Example sentences of "'s [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet feminists who made women 's right to enter the public sphere a priority never really addressed the issue of women 's role as wives and mothers , which late nineteenth-century doctors and scientists held to be the chief and necessary constraint on women 's achievements . |
| 2 | We are not prepared to accept restrictions on the employer 's right to recruit the best qualified person for the job . |
| 3 | For reliance upon a voluntary undertaking to observe wage-restraint implies a recognition of the movement 's right to resume the full exercise of its powers . |
| 4 | Edward Thomas 's fifteen months at St. Paul 's helped to shape the early pattern of his life as a writer : I was considered to excel in this form of rhetoric . |
| 5 | Ahead , the MTWTV convoy was halted at a red light , and behind , Presley 's finest followed the armoured car with its onboard demon , at a leisurely and unhurried pace . |
| 6 | A key staging post between classical and radical elite theory was the ex-Trotskyist James Burnham 's 1941 tract The Managerial Revolution . |
| 7 | Temptress Melanie Williams and partner in crime Eric Gooden refuse to ‘ Jump on to any bandwagons , even with new technology ’ and got their deal with Virgin 's Ten label the hard way . |
| 8 | Wallace 's own work The Malay Archipelago is nevertheless a classic in its own right . |