's solicitor insists the magistrates had no option but to impose a supervision order , but he ca n't guarantee that he wo n't reoffend . |
| 3 | Four of 252 's Beaufighters had been destroyed on the ground during air raids while on Malta and the remaining four left on the same day for Gibraltar on the first leg of the flight back to England , each carrying three aboard instead of the usual crew of two . |
| 4 | A Lloyds bid would surely go to the Monopolies Commission , and might drag Hongkong 's bid with it — just as Standard Chartered 's bid accompanied Hongkong 's to the commission a decade ago . |
| 5 | ‘ You remember how shy the father of Moseh was when Hamed 's father put the proposal ? |
| 6 | Ann High 's husband worked at the mine , but with eight children it was so difficult in winter that she was forced to apply for relief to buy extra clothing . |
| 7 | Had the French not been so proud , the anonymous chaplain of Henry V 's household asserted , they would have recognised that earlier defeats which they had experienced ( he was referring to the battles fought at Sluys in 1340 and at Poitiers in 1356 ) , constituted a clear sign of divine arbitrament , and much bloodshed would have been avoided . |
| 8 | For the first half of the fifteenth century , Gascony was under less pressure , probably because Henry V 's campaigns had shifted the bulk of military activity to northern France , but even so war had a serious effect on wine exports . |
| 9 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
| 10 | Bertrand de Goth had also profited from his favoured position among Clement V 's relations to acquire the Italian mar-quisate of Ancona , as well as land on the other side of the Rhône , including the castle of Monteux in the Comtat Venaissin . |
| 11 | As Book V 's conclusion makes clear , even Justice in his moment of apparent triumph is susceptible to unexpected interference . |
| 12 | All amphibians have mucous glands in their skin which produce a slime that helps to keep it moist and some of these in the firebelly 's skin produce a bitter-tasting poison . |
| 13 | Incredibly , as the game restarted , Phil Meek 's boot caught fire . |
| 14 | CCL 's move completes a programme of upgrading undertaken since the line was acquired by Mersey Docks and Harbour Company almost two years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , responsibility for another 's life has always terrified me , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps we 're just as competitive professionally , merely better-mannered : perhaps beneath our relaxed admiration for one another 's work lies the same rage to kill . |
| 17 | Etiquette requires more or less continuous competition among diners to keep one another 's tea-cups topped up . |
| 18 | Women who are raped receive about £5,000 compensation and , in one recent case , a man whose brain was badly damaged by another 's negligence received £22,000 for the pain and suffering . |
| 19 | The process of sharing perceptions of one another 's readiness produced varied results . |
| 20 | A fortiori , a person is not to be regarded as acting dishonestly if he appropriates another 's property believing that with full knowledge of the circumstances that other person has in fact agreed to the appropriation . |
| 21 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 22 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 23 | A deep sense of another 's ingratitude invaded her — she found this foolish light-minded bird quite detestable in her desertion , in her stupidity and folly , in her lack of recognition of the comfort and safety arranged for her own good , contrived and given with heartfelt care and love . |
| 24 | Jennie had other ideas apart from ordering ‘ See tha' gets tha 's privates washed before tha' gets my costumes on . ’ |
| 25 | For television he has regularly contributed to Central 's multi-award winning series INSPECTOR MORSE . |
| 26 | Central 's cameras have also captured a good deal of real-life drama thanks to the Cook Report . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Central 's forecaster says it remains a wet out look . |
| 28 | Adjustments to 1991 's figures have been made wherever possible to reflect gross revenues . |
| 29 | Consequently , the company made charges of £2.1 million against 1991 's profits to cover the overstatement and thought the problem had been solved . |
| 30 | Although George III 's government behaved generously to their recent enemies , the French felt hard done by . |