Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A members ' voluntary liquidation usually happens because a company 's shareholders want to close down the business and get their money back . |
| 2 | Mr Baldry 's plans include bringing in stricter requirements for the care and housing of live birds , and introducing new checks on all imports . |
| 3 | Abreu 's strategies appear to rule out such renegotiation possibilities — an agreement is made once and for all and can never be reopened . |
| 4 | Tony Tucker , a director of syndications and asset trading at Continental Bank in London , reckons that GPA 's woes have set off new competition among brokers of distressed bank debt . |
| 5 | United 's goals have dried up though … and they could do with a man like Southend 's Stan Collymore who hit the winner 12 minutes from time … he 's worth over a million pounds … and left Oxford penniless on saturday … |
| 6 | Poppy 's words keep coming back to me : " I saw your little friend as I came here … |
| 7 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 8 | Regrettably , theft losses from people 's homes have gone up alarmingly , particularly in the larger towns and cities and , as a result , we have had to increase some of our rates . |
| 9 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 10 | If Europe 's governments choose muddling through rather than such reform , then that achievement , as well as the ERM itself , will remain at risk . |
| 11 | The Soviets : on Gen Keightley 's right flank , Macmillan goes on : " Marshal Tolbukhin 's armies have spread out into what is supposed to be the British Zone in Austria , including the important city and road centre of Graz . |
| 12 | Sotheby 's Publications continue to bring out the volumes on Alexej von Jawlensky with the Catalogue raisonne of the oil paintings , Vol. 3 , 1934–37 ( £175 ) . |
| 13 | If there 's no time to summon your child 's friends round to join in , invite Teddy . |
| 14 | Some of Althusser 's critics have pointed out that this monolithic conception of the role of ideology can not account for the vast variety of ‘ ideological universes ’ found in modern capitalist states , some conformist and others overtly subversive . |
| 15 | Given that it is good for many people to get out of the home and meet other people at work , and that it is crucially important not to leave re-entry into the labour market until the person 's children have grown up , these disregard rules need to be reversed as soon as possible . |
| 16 | The evening 's proceedings struggle to match up to Jesse 's performance . |
| 17 | It 's an outside chance — but all the more reason why Mrs Friel 's daughters want to find out more about the treatment their mother received . |
| 18 | Er really no great change here , small improvement in capital and small increase in capital employed and of course with little change in net debt and the shareholders ' funds have gone up . |
| 19 | Their lending rates have not fallen in line with their funding costs ; banks ' margins have widened by about two percentage points since early 1991 . |
| 20 | Guitarist 's Readers ' Ads have taken over as the foremost private buying , selling , swapping and personnel advertising service around . |
| 21 | Tomkins ' shares have come down , falling from 260p to 220p on the extra shares it will have to issue for this bid . |