Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the surplus there could in fact have been ploughed into a er further extensions of the present residents ' parking , but of course , as has been mentioned here , I welcome the , the modest er extension of the residents ' parking into the other half of |
| 2 | The 18-track set charts the retiring Coventry boy 's progress from The Specials ' 1979 hit , ‘ Gangsters ’ , through Fun Boy Three 's collaboration with Bananarama , ‘ It Ai n't What You Do ’ , to solo work in the '90s . |
| 3 | The same memorandum shows that these measures , costing £3,670 , absorbed all Edward IV 's cash reserves , and this is likely to be the origin of Mancini 's story of the Woodvilles ' raid on the king 's treasury . |
| 4 | The same memorandum shows that these measures , costing £3,670 , absorbed all Edward IV 's cash reserves , and this is likely to be the origin of Mancini 's story of the Woodvilles ' raid on the king 's treasury . |
| 5 | Once in London , he worked with James Asperne , of the European Magazine , Thomas Hurst , of Longman 's , and perhaps Thomas Tegg [ q.v. ] , who witnessed Wilson 's admission to the Clothworkers ' Company 7 February 1810 . |
| 6 | After supper there 's a choice of sticky cakes , coffee and exotic icecreams at a couple of beachside cafes , or late drinks and 70 's rock at the Louis ' blues bar — if he 's the guy who opens it again this year . |
| 7 | There was a slight preponderance of hiatus hernia in the control group and of Barrett 's oesophagus in the miners ' group , but these were not statistically significant . |
| 8 | He said the White Paper failed to indicate the Government 's attitude to the judges ' response to the Green Papers . |
| 9 | In October the Principal wrote further to express the Academic Board 's disagreement with the visitors ' findings . |
| 10 | After the Nobel announcement , Novy Mir 's letter of rejection of two years before was hastily published to lend justification to Pasternak 's expulsion from the writers ' union as a traitor : ‘ The spirit of your novel is that of non-acceptance of the Socialist Revolution , that it brought the people nothing but suffering and destroyed the Russian intelligentsia … that the Revolution was a mistake and that all that happened afterwards was evil . ’ |
| 11 | Wickham appeared on his way from MacQuillan 's room to the typists ' office . |
| 12 | The row followed hard on the heels of Tuesday 's criticism by the Members ' Interests Select Committee that Mr Gummer should have declared work paid for by a giant food company to restore a pond at his Suffolk home . |
| 13 | The central committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( MSMP or HSWP ) decided on Dec. 12 to change the party 's name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 14 | The recovery of a piece engraved with a horse 's head from the reindeer-hunters ' station of Meiendorf , north-east of Hamburg , shows indeed that this began during the final stage of the Ice Age . |
| 15 | Nor can the charge of time-serving be wholly accepted of a prelate who was on good terms with John XXII , who protested against the king 's retention of the Templars ' lands , and whose piety was esteemed by contemporaries . |
| 16 | Hillier , 22 , played a veteran 's role in the Gunners ' victory against Oldham , guiding novice midfielders Steve Morrow , 22 , and Ray Parlour , 19 , through their big-match Highbury ordeal . |
| 17 | Subsequently , in an unrelated claim by the plaintiff bank against the defendants , the bank sought discovery of the copy of the employee 's affidavit in the defendants ' solicitors ' possession . |
| 18 | If this went too far , of course , the sense of supernatural assistance would destroy one 's awareness of the companions ' courage , as also the deeply-felt implicit moral that this is the way to behave . |
| 19 | Sir : Peter Wilby 's endorsement of the vice-chancellors ' proposal to charge undergraduates full fees ( 29 September ) confuses two quite different issues ; expansion and access . |
| 20 | These had been made by the institution 's carpenter in the guardians ' time , and at their expense . |
| 21 | Already Edward I had briefly confiscated the property of alien religious houses , and Edward II 's seizure of the Templars ' lands — neither acknowledged nor perhaps intended to be permanent — was strikingly similar to his father 's action in essence . |
| 22 | The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church . |
| 23 | A KURDISH refugee who set fire to himself after being told his application for political asylum in Britain had failed has died , intensifying criticism of the Home Office 's handling of the Kurds ' plight , writes Mike Prestage . |
| 24 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 25 | Shenfield 's survey of the Midlands ' manufacturing industry in 1954 ( Shenfield 1957 ) revealed that over three quarters of firms had flexible pension schemes , as did the analysis of the London County Council building trade ( Le Gros Clark 1954a and b ) . |
| 26 | The result earned Coventry the vote from Graham Taylor 's panel as the Barclays ' Performance of the Week . |
| 27 | A tasty two-week campaign on national telly will go out in a fortnight 's time in the kids ' peak viewing slot — just between the early evening news and the popular Home And Away soap . |
| 28 | On the following night Dougal and Lorton decided against taking the car ; the distance from Lorton 's house to the Newleys ' was only a few hundred yards . |
| 29 | For the journalists , resentment at the move to Wapping and the slaughtering of 5,500 print workers ' jobs was combined with bitterness at Murdoch 's destruction of the papers ' esprit de corps and journalistic standards . |
| 30 | Sometimes , the sought-for object may be entirely predicted in advance , as with the ‘ discovery ’ of the planet Neptune in 1846 ( which in reality was just the astronomers ' confirmation of the mathematicians ' predictions ) . |