Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis , meanwhile , intends to turn up at each of Bowe 's fights to shame the IBF and WBA champion into fighting him . |
| 2 | ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and |
| 3 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 4 | This weekend 's show looks at man 's attempts to predict the weather . |
| 5 | They preferred undisguised military occupation to self-administration and refused to co-operate with Israel 's attempts to create an accommodationist Palestinian leadership in the territories . |
| 6 | Grilly 's attempts to adjudicate the question had failed , and Pierre Flote was deputed to bring the affair to the cognizance of the court of France . |
| 7 | I welcome Margaret Woddis ' and Celia Brackenridge 's attempts to push an analysis of the relationship between gender and physical culture further than I was able in ‘ Work Your Body ! ’ |
| 8 | USL brought suit against the pair because of BSDI 's attempts to commercialise an Intel Corp 80386 operating system called BSD/386 based on the university 's Network Release 2 which USL claims infringes on its code . |
| 9 | In this way , Sir John French was warned of large-scale German movements to his front before the Battle of Mons and later of Kluck 's attempts to envelop the BEF . |
| 10 | For even before it , the new president 's attempts to form a government of national unity had been faltering , thanks mainly to Gen Aoun 's opposition . |
| 11 | For even before it , the new president 's attempts to form a government of national unity had been faltering , thanks mainly to Gen Aoun 's opposition . |
| 12 | The event is part of the Rugby Football Union 's attempts to promote the game . |
| 13 | Thru literalizes this defining characteristic of narrative by constantly thwarting the reader 's attempts to assign the text to a given ‘ voice ’ . |
| 14 | Man 's attempts to tame the flood have not always progressed smoothly . |
| 15 | The company 's attempts to mislead the public simply highlight how it profits by wrecking one of the Earth 's greatest natural treasures . " |
| 16 | Pre-dating the Act , and in some respects in contradiction to the aims of the national curriculum that forms the core of the legislation , were the government 's attempts to improve the structure and quality of vocational and technological education . |
| 17 | Urban violence , inadequate infrastructure and , at 3.1 per cent a year , the fastest population growth in southern Asia were among the chief obstacles in the way of the Bhutto government 's attempts to revitalize the economy . |
| 18 | Mr Jones 's attempts to control the situation by speech , his speech forms being in all probability m the mode of command , are reported as leading amazingly rapidly to the offer of violence . |
| 19 | Alford was equally staunch in championing the rights of the Commons against the Lords , whether protesting at the Upper House 's attempts to control the negotiations over the Scottish union or complaining against their insistence on members ' ‘ standing so long bare ’ at conferences . |
| 20 | Marx 's attempts to explore the wreck were unsuccessful ; fourteen years later Captain Herbert Humphreys Jr negotiated a deal with the Bahamian government which gave him three-quarters of the profits of all items found . |
| 21 | Feminism 's attempts to explore the subjectivities of female subjects who are ignored or silenced by western discourses have led it to develop some methodological preferences of its own . |
| 22 | The inverse of the use of this sweet spice comes with the kissing of Alison 's arse , " " ful savourly " " ( 3734 – 5 ) and Absolon 's attempts to take the taste of that away : — note here the details appropriate to this action taking place in a carpenter 's yard . |
| 23 | Later , however , she resisted the creditor 's attempts to enforce the security on the ground , first , that the document was void as being an unregistered bill of sale and , secondly , that she had been procured to sign by her husband 's undue influence and had had no independent advice . |
| 24 | But the moment the military dictatorship resorted to armed aggression against British subjects the radical student protester , who cared for nothing but his ideals and for justice , freedom and equality , unhesitatingly sided with the invaders and began to protest , not against them , but against his own government 's attempts to restore the freedom , democratic rights and civil liberty of those who had lost them ! |
| 25 | It is arguable , too , that he was over-anxious to dismiss people 's attempts to preserve the family as ‘ ideology ’ , one distracting attention from the class basis of fascism . |
| 26 | Since he had ten minutes of lunch-break left he strolled into the canteen and sat down with Hickson , one of his more elderly colleagues — an avuncular type , deep in local politics , and decidedly cynical about Greg 's attempts to resuscitate an era of Oswaldston history long and thankfully closed . |
| 27 | The instances are the practice and the practice is the rule ; a rule is ‘ internally related ’ to its instances , and the sceptic 's attempts to plant a gap between them simply betray a misconception of what it is to follow a rule . |
| 28 | Mr Bond 's attempts to use the cash in Bell Resources — acquired from the toppled Australian raider , Robert Holmes a Court , last year — have been hampered from the start by Mr Spalvins . |
| 29 | Lou Macari 's attempts to wed a club steeped in sophistication to the long-ball game have brought him unpopularity in the dressing-room which will soon spread to the terraces if results do not improve . |
| 30 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |