Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some £1.6m of the Westhoughton , Bolton-based company 's total debt will bear interest at only 1% per annum until January 1994 — this has led to interest savings of more than £500,000 a year at 1992 reduced interest levels . |
| 2 | London 's total output may increase by 7 per cent , placing it in danger of breaching the EC legal standard . |
| 3 | But the unit 's low cost will ensure its future appeal within the small business community . |
| 4 | When people queried whether Eva 's alert mind would get bored repeating the same course every couple of months she had a ready answer . |
| 5 | ( It 's just possible that the youngsters were expressing a scientific talent rather than a dislike of the press , for their is no denying that McGinty 's ample form would produce an immediate uplift in the balloon . ) |
| 6 | Although there was as yet no sign that the IRA was capable of mounting the sort of offensive which followed four years later , Paisley had no doubt where O'Neill 's reforming policy would lead : |
| 7 | Unless we can devise an approach which recognises the need to incur such costs , the market 's short-term mentality will continue to undervalue good and profitable companies and the fear of takeover to divert management from its most important tasks . |
| 8 | The patient 's pre-operative condition can indicate the likelihood of breathing related problems arising post-operatively . |
| 9 | In its native China , the wheelbarrow 's narrow wheel might have sliced through the mud and found rock beneath , but here it just cut deep into the sand . |
| 10 | Unless the Government are prepared to provide a forum for funds and expertise to assist the defence industry to diversify into other products , the job losses and the decline in Britain 's economic performance will continue — but , then , the Secretary of State does not care . |
| 11 | In that case the cost to France 's economic reconstruction would have been immense . |
| 12 | Whitehall 's obsessive secrecy may have a more humane base than generally allowed , though that seems rather unlikely . |
| 13 | Head of the Department of the Environment 's science unit , Dick Derwent , who was in Teesside to see the progress , dismissed suggestions that Redcar 's Technical College might have been a better site . |
| 14 | Further evidence comes from detailed observational studies of adult-child interactions which have suggested that infants are able to synchronise gross motor activity with the intonational contours of adult conversation ( Condon and Sander 1974 ) and that imitation of an adult 's facial expression can occur as early as three days after birth ( Meltzoff and Moore 1977 , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Trace , suspecting Randy 's incessant baiting might have some basis in desire , stepped up the spite . |
| 16 | Dr Irving said a snatcher 's emotional crisis could stem from infertility , the loss of a baby or a craving to be loved . |
| 17 | The candidate 's professional career must show a clear progression and unquestionable achievements . |
| 18 | Pharmacy was chosen for review because university cuts in the subject , announced by the UGC in 1981 , were made on the grounds that courses were available in the public sector , and because the UGC has recently established a panel on subjects allied in medicine , including pharmacy , with which NAB 's working group can consult and co-ordinate some measure of trans-binary planning . |
| 19 | And a crucial link between the budget malaise and the city 's political system will go on being ignored . |
| 20 | But with Jean-Pierre Papin bound for Italy , and a major shake-up promised for next season , there are fears that Mr Tapie 's political career may signify the end of an era at the Stade Velodrome . |
| 21 | Incompetent candidates with friends valuable to Keith 's political interest could try his patience sorely . |
| 22 | Frenchman Clement Ader 's bird-winged Eole may have been the first aircraft to take off under its own power ( a 20 hp steam engine ) in 1890 , but never really flew , lacking natural stability and any control system — though Ader did invent what is still the French word for an aeroplane : avion . |
| 23 | ( The government feared that Russia 's rampant inflation would make repeated attempts to fix asset prices so clumsy that privatisation could be postponed indefinitely . ) |
| 24 | But in the isolation that their riches had brought about , and in their serene acceptance that privilege was their due , they did not anticipate for a moment the press of people Don Antonio Beatillo 's idiosyncratic will would bring to their door . |
| 25 | The XJ-Two Twenty , which costs almost half a million pounds was being test driven by a motoring journalist , when he accidentally changed down to first gear instead of third while travelling at NINETY miles an hour.It 'll need about twenty thousand pounds to mend the broken car … the driver 's wounded pride may take a little more work . |
| 26 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 27 | Even a slight awareness of A. S. Neill 's compassionate philosophy would have prevented him from making the inept link with the Nazis and racism . |
| 28 | Man 's free will would have to go as well , and we would be left with an unloving , gatecrashing dictator God who refuses to allow people to choose their own eternal destiny . |
| 29 | GINA 'S French blood would make her appreciate the similarity between the words ‘ cherry ’ and ‘ chérie ’ , even if Eleanor did n't understand . |
| 30 | Someone from McLaughlin 's old shop would come and pick it up . |