Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 2 | Initially all Gehlen 's funding came from the CIA but later , in 1954 when the German Federal Republic was established as a sovereign state , Gehlen took over the running of the Federal German Intelligence Service . |
| 3 | Green 's molecules consists of a central tungsten atom to which are attached two five-atom carbon rings ( cyclopentane molecules ) and two hydrogen atoms . |
| 4 | Pa 's response comes in the flat voice I know , and fear , ‘ Talk properly , James . |
| 5 | Twenty years ago more than three quarters of the College 's income came in the form of a government grant . |
| 6 | In 1991 , only 50 per cent of the SCO 's income came from the box office , compared to an average of 69 per cent . |
| 7 | Where a claimant 's income rises above the ‘ needs allowance ’ , tapers are applied so that , as income rises , the size of benefit falls in direct relation to the excess income over the needs allowance . |
| 8 | Suppose the firm 's income consists of a 50 per cent chance of £2000 and a 50 per cent chance of nothing . |
| 9 | In the end , both parties agreed on a payment of £200 , and Crawford 's contract came to an end . |
| 10 | Glasgow 's newest hotel , ‘ The Forum ’ chose Stoddard Mercia 's contract carpeting throughout the reception area and two restaurants on the ground floor . |
| 11 | Moscovici 's defence refers to the destructive power of operational definitions to restrict intellectual advance . |
| 12 | Core 's defence relied on the claim that the materials were for artistic purposes , a defence recognised in British law . |
| 13 | AY 's defence centred around the claim that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar , as its auditor , and not to WG , even though it also audited the WG group accounts . |
| 14 | The Committee 's activities culminated in the summoning of a People 's Convention on 12 January 1941 . |
| 15 | But very often the major part of an individual 's activities stem from the duties and reciprocal obligations which fall to him by virtue of his roles as a social person . |
| 16 | Lister 's activities extended into the community . |
| 17 | Pomgol 's activities extended to the purchase and distribution of foodstuffs , medicine , and other supplies ; help to the starving to get work ; and collecting donations . |
| 18 | A pony 's hooves rattled on the road outside . |
| 19 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 20 | Are each relevant year 's accounts covered by the auditing/reporting and dispute resolution process ? |
| 21 | Under the provision of the Companies Act 1989 the Secretary of State has powers to seek a ruling from the courts , under a new civil procedure , on whether a company 's accounts comply with the provisions of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 22 | On the far side of Farringdon Road , Graham passed Easton Street where another painter 's or window-cleaner 's cradle lay on the pavement , up-ended for some reason , neat coils of rope around it . |
| 23 | Ackroyd 's Wilde complains of the ‘ sordid ’ interpretations of his conduct which had influenced the outcome of his trial , while himself , on other occasions , interpreting his conduct as sordid . |
| 24 | Curwen 's estates lay on the west Cumberland coalfield , and he took a particular interest in the collieries inherited from his father and his second wife , as well as others which he purchased and leased in the area . |
| 25 | The second half was again scrappy and Farncombe 's winner came after a goalmouth scramble . |
| 26 | The Board 's discussions led to a conclusion that in order to improve profitability and obtain the benefits of economy of scale , it is desirable to merge the subsidiaries into the parent company , thereby creating a single company . |
| 27 | It would be interesting to know how Mr Bishko 's shareholders feel about the future . |
| 28 | Nead 's text takes in the conventional notions of feminine beauty , pornography and the tabloid press , the fine line between sexuality and the obscene and the recent reclamation of the nude by female artists . |
| 29 | The reader 's relationship to Proust 's text switches from the closeness , produced by paraphrase and quotation , of listening to the text speaking for itself , to a more removed perspective from which de Man and his reader stand back from that text and speculate on a general rule about language . |
| 30 | An oval mirror , pock-marked and fly-stained , was set in the top of this extravagant and monstrous contraption and next to it stood a hollow elephant 's foot mounted on a wooden base . |