Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile in Turkey itself Turkish troops on Oct. 3-4 devastated the small Kurdish towns of Kulp ( Diyarbakir province ) and Curkurca , causing half of the latter 's population of 8,000 to flee [ see p. 39114 ] , and from Oct. 5 onwards heavily bombarded PKK strongholds in the Mount Ararat region . |
| 2 | After the collapse and division of the NF , the BNP began in late 1989 and early 1990 to take on some of the former 's street-presence . |
| 3 | It was a very different beauty from that of a 1930 's Alden ketch or a clipper-bowed Herreshof schooner so admired by the traditionalists . |
| 4 | This , coupled with the decline of the great infectious epidemics which gave homoeopathy its signal successes , eliminated much of the gap between the orthodox and homoeopathic schools and eroded much of the latter 's popularity . |
| 5 | Whatever mitigating justifications could be cited in favour of overt action on the campus , in much of the 1960s ' action , students were often reducing other students ' right to learn , were therefore abusing their freedoms and were , as such , forfeiting their own rights as students . |
| 6 | All amphibians have mucous glands in their skin which produce a slime that helps to keep it moist and some of these in the firebelly 's skin produce a bitter-tasting poison . |
| 7 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 8 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 9 | Reid was familiar with the works of both Malebranche and Arnauld , and expressed views strikingly similar to those in the latter 's Treatise in his own Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man . |
| 10 | Wurlitzer took the openness of ‘ moving on ’ from Kerouac but without any of the latter 's lyricism . |