Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can imagine at the convention the bias was very much towards preserving states ' independence . |
| 2 | It is hard , like the Spanish sheep 's milk cheese Manchego , and has a flavour that is slightly similar to Gruyère . |
| 3 | The Tolson Memorial Museum is in Ravensknowle Park , where some parts of the town 's eighteenth-century Cloth Hall have been re-erected , after the historic building 's demolition in 1930 to make way for a cinema the local product was displaced by fantasies woven in Hollywood . |
| 4 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 5 | Víctor Salorio Neyra , the head of the Labour Ministry 's office in the province of Manu , stated that while on a visit on July 17-29 to gold-panning operations at Waypethue and Choque , he had discovered 71 clandestine graves containing dozens of children . |
| 6 | This strongly suggests that the peripheral males are exploiting the calling male 's ability to attract females . |
| 7 | She walked cheerfully along the flower-lined pathways to the medical centre , dressed in her working sister 's uniform of dark blue dress , neat white shoes and silver-buckled belt . |
| 8 | Thanks very much er , President er , to mark the occasion of the launching of the British er , Boxers ' Association we 'd like to make a little er , presentation to Barry , who 's the President of that Association and erm who you know , of course , is the Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sport and the Professional Boxers ' Association has got the honour of erm , immediately being part of that er , body and has the assistance , of course , of er , the many people involved there . |
| 9 | From the G M B point of view , of course , we have quite a sporting section and we 're proud to have this link er , with both of the organizations and we 're pleased to have been of some assistance to the er , British Boxers ' Asso Professional Boxers ' Association er , in er , this launch and establishment we felt , because we 've got the Scottish professional footballers , who are well established and er , are very much an integral part of the G M B and we 've got the Northern Ireland er , footballers , we 've got the rugby players and we 've got speedway riders all of which come under . |
| 10 | Can I , on behalf of er , the G M B , Barry erm , make a presen presentation to you This is the er , first er , picture that was taken at the launch of the Professional Boxers ' Association . |
| 11 | The Professional Boxers ' Association would try er , many years ago , and it did n't have the support of people like the G M B and the S P F. |
| 12 | But very , very quickly erm , I 'm actually delighted that this organization has helped breathe the life into not only the Professional Boxers ' Association , we are extremely grateful . |
| 13 | I do n't know which was more humiliating , that git 's performance , or the ape-like dance and inane grinning of Reg Pybus when I pulled him off . |
| 14 | It is then sufficient to determine each clone 's start and end coordinates , say ( s , e ) . |
| 15 | The Combined Operations ' planners were in Richmond Terrace near Whitehall , yet conveniently distant from service ministries . |
| 16 | Targets would now be more specific , equipment more deadly , and the whole Combined Operations ' set-up run like a taut ship in the fashion of the destroyer HMS Kelly , which the CCO had sunk beneath him off Crete earlier that year . |
| 17 | These results indicate that cow 's milk challenge , in patients who have cow 's milk allergy , induces a strong non-antigen-specific immune resposne that includes a response against unrealted antigens concomitantly present in the intestinal lumen . |
| 18 | In June the FNTT , under the pressure of rising rural unemployment and employer intransigence , called an agricultural labourers ' strike , the swift collapse of which dealt a serious blow to the entire UGT . |
| 19 | For example , the size of agricultural labourers ' families , one of the poorest paid occupational groups , remained high . |
| 20 | Through an explosive expansion , especially in southern Spain , of its rural labourers ' section , the FNTT ( National Landworkers Federation ) , the UGT was suddenly transformed from an organization consisting primarily of skilled urban workers into one decisively influenced by the worst-off members of the agricultural labour force . |
| 21 | On 5 June 1992 Sir Stephen Brown P. found these facts proved , held that they were contempts of court and that M. 's conduct both within the courtroom and on the roof of the court building came within the category of ‘ contempt in the face of the court ’ and , as such , was particularly grave . |
| 22 | In addition , the page heading shows how many mail messages are awaiting that user 's attention , and how many have been inspected but not yet deleted . |
| 23 | Anyone who thinks owning a diesel spells the end of driving fun , should park their backside in the AX 's comfortable , supportive driver 's seat and go for a quick ride . |
| 24 | • Suitable for use in conjunction with European Profiles ' Insulation systems , thus providing leak proof membrane combined with insulation to meet current Building Regulations . |
| 25 | In other words , the most likely occasions for associative use of the word to qualify what is in fact a performance from the professional acrobat 's repertoire — as when we are confronted by the sight of a lady standing on a man 's shoulders and juggling with Indian clubs — would be occasions when it is very likely that we can just as well describe the actions as acrobatic in their own right ; and on the other hand , ascriptive use of the word is likely to be rather rare except , precisely , in those circumstances where professional acrobats form part of the context , so that an associative use would be equally justified . |
| 26 | Training programmes were at different stages of development , with the effect that staff interviewed had received on average eleven hours ' training in one area , with between five and six hours in the other districts . |
| 27 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 28 | Statistical analysis indicates that a large proportion of the inter-university variation in the non-completion rate can be explained by three main factors : the scholastic ability of each university 's new entrants as reflected by A-level score ; the subject mix of each university ; and the proportion of each university 's students accommodated in a hall of residence . |
| 29 | Johnes and Taylor concluded that inter-university comparisons in the non-completion rate are of little value unless account is taken of differences in the scholastic ability of each university 's intake of students . |
| 30 | In Sweden , for instance , a strong employers ' confederation enforced managerial prerogatives from the early years of the present century , prerogatives which were also supported by the legal framework until the law was changed in 1977 ( see Chapter 7 ) . |