Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee 's activities culminated in the summoning of a People 's Convention on 12 January 1941 . |
| 2 | Although James Braid is correctly credited with the course design , the Sandwich Professional was also involved for both their names appear on the first year 's accounts published in July 1908 for ‘ laying out , and advising as to links ’ , their respective fees being £15 6s. 6d. and £5 . |
| 3 | Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman . |
| 4 | He is going to see environmental projects which help farmers to use their land in a sustainable way and women 's groups working in Brazil nut factories . |
| 5 | When Carco called to see the paintings Zborowski ran to buy a candle , stuck it into the neck of a bottle , then showed Carco into a narrow , unfurnished room where a stack of Modigliani 's canvases stood in the corner . |
| 6 | When John Peter , no doubt in a state of some alarm that his scholarship had provoked such a response , offered to publish a retraction , Eliot 's solicitors wrote in March that their client considered it " neither necessary nor desirable " for any such retraction to appear ; their client would take the very gravest view of any " further dissemination " of the article or its contents , which he had read " with amazement and disgust " . |
| 7 | The most important of Elias 's contacts made in exile was with Archbishop Stephen Langton [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Many of Léon Cohn-Casson 's contemporaries converted in order to be more French . |
| 9 | Sometimes the Bank 's investments fail in other ways , too , causing environmental or social harm . |
| 10 | Such a policy of employing royal sons or brothers continued under the Lancastrians , as all four of Henry IV 's sons fought in France , and three were to die in that country . |
| 11 | The government 's response to the PAC 's proposals came in July 1981 ( Cmnd. 8323 ) . |
| 12 | The world 's experts meet in Milan in May to report their findings . |
| 13 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 14 | The last public challenge to the DVR 's policies failed in 1986 when an elected volunteer worker from the Dart Valley Railway Association was blocked from becoming a Director by the Board . |
| 15 | Tucker 's fingers travelled in search of a resting place and settled for their usual breast pocket . |
| 16 | To illustrate the point let me cite the example of Yorkshire , where the majority of the county 's clubs competing in the Courage Leagues have no opportunity of taking part in a national knock-out competition . |
| 17 | The postcard designs , on the theme of children 's rights , will be produced as a series of postcard-sized prints , on which the children will write their own appeals to governments on behalf of one of eight young people 's cases featured in Amnesty 's PoC Week ( from 18 October ) . |
| 18 | Tanagra tried to replace Thebes as informal hegemon of the league in mid-century , but it was on Thebes that Sparta 's plans centred in the First Peloponnesian War . |
| 19 | Newcastle Polytechnic 's plans to expand in the North-West are on the verge of a housing crisis months before the first students move into its £1m Carlisle campus . |
| 20 | On Dec. 20 the Riksdag approved the Social Democratic government 's plans to apply in 1991 for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 21 | Deceased 's footprints occur in several places along the path between here and the road — wherever the ground is soft enough . |
| 22 | Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 23 | An attempt to hold a sixth extraordinary session of the defunct USSR Congress of People 's Deputies ended in farce on March 17 , when 217 of the original 2,250 deputies met for 50 minutes by candlelight outside Moscow , having failed to find a venue in the city . |
| 24 | The fifth ( extraordinary ) session of the Congress of People 's Deputies opened in Moscow on Oct. 28 . |
| 25 | But accelerating towards us was a row of sharp , jutting , foamy peaks , like a set of upturned shark 's teeth wreathed in toothpaste . |
| 26 | Gallup 's interviewers asked in 1983 and 1987 , and again on Friday and Saturday : How long ago did you decide which way you would finally vote ? |
| 27 | Michele 's shoulders moved in a slight shrug . |
| 28 | The small man 's shoulders lifted in a slight shrug . |
| 29 | In recent years , it has been more common for songwriting members to allow the band 's non-songwriters to share in a percentage of their songwriting royalties. otherwise , the non-songwriting members of the band would be considerably poorer than the others . |
| 30 | Sabine 's lips parted in a soundless gasp . |