Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immigration has so far played a relatively minor part in the election campaign , and Mr Baker 's decision to raise it now will be seen as a further attempt by the Tories to prevent their support slipping , particularly among skilled workers and their families . |
| 2 | Her room was pleasant and airy ; a front room , probably the best in the house , and Aunt Louise 's possessions gave it quite an air . |
| 3 | Feminist psychology 's greater awareness of the discipline 's complexities makes it more conscious of psychologists ' social construction than traditional psychologists are , and more uncertain about psychologists ' status as rational , unified subjects . |
| 4 | How much of the variation in a security 's returns does it actually explain ? |
| 5 | Christmas in an hotel room is n't everyone 's idea of bliss , but Kenneth 's presence makes it home , and we spend the morning sitting in bed listening to a carol service on the radio , watching Walt Disney and nibbling on an assortment of Marks and Spencer goodies before the heat of the room rendered them inedible . |
| 6 | CGI , which has 13.3% of Computer Horizons , and is regarded by the board as a hostile shareholder , argues that the company 's plans make it extremely difficult and expensive for another company to acquire Computer Horizons , and must be eliminated to make management accountable and maximise shareholder value . |
| 7 | Hathaway wanted the scene played one way , Hopper wanted to do it another ; they battled for seven hours and eighty-six takes before Hopper finally bowed to the director 's wishes to do it straight . |
| 8 | ‘ In addition to interfering with existing contracts , ’ said Lord Reid ‘ the defendant 's action made it practically impossible for the appellants to do any new business with the barge hirers . |
| 9 | Competition punting only takes place on the Thames but the sport 's devotees take it very seriously . |
| 10 | But while it may be appealing to the British public , I 'm not making it my life 's work to get it together . |
| 11 | We were told that she set to work ‘ editing ’ the crazed philosopher 's work to make it more Nazi , and that Elisabeth had a strong and malign influence on the growth of National Socialism . |
| 12 | I suspect that the Secretary of State 's inability to press that policy on the industry , and the industry 's failure to adopt it voluntarily before now , has done much to heighten public awareness of the reticence of the Secretary of State and of the industry to take the issue as seriously as they might . |
| 13 | Labour ex-Cabinet minister Lord Healey warned : ‘ Lady Thatcher 's type of nationalism is the greatest single danger to peace in the modern world , and Mr Major 's failure to confront it head-on as such a danger has made a civil war in the government party a danger to Britain and to Europe as whole . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You poor thing ! ’ exclaimed Deborah , and put her arm about the lamb 's body to keep it still and protect it from further damage . |
| 15 | My mind 's eye saw it well tamed and abloom with all kinds of ground-cover plants . |
| 16 | Can the Condicote team of David Nicholson , Richard Dunwoody and last year 's champion do it again ? |
| 17 | Many pioneers of women 's education made it quite clear that they did not accept Emily Davies ' view that girls might be trained in the same way as boys , and argued that they should be given an opportunity , by way of , for example , domestic science classes , to prepare for the lives a majority of them would lead as wives and mothers . |
| 18 | The ideal structure is created by plant and animal life in the soil : man 's efforts to produce it mechanically are , at best , a poor substitute for nature . |
| 19 | The rink 's owners say it simply is n't making money — the clubs that use it are trying to form a consortium to keep it open . |
| 20 | Even if such gruesome events really were seized upon , in medieval and Renaissance times , as an excuse for uproarious carnival , Verdi 's music makes it abundantly clear that that is not at all what he intended . |
| 21 | The inevitable clear soup followed ( pot au feu this time ) ; the sole was served in a delicate sauce almost imperceptibly flavoured with cheese , and the dean 's daughter appreciated it so much that the Colonel 's initial peevishness began to wear off . |
| 22 | The worst of it is , the Wild Wood is alive with the most hideous of micro-monsters ; by which I mean the so called Cathedral Bug — though ‘ bug ’ is too cosy a name for that black abortion — Satan 's Crab suits it better . |
| 23 | There was no doubt that the laboratory 's arrogance made it all too often unnecessarily hard to deal with and overconfident of its abilities . ’ |
| 24 | Shakespeare 's villains have it too easy , one sometimes feels . |
| 25 | Bryan Christie reports that an economic analysis of Government strategy to improve Scotland 's health finds it seriously flawed |
| 26 | Britain 's rescue drew it deeper into the American orbit , though with the introduction of Marshall Aid to promote the economic recovery of Europe by means of financing balance of payments deficits , this was to a degree common to western European countries [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 27 | The apparent failure of LIFFE 's ECU bond contract brought about a review of the product 's specifications to make it more attractive to hedgers , speculators and arbitrageurs . |
| 28 | The ANC 's letter described it as inconceivable that the authorities lacked the capacity to stop the factional fighting , in which 1,200 people had died in the past seven months . |
| 29 | That is important , and I am glad that the Opposition 's motion makes it so clear . |
| 30 | This magical number may have rendered the split-screen sequence superfluous ; but most Astaire and Charisse fans would probably give a day 's pay to see it once . |