Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Courtney 's trial a senior detective revealed that Courtney had probably abused 100 other women . |
| 2 | In the Medical Research Council 's trial the relative risk of dying from cancer for men receiving atenolol was 1.9 compared with placebo ( 1.2 to 2.8 ) and 1.4 ( 0.9 to 2.2 ) compared with diuretic . |
| 3 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 4 | Exactly how many ‘ teeth ’ such a fish has to ‘ sink into the mild mannered moggy ’ is doubtful , but we bet it gave the cat 's foot a nasty suck … |
| 5 | Rose gave Baptiste 's earlobe a hard pinch . |
| 6 | Several states maintain Soviet military advisers on their soil , in Syria 's case a substantial number . |
| 7 | Today , when councils like that in Tewkesbury restore old Meeting Houses — in Tewkesbury 's case a Baptist chapel down a narrow lane opposite the great Abbey Church — Baptist visitors are as surprised as everyone else at the austerity of the past . |
| 8 | In John 's case the stated reason for referral for formal assessment was his behaviour in school . |
| 9 | In HARPY 's case the implicit graph , the complete set of utterances permitted by the phonetic , phonological , lexical , and syntactic knowledge sources , can be made fully explicit . |
| 10 | In the Falange 's case the principal issue was leadership ; when José Antonio Primo de Rivera , jailed in Alicante since before the start of the war , was executed in November 1936 , he left behind him a movement riddled with factionalism and cursed with second-rate would-be successors . |
| 11 | In Nancy Cruzan 's case the original court became satisfied that this standard had been met after three of her friends testified that , prior to the accident , Nancy had expressed the wish never to live " like a vegetable " . |
| 12 | Sally 's sister a little girl of three months , Daryl had meant to tell Sally what her mother had said and had forgotten and now she remembered . |
| 13 | For the first five years of Israel 's existence the Soviet Union likewise took a non-committal stance between Israel and its neighbours . |
| 14 | The political situation continued to deteriorate during May , apparently little affected by President Paul Biya 's decision the previous month to appoint a Prime Minister , Sadou Hayatou [ see p. 38135 ] , and a " transitional " government which was in effect barely changed in its composition . |
| 15 | This can be easily recognised if Bizet 's music for Carmen is compared with De Falla 's fur The Three-Cornered Hat . |
| 16 | After some argument , Anderson refuses the request but , in response to Hollar 's worries about being searched on leaving the hotel , agrees to bring the document to Hollar 's apartment the following day , on the way to the football match ( scene three ) . |
| 17 | Ian gave Sue 's hair a good trim before shampooing with Natural Styling Perm Hair Bath . |
| 18 | The inspiration for the Blue Revue was Mr Kinnock 's discomfiture the previous evening on Granada Television 's World In Action , when he was asked where he stood on the question of proportional representation . |
| 19 | One night the young peasant , his spirit stunned by the violent or luxurious language in which Stephen escaped from the cold silence of intellectual revolt , had called up before Stephen 's mind a strange vision . |
| 20 | The strange occurrence was uppermost in Jack 's mind the following night and he determined to catch the intruder if he returned . |
| 21 | Already on the day following Neddy 's pronouncement the industrial correspondent of The Times , whom I take as a representative of respectable opinion , was ecstatic with metaphors . |
| 22 | He did not think Ramsey 's scholarship a weighty part of his quality as a bishop ; occasionally he hinted that he thought the books were a distraction from pastoral care . |
| 23 | In virtually every interview in Corrigan 's study the immediate response to the question ‘ What do you do on Saturday night ? ’ was to mention the ‘ mates ’ . |
| 24 | Within the chief engineer 's department the main responsibility for sorting things out fell on Group-Captain C. E. H. ( ‘ Charles ’ ) Verity , who came from one of the best pre-vesting undertakings ( the London Power Company ) , after a wartime spell of directing the bombing of German power stations , to be the headquarters Generation Construction Engineer . |
| 25 | Southampton 0 Nottingham Forest 1 CARL TILER 'S first goal for Nottingham Forest since his £1.4 million move from Barnsley last summer gave Brian Clough 's side an undeserved win over Southampton last night . |
| 26 | The idea , stated Donald Tyerman in the Army Education 's pamphlet The British Way and Purpose , was to provide |
| 27 | City Comment : Smith 's pyramid a crushing burden |
| 28 | The Front 's formation the previous spring had been backed by Ferlinghetti , Rexroth , Bill Graham — whose role as a rock promoter around the Filmore ballroom was just emerging and Ralph J. Gleason , then a little known San Francisco Chronicle columnist , later one of the main inspirations , and writers on Jann Wenner 's Rolling Stone , just a year away from its first edition . |
| 29 | AT the firm 's dance an ambitious employee bopped with the boss 's American wife . |
| 30 | And it is there in his conducting of Debussy 's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , which the English Wagnerian Reginald Goodall once singled out as conducting that managed by some unique alchemy simultaneously to catch a sense of fire and ice , sultry heat and marble calm . |