Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps two-thirds of IBM 's income and an estimated 75 per cent of profits are still tied up in this threatened area . |
| 2 | The jury rejected the newspaper 's defence that the ordinary reasonable reader of the " News of the World " would not take the allegations of such a person seriously . |
| 3 | Mohammadreza Nezameddin Mohaved 's trial before an Islamic Revolutionary Court was held in June 1991 , almost a year after this arrest . |
| 4 | Edward Pearce 's Sketch When a first-class generalist meets a grubby technician |
| 5 | When a new and relevantly similar action occurs , one must either call it good or take back one 's judgement that the first one was good . |
| 6 | They brought , not another Bailén , but defeat after defeat , justifying Napoleon 's judgement that the Spanish regular army was the worst in Europe . |
| 7 | However , it was the loss of Lord Rothermere 's support and the free publicity in the Daily Mail that contributed most to the decline of the BUF . |
| 8 | As a consequence , though Deng is advertising the moderate Jiang Zemin , recently appointed Party general secretary , as his heir-apparent , the hardliners may have it in their power to change China 's course when the 85-year-old leader dies . |
| 9 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 10 | Sandison interrupted , unsure whether this was a genuine mistake on Maidstone 's part or a little test . |
| 11 | Three points from the last four available after five straight defeats is the reward for the manager 's faith and the sudden realisation that the First Division beckoned has focused minds magnificently as Jefferies acknowledged when he said : ‘ There is still a lot to be done but if the players show the same attitude for the rest of the season we wo n't go down . |
| 12 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean said she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 13 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean told him she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 14 | Over on ITV was Valdez Horses with Charles Bronson , not the most expressive of actors , as a halfbreed stud farmer involved with his wealthy neighbour 's sister and a teenage runaway . |
| 15 | They were the leading power in eastern Europe ; Serbia had a client-prince and a marriage alliance had been made between King Imre of Hungary 's sister and the Byzantine emperor . |
| 16 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 17 | The contrast between the political and social reality of his father 's existence and the political and social reality of his own existence was dramatically brought into focus from the moment that he entered the Ecole Normale Superieure . |
| 18 | At first sight , it seems arguable that the restrictions would meet this requirement following Megarry 's decision that no unlawful acts were committed . |
| 19 | The Law Lords were upholding a lower court 's decision that the Southern Water Authority had not breached the terms of the 1981 Act by damaging a site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ) . |
| 20 | There are currently only two workplace nurseries in the North — Queen 's University and the Royal Victoria Hospital — but the irony is that even in this extremely limited provision most women workers can not afford to use these facilities . |
| 21 | Nick was wearing yesterday 's shirt and the damp smell round the breakfast table told Erlich that Nick had washed his one pair of socks the night before . |
| 22 | The support from one 's functional colleagues requires first of all a high degree of mutuality of respect for each other 's expertise and a shared acceptance of the objective that you are trying to achieve . |
| 23 | They are sent regular reports on the community 's progress and a quarterly paper reporting on ActionAid 's work worldwide . |
| 24 | Q2 's designer , Mike Pocock , was n't so much chosen as self-appointed through a combination of admiration for Mary 's enthusiasm and a clear understanding of what the owner wanter Q2 to be . |
| 25 | The general lines of reform must be to permit increases on prewar standard rents which will cover maintenance costs with a certain allowance for arrears ; but these costs should be certified by the relevant local authority and only collectable upon that authority 's certificate that the appropriate standard of maintenance has been attained . |
| 26 | Before a cremation , English law required a doctor 's certificate and the requisite form from the Registrar of Births and Deaths . |
| 27 | The force between them has some correspondence with Newton 's finding that the gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them . |
| 28 | Phillips rejects the government 's assessment that the 6 per cent increase in the science budget represented level funding in real terms . |
| 29 | Tennyson 's birthplace and the Central Wolds |
| 30 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |