Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Lamuts ’ ( Even Tungus ) of the Okhotsk region fought hard to preserve their freedom , while in Kamchatka the Itelmens , whose conquest did not begin until the early eighteenth century , were subjected to genocidal slaughter by troops using the up-to-date weapons of Peter the Great 's military machine : muskets and hand grenades . |
| 2 | The appointment of a Benedictine abbot as chief adviser to the king was sufficiently unusual to call to mind Benedict of Aniane 's position in the early years of Louis the Pious 's reign . |
| 3 | In the reigns of Charles the Bald 's predecessors , the count 's first main function was to look after royal estates ( fisc-lands ) and royal income ( for instance from tolls and fines ) within his county . |
| 4 | ‘ We ’ , the provincial society , display all the loose-end symptoms of Peter the Great 's reforms — though Dostoevsky 's overt theorizing about Peter gets left behind in the notebooks . |
| 5 | On the facts of Lawrence the accused 's conviction for theft was upheld even though the victim intended to transfer property . |