Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pa 's response comes in the flat voice I know , and fear , ‘ Talk properly , James . |
| 2 | Twenty years ago more than three quarters of the College 's income came in the form of a government grant . |
| 3 | The Committee 's activities culminated in the summoning of a People 's Convention on 12 January 1941 . |
| 4 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 5 | Nead 's text takes in the conventional notions of feminine beauty , pornography and the tabloid press , the fine line between sexuality and the obscene and the recent reclamation of the nude by female artists . |
| 6 | But the SSD claimed this week that the Appeal Court 's judgement flew in the face of earlier court decisions . |
| 7 | Flack 's skin glistened in the white , gritty light , his thin face tight with fatigue . |
| 8 | When Carco called to see the paintings Zborowski ran to buy a candle , stuck it into the neck of a bottle , then showed Carco into a narrow , unfurnished room where a stack of Modigliani 's canvases stood in the corner . |
| 9 | Ruskin Spear , on the other hand , thought Minton 's decision to paint in the life room a mistake . |
| 10 | Even the youngster 's goldfish perished in the blaze at his home in Saltaire , near Bradford . |
| 11 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 12 | To illustrate the point let me cite the example of Yorkshire , where the majority of the county 's clubs competing in the Courage Leagues have no opportunity of taking part in a national knock-out competition . |
| 13 | The doctrine of scientific determinism was strongly resisted by many people , who felt that it infringed God 's freedom to intervene in the world , but it remained the standard assumption of science until the early years of this century . |
| 14 | the lessons the RIC 's experience offers in the context of current policing problems in Ireland . |
| 15 | But Whitaker 's luck changed in the four rider Horsemaster final when he again looked likely to finish as a runner-up . |
| 16 | The moon was almost full , casting long shadows on the ground and they saw Tock 's cottage glimmering in the distance . |
| 17 | Tanagra tried to replace Thebes as informal hegemon of the league in mid-century , but it was on Thebes that Sparta 's plans centred in the First Peloponnesian War . |
| 18 | Newcastle Polytechnic 's plans to expand in the North-West are on the verge of a housing crisis months before the first students move into its £1m Carlisle campus . |
| 19 | Within a few minutes she saw him riding towards her up the hill , his horse 's harness glinting in the sun . |
| 20 | The loss of Simpson makes Oxford 's fight to stay in the second division even harder . |
| 21 | Even worse , if they 'd fancied a bottle of Bell 's whisky to toast in the New Year , it would have cost them £23.04 , almost twice the UK price . |
| 22 | Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 23 | Downstairs Madeleine 's hair flamed in the gold circle of light cast by the lamp . |
| 24 | Now his running ambitions are about to be realised as Graham explains : ‘ It is every runner 's ambition to run in the London Marathon and just before Christmas I found out I would realise that ambition in April 1993 . |
| 25 | The fathers of four and the mother of one of the 54 children who were born in and had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed in the study area had been employed in the nuclear industry before their child was diagnosed ( relative risk 2.2 , 95% confidence interval 0.6 to 6.9 ) . |
| 26 | However , specialisation in the organ is no indication of a student 's intention to work in the field of church music , for in recent years the organ has become increasingly recognised as a solo instrument in its own right . |
| 27 | There is no women 's Utopia lurking in the shrubbery Although Labour has captured the election initiative on feminist issues , ROBIN LEE remains unconvinced . |
| 28 | The killing in Hrothgar 's meadhall described in the ensuing passage was clearly the origin of the many Country House murders which were to feature in Hercule Poirot 's investigations . |
| 29 | The report claimed that Khmer Rouge fighters had attacked the 5th military region 's command based in the city as well as Bek Chan airport . |
| 30 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |