Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFHQ 's response came at 1857 hrs that afternoon [ KP 228 ] : " Agree all Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army Area to be returned unless involves use of force , otherwise evacuation to Distone ( Italy ) in accordance with FX 77268 of 17 May . " |
| 2 | The British government 's response came in 1909 : the Morley-Minto reforms , named after the Secretary of State and the viceroy of the day . |
| 3 | Benjamin 's income came from any one or more of a series of sources , as we have seen : at times he earned wages as a silversmith or a clerk ; he also dabbled in the retail trade as a general salesman , and picked up some spare cash from his boarding houses . |
| 4 | In a part of Chile where half the region 's income goes to 10 per cent of the population and a quarter of all the people regularly do n't have enough to eat , the day to day problems of scraping together an income are common . |
| 5 | Despite this allusion to financial gentility , the truth was that Michael Joyce 's income derived from rented property , and from being general manager of the horse trams in Galway . |
| 6 | Mr. Steed 's defence served on 16 April 1987 pleaded that the transfer was forged . |
| 7 | On display also are a range of coaches , from the oldest preserved Royal coach in the world - namely Queen Adelaide 's Saloon constructed in 1842 to the prototype BR Mk II coach of 1962 . |
| 8 | Happily , she retains enough of Daddy 's money to live in comfortable circumstances in the Home Counties . |
| 9 | I mean I said to him oh er what he 's really got to get really is a cooker erm cos I said to him , I , I said to him if you really want to try and move in next week then you have n't got another week 's money to pay for that , you know |
| 10 | But secured creditors may not be too happy to see GE 's money spent on unsecured creditors while they lose control of the firm 's smart new jets . |
| 11 | One by one , from about 5 April , their supplies depleted , badly damaged , often without masts and rigging , and with exhausted crews , Alberoni 's armada crept into any ports its captains could find . |
| 12 | For most Whigs , it was axiomatic that resistance had taken place at the Revolution ; the logic of their position at Sacheverell 's trial rested on this basic belief . |
| 13 | Directors of Pressa 's printing works in 18 towns had written to Russia 's Minister for the Press and Mass Media , Nikolai Poltoranin , warning that because of financial difficulties , publication of central newspapers would cease in Russia 's regions unless emergency measures were taken . |
| 14 | Luckily Wittgenstein 's text bristles with such arguments . |
| 15 | Fungus infections like thrush and athlete 's foot thrive in warm , damp conditions . |
| 16 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 17 | 1 Carnation Milk is fresh cow 's milk sealed in airtight tins — and then sterilised , that 's why it 's pure and safe always . |
| 18 | Recent opinion polls show Mr Mulroney 's support hovering at 17 per cent , while the opposition Liberals have a comfortable lead with the backing of about 46 per cent of Canadians . |
| 19 | IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ? |
| 20 | The PvdA 's support fell to 24.8 per cent , more than 5 percentage points below its 1986 result . |
| 21 | Martin Wood 's course begins on 1 November , running six consecutive Wednesdays at the Greenbank Centre , Eaton Road , Chester , Cheshire , from 6.30pm . |
| 22 | Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ? |
| 23 | Creating this world and all the , the millions of worlds and spa , and galaxies and , and all the rest of creation , that was child 's play compared to forgiving you and me . |
| 24 | Standing on a stage in front of hundreds of people was child 's play compared to this . |
| 25 | And a month later , Reagan 's rating fell to 52 per cent . |
| 26 | Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley 's decision to abide by European Commission rules on the distribution of regional aid from Brussels immediately unlocked £18.9m of investment earmarked for the stricken former coalfield communities of Durham , Tyne and Wear , and Northumberland . |
| 27 | A referendum on Dec. 1 , 1989 , approved King Hassan 's decision to extend by two years the term of the current Chamber of Representatives . |
| 28 | A referendum on Dec. 1 , 1989 , approved Hassan 's decision to extend by two years the term of the current Chamber [ see p. 37219 ] . |
| 29 | Simon 's decision to dispense with normal syntax implies that stylistically the intention is to render the real more satisfactorily than the conventional novel would allow . |
| 30 | The announcement of the deal in the ballroom of the Statistics Office in Budapest was temporarily hijacked by the European Community 's ambassador to Hungary , Hans Beck , who used the occasion to dish out European Community tie pins , lecture the local press on the absence of a ‘ Hungarian Way ’ , and launch a fierce attack on Hungary 's decision to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures against an import ban on meat products introduced by the European Community two weeks ago following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Italy . |