Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any stage , one 's attitudes will contain their implicit themes , and these are part of the attitudinal structure . |
| 2 | Few people relish the though of a visit to the dentist , but neglecting your horse 's teeth could affect your riding and the horse 's condition and comfort . |
| 3 | One must ask when those working in children 's books will seize their opportunities and discuss the excellence of writing for children , the excitement that children show when they meet books , and the absolute commitment of all professionals , especially teachers and librarians , to getting the right book to the right child at the right time . |
| 4 | JO N JACK 'S supporters will get their money today after BOLA finally advised its members to pay up . |
| 5 | In a dramatic final episode , Roy 's devotees will watch their hero vainly wrestle the controls as his helicopter plunges to the ground and explodes in a ball of flames . |
| 6 | Cinderella 's Slippers will cover your favourite pair of court shoes in the fabric of your choice for shoes that perfectly match your wedding dress or going away outfit . |
| 7 | Increasingly , Potton 's customers will sell their homes and rent while their Potton home is being built . |
| 8 | Show the potential purchaser how the product 's features can fulfil his or her needs or solve his or her problems . |
| 9 | Similarly , during World War I , fears were expressed that servicemen 's wives would spend their dependants ' allowances on drink . |
| 10 | ‘ Otherwise the King 's lawyers will spin their web and have you hanged at Tyburn . |
| 11 | Gooch 's men must accept their lot and get on with a job for which they are being paid around £20,000 a man . |
| 12 | She smiled at the decent , hard-working housewives like Sairellen Thackray — too busy to smile back at her — who were scouring their doorsteps with pumice stone and polishing their door-knockers ; waging war to the death — their own , quite likely — against soot from the mill chimneys which attacked their washing lines ; against foul air and foul water which attacked the bodies of their children ; against bad housing , bad weather , a spell of bad trade when a reduction in a husband 's wages could cause their whole , grimly constructed edifice to crumble . |
| 13 | Lima 's politicians may rue their election strategy of branding Fujimori , the son of Japanese immigrants , a ‘ foreigner ’ , for the Quechua-speaking majority in the Andean highlands , estranged from a state apparatus that functions in Spanish , sympathised with the man they nicknamed the ‘ Little Chinaman ’ . |
| 14 | Russia 's revolutionaries must shed their populist illusions , realize that Marx 's analysis was fully applicable to Russia , and take their place alongside the proletariat . |
| 15 | Refusing to yield , the government said that the workers ' demands would shatter its anti-inflation strategy and warned against the strike being exploited politically by the All-Poland Trade Union Accord ( OPZZ , formerly linked to the PUWP ) which had given the stoppage immediate support . |
| 16 | Children travelling on their parents ' passports must have their photograph in the passport . |
| 17 | I honestly believed Graeme Souness ' men would overturn their 42 first leg deficit and go on to win a tournament desperately lacking in class participants . |