Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May , 1914 a resolution against the government was passed ‘ the ministry 's activities arouse dissatisfaction among the broad masses who have hitherto been peaceful . |
| 2 | And considering two thirds of the Education Department 's activities take place behind Ethiopian lines — in what the EPLF calls semi-liberated areas — their achievements have been impressive . |
| 3 | Many of the day 's activities took place indoors to escape the heavy rain . |
| 4 | KBA 's activities include merchant banking , stockbroking , bullion trading and leasing . |
| 5 | A windsurfing week costs £240 and a single day 's activities costs £16 . |
| 6 | The most significant of Martyn 's activities involved publications on natural philosophy , and especially the works of the newly formed Royal Society . |
| 7 | The contract price quoted was £605 per car , but the South Metropolitan company 's accounts show £551 18/0d. per car , paid to Brush during 1906 and £388 6/0d. paid to B.E.T . |
| 8 | The potential for growth had been retained and it is said that some of today 's bulls gain weight faster than continental breeds such as the Charolais ; the meat itself is now of much better quality . |
| 9 | In that year he passed into the service of Richard de Clare , seventh Earl of Gloucester [ q.v. ] , as his steward and went round the earl 's estates hearing complaints against the earl 's officials . |
| 10 | Failed firm 's shareholders lose tax gain |
| 11 | The new station 's shareholders include GWR Radio of Swindon , the American media giant Time Warner , Home Counties Newspapers and Sir Peter Michael , one of Britain 's richest businessmen . |
| 12 | Allied Provincial Securities Ltd will place 8.87m shares at 155 pence per share — while this represents 25% of equity , March 1993 also saw three of the group 's shareholders pay £3m for shares representing approximately 2.9% of the group 's total enlarged share capital . |
| 13 | By March 1990 the case took an unexpected twist when Jan Parsons , backed by her brother Paul and her divorced father , publicly opposed Jan 's mum 's attempts to sue Lowe . |
| 14 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 15 | Furthermore , one country 's legal system often constitutes an impediment to another country 's attempts to gather information necessary to pursue a domestic case against a transnational corporation . |
| 16 | Negotiations between the European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) and the European Communities ( EC ) on a common European Economic Area ( EEA ) were soured by Iceland 's attempts to restrict fishing within its waters [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ] . |
| 17 | Leaders of major political parties and organizations met in New Delhi on Nov. 23 under the auspices of the National Integration Council [ see p. 38866 ] and gave their backing to the government 's attempts to implement court orders barring construction at the disputed Babri mosque site in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , where Hindu militants planned to build a Hindu temple [ see pp. 38532 ; 38682 ; 39008 ] . |
| 18 | While this form of reassurance was given to the residents , Michael Killeen of the IDA attacked the local community activists , claiming that the opposition to Raybestos and Schering Plough was causing ‘ incalculable damage ’ to the IDA 's attempts to promote Ireland as a location for industrial development abroad . |
| 19 | The coroner Nicholas Gardner said the Metro driver 's attempts to regain control of her car may have made matters worse . |
| 20 | The intention may be to undermine Nell 's attempts to persuade Kathie to abandon her Black boyfriend . |
| 21 | By the latter part of 1990 Ramiz Alia 's attempts to control unrest through concessions were visibly failing , each concession serving merely to encourage further demands [ see pp. 37864-65 ] . |
| 22 | It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ . |
| 23 | Microsoft 's attempts to take control of the US Windows-based home finance and small business accounts market has so far failed to unseat Intuit 's top selling package , Quicken 6 for DOS . |
| 24 | The 10 per cent or so of the population which votes for Sinn Fein appears to approve of , or at least to tolerate readily , the IRA 's attempts to kill soldiers and policemen . |
| 25 | These studies concentrate on industry 's attempts to mobilise law to further its own perceived interests , and examine situations where industry has advocated non-legal techniques . |
| 26 | White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy . |
| 27 | Baldwin 's and Chamberlain 's attempts to appease Hitler were in this respect thoroughly British . |
| 28 | Despite President Boris Yeltsin 's attempts to rally support for a postponement of the forthcoming session of the Congress of People 's Deputies until March 1993 , the Supreme Soviet voted on Oct. 21 by 114 to 59 to convene the Congress for its seventh session to open on Dec. 1 . |
| 29 | If , indeed , such principles are a feature of children 's attempts to understand adult language , it remains to be seen whether they can be seen as the outcome of earlier developmental processes or , as seems more likely , innate abilities and therefore features of Chomsky 's LAD . |
| 30 | Barbara Castle 's attempts to make women full citizens of the social insurance scheme , irrespective of their marital status , have had only limited success . |