Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life . |
| 2 | Tony Mitchell takes the steamboat to meet Hartley Peavey , the Mississippi mogul with the most in hi-tech hardware , and finds out that down at Harvey 's manufacturing plant , deep in the heart of Smalltown USA , the old ways ai n't necessarily the best . |
| 3 | Tony Mitchell takes the steamboat to meet Hartley Peavey , the Mississippi mogul with the most in hi-tech hardware , and finds out that down at Harvey 's manufacturing plant , deep in the heart of Smalltown USA , the old ways ai n't necessarily the best . |
| 4 | Much of this success was rendered possible only by Surrey 's strength in reserve . |
| 5 | Ribas says EDS is interested most in Italy 's manufacturing sector , ‘ which is huge , because studies show that computers are still not used strategically . |
| 6 | And all this always before Isabel 's face . ’ |
| 7 | It would pay you to run this up to Sotheby 's for evaluation , they 've got a man there who specialises in things like this . |
| 8 | ‘ Petty Officer Grant picked this up in Andropulos 's cabin . |
| 9 | Ah this pick this up in Derek 's office today look . |
| 10 | And then bring some up to Terry 's room ? ’ |
| 11 | In contrast , Rikoran is oblivious both to Japan 's atrocities in China and to the real course of the war with the West . |
| 12 | I got this out of mother 's catalogue . |
| 13 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 14 | This is Daphne Sheldrick 's ‘ home ’ for young orphaned elephants in Kenya — the triumph of a remarkable woman who has dedicated 40 years to saving wild animals , orphaned mainly by man 's greed or bloodlust . |
| 15 | There is a distinguished series of subscription concerts from autumn to the succeeding summer ( they still talk with pride of the day in 1934 when Richard Strauss came to conduct his Don Quixote and Alpine Symphony ) but there are also free symphony concerts most weeks in the year , very popular particularly with Winterthur 's younger generation . |
| 16 | All cities have different records in this respect and they all merit individual research if we are to piece together the various aspects of post-war urban development ( Manchester 's Moss-side development was different from Sheffield 's Park Hill estate of ‘ streets in the sky ’ , and different again from Newcastle 's development at Byker , with its famous ‘ wall ’ ) . |
| 17 | She saw this again in Edward 's stare . |
| 18 | If your hair has a slight wave or natural curl , you can emphasise this beautifully with Clairol 's Big Shot hairdryer . |
| 19 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 20 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 21 | The only disappointment for chairman Peter Johnson and his board was an attendance of 5,870 more than 2,000 down on Friday 's ladies night crowd . |
| 22 | Peter Chang , of the government 's Council for Economic Planning and Development , points out that among countries with more than 10m people , Taiwan 's population density ranks second only to Bangladesh 's . |
| 23 | And it was early enough for Britain 's arms makers to refer to it in their autumn armaments promotions . |
| 24 | At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial . |
| 25 | At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial . |
| 26 | In England the criticism of continued military activity by John Wyclif , the opposition to war expressed by men of Lollard sympathies such as William Swynderby , the lassitude provoked by so many years of conflict , mirrored in some of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower , are indicative both of people 's reflection regarding the morality of war and the ways in which it was being fought , and of the apparent futility of allowing it to continue along its present drift , no real advantage accruing to either side in spite of the great cost , both human and financial , to all . |
| 27 | But critics of the twenties , knowing nothing of Pound 's part in the poem , and ignorant also of Eliot 's private sufferings through his wretched first marriage , saw no need to go so far around , to support their conviction or assumption that The Waste Land was a poem with a message . |
| 28 | The image of a golden age is central both to Leapor 's and to Goldsmith 's treatment of rural life . |
| 29 | Although the army , still sceptical of the new weapon and uncooperative , were unable to provide him with either maps or even straw for the pilots ' bunks , within a week he had installed on the Verdun front six out of France 's total of fifteen fighter squadrons , and a further eight reconnaissance squadrons ; equalling 120 machines . |
| 30 | But Lewis 's dramatic demonstration that he can mix knockout punches with impeccable boxing technique was straight out of Ali 's famous butterfly and bee nature study . |