Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another strange bird had descended in great flocks on the Mokai , much to Gould 's delight as only a single specimen had ever been delivered to England prior to 1839 , which was in the collection of the Linnean Society . |
| 2 | She was oddly reluctant to start the day 's work although previously the demands and challenges of working for Luke had given a spice to her days . |
| 3 | That it turned out to be neither was because of Father McGiff 's discovery that there was more to Time 's perfidy than just the simple ruse of slowing him down . |
| 4 | But , as was explained in sections 1.1 and 1.2 , it differs markedly from the alternative , commonly held perspective which sees each country 's economy as essentially an integrated whole , exporting any surplus of goods , capital or finance , or importing in response to a deficit . |
| 5 | Frank Daugherty saw Cagney 's style as just a logical development from that of other gangster types and identified as the most effective of his ‘ tricks ’ the way in which he could suggest that he was ‘ thinking his own thoughts ’ and ‘ reserving his feelings ’ . |
| 6 | The Airborne Self-Protection Jammer was described by the world 's top electronics experts in the 1988-89 edition of Jane 's Avionics as possibly the ‘ most significant US electronic warfare system in the current decade . ’ |
| 7 | Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been . |
| 8 | As we shall see in the Russian case , it was a common phenomenon , echoing Marx 's description of Lafargue 's internationalism as merely a mechanism for absorbing all in a model French nation . |
| 9 | Cadfael believed it , but could imagine Herluin 's face if ever the claim had been made to him . |
| 10 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 11 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |