Example sentences of "[num] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No. 42765 's boiler is now ready for inspection by British Rail , which will then see the re-tube . |
| 2 | Four of 252 's Beaufighters had been destroyed on the ground during air raids while on Malta and the remaining four left on the same day for Gibraltar on the first leg of the flight back to England , each carrying three aboard instead of the usual crew of two . |
| 3 | The TBM 700 's purchase price includes two type ratings , and the usual practice is for the owner-pilot to bring a professional flier with him to take the course . |
| 4 | For knitters who use their own personal blocks but would like more inspiration for patterns , CML 's artworks collections are fantastic value for page after page of chartered designs directly traceable to Brother electronic sheets and easily used by all knitters to give their work an individual look . |
| 5 | True , DF 118 's predilection for improvisation results in one yawn-inducing instrumental howler entitled ‘ Preacher Dub ’ ( foolishly placed at the start of the set ) , and they 're daft enough to return to clichéd ranting on '60 Seconds ’ ; but by the time proceedings close with ‘ Chainsaw ’ , they 're looking like people who could take on more established named and win hands down . |
| 6 | The resulting mixture of haunting female vocals and high-tech clatter is surprisingly intoxicating , and the brew is strengthened by DF 118 's penchant for metallic slabs of guitar that turn tunes like ‘ Blasphemy ’ and ‘ Kinky Sex ’ ( ! ) into wonderfully menacing beasts . |
| 7 | This theme was also found in the embroidered textiles listed in Clement V 's inventory of the papal treasury in 1311 . |
| 8 | Above the chimney piece and marble hearth is Ambrose McEvoy 's portrait of the Princess Royal , King George V 's daughter . |
| 9 | Thierry 's remote connection with the family of Godfrey de Bouillon , along with his marriage with Sybilla of Anjou , Fulk V 's daughter , gave him some claim to the throne of Jerusalem ; as a consequence , the aristocracy of Outremer viewed him and Philip with mixed feelings , expecting much of them , yet fearing their ambitions . |
| 10 | L's utterance in line 45 begins with a comment on the photograph in London English ( " that 's me " ) but after a pause she switches to Creole to comment on V 's photography : " Valerie cut me off there , boy ! " which she follows with a laugh . |
| 11 | Had the French not been so proud , the anonymous chaplain of Henry V 's household asserted , they would have recognised that earlier defeats which they had experienced ( he was referring to the battles fought at Sluys in 1340 and at Poitiers in 1356 ) , constituted a clear sign of divine arbitrament , and much bloodshed would have been avoided . |
| 12 | The same attitude can be seen in the matter of Edward V 's household . |
| 13 | The same attitude can be seen in the matter of Edward V 's household . |
| 14 | For the first half of the fifteenth century , Gascony was under less pressure , probably because Henry V 's campaigns had shifted the bulk of military activity to northern France , but even so war had a serious effect on wine exports . |
| 15 | The way that most materialists try to reconcile their flight from behaviourism with their materialist world picture is to say that when V sees something , and BS observes V 's brain , BS knows everything about V 's mental states that V himself knows , but that he knows about it in a different way . |
| 16 | It might be interpreted as saying that V has a mode of access to his own brain different from any modes of access to V 's brain available to BS ; or that V has a different mode of access to the external world , and that this constitutes the difference between him and BS . |
| 17 | Mary seems at first sight to have carried still further the process of reversion : ‘ numbers cause great confusion , ’ remarked Count Feria , Charles V 's ambassador . |
| 18 | England , therefore , might not be a clearly Protestant kingdom in the 1530s , but for leading Scottish Protestants she offered a better haven than James V 's Scotland . |
| 19 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 20 | Similarly , if in a much more restrained manner , the Englishman , John Page , himself a soldier in Henry V 's army , described in detail and in passages of considerable emotion the sufferings of the helpless civilians during the six-month-long siege of Rouen which ended in January 1419 . |
| 21 | V 's response is a denial — the expected response to an accusation — and is in London English : " no I never … |
| 22 | In 1124 , when the king summoned the great army to meet the threat of the Emperor Henry V 's invasion , he bore the standard of St Denis at the head of his troops . |
| 23 | Such , briefly , was Henry V 's inheritance from the fourteenth century . |
| 24 | Similarly , a Spanish defeat by the French is put down to Charles V 's stubbornness ; the lackadaisical course of the war with the Turks is attributed to the Spanish lack of funds ; and so with many other examples . |
| 25 | It was not until Gloucester had seized the throne , and the Woodvilles could again claim to be acting in Edward V 's interests , that the family , at least in some circles , regained their political credibility . |
| 26 | It was not until Gloucester had seized the throne , and the Woodvilles could again claim to be acting in Edward V 's interests , that the family , at least in some circles , regained their political credibility . |
| 27 | Charles V 's coronation , and the feast which followed it , cost the city over 7,712 livres , according to Varin 's Archives Administratives de Reims . |
| 28 | On top of this military expenditure , the government had to find the cost of Edward IV 's funeral ( £1,886 ) and the cost of Edward V 's coronation , now rescheduled for 22 June . |
| 29 | At this critical moment my father had to escort an Abyssinian Mission , headed by Ras Kassa , to England to attend King George V 's coronation . |
| 30 | On top of this military expenditure , the government had to find the cost of Edward IV 's funeral ( £1,886 ) and the cost of Edward V 's coronation , now rescheduled for 22 June . |