Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it is far from unlikely that both Swegen and Cnut did have relations with the Scandinavian colonies in Ireland , and there is just enough evidence to suggest that when the Encomiast named among the latter 's dominions not only England , Denmark and Norway , but also Brittania and Scothia , he was not necessarily exaggerating . |
| 2 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 3 | Nizan 's systematic refusal to countenance hostile assessments of the developing Soviet state was again illustrated in 1937 when he was called upon to carry out the difficult task of responding to Andre Gide 's highly critical view of the Soviet Union articulated in the latter 's Retour de l'URSS . |
| 4 | Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise . |
| 5 | NHB undertook to return the funds to ANZ if an arbitration panel ruled in the latter 's favour . |
| 6 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 7 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |