Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel 's skin turned dusky gold . |
| 2 | Tremayne 's vet took small blood samples of all the stable 's runners prior to their last training gallop before they raced , the resulting detailed analysis being able to reveal a whole host of things from a raised lymphocyte count to excreted enzymes due to muscle damage . |
| 3 | One of the Baptist J. H. Shakespeare 's sons became private secretary to Lloyd George and an MP . |
| 4 | On the economic front Alia 's proposals included encouraging initiative in enterprises and curtailing the role of central planning bodies ; paying bonuses to workers exceeding production targets ; allowing agricultural workers to sell surpluses at prices not fixed by the state ; curtailing artificial price fixing , by means of state subsidies , for all but essential goods ; and allowing people to build their own homes . |
| 5 | At the bottom of the judicial system , magistrate 's courts handled petty crime and committed more serious offenders for trial in one of the higher tribunals . |
| 6 | Coun Carr said the council 's budget had all-party support and the fact that it had been ignored by Mr Howard showed the futility of an appeal . |
| 7 | To talk to the network software layer in the Open Client , the application will then work either through Sybase 's proprietary tabular data stream protocol or other protocols Sybase says it will support , in particular , IBM Corp 's DRDA Distributed Relational Database Architecture , the Open Software Foundation 's RDA and Borland International Inc 's emerging IDAPI . |
| 8 | Sainsbury 's plans received wholehearted support from borough councillors anxious to attract a prestigious development to the Grange Road site . |
| 9 | Individual householders , faced with the prospects of a water rate , showed as little enthusiasm for the benefits of water ( and with it sewage disposal ) in the home , so that when the Empire ended only half the city 's houses had running water . |
| 10 | In this work it is extraordinarily easy to produce ghost images and chimeras , like the canals on Mars , which may or may not be cracks , but even if Andrade 's patterns showed genuine surface cracks , which seems likely , this would not prove that there were not also internal cracks . |
| 11 | Left : Compact but powerful , Homeguard 's Trimalert combined high-intensity halogen floodlight and PIR unit fits unobtrusively to front of your house ; 150 watt halogen tube is equivalent to 500 watt floodlight |
| 12 | Her clothes , her face , her hands , her glistening rounded legs were many shades of what Frederica later learned from her to call " mohve " , like , yet unlike , the innocent bright asters and the cyclamen , which now in Stephanie 's mind resembled bruised flesh . |
| 13 | Clinton 's candidacy combined 1960s-style idealism with New South pragmatism to woo voters with a promise of results over ideology or political party . |
| 14 | The pattern maker 's lathe made fast work of this , the cutter mounted on the cross-slide and wound down the length of the wood . |
| 15 | It 's all hands on deck for the most exciting show in London as the Royal Navy introduces this year 's action packed Royal Tournament at Earl 's Court . |
| 16 | 14 August : The Royal National Institute for the Blind 's action packed fun day at Court Place Farm , Marsh Lane , Marston , Oxford . |
| 17 | The Games Administration Committee , who sometime ago reiterated their determination to take strong action in relation to off the ball incidents , have obviously decided that Carr 's action merited severe censure . |
| 18 | The Baronne 's words came stinging back at her : ‘ With Rohan , it is always a matter of business . ’ |
| 19 | Since the patients in Newcombe and Ratcliff 's study sustained penetrating missile wounds of the brain whereas those of Hécaen and Sauguet suffered from naturally occurring lesions it is possible that aetiological differences account for the discrepant findings . |
| 20 | What is stated in the bill is only conclusive evidence against the master or agent who signed it , ‘ even where the carrier 's agent had actual authority to sign . ’ |
| 21 | Maria 's eyes blazed pure gold . |
| 22 | Keating 's lawyer gave immediate notice of his intention to appeal , but Keating was denied bail on the grounds that he represented a " significant flight risk " . |
| 23 | Professor Hobsbawm 's remedies included electoral reform and alliance with environmentalists , the peace movement , Scots and Welsh nationalists , and other dissenters . |
| 24 | Indeed the Church 's counter-offensive made common property the most familiar arguments of deists and natural law philosophers in order to refute them . |
| 25 | The monk 's cell had stout clay walls and a plaster roof supported by a sturdy central prop . |
| 26 | Though it is sometimes said that Hilbert 's theorem killed invariant theory , this is not entirely correct . |
| 27 | Marje 's lover kept secret woman |
| 28 | General Robert Nivelle 's plan caused early friction between himself and General Sir Douglas Haig . |
| 29 | Cassirer 's gallery exhibited avant-garde art as early as 1895 . |
| 30 | A set programme of builder 's trials included comprehensive testing of every aspect of the boat . |