Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These simple changes to her father 's response enable this mildly handicapped child to acquire the socially necessary ability to wait in a definite and positive manner . |
| 2 | Finnegan has made arrangements for his wife 's income to cover those outstanding debts . |
| 3 | The group 's activities include several half-day seminar meetings , a one-day research workshop and a two-day residential Conference . |
| 4 | But if Winckelmann 's activities evoke this Petrarchan world , they do so only momentarily . |
| 5 | As we might have guessed , the importance of Laurence 's wife 's money overrode any other consideration . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a shocking situation , and I am spending every single minute of every single day and every last dollar of my father 's money to correct this evil . ’ |
| 7 | Howard 's accounts received such widespread attention at the time and are still read two hundred years after his death because he so precisely ‘ set down matter of fact ’ . |
| 8 | A surviving volume of pursers 's accounts shows another Bristol ship going to Oran in 1480–1 ( 94 , pp.226–9 ; 100 ) . |
| 9 | The Arbroath guidebook 's glossary has some of these — ‘ clearstorey : the range of windows in the upper part of a building ; Frater : a monastic refectory or dining hall [ alas not taken from the Latin for ‘ brother ’ , but from a French reduction of ‘ refreshment' ] ; Gablet : a decorative design in the form of a small gable , often above a window ; Pend : a vaulted passageway [ several pends in St Andrews ] ; Slype : a passage ; Triforium : the arcaded gallery between the main arcade and clearstorey ; Tympanum : the enclosed space within the head of an arched doorway [ does that mean it has a space behind like a drumhead — an open space inviting impressions to be made upon it ? ] ’ |
| 10 | If Mr. Collins had sought to base an argument on the omission from the rules which I have characterised as unfair , we should have had to consider whether the opportunity given to Winchester on 6 November 1990 to make representations to Lautro 's board rectified this defect . |
| 11 | Under such an arrangement ( known as an open offer and clawback ) underwriters agree to purchase the requisite number of consideration shares from accepting shareholders at the agreed price , to the extent that the latter elect to receive cash , subject to the right of the bidder 's shareholders to buy such shares at the same price in priority to the underwriters . |
| 12 | Sylvester 's text considers these factors and balances them against the feebleness with which Magritte might execute dull repetitions of his more popular compositions . |
| 13 | Income support rise ‘ derisory ’ : This week 's rise takes many pensioners back to where they were 18 months ago , Sue Fieldman reports |
| 14 | But the first parliament of Mary 's regency anticipated this , for reasons which were purely political rather than moral , when it utterly banned ‘ Robert Hood nor Little John Abbot of Unreason ( and ) Queens of May ’ in both town and countryside . |
| 15 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds conservation officer for Lothian and Borders , Peter Gordon , said : ‘ The wanton killing of this beautiful bird is sickening in itself and also a setback to the peregrine 's attempts to recolonise this part of Scotland . ’ |
| 16 | Karami 's attempts to incorporate all major militia factions in his government failed when the LF chief , Samir Geaga , refused a Cabinet post in protest at the pro-Syrian stance of most of the ministers . |
| 17 | Principal developments in Somalia from mid-1989 [ see p. 36757 for events to that date ] continued to be dominated by the civil war , the regime 's attempts to establish some dialogue with opposition forces on its own terms , and allegations of human rights abuses [ see pp. 36806 ; 37113-14 ; 37174 ] . |
| 18 | Part of the Webster ruin was brought about by the fifth baronet 's attempts to reroof many of the derelict Battle Abbey buildings in 1812 — 13 . |
| 19 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , however , the handling of Mr. Thorpe 's case raises some important general principles about the management of the health service . |
| 20 | Having spoken , the monk undergoes a physical reaction to the utterance of his salacious thoughts of the wife being exercised , sexually , in bed : This response to his own thought and speech on the monk 's part creates another novelty within this fabliau : a character who assumes a role parallel to that of a real reader outside the text ; a listener to and responder to a text and its implications , and what is more a reader who indulges in an interpretation of the text of his thoughts as pornographic , i.e. capable of exciting vicarious , erotic sensation . |
| 21 | Ross , for one , fully endorsed the doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy , but he held that it was a bad mistake on Moore 's part to define such expressions as ‘ right ’ , ‘ wrong ’ , ‘ ought ’ ’ obligatory' by way of ‘ good ’ . |
| 22 | It was then the best part of a week 's work on Malcolm 's part to get that saw running sweetly . |
| 23 | Unless a Christian 's faith includes this level of understanding , he is short-changing himself . |
| 24 | So our Carl got it back , you know , soon as had seen it , he brought it back , he said I 'm not letting Rosie 's sister see this . |
| 25 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 26 | Anna 's sister has this message for him . |
| 27 | ‘ Now it 'll take all Wings Balsdon 's tact to get any parcels issued before next Monday . ’ |
| 28 | Two regulars , Messrs Dodman and Harrop , arrived but most were new faces following Peter 's decision to opt this time for newly graduated advisers . |
| 29 | Although there is little criticism of the foundation 's decision to support such research , other medical charities argue that its explicit exclusion of research on animals may encourage other smaller research-funding bodies to take a similar stand , a move that could make life increasingly difficult for medical researchers . |
| 30 | Several factors influence an author 's decision to cite another . |