Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonardo 's response describes a society resembling nothing classical or medieval , but contemporary : |
| 2 | The day 's activities included a slide show of photographs taken in and around Southall . |
| 3 | WHAT a waste of taxpayer 's money to create a monstrosity such as the proposed cross town route . |
| 4 | Yes but cost 's money to have a phone set up . |
| 5 | Wednesday 's bloodshed follows a massacre of ethnic Vietnamese in the northwestern province of Siem Reap on 10 March in which at least 38 people died . |
| 6 | Pat Eddery and Michael Roberts displayed the strength of their concern about the whipping issue by giving Brighton 's afternoon meeting a miss to appear with Cauthen . |
| 7 | For what it may be worth , if I am wrong in my application of the neighbourhood test so that the disturbance has to be judged by pre-planning permission standards , I would have found that the heavy goods vehicles going to and from each of the fourth and fifth defendant 's operations constituted a material disturbance to the residents at night . |
| 8 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Datapoint Corp says that the decline in revenue as of January 30 was down mainly to unfavourable foreign currency translations and an interruption of the French subsidiary 's operations following a fire in its leased warehouse — but there are some bulls of the shares around these days : analyst Howard Harlow of New York 's Whale Securities sees a major turnaround and a doubling in value of the shares over the next 12 months ; he sees earnings of $0.60 a share in 1993 followed by $1.20 a share in 1994 . |
| 9 | The reverential tone of Levin 's text poses a problem which the movement 's survivors , I imagine , would be quick to condemn . |
| 10 | Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours . |
| 11 | Howarth 's foot struck a beer-can . |
| 12 | At the end of WWII , the Beverley , East Yorks firm of Richard Hodgson 's Tannery had a Memorial to those employees who lost their lives in the two world wars displayed on the outside wall of their social club . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 18 | However , he was suspicious of Juan Trippe 's attempts to keep a monopoly on US overseas air services . |
| 19 | Mackenzie 's technique uses a variant of Michael Barnsley 's iterated function system , called a fractal interpolation function . |
| 20 | In February 1992 , Bosnia 's authorities held a referendum on independence . |
| 21 | It was an idle threat on Lavinia 's part to hire a companion at all . |
| 22 | is Richard 's sister wearing a bridesmaid dress ? |
| 23 | There must also have been readers who were led to reflect on Othello 's self-righteous murder of Desdemona , and to reflect that Shakespeare 's play expresses a view of mixed marriages which is both encouraging and discouraging . |
| 24 | One development worth calling to your attention , though , comes from South Africa : Vorster 's decision to give a measure of home-ownership rights to the ‘ urban African ’ . |
| 25 | A BUS firm 's decision to scrap a service because it is unprofitable has sparked a local outcry . |
| 26 | The council 's decision followed a Christmas night melee in which two teenagers were wounded by gunfire and more than 100 police were called in . |
| 27 | Approval was given to Panama 's decision to create a commission to pursue the actions required to bring Panama back into the mainstream of regional integration . |
| 28 | In the case of France , it has been said ( Kendall , 1975 ) that in the past a worker 's decision to join a union represented as much a reflex of class consciousness as any intention to organise practically on his own behalf for enhanced conditions and improved job control . |
| 29 | There was no play in the other semi-final yesterday , after Karpov 's decision to take a time out ; he leads Yusupov 2 ½ -1 ½ . |
| 30 | If Hoover 's decision to move a couple of hundred jobs from Dijon to Scotland was enough to provoke an uproar , imagine the corrosive effect on political support for the Single European Act of additional competitive devaluations . |