Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | • have a firm diagnosis of either tenosynovitis or writer 's cramp . |
| 5 | We would of course acknowledge Aspinwall & Co 's support in the document . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The Media Business Seminars will take place in Wragge & Co 's conference room at Ingleby House , 11–14 Cannon Street ( 12.30pm–2pm ) . |
| 10 | The condition requires the deposit to be paid only by a banker 's draft or solicitors ' cheque . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You 'll find lists of publishers and what magazines look for in the Writers ' & Artists ' Yearbook ( A & C Black , £7.95 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ' . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was giving Singer the bare minimum — nothing about Nick 's death or Marianne 's disappearance , nothing about Sophie or Zeno . |
| 24 | 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+ . |
| 25 | Devotees of the Democratic presidential challenger Bill Clinton drifting out of the British embassy 's election party on Thursday night — where ITN 's coverage was beamed direct — looked puzzled and miffed . |
| 26 | They should be appropriate to the stated aims of the organisation , rather than to an individual or sub-group 's desire to maximise their own aims . |
| 27 | ‘ Maintained ’ means that the deceased was making a substantial contribution in money or money 's worth towards the reasonable needs of the applicant , and he did not receive full valuable consideration for this : thus food and shelter are included in the definition . |
| 28 | Assuming an offer has been accepted in unqualified terms ( a counter-offer for example is tantamount to a rejection of the original offer ) , a valid contract must show each contracting party will receive some benefit , in money or money 's worth — in technical terms , ‘ consideration ’ . |
| 29 | The carriage of goods for hire or reward occurs when the owner or user of the goods vehicle obtains a tangible benefit in money or money 's worth . |
| 30 | As might be expected , the term ‘ benefit ’ in this connection means benefit in money or money 's worth . |