Example sentences of "[noun prp] 's [noun] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Stephenson 's office is just a cricket ball 's throw from where the bust-up took place the report had still not arrived yesterday — and was not expected until tomorrow ! |
| 2 | ROSENCRANTZ 's bag is nearly full . |
| 3 | Neil 's PR is now at the door , signalling frantically for the second time in two minutes . |
| 4 | Faced with the prospect of partial closure if it ca n't convince its parent that it has a viable future serving third party customers , IBM France SA 's plant is energetically laying plans to exploit its skills in chip packaging , in particular IBM 's proprietary technology for surface-mounting chips on multi-layer ceramic substrates to create multi-chip modules . |
| 5 | Orton 's camp is indeed constituted by playfulness and it acts as a solvent of morality — but it does this to provoke rather than disarm moral indignation . |
| 6 | Kahn 's thesis is simply that both because of its profit record and its potential as a brand name , Velcro 's share price should have been a lot higher — in the region of over $40 a share . |
| 7 | ‘ I understand Lady Eleanor 's funeral is tomorrow ? ’ |
| 8 | In the work of Cadaquès Picasso had moved ahead of Braque with characteristic impetuosity , and then late in 1911 , when Picasso 's painting is once again comparatively legible , Braque had in turn produced a series of unusually elaborate and highly personal paintings ( of which the Man with Violin ( discussed above ) and the still life Soda in the Museum of Modern Art in New York are good examples ) which represent the most hermetic stage of his Cubism and which have no counterpart in the work of Picasso . |
| 9 | The hyperbole in Brezhnev 's statement is less significant than the disillusion it reveals : Brezhnev , after all , was the figure most closely associated with the strategy of import led growth . |
| 10 | Blake and Mouton 's analysis is effectively complemented by the best known of the contingency models — Adair 's ( 1983 ) model of action-centred leadership . |
| 11 | SPAG 's membership is currently working on getting 1984 X400 implementations certified , and on the horizon is work on X500 and network management . |
| 12 | David 's life is now in balance with time to follow to the country pursuits like shooting he loves . |
| 13 | If we think David 's utility is terribly important we might consider a move from A to F a good thing , even though Susie 's utility will be severely reduced . |
| 14 | Well David 's mug is positively quiet compared to yo |
| 15 | We know that David 's mother is neither Carol nor Ann , who bought the popcorn , nor is she Jean , whilst Meg is Simon 's mother , so David 's mother must be Helen , and they therefore saw Mickey Mouse . |
| 16 | and put it down , it , on the kitchen floor of this place , and in the , our sitting room we had a carpet it was er a carpet of David 's mother 's actually , but it covered the entire sitting room and it looked rather nice you know , because it was a big room and we also had a carpet of sorts in the bedroom . |
| 17 | David 's collection is primarily made up of one colour , cream , which you can mix with whatever you like . |
| 18 | All the same Schneidau 's argument is just and illuminating , so far as it goes . |
| 19 | With regard to Gundovald 's aristocratic support , Gregory 's account is less straightforward . |
| 20 | Munchausen 's syndrome is usually seen amongst those with some medical knowledge , such as failed medical students or nurses . |
| 21 | ‘ Jeff 's work is more about cultural self-intoxication . |
| 22 | Mr Gorbachev 's interpretation is clearly different . |
| 23 | Dave Robson La Ronde Gulbenkian Studio Theatre , Newcastle ARTHUR Schnitzler 's Reigen is perhaps best known under its French title and as the first of two film versions , made by Max Ophuls in 1950 , is remembered as the quintessence of Viennese elegance . |
| 24 | The restaging generally has less bite and less fluency than Hall 's original — Susanna 's humour is more truly peasant-like — but it feels warmer and more sympathetic . |
| 25 | But Hankamer 's idea is more appropriate to the ‘ evolution ’ of fully fledged languages , a process of interest in its own right but somewhat peripheral to the project of accounting for how more complex linguistic structures might have evolved from simpler ones . |
| 26 | In ‘ A Room with a View ’ , Lucy 's struggle is fundamentally a private affair . |
| 27 | Lucy 's grandfather is well known in the county . |
| 28 | The story by Alec Campbell about William Murdoch 's hat is unfortunately not quite true ( Chem . |
| 29 | Braitenberg 's scheme is obviously a great over-simplification which neglects the special connections that exist between regions with related functions , but it may nonetheless point to the overall pattern through which the neocortex carries on its extensive conversations with itself . |
| 30 | Found in the South Pacific from the Pitcairn group to the Great Barrier Reef and in depths of between 3 and 40 metres , the Scott 's Wrasse is more often found in outer reef areas , rather than within the shelter of lagoons . |