Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The international community 's response took various forms . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough showed more controlled football against a side that was booed off at half-time by the home crowd but which stepped up pressure after the break , only to find Boro 's defence holding firm . |
| 3 | Adil Carcani Chairman ( Prime Minister ) Pali Miska Deputy Chairman ; Minister of Agriculture Hekuran Isai Deputy Chairman ; Minister of Internal Affairs Reis Malile Foreign Affairs Kico Mustaqi People 's Defence Bujar Kolaneci Chairman of the State Planning Commission Simon Stefani Chairman of the State Control Commission Andrea Nako Finance Besnik Bekteshi Industry and Mining ; Energy ( acting ) Bashkim Sykaj Light Industry Ylli Bufi Foodstuff Industry Ismail Ahmeti Construction Hajredin Celiku Transport Pajtim Ajazi Domestic Trade Shane Korbeci Foreign Trade ( vacant ) Public Services Skenda Gjinushi Education Ahmet Kamberi Health Service Enver Halile Justice Farudin Hoxha Minister to the Presidium of the Council of Ministers Niko Gjyzari Minister , General Secretary of the Council of Ministers |
| 4 | After the interval , Swindon sharpened their wits and began to make the heart of United 's defence look ponderous . |
| 5 | Watching closely , Davies noticed that as the male pecked , the female 's cloaca became pink and distended . |
| 6 | Does this cause Milton 's text to become compromised , its message rendered politically neutered ? |
| 7 | In sensual love , people 's judgement becomes distorted and the loved object ( Freud always uses ‘ loved object ’ , not ‘ loved person ’ ) is highly evaluated , and faults are not seen — the tendency termed ‘ idealization ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Wu then enlisted Mr Zhao 's support to clear bureaucratic obstacles to his risky brainchild , a 186-mile tollway linking Hong Kong with Canton and the special economic zone of Shenzhen . |
| 9 | Sadly , John Gummer 's temperament proved unsuited to the discipline of sport . |
| 10 | In the heart of the Disney complex there are three championship courses , the Magnolia , the Palm and Lake Buena Vista , as well as a beginner 's course called Wee Links . |
| 11 | The various versions of Goody 's case comprise major characteristics of what I term the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 12 | Father Wright said : ‘ It takes , perhaps , a special sort of leadership on the priest 's part to draw young people into the larger parish community . |
| 13 | This effort on Nizan 's part to promote orthodox sectarian communist party ideology within a bourgeois context found no greater expression than during the year he spent in Bourg-en-Bresse , when he was at one and the same time philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande and communist party candidate at the general election of 1932 . |
| 14 | As a result of this increase in sales , and caution on the company 's part following financial difficulties during 1990 and 1991 , research and development expenditure has now fallen to approximately 4% of turnover , or £1.5m . |
| 15 | Outstanding among those contributions are his Math Vab Mathonwy ( 1928 ) and Rhiannon ( 1953 ) which , in spite of some evident shortcomings , particularly a failure on the author 's part to make sufficient use of the comparative method , testify to Gruffydd 's originality of mind , his general perceptiveness , and his clarity of exposition . |
| 16 | At the same time , she never swayed from her view that Jane 's photography had great artistic integrity and supported her within the company whatever the criticism . |
| 17 | The idea that the theist must be certain of God 's existence deserves careful consideration . |
| 18 | Jessamy 's skin went cold . |
| 19 | She wondered how clean tears could make a person 's skin go dirty . |
| 20 | Rachel 's skin turned dusky gold . |
| 21 | Rumens 's play has similar concerns , though they are rather less delicately expressed . |
| 22 | Caryl Churchill 's play sets individual achievement against all women 's struggle against oppression . |
| 23 | Mrs Mary Dowson , prosecuting for Middlesborugh Borough Council , said last October 's inspection revealed dirty walls , floors and ceilings and corroded equipment . |
| 24 | The tough talk seemed at odds , however , with some recent US policies , including President Clinton 's decision to continue favourable trade benefits for China for at least another year , and the United Nations ' own treatment of Tibet 's exiled Dalai Lama . |
| 25 | In their view this Soviet withdrawal , and the policy of ‘ Finlandisation ’ which Finland ostensibly embarked on , had been enabled by Sweden 's decision to remain neutral after the war . |
| 26 | ‘ Why do women always think another woman is behind a man 's decision to remain free ? ’ |
| 27 | The GMB union claimed today the industrial tribunal 's decision revealed double standards . |
| 28 | LABOUR 'S Barry Jones protested in the Commons last night at British Aerospace 's decision to sell Corporate Jets , of Broughton . |
| 29 | A priest in Friuli , commenting on the Vatican 's decision to allow non-alcoholic wine at Mass to help priests with an alcohol problem |
| 30 | As early as December 1939 , angered by Franco 's decision to declare Spanish neutrality in the European war , a group of radical Falangists had plotted to oust him . |