Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] ['s] [noun] " 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 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In contrast , within the Review little recourse is made to a discourse on art except in relation to the poet 's or writer 's activity . |
| 7 | • have a firm diagnosis of either tenosynovitis or writer 's cramp . |
| 8 | We would of course acknowledge Aspinwall & Co 's support in the document . |
| 9 | Judging a band by its chart position is clearly stupid , but Tim Freeman & Co 's lack of commercial success has led to panic button A&R-ing in the form of the dance remix . |
| 10 | Fortunately , I am already getting positive responses from some of these and I hope you will be able to confirm Aspinwall & Co 's willingness to lend support . |
| 11 | Gigant Street was most interesting for it not only housed Gibbs Mew & Co 's Brewery but also Tylee 's Rag and Bone store or more correctly , as the large sign at the front of the building proclaimed , ‘ C.E. TYLEE , Wool , Horsehair , Rag , Metal and Skin Merchant and Marine Store Dealer . ’ |
| 12 | The Media Business Seminars will take place in Wragge & Co 's conference room at Ingleby House , 11–14 Cannon Street ( 12.30pm–2pm ) . |
| 13 | The condition requires the deposit to be paid only by a banker 's draft or solicitors ' cheque . |
| 14 | The notice will be ineffective , however , unless ( as per s 394 ) it includes a statement of any circumstances connected with the resignation that the auditor considers should be brought to members ' or creditors ' attention . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Despite the trials of 1830 trouble had continued , particularly in the east , where labourers ' trades unions had met in Lewes , Uckfield , Seaford and Rye to keep up pressure for higher wages , placarding the towns with posters . |
| 18 | Deep caves and passages have been cut into the limestone by streams flowing from Ben More Assynt : by the glen of Traligill Burn , the Vikings ' Trolls ' Gill or giants ' ravine ; Noc nan Uamh , the ‘ hill of the caves ’ , Allt nan Uamh , the ‘ burn of the caves ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We know of no statutory regulations or taxpayer 's rights . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You 'll find lists of publishers and what magazines look for in the Writers ' & Artists ' Yearbook ( A & C Black , £7.95 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |
| 27 | 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 ' . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was giving Singer the bare minimum — nothing about Nick 's death or Marianne 's disappearance , nothing about Sophie or Zeno . |
| 30 | 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+ . |