Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also said that as we are increasing UKIAS 's funding and its ability to represent and advise , if it was unwilling to advise those seeking advice on asylum , it called into question whether the funding for advice , not representation , should go to UKIAS . |
| 2 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 3 | Scott 's Defence and its Repercussions |
| 4 | Less than half these Vs have had repeats , and the names of the first ascensionists are often a better guide to a route 's difficulty than its published grade . |
| 5 | The deferment would be apparent from both the Government 's accounts and your own . |
| 6 | At the time , however , the question of Ho Chi Minh 's communism and his connections with Moscow and with ‘ international communism , seemed somewhat academic and certainly no more important to begin with than the mounting suspicions of France 's unreconstructed colonialism . |
| 7 | He apparently retains his seat on Silicon Graphics Inc 's board and his post as head of Mips ' architecture committee but it seems he 's off with a new venture-backed workstation company called NetPower Systems Inc . |
| 8 | The Microprocessor Report expects Bob Miller to be replaced at MIPS Technologies Inc : he apparently retains his seat on Silicon Graphics Inc 's board and his post as head of MIPS ' architecture committee but it seems he 's off with a new venture-backed workstation company called NetPower Systems Inc ; he would n't discuss product plans but the newsletter thinks that it will market low-cost MIPS R-series workstations made by OEM suppliers . |
| 9 | al-Sakhawi , quoting al-Makrizi , dates both Molla Gurani 's banishment and his abortive pilgrimage in the year 844/1440–1 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja 844 = 30 April 1441 ) . |
| 10 | Tug had just one glimpse of the girl 's horror as her mouth and her eyes opened wide . |
| 11 | A Super Class 1 transaction ( requiring an immediate announcement to the market , a circular to the offeror 's shareholders and their prior approval in general meeting ) is one where a comparison of the target 's assets , profits , gross capital etc with the value of those of the offeror is 25 per cent or more . |
| 12 | But it also sets up a fight between a firm 's shareholders and its other creditors . |
| 13 | Finally , note that you hook the opponent 's foot before his full body-weight has descended on to it . |
| 14 | And the ‘ milk tree ’ , as they appropriately call it , represents in their minds , and just as readily in ours , a mother 's milk and its source , her breasts . |
| 15 | The golf journalists knew enough not to ask any leading questions in the middle of a round , and they were sufficiently wary of Jack 's temperament and his considerable command of the pointed rebuke . |
| 16 | Obviously you need to take your horse 's temperament and your surroundings into account , but if you can get him working alone as soon as possible you are less likely to have to cope with him napping later on because he ca n't bear to leave his friends . |
| 17 | He also hated Jekyll 's weakness and his sad , hopeless condition . |
| 18 | Deric Longden 's story of his wife 's ME and his wonderful portrait of his mother are to be televised as ‘ Wide-eyed and Legless ’ in a two and half hour film . |
| 19 | Like the meeting in London just after the death of Edmund Ironside , it hints at a realisation on Cnut 's part that his rule would to a degree depend on English support . |
| 20 | My appointment as team manager was a radical move on the board 's part and my policies must reflect their cavalier approach . |
| 21 | When I say that ‘ Kaptan ’ did not mean ‘ captain' but meant ‘ hawk ’ perhaps I have told you all you need to know about the Colonel 's attitude to his son 's upbringing and his expectations of him . |
| 22 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 23 | AN antiques business owned by Channel 4 boss Michael Grade 's sister and her husband , Linda and Arthur Davidson , has gone bust . |
| 24 | ‘ My mother 's sister and her husband , ’ he said . |
| 25 | And er Mark 's sister and her partner , they are professional musicians and they do sort of Irish er Irish music . |
| 26 | James Stephen the elder took Wilberforce 's sister as his second wife and in the next generation James Stephen the younger — the under secretary at the Colonial Office in the crucial emancipation period — married a daughter of John Venn , the rector of Clapham . |
| 27 | Simply place the flat , rectangular thermometer between the infant 's skin and his clothing or the mattress , leave it for ten minutes , and then remove and read immediately . |
| 28 | True , the bacteriology that emerges from Shaw 's play and its accompanying preface is heavily tainted by his own tetchy brand of anti-science . |
| 29 | Following the Permanent Way Engineer 's inspection and his ‘ all-clear ’ , the remaining services resumed to Glyndyfrdwy as timetabled . |
| 30 | He defended the Government 's decision that its rules on cross-media ownership should not apply to Mr Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Television . |