Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 2 | The deal is not affected by this week 's decision to slow down part of the emergency aid agreed upon by the Twelve in December because of the repression in the Baltic republics . |
| 3 | FRANCE 'S decision to sweep away exchange controls to mark the Euro decade of the 1990s is important enough to have caused even Mrs Thatcher to give some ground in her opposition to the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 4 | Until Lockwood took over , all four curators had keys of their own strongrooms ; Lockwood 's decision to hand over strongroom keys to the security staff is said to have incurred ‘ considerable resentment ’ . |
| 5 | Daimler 's inability to turn around AEG since buying it in 1985 , after AEG had already itself failed to stem heavy losses , has damaged morale at the company . |
| 6 | The Rawtenstall store is the first of the supermarket chain 's English stores to get Cashline , and to celebrate the occasion staff from the town 's branch handed out carrier bags and keyrings to shoppers as well as answering account enquiries . |
| 7 | Welsh dairy farmer Sirrell Griffiths is hoping enough rain will fall at Kempton Park before Boxing Day to allow his former point-to-pointer Norton 's Coin to take on Desert Orchid in the King George VI Rank Chase . |
| 8 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 9 | Hitler 's remarks stressing the work of ‘ Providence ’ on Germany 's side prompted only shaking of the head among ‘ academics ’ and the ‘ higher circles ’ of society . |
| 10 | And , according to Mrs Aitken , Jake had no objections , so arrangements were made for Carol 's parents to pick up Kirsty on the appointed day . |
| 11 | ALTON Townswomen 's Guild handed over charity cheques at the annual general meeting . |
| 12 | Sir Robert Mark 's campaign to root out corruption in the Metropolitan Police is well known . |
| 13 | The Issak had been the main casualties in the government 's campaign to stamp out support for the rebel Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 14 | Hayman listened to Manville 's footsteps fading away town the corridor outside . |
| 15 | ‘ You could bring along your daughter , ’ he added , scenting out the conspiracy of affection and design between father and daughter and sensing Burkett 's reluctance to do strictly servant work . |
| 16 | Their main concern was not that they should receive the extra money but that the man 's desire to give up smoking would be met . |
| 17 | The United States announced on July 22 that it would not renew a bilateral textile agreement with Myanma in protest at human rights violations and the junta 's refusal to hand over power to the NLD . |
| 18 | The SLORC 's refusal to hand over power to the NLD in May 1990 was harshly criticized by many states , including the United States , Japan and the members of the European Communities . |
| 19 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
| 20 | Mr Pascall 's emphasis came back time and time again to the idea of a ‘ framework ’ : ‘ The purpose of the national curriculum , ’ he said , ‘ is to ensure that there is a framework so that we can be confident that every child has the opportunity to read widely , to develop the habit of reading and to develop the love and understanding of literature . |
| 21 | Again , a servant in custody of his master 's goods has not possession of them , for it is constructively in the master . |
| 22 | Road victim 's father sets up family support network |
| 23 | Council 's code spells out Act |
| 24 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 25 | Take , for example , two people who have a problem in realizing that God really loves them — so that mention of God 's holiness inspires only terror or guilt . |
| 26 | What he forgets is that more than half of Africa 's people do not practice female genital mutilation . |
| 27 | The coroner 's jury brought in death by misadventure , on advice by the coroner . |
| 28 | We have seen the ways in which Sartre 's Critique shows how totalization can not work without a movement of self-transcendence , a repeated interpolation of an excess beyond the totality which paradoxically then means that the totality can no longer be a totality . |
| 29 | So you trace the , the , the , in other words the day 's residue becomes just part of the associations which leads back often to things which did n't necessarily happen today , or which may even have happened in the past . |
| 30 | Basil 's concern to bring about change was achieved without any desire to build an Art Empire in the West Riding . |