Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If scientists can make all the dye 's molecules react photochemically , and make a product that absorbs in a different part of the spectrum , the material will now appear transparent in the region that the dye molecules originally rendered opaque . |
| 2 | John Paul Jones 's activities had strikingly demonstrated the vulnerability of the coastline and the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser accompanied its report of the raid on St Mary 's Isle with some distinctly sharp observations : |
| 3 | An inquiry into that case showed that the head 's activities had probably been common knowledge among the staff for years . |
| 4 | The addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife . |
| 5 | But the addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife . |
| 6 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |
| 7 | Crail 's activities declined long ago and now there are only a few shellfish boats , but its seventeenth-century Customs House is still an attractive feature of the harbour . |
| 8 | If they make Æthelred 's activities appear considerably rosier to us than they did to contemporaries , this at least does something to explain how the king in whose name these high-sounding utterances were issued could be charged by his subjects in 1014 with hateful practices and injustice . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Charles 's activities have not to my knowledge been examined , certainly not with such thoroughness , from this angle before . |
| 10 | Head 's skis worked so well they were called ‘ cheaters ’ . |
| 11 | That morning , as he galloped along the ride between the trees in the Tiergarten , his horse 's hooves kicked up the powdered snow filling him with a fierce joy . |
| 12 | Presumably the employee would have led evidence as to the latter if the employer 's accounts had indeed contained such information . |
| 13 | The bank 's accounts have just revealed that its intangible assets have shrunk alarmingly . |
| 14 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 15 | Michael Phizacklea , the Institute 's director of finance , replies : The overriding consideration in the preparation of the Institute 's accounts has always been the provision of information to members . |
| 16 | The British Government 's accounts adopt very high levels of aggregation . |
| 17 | CHILDREN 'S programmes do n't usually have a strong appeal to adults , but one that does is Wail of the Banshee , running on Mondays on ITV at 4pm . |
| 18 | The Act was a success , although the ‘ particulates ’ ( mainly soot ) raining down over Britain 's cities had anyway been gradually decreasing since the 1920s . |
| 19 | In the past , Informix 's resellers sold only its standard engine to small and middle-sized companies as a low-end offering , while a direct sales team focussed on selling the more advanced Informix On-line database to larger accounts . |
| 20 | Even if the bidder 's shareholders do not include ABI members , the bidder might consider providing an open offer and clawback to its shareholders as a matter of best practice and good shareholder relations , provided underwriters are agreeable . |
| 21 | As reported in the October issue of Wood News , TESL 's operations revolve around a system called MERCAD [ Measurements Electronically Recorded Computer Automated Draughting ] . |
| 22 | QUOTE : AS ESSEX 'S fielders lumbered around gifting as many runs as they could , Ilott was seen sprinting around the boundary as if disgusted by the whole charade . |
| 23 | Its reporter 's attempts to implement even the most modest of safeguards for the people affected by the proposals , were simply dismissed by the Scottish Secretary , this time wearing the ‘ non-interventionist ’ hat of adjudicator on the inquiry 's finding and recommendations . |
| 24 | One game , called Net Trek , which has recently made the transition from PD to commercial product , uses sounds sampled from the Star Trek television series to accompany the user 's attempts to pilot around a galaxy of other Mac users , when all the machines are connected together by the network . |
| 25 | He gave Marianne a none-too-gentle shove , grasped Shae 's hand firmly in his own , and walked resolutely along the corridor towards the make-up room , ignoring the interested looks of the other actors , and Marianne 's attempts to wriggle away . |
| 26 | Bearing in mind the England team 's attempts to break out , cricket must have seemed an appropriate fund-raising event , and a knock-out competition among teams from the media will be played this weekend at North Middlesex CC , Park Road , Hornsey , London . |
| 27 | The placebo effect means that any treatment will improve a patient merely because he wants to recover and is responding to the clinician 's attempts to help rather than to a specific treatment . |
| 28 | Over £100 000 was at stake in two cases , and the authority 's attempts to claw back some of this were being resisted fiercely . |
| 29 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 30 | Somehow a mortgage was raised , but the diversion of resources frustrated Anna Essinger 's attempts to add further to the number of admissions . |