Example sentences of "'s [noun] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The south of France is pretty high on people 's agendas at this time of year . |
| 2 | Norman Bowler witnessed the vagaries of Minton 's existence at this time , but the older man also revealed to him a tender side which his performance in public obscured . |
| 3 | Claude Simon 's fiction at this time is particularly amenable to the criteria established by Ricardou . |
| 4 | Following the IWC 's decision at that congress to uphold the whaling ban [ see p. 37630 ] , it was reported that Iceland was also reviewing its membership . |
| 5 | Politicians of the powerful Irish republican and solidly Roman Catholic SDLP political party were fiercely critical and their co-operation was basic to the government 's policies at that time . |
| 6 | It is an expression of the child 's experience at several levels , especially an awareness of a love of nature . |
| 7 | To do so suggests that Gregory 's narrative at this point is genuine history rather than legend , which may have some basis other than a purely factual one . |
| 8 | Given Foix 's Haus-machtpolitik at this time , a desire to dominate the south-west by annexing further territories was easily attributed to the count . |
| 9 | Now she had to consider another person 's wishes at all times . |
| 10 | Lunch was the last thing on Juliet 's mind at that moment : she was far too excited . |
| 11 | The political solution was neither definitively adopted , nor even clearly formulated in Nizan 's mind at this stage . |
| 12 | The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto 's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies . |
| 13 | Accompanying teacher 's books at each level provide answers to the exercises , ideas on how to extend them , and photocopiable tests . |
| 14 | Kaposi 's sarcoma at any age . |
| 15 | Romaine ( 1982 : 177 – 82 ) discusses Bickerton 's data at some length , reevaluating his criteria for scaling variables . |
| 16 | People 's vulnerability at this time can be very great , and it is a poignant reflection on our society that there are many other people ready to prey on this . |
| 17 | An ardent sentiment of revolutionary romanticism tempered by a clear sense of political realism formed the texture of Nizan 's thinking at this juncture . |
| 18 | Had they known how rare such a commodity was in a woman 's college at that date , they might have been even more astonished , but in a sense , looking round Flora 's room , with its bright scatter cushions and Picasso prints and posters for plays at the ADC , with its invitations on the mantelpiece , with its gas fire and clutter of old shoes , with its romantic piles of what looked like lecture notes and essays , with its candle in a pewter stick and its wilting rose in a vase , they were beyond astonishment . |
| 19 | The motivation for too many people 's lives at this time seems to be the achievement of navigating through the spikes of complex material gadgetry which had been invented as a supposed aid to living . |
| 20 | As far as beating down and killing went , nothing very much was achieved , for the enemy were now everywhere in flight , such as could run , none staying to fight , not in Ramsay 's sector at any rate . |
| 21 | In one sense it 's part of every man 's dream at some time or other — to make for the country and live off and in nature . |
| 22 | Whatever the intended meaning of those words , there is strong evidence in the New Testament that many of the early Christians expected the Lord 's return at any moment . |
| 23 | The impact of these events on the church of Canterbury is unknown but Theodore 's increasing ill-health ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) may have meant a serious diminution in Canterbury 's influence at this time . |
| 24 | Eadmer gives a curiously confused account of Anselm 's motives at this time , but one thing stands out clearly : Anselm would not bring about the chaos in personal relationships and conflict of obligations which he might find himself obliged to precipitate if he read the letter . |
| 25 | Friends noticed an increase in Minton 's drinking at this time . |
| 26 | Women 's raincoats at half price . |
| 27 | An important fault in Freud 's work at this point is the failure to allow for a difference in the content of the ideas which leaders may espouse and develop in a group . |
| 28 | ‘ It will take some neck for him to now sit there and sing Pele 's praises at this function . ’ |
| 29 | When Brazil beat Italy 4-1 in the final of the 1970 World Cup the style of their triumph was a cry of defiance against the organisation men , the managers and coaches who insisted on getting things right in defence before even thinking about the imaginative attacking play which should be the game 's apotheosis at this level . |
| 30 | ( Peter Jenkins ( 1976 ) , who visited both Washoe and Lucy in 1973 , reports that Fouts was cautious about Lucy 's abilities at this time and Jenkins himself seems to have been more impressed with Washoe . ) |