Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not deny change ; but where Pirenne 's followers saw decomposition , they detect signs of economic activity of a new kind . |
| 2 | Inside lurk three songs of head-wobbling grandeur and limb-twitching turmoil : blame the pseudo-tribal beats , or Brett 's falsetto flurries , or Bernard 's bonkers guitar , but ‘ The Drowners ’ , the massive ‘ To The Birds ’ and ‘ My Insatiable One ’ all ooze intelligence , drip with drama and spurt forth dollops of sexual , erm , spunk . |
| 3 | In the end , we took a taxi and all went up to the mountainous part — a good way into the interior — to a little village called something like Kaloxilos , where Maria 's grandmother lived and had a garden . |
| 4 | So Mr. Bennett is asking local health authorities to look into provision at either Bordon , Alton or Petersfield 's new hospitals . |
| 5 | Ashman seems to make more whimsical use of the device of exit up-stage , re-entry stage right ( whether the idea is Ashman 's or Noelte 's , its use in duets where one knows the exiting character has a line to sing almost at once , soon becomes irritating ) . |
| 6 | Indeed , some of the worst cases have been associated with autocratic and corrupt governments like the Shah 's Iran or Marcos ' Philippines , where capital flight helped precipitate a debt crisis . |
| 7 | Antonio Pigafetta , the journalist ( or Doge 's spy ) says 28 November ; one distinguished eighteenth-century historian says the 27th ; another of equal distinction puts it a day earlier . |
| 8 | Countless others dossed down , either in the boiler room or Minton 's studio , after a night 's drinking left them either incapable or unwilling to return home . |
| 9 | To be named in Red Channels was to be unemployable … unless you cleared yourself by making a voluntary appearance before the House Committee or McCarthy 's Sub-Committee as a ‘ friendly witness ’ who shopped his former friends to prove the ‘ sincerity ’ of his repentance . |
| 10 | I slipped an old Eurythmics tape into the cassette deck I have installed where Armstrong 's meter used to be and adjusted the speakers so the full effect came in the front rather than the back . |
| 11 | These continue , needless to say , in the scene which follows the rise of the curtain , where Grimes 's behaviour once more leads directly to the death of his apprentice . |
| 12 | Afterwards she was never sure what she had noticed first : Teodor 's enormous size , loud voice , even louder laugh , or Sophie 's nearly equal bulk , plump , cushionlike . |
| 13 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 14 | With The Frank & Walters ' debut LP ( ‘ Trains , Boats And Planes ’ ) already captivating the UK public , Mr Anonymous Music Shop Employee would do well to show them more respect . |
| 15 | She did n't want to think about it , any more than she wanted to think about William 's missing coat or William 's doubtful past . |
| 16 | Our takings went up by a few shillings each week and pretty soon we had to expand and move the kitchens upstairs , where Malc 's Mom made our famous home-made pies ' . |
| 17 | But 18 million younger than 15 work elsewhere , often in hazardous industries like the match or firework factories of Tamil Nadu or Agra 's glass-bangle sweatshops where blazing furnaces reach temperatures of 1,400 degrees centigrade . |
| 18 | Like Mary 's or Semele 's , thin |
| 19 | An alarming statistic , particularly considering that the brown rat also carries leptospirosis or Weil 's disease , which infects half the rat population of Britain and kills about ten people every year . |
| 20 | He was giving Singer the bare minimum — nothing about Nick 's death or Marianne 's disappearance , nothing about Sophie or Zeno . |
| 21 | Unix applications , such as Ingres or ICL 's OfficePower , can make use of the client service for direct access to remote VME data , and Dataserve can work in conjunction with transaction processing monitors such as Tuxedo or Gresham 's own tp+ . |
| 22 | Inverted files should not be confused with the alternate indexes available in many indexed file systems such as VSAM or ICL 's 2900 series equivalent . |
| 23 | The Union of Democratic Forces , launched last week , is equivalent to East Germany 's New Forum or Czechoslovakia 's Civic Force . |
| 24 | The Obins Castle was situated near where McGredy 's Nurseries used to be . |
| 25 | Suppose you find out you 're a Hungarian princess , or a Spanish countess , or — or Rasputin 's secret great-granddaughter — or a descendant of the Romanovs — ’ |
| 26 | Devotees of the Democratic presidential challenger Bill Clinton drifting out of the British embassy 's election party on Thursday night — where ITN 's coverage was beamed direct — looked puzzled and miffed . |
| 27 | He was a nice man , and she quite liked him , but where Ven 's charm came naturally , Lubor was laying it on with a trowel . |
| 28 | She never wanted to talk about the Opera House , or her singing , or Raoul 's love for her . |
| 29 | He was soon released , however , and the news spread that he had abruptly reversed his political stance and was now willing to accept the regime ; whether prison or Jessey 's advice lay behind the change is unclear . |
| 30 | Richard was not aware that he was no longer reasoning , hut allowing a series of overlapping images — the drawing of lord Jim , Tilda cooking — to act as a substitute for argument , so that his mind was working in a way not far different from Maurice 's , or Nenna 's . |