Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The international community 's response took various forms . |
| 2 | These simple changes to her father 's response enable this mildly handicapped child to acquire the socially necessary ability to wait in a definite and positive manner . |
| 3 | Finnegan has made arrangements for his wife 's income to cover those outstanding debts . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough showed more controlled football against a side that was booed off at half-time by the home crowd but which stepped up pressure after the break , only to find Boro 's defence holding firm . |
| 5 | Adil Carcani Chairman ( Prime Minister ) Pali Miska Deputy Chairman ; Minister of Agriculture Hekuran Isai Deputy Chairman ; Minister of Internal Affairs Reis Malile Foreign Affairs Kico Mustaqi People 's Defence Bujar Kolaneci Chairman of the State Planning Commission Simon Stefani Chairman of the State Control Commission Andrea Nako Finance Besnik Bekteshi Industry and Mining ; Energy ( acting ) Bashkim Sykaj Light Industry Ylli Bufi Foodstuff Industry Ismail Ahmeti Construction Hajredin Celiku Transport Pajtim Ajazi Domestic Trade Shane Korbeci Foreign Trade ( vacant ) Public Services Skenda Gjinushi Education Ahmet Kamberi Health Service Enver Halile Justice Farudin Hoxha Minister to the Presidium of the Council of Ministers Niko Gjyzari Minister , General Secretary of the Council of Ministers |
| 6 | After the interval , Swindon sharpened their wits and began to make the heart of United 's defence look ponderous . |
| 7 | As we might have guessed , the importance of Laurence 's wife 's money overrode any other consideration . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a shocking situation , and I am spending every single minute of every single day and every last dollar of my father 's money to correct this evil . ’ |
| 9 | The Arbroath guidebook 's glossary has some of these — ‘ clearstorey : the range of windows in the upper part of a building ; Frater : a monastic refectory or dining hall [ alas not taken from the Latin for ‘ brother ’ , but from a French reduction of ‘ refreshment' ] ; Gablet : a decorative design in the form of a small gable , often above a window ; Pend : a vaulted passageway [ several pends in St Andrews ] ; Slype : a passage ; Triforium : the arcaded gallery between the main arcade and clearstorey ; Tympanum : the enclosed space within the head of an arched doorway [ does that mean it has a space behind like a drumhead — an open space inviting impressions to be made upon it ? ] ’ |
| 10 | Watching closely , Davies noticed that as the male pecked , the female 's cloaca became pink and distended . |
| 11 | If Mr. Collins had sought to base an argument on the omission from the rules which I have characterised as unfair , we should have had to consider whether the opportunity given to Winchester on 6 November 1990 to make representations to Lautro 's board rectified this defect . |
| 12 | Dilwyn Bowles 's hernia appeared last September after he fell over a kitchen chair . |
| 13 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 14 | Sylvester 's text considers these factors and balances them against the feebleness with which Magritte might execute dull repetitions of his more popular compositions . |
| 15 | Does this cause Milton 's text to become compromised , its message rendered politically neutered ? |
| 16 | Income support rise ‘ derisory ’ : This week 's rise takes many pensioners back to where they were 18 months ago , Sue Fieldman reports |
| 17 | But the first parliament of Mary 's regency anticipated this , for reasons which were purely political rather than moral , when it utterly banned ‘ Robert Hood nor Little John Abbot of Unreason ( and ) Queens of May ’ in both town and countryside . |
| 18 | In sensual love , people 's judgement becomes distorted and the loved object ( Freud always uses ‘ loved object ’ , not ‘ loved person ’ ) is highly evaluated , and faults are not seen — the tendency termed ‘ idealization ’ . |
| 19 | Mr Wu then enlisted Mr Zhao 's support to clear bureaucratic obstacles to his risky brainchild , a 186-mile tollway linking Hong Kong with Canton and the special economic zone of Shenzhen . |
| 20 | Sadly , John Gummer 's temperament proved unsuited to the discipline of sport . |
| 21 | At 10 minutes to midday , Gower square-drove Aqib to the Wilson 's Stand to reach 34 and ascend the pedestal as England 's highest Test runscorer . |
| 22 | In the heart of the Disney complex there are three championship courses , the Magnolia , the Palm and Lake Buena Vista , as well as a beginner 's course called Wee Links . |
| 23 | The basic chef 's course lasts 19 weeks ( shortened for those already holding City & Guilds 706 ) , covers fundamental culinary skills and is open to 18–25 year olds . |
| 24 | The prosecution 's case lasted five months , after which the jury was sent away for 75 days , partly for a holiday and partly while the judge heard legal arguments . |
| 25 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
| 26 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , however , the handling of Mr. Thorpe 's case raises some important general principles about the management of the health service . |
| 27 | The various versions of Goody 's case comprise major characteristics of what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 28 | Father Wright said : ‘ It takes , perhaps , a special sort of leadership on the priest 's part to draw young people into the larger parish community . |
| 29 | Having spoken , the monk undergoes a physical reaction to the utterance of his salacious thoughts of the wife being exercised , sexually , in bed : This response to his own thought and speech on the monk 's part creates another novelty within this fabliau : a character who assumes a role parallel to that of a real reader outside the text ; a listener to and responder to a text and its implications , and what is more a reader who indulges in an interpretation of the text of his thoughts as pornographic , i.e. capable of exciting vicarious , erotic sensation . |
| 30 | Ross , for one , fully endorsed the doctrine of the naturalistic fallacy , but he held that it was a bad mistake on Moore 's part to define such expressions as ‘ right ’ , ‘ wrong ’ , ‘ ought ’ ’ obligatory' by way of ‘ good ’ . |