Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [vb base] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Nilson Report , a Californian publication that follows the industry , Citibank 's Visa/MasterCard and Sears ' Discover cards have roughly the same number of holders ( 20.4m and 21.6m respectively ) , but Citibank 's card brought it $600m in net revenue against Discover 's $117m last year . |
| 2 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 3 | Following publication of SAVE 's report , Michael Heseltine listed the building , and the City Corporation reacted immediately by applying for consent to demolish . |
| 4 | Max Hanna , an economist at the English Tourist Board who was joint author of SAVE 's Preservation Pays , calculated that the preservation of the Cathedral was then worth £5 million gross income , or £1.5 million net , each year to the local economy . |
| 5 | The title of Cater 's article ( 1977 ) , ‘ Soil erosion : the problem persists despite the billions spent on it ’ , speaks for itself . |
| 6 | There was a desperate look on Bicker 's face though , oddly , Isay 's eyes were as bright with anger as Ratagan 's had been and the Myrcan staff was out of his belt and cocked in his fists . |
| 7 | ( For a critique of Deem 's emphasis on the relations of capital rather than those of patriarchy , see Nava , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | The key to the success of SAVE 's publications , and indeed our message as a whole , is conveyed in one word : photographs . |
| 9 | Manman/X is the Unix version of Ask 's business information system that supports all aspects of manufacturing . |
| 10 | In some ways ‘ Kaldor 's Law ’ could be seen as a re-statement of Say 's Law : supply creates its own demand . |
| 11 | Suppose now that Pry and the seller of the house have reached agreement on the sale , but no formal acceptance of Pry 's offer has been drawn up by the seller 's solicitors . |
| 12 | He had never felt so abandoned as here at the top of this tall silent house on Usher 's Quay . |