Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] has [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming in a week , when an American judge told a rape victim she ‘ deserved what she got ’ for wearing a lace mini-skirt , and an English judge dropped a rape charge because his 16-year-old alleged victim had the mental age of seven , yesterday 's case has gone some way to restore their faith in the justice system . |
| 2 | THE fight for Cameron 's brewery has taken another twist with the announcement by the Sunderland Vaux Group that they are prepared to buy the Hartlepool brewery . |
| 3 | A management consultant 's study has found that office and warehouse space around the port and former burgh of Leith offers the best potential for growth , while giving a further boost to the area 's development plans . |
| 4 | To some extent this is true , since Michael Chisholm 's research has shown that subsistence land use results in settlements being not more than 1 kilometre ( ½ mile ) or so from most of their land ( Fig 59 ) and hence settlements should perhaps be expected to be 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart . |
| 5 | In the past decade Leapor 's work has received more attention than at any time since the 1750s . |
| 6 | One other feature of Richards 's work has had little impact in this country , but a much greater impact , as we shall see , in the United States : the demand that criticism be founded on theory . |
| 7 | Councillors in Darlington gave the development the go-ahead after they heard the hotel company Tomorrow 's Leisure has made several changes to the original application submitted last year . |
| 8 | Lek 's husband has taken another woman . |
| 9 | Fortunately for owners of French homes , the pound 's devaluation has added some 10% to 15% to their value in sterling terms . |
| 10 | The fact that this has not yet led to a fundamental delegitimisation of the state 's role has led some Marxists to develop a more sophisticated awareness of the divergent forces operating upon the growth of government . |
| 11 | But the new tune on Nigel 's fiddle has confused some critics as well as Mum . |
| 12 | Unix International 's specification has enabled all input methods to talk to each other and run on top of each other 's systems . |
| 13 | Certainly , Ivanisevic 's form has improved this year . |
| 14 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 15 | Neath 's formula has destroyed most opponents this season . |