Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] have [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 | Indeed , the Illustrated London News shows that Guest & Merriman 's experiment had included several microphones and a selector system , but the surviving disc shows no sign of active ‘ mixing ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Charlotte stood on the spot where Maurice 's car had stood that morning and gazed to the north , her coat buttoned to the collar , scarf wound around her neck . |
| 7 | In the past decade Leapor 's work has received more attention than at any time since the 1750s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lek 's husband has taken another woman . |
| 11 | Fortunately for owners of French homes , the pound 's devaluation has added some 10% to 15% to their value in sterling terms . |
| 12 | She had wondered about it briefly when it seemed certain that her mother and Michele 's father had known each other in the past . |
| 13 | Later , Julia discovered that the German army in question had been in South Africa and that Colonel Scotland 's appointment had ended some years before the Great War . |
| 14 | Myra did n't remind her husband that Rosenstein 's butchery had made more business for Zvi . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Directorate of Civil Aviation : Among a varied fleet of much more modern equipment , including Falcon 50s , the RSA 's DCA have operated former SAAF Dakota III 6838 since August 1958 as ZS-CAI . |
| 17 | But the new tune on Nigel 's fiddle has confused some critics as well as Mum . |
| 18 | But Neva the miller 's daughter had overheard this talk and felt sorry for the old woman who wanted to bake her yuletide cake . |
| 19 | Unix International 's specification has enabled all input methods to talk to each other and run on top of each other 's systems . |
| 20 | He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow . |
| 21 | Certainly , Ivanisevic 's form has improved this year . |
| 22 | Andreeva 's letter had echoed such sentiments : indeed it had gone further and was completely incompatible with the principles of restructuring . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Reverberation is produced by sounds arriving at the listener 's ear having taken several routes of different lengths . |
| 25 | Barry 's house had had those kind of stairs . |
| 26 | Neath 's formula has destroyed most opponents this season . |
| 27 | Last night , Mr Robinson said Mr Brooke 's speech had gone some way to getting dialogue ‘ back on the rails . ’ |