Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new developments of Morningside and Chelsea in the Antelope area of Sacramento clearly met the demands of today 's buyer in terms of value and quality , but other subdivisions had mixed results . |
| 2 | Pearce played down the incident , which came just after Gary Mabbutt 's winner in Spurs ' 2-1 triumph , saying : ‘ It was nothing . ’ |
| 3 | In the aftermath of the election , Ashdown 's analysis of his party 's crushing defeat and Labour 's rise in votes , beggars belief . |
| 4 | To this end all records of the past were zealously preserved and older , more primitive legal traditions extensively reworked and edited in the light of developing concepts and attitudes — most of which would seem to have been the direct result of the community 's change in circumstances and new needs for order and social cohesion . |
| 5 | In Method B , the amount to be paid out is a predetermined pool of money adjusted up or down in line with the year 's change in profits . |
| 6 | ( At least they acknowledge God 's part in things . ) |
| 7 | It takes us aback , perhaps because such a bold outburst connects her unexpectedly to women 's liberation , and yet , of course , it affirms feminism 's faith in women 's wish to reclaim their bodies and in body talk as the great leveller . |
| 8 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |
| 9 | The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon . |
| 10 | On a day when rain wrecked the second day 's play in matches up and down the country only three got going the Pakistani pace ace bagged five for 60 to help shoot out the visitors for 166 , a deficit of 116 . |
| 11 | The significance of the individual 's decision in terms of ‘ responsible church membership ’ will depend on the congregation 's understanding of ‘ discipleship ’ and its quality of life and breadth of vision in working that out in practical terms in today 's world . |
| 12 | However , one may query whether the Court of Appeal paid heed to the distinction between the status of a court 's decision in terms of the precedential weight of any ruling on a point of law and the legal status of the order the House issued consequent upon that decision . |
| 13 | Mr. Beazley submitted that the court 's decision in paragraphs 17 and 18 of the judgment , which is also reflected in the answer given to the question in the court 's ruling , is conclusive in his favour and determinative of the construction of article 5(3) ; and that in consequence articles 5(1) and 5(3) are to be construed as mutually exclusive , but as all-embracing so far as actions to establish any kind of liability of the defendants are concerned . |
| 14 | Toshiba Corp has now been drawn into the IBM-Apple Computer Inc alliance following the announcement that it and Apple have an agreement to develop multimedia technology , combining Apple software skills with Toshiba 's expertise in semiconductors and consumer electronics . |
| 15 | She later published an account of the work of the women 's branch in Women in the Factory : an Administrative Adventure , 1893–1921 ( 1922 ) . |
| 16 | Most assemblies are , however , ‘ consociations ’ resulting from behaviours in which animals respond to each other 's presence in ways that establish their spacing in relation to one another and their occurrence in groups of certain age and sex composition . |
| 17 | Over both his superiors to some small extent he wielded a moral advantage ; on the Army List , he was Falkenhayn 's senior and had been his immediate predecessor in command of the 4th Guard Regiment ; and just before the war he had been the Crown Prince 's mentor in tactics and strategy . |
| 18 | The matter which ought to have been debated in Parliament is whether a man needs the law 's protection in circumstances such as these . |
| 19 | In her polemical riposte to those scholars and clerics and poets of her time who resisted women 's advancement in letters or other learning , Pizan flourishes a dramatic catalogue of female high achievers and heroines , from Judith to Circe . |
| 20 | Persephone 's hair in glimpses everywhere |
| 21 | Tangled hair was another indication of fairy interference , for one of Queen Mab 's favourite amusements was to tie people 's hair in knots , or ‘ elf-locks ’ , as Shakespeare averred in Romeo and Juliet : |
| 22 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 23 | Q : In that case I imagine people will flee Darcy 's Utopia in droves . |
| 24 | Details of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma in patients aged under 25 were provided by postcode sector by the Scottish Cancer Registration Scheme for the 1970s and 1980s ( from the start of the North Sea oil industry ) . |
| 25 | This section has reviewed the main texts which assert ( or are said to assert ) the importance of the testator 's intention in trusts . |
| 26 | Into extreme old age he would lecture about Temple 's mind in words rendered all the more penetrating by the obvious gratitude which the memory brought . |
| 27 | It did seem that the mother 's intrusion in quarrels led to more conflict over the longer term . |
| 28 | Ramsey 's weight in debates rested upon more than his manner and his fluency and his command of words . |
| 29 | What was the name of Robert Shaw 's boat in Jaws ? |
| 30 | In the context of the earlier discussion on meaning , this might be interpreted as those relationships which help to establish and sustain a person 's self-esteem in areas to which he is highly committed . |