Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she finishes speaking , the blunt colloquialism of Wilekin 's response emphasizes the facile and artificial nature of her self-portrait : ( " Dear woman , give over ! " ) |
| 2 | Luckily , the Field Guide 's glossary explains the unfamiliar terminology and much of it is obviously useful . |
| 3 | Harlot 's Ghost distils the uneasy , febrile , panicky essence of American Cold War paranoia and bottles it at a literate room temperature . |
| 4 | Mr Lamont 's stand means the Royal Family , including the Duke and Duchess of York will continue to escape the attentions of the inland revenue . |
| 5 | In short , Dobson 's case follows the erroneous interpretation which was endowed with authority by Lawrence and was therefore , in my respectful opinion , wrongly decided . |
| 6 | Now , Alan Janes 's play matches the well-loved songs with equally well-loved dialogue in a K-Tel Golden Greats collection of Dramatists ' Reliables . |
| 7 | Brandon Thomas 's play reflects the social propriety that meant young ladies were always chaperoned in mixed company even to a lunch party such being in 15 minutes time was n't thought unusual . |
| 8 | Randa Haines 's direction shows the TV-movie-of-the-week competence she showed in her debut , Children of a Lesser God . |
| 9 | A chance hearing of the Lord 's Prayer produces the following conversation : Child : What 's heaven ? |
| 10 | This week 's chart shows the correct figures . |
| 11 | But according to Superintendent Angus Kennedy of Strathclyde Police , Glasgow 's experience proves the opposite : that longer hours actually reduce manic ‘ binge drinking ’ getting a last one or two ‘ in ’ before the bell and encourage people to drink more sensibly . |
| 12 | Billy 's narrative addresses the drowned boy , giving a perspective on the past . |
| 13 | Robbins 's script exposes the amorphous nature of the language of the right , and how hearts and minds are won by the simple utterance of a few platitudes about American values , freedom and the family . |
| 14 | We agree with Bremner et al and with Spechler and Goyal et al , who stated that the established Barrett 's oesophagus represents the true cases and that ‘ creeping substitute ’ or developing Barrett 's oesophagus should be carefully followed up in order to determine the progression or not of these lesions . |
| 15 | These assessments are what ethnomethodologists call ‘ situationally justified action ’ , and they have a reflexive character , for the contextually justified nature of the person 's action provides the situational justification for the conduct of the police ( also see Smith and Vischer 1981 ) . |
| 16 | The child 's weight presents the ultimate in scales of measurement . |
| 17 | Sherry and Galef 's experiment supports the original hypothesis , that the spread of milk bottle opening was partially driven culturally , by imitation . |
| 18 | It is possible that Drummond and Hutton 's review underestimates the total activity , since many appraisals may be undertaken within health authorities and such reports do not always enter into the public domain . |
| 19 | The Moon 's five-way does the following : position one is straightforward humbuckers ; position two coil taps both pickups , leaving just the outer coils operational ; position three activates only the inner coils ; position four gives you the humbuckers in parallel and five puts them out of phase . |
| 20 | Pei 's openness uses the outside so that it seems as inviting as the interior . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is no exaggeration to say that Harnack 's exposition expresses the popular conception of Christianity of the contemporary Christian ‘ man in the street ’ — a broadly ethical Unitarianism , in which Jesus is seen as a noble teacher and inspiring example of love and heroic self-sacrifice . |
| 22 | Whitbread winner Topsham Bay is unlikely to be near his peak , so one-paced Paco 's Boy seems the only remote danger . |
| 23 | Critchley 's party-piece has the rounded phrasing , the well-turned punchline of frequent rehearsal ( it 's claimed that some of his fans can recite it back to him ) , but it captures the tone of the Tories in those days perfectly . |
| 24 | Hegel 's philosophy represents the logical outcome of this underlying allergy of philosophy . |
| 25 | Like writing , paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which , so to speak , time 's arrow moves the other way . |
| 26 | Matcham 's work covers the entire span of late Victorian and Edwardian theatre architecture , from the grand London Coliseum to smaller suburban and variety theatres , most of which were destroyed by enemy bombers in World War II or by later developers . |
| 27 | This short overview of the year 's work covers the whole range of BGS 's activities , touching on particular projects that exemplify the work as a whole : full descriptions of these and much else follow the overview |
| 28 | Ponman and Bertram 's work concerns the compact group of four galaxies called HCG62 . |
| 29 | Mary Scott 's work has the elusive quality of a childhood memory . |
| 30 | This year 's meet incorporates the super final of the Uncle Ben 's Rice British Grand Prix series where Fibbens , the reigning sprint freestyle champion , is just one of nine defending champions . |