Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wendt 's income puts him on a par with Peter Wood , founder of the Royal Bank of Scotland 's Direct Line insurance company who was paid £1.84m last year , but leaves him well ahead of other leading company chairmen . |
| 2 | More often , an executive 's contract entitles him to private use of his car . |
| 3 | The initial of the novel 's title promises withheld meaning , and is therefore more appropriate than Pynchon 's original title for the novel ( World on a String ) , but the absurdity of Stencil 's activities disqualifies him as an analyst of a hidden principle in modern history , signalled melodramatically as the ‘ Ultimate Plot which Has No Name ’ . |
| 4 | IRAS 's orbit takes it round the Earth every 100 minutes , passing within 9o of the poles on a path 900 km high , well above the water vapour in Earth 's atmosphere which absorbs much of the infrared radiation from space . |
| 5 | Turning the corner at Land 's End brings you to another world . |
| 6 | The fact is that Orwell 's route takes us through a largely white part of England . |
| 7 | The finding of a greater degree of alkaline exposure in the lower oesophagus of patients with complications of their Barrett 's oesophagus distinguishes them from those without complications and poses the question as to the origin of this distinction . |
| 8 | If the reader 's research carries him beyond familiar legal fields into a large general library , he will find E.J. Dingwall 's How to Use a Large Library a useful guide . |
| 9 | Arriving like a final dea ex machina , Doris 's condition makes her like an ironic version of that goddess in Tennyson 's ‘ oenone ’ , ‘ Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , / Fresh as the foam , new-bathed in paphian wells . ’ |
| 10 | While the Australian and Pakistan examples quoted above serve to illustrate the variety of provisions and problems which may emerge under the rubric of ‘ rural education ‘ , Sher 's thinking leads us to an awareness of the uniqueness of the situation in a country school whatever its location . |
| 11 | In particular , Oakeshott 's conception provides us with an insightful critique of Dicey 's method in Law of the Constitution . |
| 12 | One of Grice 's maxims tells us to ‘ be relevant ’ — but it does not attempt to explain the notion of relevance . |
| 13 | In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus . |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes you come in and feel optimistic because you have done your work the previous night and the morning 's work reminds you of how little progress you have made . |
| 15 | Here , Davie pays a handsome compliment to one fellow critic by implying that the best of his prose can stand comparison with an eighteenth-century writer 's ‘ sharp and exact delineations of what in one poet 's work distinguishes him from all others ’ . |
| 16 | But assuming Collor 's Brazil makes it into the ranks of the developed world , it will do so at the lowest level of eligibility , on a par with the East European countries . |
| 17 | His entry on Liselotte 's file portrays her as ‘ a lively child but mentally backward ’ . |
| 18 | A consideration of two dreams in Shakespeare 's plays takes us to a similar conclusion . |
| 19 | Sweeney 's name pronounces him of the lineage of a man who sold human flesh for butchermeat , a ‘ demon barber ’ . |
| 20 | Diktynna 's name links her with Mount Dikte , and she was portrayed in the classical period as a mountain mother . |
| 21 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 22 | Montag 's wife reports him to the Brigade and he is forced to flee , making his way to a place outside the city described by Clarisse , where a group of people have gathered together to memorise books , keeping the words immortal . |
| 23 | Speelman 's blunder leads him into trap |
| 24 | Wittgenstein 's argument provides us with a related objection to Locke 's explanation . |
| 25 | A cross section of Schorr 's repertoire introduces us to opera , oratorio and Lieder where the voice is always displayed in a completely even production with every note placed impeccably and coloured with great thought and beauty to fit the occasion . |
| 26 | Atlanta 's victory takes them to second in the NFC West with San Francisco a poor third . |
| 27 | Today 's journey takes you to Jaipur , visiting en route the gleaming Amber Fort , where the traditional mode of ascent is on the back of an elephant . |
| 28 | Today 's journey takes you through the New England states of New Hampshire and Maine before crossing the international border into Canada . |
| 29 | Today 's drive takes you through the Serengeti with lunch at the Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge . |
| 30 | Today 's drive takes you through some wonderful scenery as you follow the Black Canyon Highway as it climbs to Montezuma 's Castle , one of the most perfectly preserved of the ancient Indian cliff dwellings . |