Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on extensive research , it concluded that parents ' attitudes to education were of supreme importance in influencing children 's educational success — more so than the parents ' educational or occupational status , than material circumstances at home , and than schools themselves . |
| 2 | Increasingly these instructions are becoming more important in determining the power and flexibility of computers than the machines ' electronic parts or hardware . |
| 3 | with the GDR proved more than the conservatives ' right wing could stomach . |
| 4 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 5 | In about 13% of schools , the money contributed by parents amounts to more than the schools ' official funding from their LEAs . |
| 6 | Although the Hexams ' Thames-side tenement , a former mill , in Our Mutual Friend , is in itself atrocious — ‘ roof , and walls , and floor … alike had a look of decomposition ’ — it is the effort to make the place a home — ‘ a small dresser , making a spare show of the commonest articles of crockery and cooking vessels ’ that is drawn to the reader 's attention . |
| 7 | Although the crabs ' distant ancestors came from the sea , these are land crabs . |
| 8 | Brigadier Andrew Cumming said that although the troops ' primary role would be to get aid through to people desperately in need , they would attempt to adapt their peace-keeping experiences elsewhere in the world to the current crisis . |
| 9 | Once the Samaritans ' advertised in the club programme . |
| 10 | FOR those who say the America 's Cup can not leave San Diego soon enough , Gary Jobson , the American television pundit , has this message : ‘ If the defenders ' final trial is between Dennis Conner and Bill Koch , Conner will win and the cup will stay in San Diego . |
| 11 | The Merger Regulation indicates in its recitals that if the parties ' combined market share does not exceed 25 per cent in the EC or in a substantial part of it a merger between them is unlikely to impede effective competition . |
| 12 | If the referees ' confidential comments disagree with their comments to the author then they are denying the authors useful feedback ; if both sets of comments agree should the editor not have to justify why they have been overruled ? |
| 13 | If the monetarists ' preferred method of control is used — namely , open market operations — the working of the direct mechanism is unclear . |
| 14 | Because the males ' reproductive success is probably limited by the number of females they can attract and defend from other males rather than their sperm supply , natural selection will favour any property in a male that enables him to mate with more females . |
| 15 | While the managers ' long-term intention is to have a balance in Europe , Mr Burns believed that with the main continental economies in difficulty , prospects in the short term do not look attractive . |
| 16 | They made the Navigation Acts effective ; in the colonies the legislation came to be known as ‘ the Acts of Trade ’ , which expressed rather well the way that , while the Acts ' main importance to England lay in their encouragement to shipping , their main impact on the colonies came in the way they affected the pattern of trade that was developing . |
| 17 | In this scenario Labour needs to play safe , while the Tories ' waning popularity in the country takes its toll on Major 's position . |
| 18 | Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes . |
| 19 | Agreement was reached on April 3 to increase wages by 25 per cent in each of the next four quarters , in exchange for productivity increases , but on the following day IUM representatives announced that since the strikers ' political demands were not being met the strike would not be suspended . |
| 20 | Old Herr Stern , isolated in the silent world of the deaf , munched grimly and spoke not at all , whilst the Zimmermans ' desultory attempts to engage their guests in conversation were soon abandoned . |
| 21 | After the Stanleys ' ambivalent behaviour in 1469–71 Edward may have seen his brother 's presence in the region as a useful counterbalance , but it is unlikely that he wanted to see the Stanleys totally eclipsed . |
| 22 | After the Stanleys ' ambivalent behaviour in 1469–71 Edward may have seen his brother 's presence in the region as a useful counterbalance , but it is unlikely that he wanted to see the Stanleys totally eclipsed . |
| 23 | Speculation about whether the Assassin troops believed that their experiences in the Alamut gardens fitted out as Paradise were really a dream , or whether the gardens ' compliant slaves were all too real in the flesh is thus academic . |
| 24 | Whether the vendors ' financial arrangements present any structuring opportunities ? |
| 25 | Whether the radicals ' anti-western rage takes wider hold depends on the outcome of the war . |
| 26 | CONOR Cruise O'Brien , a legendary sage in his lifetime in Irish politics , academic institutions and journalism , was not unduly surprised when the Unionists ' historic visit to Dublin in July 1992 ended in failure . |
| 27 | When the Orioles ' designated hitter lifts a three-run homer over the right field fence in the ninth to wrap it up at 9–3 , the resigned Sox faithful begin heading for the exits . |
| 28 | This may be necessary for reasons of motivation , innate intelligence , interests , time for study , time of arrival into class as well as the students ' linguistic abilities . |
| 29 | The cold wind of competition is blowing down the Bahnhofstrasse , Zurich 's bank-strewn high street , just as the bankers ' other problems were growing anyway . |
| 30 | That the standard of the Fiji tournament — which according to such a seasoned sevens campaigner as the Scots ' assistant coach , John Jeffrey , reached unprecedented highs — was beyond question . |