Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful execution of the DEPARTMENT 's activities involves the use of staff skills and the best available equipment to provide the greatest benefit for the DEPARTMENT 's customers . |
| 2 | The day 's activities included a slide show of photographs taken in and around Southall . |
| 3 | Central Statistical Office Many aspects of the state 's activities involve the routine collection of statistics , and these are regularly published in booklets . |
| 4 | Lewis , meanwhile , intends to turn up at each of Bowe 's fights to shame the IBF and WBA champion into fighting him . |
| 5 | Clearly the main emphasis is on BR 's accounts providing the same information as must be provided by a PLC . |
| 6 | The statement of the treasurer 's accounts included the expenditure of £1.7s.6d. ‘ for poor 's rates for the building ’ . |
| 7 | Even when it was clear that this would n't happen and that it would have to accumulate a special fund , especially for the future cost of ‘ decommissioning ’ the stations , the Board 's accounts showed a relatively small amount being set aside . |
| 8 | The immediate popularity and novelty of ITV 's programmes forced the BBC to review its output and made it aware of the need to survive in an increasingly competitive environment . |
| 9 | America 's satellites have the high ground to themselves . |
| 10 | TV host 's oscars raise the stakes at auction |
| 11 | ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and |
| 12 | For what it may be worth , if I am wrong in my application of the neighbourhood test so that the disturbance has to be judged by pre-planning permission standards , I would have found that the heavy goods vehicles going to and from each of the fourth and fifth defendant 's operations constituted a material disturbance to the residents at night . |
| 13 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Datapoint Corp says that the decline in revenue as of January 30 was down mainly to unfavourable foreign currency translations and an interruption of the French subsidiary 's operations following a fire in its leased warehouse — but there are some bulls of the shares around these days : analyst Howard Harlow of New York 's Whale Securities sees a major turnaround and a doubling in value of the shares over the next 12 months ; he sees earnings of $0.60 a share in 1993 followed by $1.20 a share in 1994 . |
| 14 | Boyle 's essays reveal an unprecedented series of distinctions , of the utmost importance in the promotion of natural philosophy . |
| 15 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 16 | This weekend 's show looks at man 's attempts to predict the weather . |
| 17 | The Diary 's attempts to arrange a late night drink with her ( ‘ she has to be home by 10.30 , ’ said her secretary , stealing 90 minutes on Cinderella ) were re-routed into breakfast at 8.15am . |
| 18 | This exhibition and its catalogue were the first to show the whole spectrum of Czech Cubism 's attempts to create a universal style in literature , music , theatre and cinema as much as in the visual arts . |
| 19 | They preferred undisguised military occupation to self-administration and refused to co-operate with Israel 's attempts to create an accommodationist Palestinian leadership in the territories . |
| 20 | Grilly 's attempts to adjudicate the question had failed , and Pierre Flote was deputed to bring the affair to the cognizance of the court of France . |
| 21 | I welcome Margaret Woddis ' and Celia Brackenridge 's attempts to push an analysis of the relationship between gender and physical culture further than I was able in ‘ Work Your Body ! ’ |
| 22 | The scandal and accompanying crash came as a severe blow to Finance Minister Singh 's attempts to open the Indian economy to foreign investors , and in addition hurt many smaller , first-time investors attracted by the soaring bull market of the previous six months , of which Mehta was described by the Financial Times of May 18 as the " driving force " . |
| 23 | Thus , their measurement is a valuable ‘ on-line ’ index of a reader 's attempts to derive a coherent representation of meaning . |
| 24 | USL brought suit against the pair because of BSDI 's attempts to commercialise an Intel Corp 80386 operating system called BSD/386 based on the university 's Network Release 2 which USL claims infringes on its code . |
| 25 | Manchester 's attempts to stage the 1996 Olympic Games are being hindered by British sport 's two-faced approach to South Africa , said Sam Ramsamy , chairman of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee , at a civic reception in Manchester yesterday , writes Michael Morris . |
| 26 | In this way , Sir John French was warned of large-scale German movements to his front before the Battle of Mons and later of Kluck 's attempts to envelop the BEF . |
| 27 | For even before it , the new president 's attempts to form a government of national unity had been faltering , thanks mainly to Gen Aoun 's opposition . |
| 28 | For even before it , the new president 's attempts to form a government of national unity had been faltering , thanks mainly to Gen Aoun 's opposition . |
| 29 | The event is part of the Rugby Football Union 's attempts to promote the game . |
| 30 | Thru literalizes this defining characteristic of narrative by constantly thwarting the reader 's attempts to assign the text to a given ‘ voice ’ . |