Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporation 's board of governors yesterday decided to keep both men in their jobs but tried to end the embarrassing row over Mr Birt 's tax affairs . |
| 2 | Unix International , which found its million-dollar seat on X/Open 's board of directors as burdensome as the Open Software Foundation did and was threatening to drop out , as OSF did ( UX No 404 ) , has found accommodation in X/Open 's new cheaper technical membership classification . |
| 3 | ( First Edition ) THE LEAGUE 'S board of directors yesterday found Castleford and Hull guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by brawling in their Wheldon Road meeting 10 days ago , and fined each club £3,000 , writes Paul Wilson . |
| 4 | The manuscript of Taskopruzade omits the as , in effect , does Sa'deddin , who generally follows Taskopruzade very closely , the result of which omission is to say simply that he became at the Darulhadis. el-Kefevi 's text of Taskopruzade clearly included the however , since he states unequivocally that Molla Arab became Hizir Bey 's muid at the Darulhadis ; and there is thus a good case that , despite the doubts introduced by the manuscript of Taskopruzade and Sa'deddin , Taskopruzade intended the lahu . |
| 5 | Fujimori 's change of heart reportedly came after a visit to Peru on May 16 by the Uruguayan Foreign Minister Héctor Gros Espiell , as an OAS emissary . |
| 6 | Team mate and defensive partner Colin Hendry is amazed by Moran 's change of fortunes too . |
| 7 | A passage in Bede 's account attributing responsibility as the author of the war to Aethelhere , is now generally regarded as corrupt , but Oethelwald 's support for Penda certainly implies a complexity of factors . |
| 8 | The Labour party 's reliance on producers rather than consumers will constantly bedevil its attempts to convince the British people that it is serious on these issues . |
| 9 | Not only did she find Charles 's brand of ignorance excessively boring , but she would like to warn him … that from now on , he would be hearing the Hörst Wessel Song every morning … that both blocks of flats would too … every morning … 7 a.m . |
| 10 | I 've been going to the Enquirer 's Course for months now ! ’ |
| 11 | A representative of the ABC Network , which fights on behalf of prisoners it believes have been framed , handed out leaflets about Carter 's case in Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 12 | I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman still does not understand that the whole drive behind the reforms is to back the general practitioner 's decision with money so that choice becomes reality . |
| 13 | Indeed , the colourful story of Susanna Centlivre 's sojourn at Cambridge supposedly disguised as a man presents an image of the woman entering the intellectual world by stealth . |
| 14 | she is Stuart 's kind of person really I think |
| 15 | Orwell once modestly remarked that Joyce 's Ulysses made him feel like a eunuch taking singing lessons , and Waugh 's artist-hero in Brideshead briskly calls modern art bosh . |
| 16 | Yet Crane 's assessment of Williams still has its validity , as is apparent if we consider ( wearily , for it is the instance always cited ) Williams 's ‘ The Red Wheelbarrow ’ . |
| 17 | The garden city ideal as expressed at Letchworth and Welwyn , the garden suburb at Hampstead , Bournville and Wythenshawe , the planned estate either suburban or redeveloped , or the MARS group 's proposals for London just before the war were no more than partial concepts by comparison . |
| 18 | The same player struck a penalty moments later to put the visitors 13-8 in front , but a Davie Nicholson 's try for Armagh then tied up the scores at 13-13 at half-time . |
| 19 | It is true that the Hwicce appear to have been within the sphere of influence of the Mercian king from the reign of Wulfhere at the latest and Penda 's presence at Cirencester c. 630 certainly reveals Mercian involvement with the region at a still earlier date . |
| 20 | Moreover , the story of Cnut 's presence in Canterbury before and after the Rome trip , and of the storm and near shipwreck , also occurs in his account of the miracles worked by St Augustine . |
| 21 | The Department of Health and Social Security should be notified immediately of your parent 's admission to hospital so that the appropriate adjustment to his or her State pension or other State benefits or allowances can be made , but the pension book should be retained . |
| 22 | Ahmed 's revulsion from Jane sometimes seems to be shared by the writer . |
| 23 | She currently sells her company 's products to outlets as diverse as Liberty , Harvey Nichols and the Guggenheim Museum in New York . |
| 24 | Was the ruler 's freedom of action significantly limited by independent institutions and social pressure or was he in a position to subject every social stratum to his own will ? |
| 25 | So the domestic political and economic cost of go-it-alone adventurism is one constraint on America 's freedom of action overseas . |
| 26 | Last week 's budget about turn certainly ensures that this Flat season and many to follow get off to the sort of flying start it had been very difficult to envisage 12 months ago . |
| 27 | Garway 's resistance to exclusion perhaps earned him the respect of the government of James II . |
| 28 | Pamela Klein 's crusade against satanism certainly helped to create the right climate for the prevailing tendency of Christian Evangelic Charismatics to step up their search for signs that Satan was at work . |
| 29 | Jane Cooper argues that the UK 's retention of the death penalty hinders Amnesty 's fight for abolition worldwide |
| 30 | DESPITE nationwide television coverage and ringside seats priced at £100-plus , Noel Magee 's fight in Germany tonight will attract a near-capacity crowd of over 5,000 in Aachen , near Cologne . |