Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [adv] " 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 | As Kmart has begun putting these data to work over the past few years , the company 's operations have become steadily more centralised . |
| 3 | Women 's groups have responded angrily to the jury 's decision to clear Austin Donnellan of rape . |
| 4 | Scotland Yard 's policies have become ever more sophisticated , backed by expensive publicity campaigns . |
| 5 | Britten 's accompaniments have figured largely in our discussion . |
| 6 | Mr Baldry 's plans include bringing in stricter requirements for the care and housing of live birds , and introducing new checks on all imports . |
| 7 | Lord Eldon 's views have proved more acceptable , as is evident from the next case : North v. Wakefield ( 1849 ) 13 Q.B . |
| 8 | Central-bank insiders point out that Mr Fazio 's views have changed considerably since 1984 , and that safeguards against political meddling with the Bank have been considerably strengthened . |
| 9 | The company 's exports have grown steadily since the early 1950s and , as it was then , won a Queen 's Award back in 1983 . |
| 10 | The parliament 's deputies have displayed not only independence but an intelligent unwillingness to panic in the face of economic crisis . |
| 11 | Abreu 's strategies appear to rule out such renegotiation possibilities — an agreement is made once and for all and can never be reopened . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Busi 's books seek to strip away layers of deceit , show the world as it is , which perhaps explains the author 's penchant for attending his book launches in the nude . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | Poppy 's words keep coming back to me : " I saw your little friend as I came here … |
| 16 | With Norm 's demise , America 's beer-drinkers have lost both a role-model and a soulmate ; but , as it happens , the week also brought them good news . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Mercifully , the vast majority of the world 's nations have said no to nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | Belgium 's businessmen have become almost neurotic about the price of what they eat , said Mme Bernadette Paesbrugghe . |
| 22 | Despite his success and high earnings , Hirst 's feet have stayed firmly in the mining community which has always been his home . |
| 23 | And Joanna 's bones have strengthened naturally as she has grown older . |
| 24 | If Europe 's governments choose muddling through rather than such reform , then that achievement , as well as the ERM itself , will remain at risk . |
| 25 | When all today 's isms have become yesterday 's ancient philosophy , there will still be revolutionaries . |
| 26 | Syva 's revenues have grown steadily since then to $1 3Om last year . |
| 27 | Could Horatio Alger 's heroes have done any better ? |
| 28 | Signora Mancini 's guests find staying here , they are really able to see the wonders of the Italian countryside at close range . |
| 29 | He says that the council 's actions have made almost six hundred people redundant — they 've been ripped off . |
| 30 | 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 . |