Example sentences of "'s [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's daein' fine now . |
| 2 | Local Government minister Michael Portillo is n't expected to comment on Gloucestershire 's problems until he 's heard similar demands for help from twenty five other councils . |
| 3 | Higher Education Minister Tim Boswell says it 's vital that education 's made more relevant to the world of work if Britain 's to remain competitive . |
| 4 | The justification can imply an awareness of how the meaning of attitudinal positions depends upon the wider context of controversy , and can not just be understood in terms of the individual 's uttered attitudinal statements . |
| 5 | ‘ Because now she can talk about that nice Australian gentleman who 's helping poor Miss Dawson to recover from her tragedy . ’ |
| 6 | Later Phillips said : ‘ I hope he 's back , but this is the first time he 's received official notification of being sacked . |
| 7 | Our spies report that guests wearing Levi 's received free parasols for their jugs of cider . |
| 8 | ‘ Hey , Steve — who 's the guy who 's surfing barefoot ? ’ |
| 9 | Scientists at Synergen , based in Boulder , Colorado , have isolated and cloned nerve growth factor that spurs cells specifically affected by Parkinson 's to sprout new neural branches without seeming to affect nearby , unrelated nerve cells . |
| 10 | Cleared , were dispersed , and what have you got next , anyway after that , that that 's obviously a very problematic thing , because it 's using poetic images which are very difficult to move into modern standard English , but what have we got for the rain of heaven please ? |
| 11 | That means erm somebody 's using funny dices . |
| 12 | She 's using psychological warfare . |
| 13 | It 's using natural resources . |
| 14 | Lloyd 's to appeal ruling LLOYD 'S is to appeal the recent judgment of the Commercial Court affecting the solvency treatment of Names ' personal stop-loss recoveries . |
| 15 | As soon as it 's stopped steaming , put it in the ‘ fridge . |
| 16 | Ahead of the desert water bag slung on the turret side the brigade 's painted red jerboa sign can be made out . |
| 17 | In the long view he thought that his father 's unbending moral conviction was important in his own life . |
| 18 | I ran Sleet myself ; under my care it 's broken even … ’ |
| 19 | It 's proving indispensable to the aviation industry and to astronomers . |
| 20 | Of course the bigger clients are getting the message and do keep in touch but with the rest it 's proving hard work teasing out the issues and reassuring there 's value in it for them . |
| 21 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 22 | Two-thirds of the Congress seats were filled by direct popular vote from 750 single-member constituencies organized to include roughly equal numbers of voters and another 750 constituencies designed to give representation to the majority of the Soviet Union 's recognized ethnic groups ; the remaining 750 seats were reserved for members of approved social organizations ( in future elections there will be no reserved seats ) . |
| 23 | Scandal of Rome 's hidden public collections to end |
| 24 | Cotherstone 's Hidden Gastronomic Tradition — and the Salty Secret of Mrs Birkett 's Success |
| 25 | HP 's DELAYED POSIX-COMPLIANT MPE/IX BEGINS SHIPPING TO END USERS |
| 26 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 27 | Noel 's preaching continued as before . |
| 28 | is much more of a go down in colour , erm so I think probably if I 'd seen her , er prints I maybe I would of approached this erm differently , erm it gave me a very immense voice about crowds , erm , very , very different from the front of the picture apart from the alarm registered in the eyes of the , of the old woman erm , this is called Even Paradise Has Its End , sorry Even Paradise Has Its Price , sorry Ours in the night laying between sleep and arousal held in balance , fragile as dust on a scale , night spirit 's sit easy , in no hurry , even paradise has its price , would you like me to read that one again ? |
| 29 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 30 | Drama is a piece of literature that only works when it 's given threedimensional form . |