Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] of 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 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 ) . |
14 | Whether this is stimulated by the myths and ballads proposed by David Holbrook , or is a reflection upon the living conditions of society 's victims suggested by Searle , teachers ' limitation of the pupils ' work in English to ‘ personal ’ writing can be interpreted as giving their support to the status quo of the social system . |
15 | It shows in the opinion polls ' evidence of the Greeks ' growing reluctance to commit their votes to any of the present parties . |
16 | Observation in labs and workshops highlighted the depressing effect on girls ' performance of the boys ' claim to science as their subject . |
17 | THE EXAMPLE THAT HOWLINGLY TOPS THEM ALL : The Fine Young Cannibals ' cover of The Buzzcocks ' ‘ Ever Fallen In Love ’ . |