Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The variety of stresses that affect biological systems and influence the immune system 's potentiality are as follows : |
| 2 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |
| 3 | The sight that met the young housewife 's eyes was appalling . |
| 4 | He met the old T'ang 's eyes , a look of understanding passing between them that escaped the young Prince 's notice . |
| 5 | This fits the stony coral 's relationship with its millions of single-celled plants ( zooxanthellae ) admirably . |
| 6 | The fact that you can turn the engine off and use it as a glider must extend the appeal of this unusual creature which hardly fits the general public 's notion of a microlight . |
| 7 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 8 | Ireland was already there with its litany of laments , not thinly preserved , like the cultural echo that accompanies some exiles and émigrés into a new country where time will absorb the native generation 's traces of foreign identity and dispel them . |
| 9 | Pro-life campaigners have attacked the House of Lords ' ruling to uphold the High Court 's decision to allow Tony to die . |
| 10 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |
| 11 | A 1 million b/d ‘ strategic ’ pipeline had been installed so as to enable the southern fields ' production to be sent out via the northern pipeline system through Syria , or the reverse ; as it later proved , a sensible precaution . |
| 12 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |
| 13 | Naming the sole trader 's business |
| 14 | ‘ It was Mrs Hardcastle — Alison has a nasty attack of flu , and she wo n't be fit enough to wear the chief bridesmaid 's dress on Saturday . ’ |
| 15 | When in barracks and field dress , generals often choose to wear the general officers ' cap badge not in the dark blue GS beret , but in the ‘ tribal headgear ’ of their former unit . |
| 16 | A wronged woman might stab her husband with scissors , cut up his clothes or ram the other woman 's car , but the consequences are not predictable . |
| 17 | He stood , then walked across the room , touching the old man 's arm briefly , sympathetically . |
| 18 | Not one word on the environment passed the Prime Minister 's lips when he welcomed the Queen 's Speech at the start of this Session . |
| 19 | Has Iain Banks passed the Scottish writer 's mid-life crisis ? |
| 20 | The minority included Sir Keith Joseph , who took his bleak monetarist outlook to the Department of Trade and Industry , and John Biffen , an early apostle of Enoch Powell 's financial credo , who became a Treasury Minister ( and who also shared the Prime Minister 's lack of enthusiasm for ‘ Europe ’ ) . |
| 21 | Balcon was forced off the CFC , where places were found both for Alexander Korda , who shared the new mogul 's enthusiasm for ‘ bigger and bigger films , ’ and for Rank himself . |
| 22 | Weber shared the classical elitists ' hopes for developing a systematic social science , but he did not agree that natural science methods could be simply transposed to explain social action or behaviour , since a plausible account of actors ' motives is required for completeness ( Runcimann , 1972 ) . |
| 23 | There had n't been time to get Maxim 's name on the usual notice of forthcoming visitors to the embassy ; she had been signalled by the Security Service who shared the Steering Committee 's deep distrust of the visit and wanted her to debrief him after his meeting . |
| 24 | DFDS chairman Jan Erlund said in his annual report , currency devaluations and the recession will continue to hit the Scandinavian firm 's profits . |
| 25 | Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves . |
| 26 | Britain 's only response was to cancel the Royal Ballet 's visit to Moscow . |
| 27 | The mayor of Darlington in Pennsylvania , J Ronald Ward , wrote : ‘ I heartily support your efforts to preserve the historic Stephenson 's Stockton Darlington Railway line . |
| 28 | Billowing smoke from the fire made the white woman 's eyes water . |
| 29 | Hugh Gaitskell made the Tory Government 's case for it when he said in the House of Commons Defence debate : |
| 30 | The Treasury says the decision to change the basis of treatment , announced by Peter Lilley , Trade and Industry Secretary , on February 13 , came too late to affect the current year 's figures but have been included in the 1993–94 estimates . |