Example sentences of "[vb -s] of the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | Conversation between persons depends in large measure on presuppositions each participant has of the other 's mental state and it is unlikely that the same presuppositions will influence conversation with a computer system . |
2 | The catalogue ( Yale University Press , £40 h/b , £19.95 p/b ) includes an introductory essay by Shone , with additional essays by Anna Greutzner-Robins , who discusses Sickert 's music hall paintings , and Patrick O'Connor , who writes of the artist 's later interests in theatre and his portraits of leading figures of the stage . |
3 | Its responsibility is to plan , resource and control the processes involved in converting raw materials and components into the finished goods required to satisfy the needs and wants of the organization 's existing and potential customers . |
4 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
5 | Marriage is a loving , caring relationship where each thinks of the other 's good and this is especially important in relation to sex . |
6 | ‘ I would n't have given odds on it lasting ten minutes , ’ he says of the programme 's early days . |
7 | Swales , influential chairman of the International Selection Committee , says of the manager 's job : ‘ It destroyed Don Revie ; it did n't do Ron Greenwood too much good and Bobby Robson did n't like it one bit . |
8 | Maria Morgan , editor of the Guinness Book 's literary section , says of the publishers ' advertisement : ‘ The trouble is that as yet we do n't have a category for most widely read author . |
9 | From down in the corrie , the first view appears of the Ben 's mighty cliffs and the spectacular Carn Mor Dearg Arête , which must be crossed to link the two peaks . |
10 | The catalogue consists of the artist 's writings together with transcriptions of his unpublished remarks and poems which have on occasion inspired him — all compiled and deftly arranged by the di Suvero authority , Monroe Denton . |
11 | In western music , he believes this consists of the piece 's sequence of pitches . |
12 | I want only to suggest that however closely those match , however complete they are , therefore , in the pairs they form , they all also work as imagines of the writer 's relation to language , now confident , now uncertain , now lonely , now roistering and so on . |
13 | Everything here speaks of the owners ' attentive care and good taste . |
14 | He dreams of the Queen 's perfumes but awakes , gagging , in a pigsty . |
15 | We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals . |
16 | The next example is an account of a teacher 's observation of children at play whereby she learns of the children 's own discoveries as they experiment for themselves . |
17 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
18 | Anyone who knows of the vehicle 's whereabouts from that date until March 7 is asked to contact detectives at Bangor police station ( tel : 0247 454444 ) . |