Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strategies to promote the nation 's health should acknowledge the importance of material and social deprivation more explicitly . |
| 2 | The government continued with its plans to reorganize the island 's economy on a free-market basis . |
| 3 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 4 | Adult fleas are equipped with sharp , piercing mouthparts to penetrate the dog 's skin . |
| 5 | Attempts are still being made through the courts to establish the company 's liability for several other cases where the children of workers are still suffering from cancers of various types . |
| 6 | Attempts to establish a people 's diet at any time is very difficult without supporting documentary evidence , however , as vital evidence might he missing . |
| 7 | After taking independent legal and accounting advice , the Trafalgar directors refused to accept the Panel 's view on the two key issues — the transfer of assets and the treatment of ACT — but in the face of a threat of legal action , the Panel announced that ‘ the directors have undertaken to make the appropriate changes and adjustments in the 1992 accounts to meet the Panel 's concerns ’ . |
| 8 | Attempts to rewrite the Lord 's Prayer and the whole of Christian theology are now being seriously considered . |
| 9 | The IMF on April 8 , 1991 , approved a financing package for Costa Rica , authorizing disbursements of up to SDR88,300,000 ( about US$119 million ) over the next 12 months to support the government 's economic programme and to help meet increases in the cost of oil imports . |
| 10 | Of this total up to SDR39,240,000 ( $53,000,000 ) could be drawn over the following 19 months to support the government 's 1991-92 economic austerity programme . |
| 11 | On March 15 the IMF approved a standby credit , authorizing drawings up to SDR279 million ( about $394 million ) over the next 12 months to support the Government 's economic reform programme . |
| 12 | The operators manipulate the relations using a series of steps to perform the user 's requirements . |
| 13 | • Heuliez , specialist manufacturer of buses , coaches , ambulances and original equipment sunroofs , had two pretty little concept cars to promote the group 's design and prototype-build facility . |
| 14 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 15 | LONDON — Margaret Thatcher said yesterday it was impossible for Britain to take in millions of refugees from Hong Kong and urged China to take steps to restore the colony 's confidence , AP reports . |
| 16 | As social workers or therapists we must often accept the client 's definition but , too , we must often look behind the client 's eyes to find the problem 's underlying nature . |
| 17 | Sri Lanka would never have such problems if the country relied on its own resources — if it cultivated appreciation of native food and agricultural systems which have evolved over centuries to meet the population 's needs . |
| 18 | The first of these three problems , which is the most important in numerical terms — accounting for just under 10% of all unsatisfied requests — is also the most easily solved , and could very largely be eliminated simply by encouraging readers to consult the Library 's catalogues before submitting a call-slip , and by making available to them printed instructions on the location and interpretation of catalogue entries for serial publications . |
| 19 | The year ended with the government taking tentative steps to tackle the country 's enormous economic problems . |
| 20 | The Controller hastened to obey , dispatching one of the guards to fetch the Director 's new Troubleshooter . |
| 21 | St Dunstan 's emerged from the play-offs to challenge the King 's School in the final contest but had to be satisfied with the runners-up spot . |
| 22 | An attempt by Daily Mail journalists to broaden the paper 's political coverage of the 1983 election was rejected on the grounds that only the editor was responsible for content and that outside pressure , if only from an organization 's own journalists , amounted to interference in the running of that organization . |
| 23 | She lowered her eyes to avoid the priest 's glance . |
| 24 | Although throughout the crisis Alexander III had expressed his contempt for any concessions to appease the government 's critics , for some two months after coming to the throne he hesitated to reverse official policy . |
| 25 | Ramsay was apt to make his backgrounds neutral and to sharpen up the clarity of his designs to focus the viewer 's attention on the sitter 's face and hands . |
| 26 | Banks may also provide buyer credits in foreign currencies to overseas importers to aid a country 's exports ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 27 | During the 1800s several US private banks established branches in Europe to finance trade and participate in the overseas marketing of US bonds , the latter being issued to raise funds to finance the USA 's economic development . |
| 28 | Spending her own money lavishly , she employed jewellers and fine craftsmen to build a doll 's house , magnificently decorated and well-displayed , and took it down to Neptune with her . |
| 29 | The changes will not come into force until 1991 and Lloyd 's stressed that it was attempting to introduce safeguards to ensure the market 's underwriting standards did not deteroriate . |
| 30 | The changes will not come into force until 1991 and Lloyd 's stressed that it was attempting to introduce safeguards to ensure the market 's underwriting standards did not deteroriate . |