Example sentences of "[adj] ['s] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No. 42765 's boiler is now ready for inspection by British Rail , which will then see the re-tube . |
| 2 | In poor light and on a tricky pitch , West Indies , put in by Botham , had to work hard to reach 198 , with 78 from Greenidge the major contribution and Old 's figures being a remarkable 11-4-12-2 . |
| 3 | The 22 year old 's body was found at the remote Longslade picnic site near Milton Keynes . |
| 4 | This evening the nine year old 's condition is reported as stable . |
| 5 | Concurrent 's recovery is now well under way , according to the company 's director of worldwide industry marketing and business development , Dennis Tinley . |
| 6 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 7 | Despite such pressure , and despite the evidence of the dangers of lead to children and unborn babies , it was not until an EEC Directive of 1985 stated that member countries must make unleaded petrol widely available by October 1989 that CLEAR 's proposals were followed up . |
| 8 | Here , each unit available for Offline 's use is given a code number , and a descriptive and physical name ( eg. 1 = MUA0 : , TK50 DRIVE ) . |
| 9 | A small survey exhibition of Victor Willing 's work is taking place at Karsten Schubert and at Richard Salmon 's studio in South Edwardes Square , having been postponed from last November ( 11 March-17 April ) . |
| 10 | V 's response is a denial — the expected response to an accusation — and is in London English : " no I never … |
| 11 | Whereas in ( 1 ) B's talk is received seriously — without laughter , in fact with silence followed by supportive agreements — in ( 2 ) , V 's talk is met with laughter and is clearly perceived as joking . |
| 12 | Section V 's voices are the most complex . |
| 13 | Charles V 's policy was to prevent this at all costs , and his candidate for Margaret 's hand was his brother Philip , who had been created Duke of Burgundy in 1364 . |
| 14 | In other cases , e.g. for a closed domain and/or for a non-linguistic task such as database query , CLE-1 's behaviour is probably preferable . |
| 15 | Thus male mink show no paternal care of their young : the risk of investing in another 's offspring is just too high . |
| 16 | From Day one , when news happened , Central 's cameras were there . |
| 17 | 1991 's offering is Power Shift ( Bantam Press , hbk £16.99 ) , a suitably fat successor to 1980 's The Third Wave and 1970 's Future Shock . |
| 18 | Iterated 's system is claimed to produce data rates as low as 40Kbps for high quality video playback , which compares very favourably with the likes of the Motion Picture Experts Group algorithm . |
| 19 | Iterated 's focus is on quick decompression techniques , compression itself is relatively lengthy , and even with a custom-built processor board sitting in an 80486 machine , the system will take between 25 and 30 seconds to determine the mathematical functions needed to regenerate each television frame . |
| 20 | In December 1291 , Edward I confirmed and renewed all the grants of privilege bestowed by his Angevin ancestors on Fontevrault , and Henry III 's heart was dispatched ( albeit tardily ) for burial there . |
| 21 | Edward III 's intention was that the Black Prince 's campaign in Aquitaine should be accompanied by an expedition to Brittany under Lancaster and an invasion of Normandy led by Charles of Navarre , king of the small Pyrenean kingdom lying between Aquitaine and Castile . |
| 22 | He suddenly realised that the French really did believe that he was here on a secret and delicate diplomatic mission on Edward I 's behalf , that his interest in Alexander III 's death was mere drapery , a trick to conceal his true task . |
| 23 | Yet , in the context of the long-standing dispute of Aquitaine , Edward III 's claim was strong enough to persuade him that he ought to pursue it , if only as an alternative means of achieving sovereign rule in Aquitaine . |
| 24 | Like their Republican successors in the 1930's , the agrarian reformers of Charles III 's reign were obsessed by the violent social situation and the agrarian unemployment on the great latifundia and dehesas ( scrub pasture ) of Andalusia and Estremadura . |
| 25 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
| 26 | Sabine 's brow was furrowed . |
| 27 | Sabine 's face was pressed against his chest . |
| 28 | Sabine 's legs were weak suddenly . |
| 29 | Chapter 10 's Grudger is totally unforgiving . |
| 30 | Meanwhile Bodypositive 's lease is up . |