Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | About two years before the Government Offices competition , he met Henry H. Hofland , who worked for W. B. Moffatt after the break-up of the latter 's partnership with Scott . |
| 2 | Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties … |
| 3 | The first moves towards redefining the-role of traffic in residential areas unquestionable took place in the Netherlands in the 1970 's and in particular in the city of Delft . |
| 4 | The major event in Romanian foreign policy was the conclusion of a treaty of co-operation , good neighbourliness and friendship with the Soviet Union , signed by Iliescu and Soviet President Gorbachev on April 5 during the course of the former 's visit to Moscow . |
| 5 | Both coercion and consent were typical of the Dukeries villages , therefore , and the mechanisms instituted by employers and their employees were integral to daily life and the maintenance of the former 's hegemony . |
| 6 | The question which serves as a starting-point is why there should be legal obstacles to the recognition of the transsexual 's change . |
| 7 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 8 | The reason has to do with the track width on the 1.2MB drive being narrower than on a 360K disk , and the failure of the latter 's drive heads to read from such a narrow track . |
| 9 | Methil remained the dominant Port in the Forth throughout the 60 's and 70's . |
| 10 | It is no accident that the most gripping section of his latest novel , The Innocent ( Cape , hbk £12.95 ) , is the part where his hero and heroine dismember the corpse of the latter 's ex-husband . |
| 11 | The output of the two-year 's activity of the NRPO was a large number of technical and marketing reports , occupying several shelf-feet . |
| 12 | Again the response to the violent forging through the press and public outside the court by the accused 's ‘ minders ’ had they been the heavies of more traditional villains is open to speculation . |
| 13 | It was found in a cardboard folder in the back of the accused 's car . |
| 14 | There was no need for the whole of the accused 's body to be in the building : the top half was in a shop-front display , the bottom half outside . |
| 15 | On May 8 , the day of the latter 's appearance before the House , Bush described the allegations against himself as " grossly untrue , factually incorrect , bald-faced lies " . |
| 16 | But he said he was ‘ very anxious indeed ’ to discover ‘ the feelings ’ of the victim ‘ in relation to the disposal of the accused 's case ’ if she were prepared to assist . |
| 17 | The project may also serve to contrast the behaviour of the economy in the 1920 's and the 1930 's with the experience before 1914 . |
| 18 | The poisonous philosophies of both Santos and Porua were banished by the sight of the latter 's daughter in her grey dress , red book in hand . |
| 19 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 20 | When it came to the drafting of the constitution those with clear ideas imposed them : these ideas , disguised by historical arguments , derived from the radicalism of the 1790 's and the only principle which underlay ‘ our Revolution ’ — the sovereignty of the people . |
| 21 | In The Form the first two degrees of love seem to correspond to the stages in the contemplative 's life that Rolle has addressed in chapters one to six . |
| 22 | Scrope relied almost exclusively on George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , but consequently had to adapt himself to the tergiversations of the latter 's policies . |
| 23 | Their only chance lay in the strength of the Oriental 's desire to kill him instead . |
| 24 | Appointed Assistant Classicist to Horn in 1951 , he had become Head of Department and Editor of The Stopfordian on the latter 's retirement in 1959 . |
| 25 | Our first ever speaker , Mr Jack Bedell , returned to give some more of his reminiscences of the role played by the line in the 1920 's and 1930's , particularly by the farming community . |
| 26 | For example , in the Leoni Keating case , interest was maintained by reporting fully the reaction of the crowd to the accused 's first appearance in court — CROWDS HURL EGGS AT LEONI CASE MAN : Mums scream ‘ Hang him' ( Sun ) ; FURY OVER LEONI MAN ( Star ) ; WIVES ’ FURY AT MAN IN LEONI CASE ( Daily Mirror ) . |
| 27 | " I do n't know the way to the seneschal 's office ! |
| 28 | During the last days of May 1967 the United States reached an understanding with Israel , clearing the way for the latter 's attack on Egypt on 5 June 1967 . |
| 29 | As Buckley LJ said in Gillespie v Bowles : it is a fundamental consideration in the construction of contracts of this kind that it is inherently improbable that one party to the contract should intend to absolve the other party from the consequences of the latter 's own negligence . |
| 30 | In times of hardship , as in the depression in the 1920 's and 30 's and rationing during the 1940 's and 50's , there has not always been a great choice of food . |