Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If scientists can make all the dye 's molecules react photochemically , and make a product that absorbs in a different part of the spectrum , the material will now appear transparent in the region that the dye molecules originally rendered opaque . |
| 2 | Green 's molecules consists of a central tungsten atom to which are attached two five-atom carbon rings ( cyclopentane molecules ) and two hydrogen atoms . |
| 3 | An inquiry into that case showed that the head 's activities had probably been common knowledge among the staff for years . |
| 4 | John Paul Jones 's activities had strikingly demonstrated the vulnerability of the coastline and the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser accompanied its report of the raid on St Mary 's Isle with some distinctly sharp observations : |
| 5 | These changes had become somewhat academic , however , when the evaluators arrived , by which time the committee 's activities had been suspended . |
| 6 | In fact , today 's activities had offered some hours of reprieve from thoughts of him — at least until such time as they were due to meet up later in the afternoon . |
| 7 | A defence lawyer said Wilson 's activities had been ‘ nipped in the bud ’ and his lifestyle had altered dramatically since the offences three years ago . |
| 8 | The addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean she is no longer a housewife . |
| 9 | But the addition of paid work to the housewife 's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife . |
| 10 | In May , 1914 a resolution against the government was passed ‘ the ministry 's activities arouse dissatisfaction among the broad masses who have hitherto been peaceful . |
| 11 | The Committee 's activities culminated in the summoning of a People 's Convention on 12 January 1941 . |
| 12 | Not only does the pattern of young people 's activities change over time , it also changes as they age . |
| 13 | And considering two thirds of the Education Department 's activities take place behind Ethiopian lines — in what the EPLF calls semi-liberated areas — their achievements have been impressive . |
| 14 | But very often the major part of an individual 's activities stem from the duties and reciprocal obligations which fall to him by virtue of his roles as a social person . |
| 15 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |
| 16 | Pomgol 's activities extended to the purchase and distribution of foodstuffs , medicine , and other supplies ; help to the starving to get work ; and collecting donations . |
| 17 | Lister 's activities extended into the community . |
| 18 | He expanded the firm 's activities to include technical and ‘ home education ’ publications ; fiction soon followed . |
| 19 | He fell back on the settee with a thump as the memories of the previous night 's activities came flooding back . |
| 20 | The successful execution of the DEPARTMENT 's activities involves the use of staff skills and the best available equipment to provide the greatest benefit for the DEPARTMENT 's customers . |
| 21 | It is always difficult to set the bounds to an industry — to determine where one industry 's activities end and another industry 's activities begin . |
| 22 | Crail 's activities declined long ago and now there are only a few shellfish boats , but its seventeenth-century Customs House is still an attractive feature of the harbour . |
| 23 | The initial of the novel 's title promises withheld meaning , and is therefore more appropriate than Pynchon 's original title for the novel ( World on a String ) , but the absurdity of Stencil 's activities disqualifies him as an analyst of a hidden principle in modern history , signalled melodramatically as the ‘ Ultimate Plot which Has No Name ’ . |
| 24 | Many of the day 's activities took place indoors to escape the heavy rain . |
| 25 | This company 's activities changed and it ultimately grew too big for a sole practitioner to handle on a part-time basis . |
| 26 | If they make Æthelred 's activities appear considerably rosier to us than they did to contemporaries , this at least does something to explain how the king in whose name these high-sounding utterances were issued could be charged by his subjects in 1014 with hateful practices and injustice . |
| 27 | The continued expansion of the S.M.E. Centre 's activities has created excellent opportunities for high calibre staff in the following posts : |
| 28 | The plan to mark the silver jubilee by a co-ordinated programme of highlights of the normal year 's activities has proved to be very successful . |
| 29 | The intelligence source which had originally tipped off West German police about the group 's activities claimed that five bombs had been made . |
| 30 | Communication may break down because the task of the manager and the volunteer is diverging , so that the manager 's activities seem distant to the volunteer . |