Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 2 | Complete with provenance reaching back to the artist 's lifetime , and in the present owner 's family since 1690 , this painting 's attribution to Rembrandt has never been questioned . |
| 3 | From the outset Headline has considered WHS to be the centre of its market , though the fast growing non-fiction list with such successes as Raymond Blanc 's Cooking for Friends has greatly strengthened its sales through chains such as Waterstones and Dillons , and the mass market paperbacks are benefiting from the increased sales of paperbacks generally in supermarkets . |
| 4 | 5 : Also , the French government 's Directorate for Safety has just expressed grave concern at the recent discovery of radioactive leaks in 50pc of the steel-nickel domes of its PWRs . |
| 5 | Through this work , and the support and advice provided in London , SCF 's partnership with TRANSAID has again proved its worth in 1992 . |
| 6 | Anderson 's study of Preston has also emphasized the amount of movement that took place within the town . |
| 7 | In 1863 the special train bringing royal visitors to the Prince of Wales 's wedding at Windsor had too few carriages . |
| 8 | Since then , Nouvel 's methods of expression have gradually become more refined and his artistry more graceful . |
| 9 | A future director of the National Theatre who admired Leavis 's lectures at Cambridge has since remarked that ‘ all we students pretended we sped to his lectures to imbibe his humanism , ’ whereas in fact they were enjoying his character-assassinations : ‘ Strange that a great moralist should be so destructive about creative artists . ’ |
| 10 | Rosenthal 's work in Denmark has also been very influential . |
| 11 | Mary 's marriage to Henry had certainly taken place by February 1381 , and Thomas might well have done what he could to prevent her marrying , but Froissart casts Thomas as a villain in his account of English politics in Richard II 's reign , and not every detail in the story should necessarily be accepted at face value . |
| 12 | Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year . |
| 13 | However , consideration of music 's place in worship has often been left until other decisions have been made . |
| 14 | Tomorrow 's meeting at Worcester has already been abandoned due to waterlogging . |
| 15 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
| 16 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 17 | The news of the Young Pretender 's invasion of England had initially been received in London with complacency , which gave way to concern and then serious alarm . |
| 18 | The Rio Group 's relationship with Cuba had yet to be resolved . |
| 19 | Guido 's feelings for Silvia have always been very special . |
| 20 | Most of MCC 's businesses in Europe have now been sold , with Italian sports sticker business Panini and compact disc manufacturer Nimbus likely to go within six weeks . |
| 21 | But the horridly fascinating subtlety of the mite 's means of infestation has only just become clear , thanks to Dr Nigel Franks and colleagues at the University of Bath , who have been studying infested colonies in observation nests . |
| 22 | For a little while they were silent and Sara 's feeling of contentment had imperceptibly increased . |
| 23 | The Party 's policy on Spain had also been radically altered amid the great enthusiasm which was felt over the resistance of the Republican Government . |
| 24 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 25 | We understand , however , that the council 's offer of assistance has so far been rather less generous . |
| 26 | Britain 's stance on sovereignty has traditionally been less aggressive than many other claimants , such as Argentina and Chile — both of which claim overlapping portions of the British Antarctic Territory — or even Australia and France ( New Scientist , 21 October , 1982 p 140 and 6 January , p 4 ) . |
| 27 | Moreover , Hollywood 's portrayal of Vietnam has largely avoided recreations of actual , large-scale operations in favour of smaller , more anonymous engagements . |
| 28 | Will the Minister confirm that Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution has so far achieved just six prosecutions under integrated pollution control and the 1990 Act ? |
| 29 | But Lansbergen 's defense of Copernicus had already made considerable headway during the 1620s . |
| 30 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |