Example sentences of "[noun sg] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literary context in our culture creates a situation where relevance may be achieved in alternative ways , so as to constitute this " openness ' for criticism . |
| 2 | We can profitably ask if realism in linguistics is incompatible with " openness ' in textual interpretation . |
| 3 | Instead , what linguistics owes us is an account of how textual " openness ' is possible within the social and psychological context of literature , and hence how alternative readings can be explicitly accounted for . |
| 4 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 5 | The meaning of ‘ witness ' |
| 6 | If we reject the idea that context is situation ( although I have accommodated the concept of situation in my definition of context ) we can treat deixis in poetry not as a kind of " pseudo-deixis ' , as some critics such as Culler ( 1974 ) have suggested , but simply as deixis framed by a particular genre . |
| 7 | If the lowdown on Vera Lynn 's recent successes at her local tennis club or Joe Loss ' new sailboat got you salivating , then these were the columns for you . |
| 8 | I employ the term ' sharing' in a technical sense to distinguish it from ‘ reciprocity ’ as a specific type of transaction . |
| 9 | First , there is the familiar , and I have to say rather irritating , confusion of natural selection with " randomness ' . |
| 10 | An almost universal game was ‘ Soldiers ’ played with a stalk of plantain : [ ‘ Let's play soldier ' s ’ ] was the usual invitation to play . |
| 11 | Affixes are of two sorts in English : prefixes , which come before the stem ( e.g. prefix ‘ un- ’ + stem ‘ pleasant ’ → ‘ unpleasant ’ ) and suffixes , which come after the stem ( e.g. stem ‘ good ’ + suffix -ness ' → ‘ goodness ’ ) . |
| 12 | It is not therefore assumed that people have a' consciousness ' ( false or otherwise ) or a system or knowledge about the outside world , but only that they have a more or less adequate collection of competences in dealing with particular instances of it . |
| 13 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 14 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 15 | An armchair by the fire in winter may be the ideal spot for reading a novel : however , it 's not the best place to structure or write an essay on " Newtonian thermodynamics ' or " Political and philosophical influences on the novels of Jane Austen " . |
| 16 | The countess ' heir , the attainted thirteenth earl , had the transaction annulled after his restoration by Henry VII and later brought witnesses to depose that the countess had submitted under duress . |
| 17 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 18 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 19 | In April 1477 the duke 's feoffees granted the countess ' manor of Fowlmere ( Cambs. ) to Queens ' College , Cambridge , for prayers for the good estate of the king and queen and of Gloucester , his wife and son , and for the souls of John de Vere late earl of Oxford and Elizabeth his consort . |
| 20 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 21 | The countess ' heir , the attainted thirteenth earl , had the transaction annulled after his restoration by Henry VII and later brought witnesses to depose that the countess had submitted under duress . |
| 22 | Gloucester undertook to settle the countess ' debts to a total of £240 and to give her unspecified sums for the performance of her last will . |
| 23 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 24 | In April 1477 the duke 's feoffees granted the countess ' manor of Fowlmere ( Cambs. ) to Queens ' College , Cambridge , for prayers for the good estate of the king and queen and of Gloucester , his wife and son , and for the souls of John de Vere late earl of Oxford and Elizabeth his consort . |
| 25 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 26 | The " over-cohesiveness ' in adjacent sentences ( c ) and ( g ) was commented on particularly , with workshop particpants expressing dissatisfaction at the repetitiveness of the " there were … " construction and the similarity of the phrases " in the courtyard " and " of the courtyard " . |
| 27 | ' Speak-up ' gave anonymity , so anyone with a question could get it answered , either in public through the company newspapers , or privately through the trusted senior coordinator . |
| 28 | Jack Nicholson follows 1987 's Ironweed , his last substantial acting job to date , with another William Kennedy Depression-era novel , Billy Phelan 's Greatest Game , playing a ‘ tarnished pool hustler ’ involved in the kidnapping of a city boss ' son , while Mickey Rourke may play Kennedy 's gangster hero Legs for Ironweed producer Gene Kirkwood . |
| 29 | Once Cube has sorted out his Street Knowledge label , you make records that are comparable too , if not as mighty , as the boss ' own . |
| 30 | It is quite common to see an important Orc Boss strutting through the Orc camp followed closely by a tiny Snotling impersonating his walk and copying the Boss ' every movement in an exaggerated comic fashion . |