Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the outstanding legacy of Napoleon 's invasion lay with the bevy of experts he had brought with him who created the " Institute d'Egypte " producing numerous volumes that were to launch Egyptology in the Western academic world and , in time , to remind educated Egyptians of former glories . |
| 2 | Flack 's skin glistened in the white , gritty light , his thin face tight with fatigue . |
| 3 | The last sentence in Captain James Cunningham 's statement gets to the heart of the matter , for burgh influence depended above all on evident good relations with the men of power who dispensed patronage . |
| 4 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 5 | Yet in their intensity , their beauty and their perfection , Werner Bischof 's photographs speak of a life that was at all times deeply considered and lived to the full . |
| 6 | Her legs shot up and Samson 's tankard skidded across the counter , spilling the rest of the porter over the floor . |
| 7 | Two words , both of them not repeatable , and then the thud , as Callum 's body crunched against the far wall . |
| 8 | Alison Walker 's mouth quivered on a tearful smile . |
| 9 | Mr Arafat 's disappearance comes at a time of unprecedented crisis for the PLO . |
| 10 | Becky 's eyes fell on the picture of the Virgin Mary and Child the moment Charlie placed the little painting on the bed . |
| 11 | Lord Cholmondeley 's correspondent referred to the Smiths as ‘ very good Workmen ’ , and when Francis died in 1738 Sir Edmund Isham of Lamport , Northamptonshire , lamented the loss of ‘ our honest Builder Mr. Smith of Warwick ’ . |
| 12 | So , in sum , Castells 's argument leads to the suggestion that people 's moral careers , their use of back and front regions , and so on , can not be considered separate from the workings of a capitalist economy or the exercising of political authority . |
| 13 | Ceauşescu 's imagination turned to a project which could not be reversed by his successors , perhaps even by time itself . |
| 14 | So I plugged in Marshall 's JMP-1 preamp and instantly the Utopia 's sound crossed over the water , reinforcing my point about the preamp being the life and soul of any rack . |
| 15 | She held it with one hand while the other went to her throat , as Nellie 's face appeared at the door . |
| 16 | As she went through the hall , though , she glanced out of the front windows , and gave a loud groan as she saw Eleanor 's car parked on the drive outside . |
| 17 | His head angled and Meredith 's battle began against the jolt of desire that the simple action had created . |
| 18 | Marie 's eyes shone with the light of inspiration , as if she had suddenly found a purpose in life . |
| 19 | Lina 's face crumpled into a grimace . |
| 20 | Lina 's mouth stretched into a sneer . |
| 21 | Only rarely does one feel Dustin 's personality breaking through the rigid mask Nichols has constructed for him . |
| 22 | ANGOLA 'S government appeared on the verge of military collapse yesterday as the Unita rebel movement was reported to have captured the country 's second most important city . |
| 23 | Remembers , too , phoning John Arlott 's match reports to The Guardian . |
| 24 | Rosengarten 's forte lay in the fine arts , painting and sculpture in particular , to which he committed himself at McGill ahead of Leonard . |
| 25 | Although not specifically related to sport , Robert Malina 's work begins with the observation : ‘ populations differ in a variety of biological and cultural characteristics and motor performance and strength are no exception ’ ( 1973 , p.333 ) . |
| 26 | Some of it belongs to the years directly after 591 , when Gregory 's narrative comes to an end , and has the additional significance of casting some light on the later years of the reign of Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) , which are otherwise poorly represented in the sources . |
| 27 | Entitled To Advance Further Along the Road to Perestroika , Gorbachev 's address began with the assertion that there had been a " revolutionary stride " in all spheres of life since he first announced perestroika in April 1985 . |
| 28 | Although government officials are confident of somehow finding a way next year to pay for the national backbone network , they are sceptical of the LDP 's ability to break through the ceiling on overall spending on science . |
| 29 | Whereas Rolle 's poetic understanding of spiritual life embodied in his English works makes them like flares sent up to illuminate dark ground , each a light but each separate , Hilton 's Scale brings into the daylight a carefully worked out map of spiritual life with each of the major stages interconnected . |
| 30 | However , as has already been pointed out , Thorndyke 's study differed from the two earlier ones in that he used passages which maintained clear temporal sequencing , and clear clausal connections in both narrative conditions . |