Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures they gave us from surveys carried out for the Inter-Bank Research Organisation by the British Market Research Bureau confirmed this , but showed that people in social classes A , B and C1 are still twice as likely to have a bank account as people in social classes D and E , and that the higher someone 's income the greater is the likelihood of their having a bank account . |
| 2 | He is an active member of the World Wildlife Fund , completely untouched by Central Television 's exposure a few weeks ago , and he carefully disposes of his old sump oil . |
| 3 | After Courtney 's trial a senior detective revealed that Courtney had probably abused 100 other women . |
| 4 | In the Medical Research Council 's trial the relative risk of dying from cancer for men receiving atenolol was 1.9 compared with placebo ( 1.2 to 2.8 ) and 1.4 ( 0.9 to 2.2 ) compared with diuretic . |
| 5 | Sacheverell 's trial the next spring sparked off widespread rioting in London , and although Sacheverell was eventually found guilty , he received the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching . |
| 6 | The bidder will usually wish to discuss with the target 's board the best way of dealing with optionholders ( eg cash cancellation and/or roll-over into new options of the bidder ) . |
| 7 | The boy raised his face , and to Jean-Paul 's horror the black eyes were welling with tears . |
| 8 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 9 | Exactly how many ‘ teeth ’ such a fish has to ‘ sink into the mild mannered moggy ’ is doubtful , but we bet it gave the cat 's foot a nasty suck … |
| 10 | Rose gave Baptiste 's earlobe a hard pinch . |
| 11 | Several states maintain Soviet military advisers on their soil , in Syria 's case a substantial number . |
| 12 | Today , when councils like that in Tewkesbury restore old Meeting Houses — in Tewkesbury 's case a Baptist chapel down a narrow lane opposite the great Abbey Church — Baptist visitors are as surprised as everyone else at the austerity of the past . |
| 13 | The weaknesses are of exaggeration , and in Illich 's case a romantic and utopian nostalgia for a past that never existed . |
| 14 | In John 's case the stated reason for referral for formal assessment was his behaviour in school . |
| 15 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 16 | In Leeson 's case the General Medical Council had disqualified a doctor for infamous misconduct in a prosecution brought by the Medical Defence Union , an organisation designed to uphold the character of doctors and to suppress unauthorised practitioners . |
| 17 | In HARPY 's case the implicit graph , the complete set of utterances permitted by the phonetic , phonological , lexical , and syntactic knowledge sources , can be made fully explicit . |
| 18 | In Kirknewton 's case the nearest large settlement is Livingston , to where the service 285 provides 15 return journeys per weekday and 26 single journeys on Sunday . |
| 19 | In the Falange 's case the principal issue was leadership ; when José Antonio Primo de Rivera , jailed in Alicante since before the start of the war , was executed in November 1936 , he left behind him a movement riddled with factionalism and cursed with second-rate would-be successors . |
| 20 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 21 | In Nancy Cruzan 's case the original court became satisfied that this standard had been met after three of her friends testified that , prior to the accident , Nancy had expressed the wish never to live " like a vegetable " . |
| 22 | It is simply to recognise that the structure of the ‘ proof ’ in both cases , in Rawls 's case an a priori proof , in Kohlberg 's case an experimental one , actually presupposes what it sets out to establish . |
| 23 | It is a little difficult to disentangle from Buchanan and Boddy 's description the particular effects at each stage of the automation , but the differences between the pre-1971 and post-1981 situation are clear . |
| 24 | Sally 's sister a little girl of three months , Daryl had meant to tell Sally what her mother had said and had forgotten and now she remembered . |
| 25 | In the early years of the BAA 's existence a satisfactory clerical records service relating to employees was maintained and operated manually . |
| 26 | For the first five years of Israel 's existence the Soviet Union likewise took a non-committal stance between Israel and its neighbours . |
| 27 | The political situation continued to deteriorate during May , apparently little affected by President Paul Biya 's decision the previous month to appoint a Prime Minister , Sadou Hayatou [ see p. 38135 ] , and a " transitional " government which was in effect barely changed in its composition . |
| 28 | This can be easily recognised if Bizet 's music for Carmen is compared with De Falla 's fur The Three-Cornered Hat . |
| 29 | People love to spend money , it gets their adrenalin flowing , and with Mandela 's story the charitable juices would be flowing too . ’ |
| 30 | Given this cast of mind , it was not surprising that during Mrs Thatcher 's occupancy the Great and Good found the doors of 10 Downing Street more closed than at any time since the war . |