Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is arguably the practitioner 's responsibility for creating such a climate . |
| 2 | When a sentence is uttered , it is rarely the utterer 's intention that it should be interpreted in two ( or more ) different ways simultaneously . |
| 3 | Following the point made by the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery ( Mr. Carlile ) , presumably the Government 's contention is that , either because of prevalence or because of some emergency , it is necessary today , without the normal consultation , to go through every stage of the Bill . |
| 4 | Presumably the bat 's image of the world in which it is cruising is being updated 10 times per second . |
| 5 | Eventually the yacht 's crew was arrested near Bristol and we unloaded the yacht in their absence , taking off twenty four cases of whisky during a hilarious evening operation involving our respective motor boats to ferry the goods back to Poole Quay . |
| 6 | ‘ The battle was over in less than an hour , ’ says the leaflet , and eventually the Prince 's message went out , ‘ Let every man find his own way to safety the best way he can . ’ |
| 7 | Eventually the photographer 's indignation was assuaged , and he parted with the prints . |
| 8 | State officials and eventually the government 's Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) in Atlanta , Georgia were called in . |
| 9 | But Coun Stephen Earley , chair of the council 's housing committee , said the site was the only option to help clear the town 's homelessness problem . |
| 10 | On June 14 the Supreme Soviet rejected overwhelmingly the government 's proposal to treble bread prices from July 1 . |
| 11 | In short , this could mean that even more UV light will hot the earth 's surface — in winter as well as summer — increasing the risk of skin cancer , sun rashes and premature skin ageing . |
| 12 | Prominent in the latter are property developer Trevor Osborne , effectively the group 's chairman , Michael Abrahams ( of the ‘ Pru ’ and a prominent fund-raiser for the Prince 's Institute ) and Lord Stevens ( incoming chairman of English Heritage ) , along with representatives of the Arts Council , Architecture Foundation and other interested parties . |
| 13 | On performance though , good as the new one is , I remain firmly attached to the TER , which is more romantically conceived , and captures much better the work 's operetta style . |
| 14 | The expanded auditors ' report : could do better The APB 's exposure draft needs some attention if it is to help to reduce the expectations gap |
| 15 | Suddenly the story 's landscape is completely different . |
| 16 | Suddenly the secretary 's voice was warmer , almost flirtatious . |
| 17 | I mentioned Ben Ami and Um Al-Farajh and referred momentarily to Mrs Zamzam , when suddenly the boy 's face lit up . |
| 18 | While he was talking he noticed scratch-marks on the water , hundreds of white gashes , and suddenly the captain 's voice , crackling over the intercom , interrupted him . |
| 19 | They were halfway down Fleet Street when suddenly the Coroner 's mood changed . |
| 20 | Suddenly the cacique 's son , who had watched the scene in dismayed silence , lost his temper . |
| 21 | Where the offer is for cash or includes an element of cash , the offer document must include confirmation by an appropriate third party ( eg the offeror 's bank or financial adviser ) that the offeror has sufficient resources to satisfy acceptances of the offer in full ( although , in exceptional circumstances , with the consent of the Panel , a conditional form of confirmation may be allowed if the provision of cash is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions ) ( Rule 24.7 ) . |
| 22 | The genitive is grammatically subordinated to its head word , eg the ship 's captain . |
| 23 | Apparently the machine 's screen and the motherboard survived intact — but alas not the floppy drive . |
| 24 | The various Right-On movements , especially the women 's movement , had grown enormously during the years of the Wilson-Callaghan government . |
| 25 | In the 1730s women found new outlets for their work through periodicals , especially The Gentleman 's Magazine , and through subscription publishing . |
| 26 | Emergency procedures for cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( especially the nurse 's role ) . |
| 27 | Social and political attitudes in the South seem very different from those elsewhere , especially the country 's northeast — the traditional ‘ Manufacturing Belt ’ . |
| 28 | There 's an igneous intrusion there , with fragments of garnet peridotite — that 's a rock from below the earth 's crust — and I 'd like to spend a bit of time there , though the rocks at the north-west end look pretty difficult to get at . |
| 29 | J. R. R. Tolkien , to whom Lewis read aloud The Pilgrim 's Regress , liked the book . |
| 30 | If this is n't enough the IDB 's range of financial incentives and on-going support is the most flexible in Europe . |