Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke of the fight to preserve as much of possible of the Island 's rail network in the period of the Beeching closures . |
| 2 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 3 | A number of moves to liberalize the economy were announced in the wake of Mengistu 's March speech on the introduction of a mixed economy . |
| 4 | Wales B could have repeated Swansea 's midweek defeat of the world champions but Llanelli outside-half Colin Stephens missed with three penalties , a conversion and a drop goal — 14 points that would have made the difference . |
| 5 | Richard Hevron , Microsoft Corp 's operations director for the Commonwealth of Independent States , says that sales of Windows software in the former Soviet Union have reached about 1,000 : the Russian version of Windows 3.1 will be out in November and Excel 4.0 will be available by the end of the year . |
| 6 | A lack of life jackets and portable fire extinguisher in the emergency muster area , and the role of the rig 's support ship during the rescue operation were criticised . |
| 7 | I think believe your your title has changed slightly has it from women 's support group to the quarry men 's support group ? |
| 8 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 9 | J. C. Schetky who describes himself as marine painter in ordinary to Her Majesty has little good to say about Islay in " Sketches of notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters on board His Grace the Duke of Rutland 's Yacht Resolution in the Summer of 1848 . " |
| 10 | J. C. Schetky who describes himself as marine painter in ordinary to Her Majesty has little good to say about Islay in " Sketches of notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters on board His Grace the Duke of Rutland 's Yacht Resolution in the Summer of 1848 . " |
| 11 | This latter attack , widely held to have been the work of a Tamil Tiger suicide squad , again called into question India 's desire after the IPKF withdrawal to remain at arm 's length from the Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka — a major security issue , with India such a short journey from the LTTE 's Jaffna stronghold across the Palk Strait , or from Mannar along the string of islands at Adam 's Bridge . |
| 12 | The NKLP 'S sister party in the south , the SKLP , had suffered serious reverses in 1949 at the hands of the Rhee government and was no longer the force it had once been . |
| 13 | Interviews have now been held in Categories I and III of this year 's Building Manager of the Year Awards and the adjudicating panel is well on its way to a final selection The final results of the Awards , sponsored by Chaffoteaux et Maury and organised by the CIOB with Building , will be kept under wraps until the Awards Dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on October 7 . |
| 14 | Mother General and Mother Clare were indeed right , it would have been preferential treatment to have financed Eve 's university education from the convent funds . |
| 15 | A capital injection into Target after it has been acquired is often used to increase Newco 's base cost in the Target shares where , for example , Target is acquired for a nominal consideration because the value of its assets is matched by corresponding liabilities . |
| 16 | Firstly , there is the need to consider how the White Paper 's proposals impact on the funding structure of the NHS . |
| 17 | So , befurred and kid-gloved , her hair put up elaborately around her pale grey hat , she went into the Talbot pew in Bishopstow church , her own pew now , and put Aunt Emily 's prayer book on the ledge before her , and knelt to say a prayer of profound thankfulness . |
| 18 | She was eventually deposited , within a new coffin , beneath the altar-slab in her husband 's chantry chapel in the Abbey in 1878 . |
| 19 | The finance plan , applicable to 968 and 928 GTS models , will guarantee a residual value of 55 and 50 per cent respectively of the car 's purchase price at the end of three years . |
| 20 | Rabin had been army Chief of Staff during the 1967 war , and Prime Minister from 1973 until 1977 , when in April he resigned as the Labour Party 's election candidate for the premiership and the Labour Party lost the ensuing general election [ see pp. 28533-38 ] . |
| 21 | At seven on the Saturday night of the prêt-à-porter showings , I make my way up the mirrored staircase in Chanel 's couture house in the rue Cambon . |
| 22 | He can now foresee the rapid completion of the work on Andrea Pozzo 's frescoes in the apse of the church of S. Ignazio and the beginning of the project to conserve Baciccio 's cupola decoration at the Gesú . |
| 23 | MONDAY morning , December 12 1988 , and another week 's commuting was beginning for those heading into London 's Waterloo Station from the south-west , writes David Sharrock . |
| 24 | Future events include a children 's Easter party at the Dolphin Centre , Darlington , at which Tizer Ted is to be the star attraction . |
| 25 | Food is forced into the chicks by the keeper 's index finger inside the book . |
| 26 | He left his grip in the office , put on his tweed coat against a blustery autumnal morning and cut through St James 's Park station to the Department . |
| 27 | By determining a local council 's grant income from the centre and setting a ceiling to a local council 's revenue raising , central government acquired the capacity to set a limit on any council 's spending . |
| 28 | On pay , the bad old tradition of linking monthly wage rises to the government estimate of monthly inflation was preserved — with the difference that only half of March 's 80% decline in the value of pay-packets will be made up in April . |
| 29 | Vincent Cannistraro , chief of operations at the Central Intelligence Agency 's counter-terrorism centre at the time of the bombing , said there was evidence Iran may have hired out the operation to both Libya and to the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ) . |
| 30 | The Plessey takeover coupled with these collaborative ventures has radically restructured Britain 's electronics industry in the run up to the completion of the Single European Market in 1992 . |