Example sentences of "'s [noun] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | al-Sakhawi , quoting al-Makrizi , dates both Molla Gurani 's banishment and his abortive pilgrimage in the year 844/1440–1 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja 844 = 30 April 1441 ) . |
2 | A Super Class 1 transaction ( requiring an immediate announcement to the market , a circular to the offeror 's shareholders and their prior approval in general meeting ) is one where a comparison of the target 's assets , profits , gross capital etc with the value of those of the offeror is 25 per cent or more . |
3 | But it also sets up a fight between a firm 's shareholders and its other creditors . |
4 | The golf journalists knew enough not to ask any leading questions in the middle of a round , and they were sufficiently wary of Jack 's temperament and his considerable command of the pointed rebuke . |
5 | Deric Longden 's story of his wife 's ME and his wonderful portrait of his mother are to be televised as ‘ Wide-eyed and Legless ’ in a two and half hour film . |
6 | True , the bacteriology that emerges from Shaw 's play and its accompanying preface is heavily tainted by his own tetchy brand of anti-science . |
7 | It is only necessary to imagine a rabbit 's reactions and its subsequent behaviour once it realises that there is an unwelcome visitor within the burrow system . |
8 | I was therefore obliged to monitor the line ferret 's progress and his approximate position by the way in which he progressed along the burrow from the moment he was introduced . |
9 | She too had been struck by the similarity between the kitten 's fur and her own hair , and Raphael would have been another subtle reminder for the future of Fen . |
10 | Over the past few years galleries have been springing up in Berlin 's Fasanenstrasse and its surrounding district , making it the ideal starting point for a gallery tour . |
11 | Devi Lal 's resignation and its subsequent withdrawal |
12 | He valued the Squat 's presence and his occasional sallies of sarcasm — just as , in a way , he valued Googol 's pose of disdain . |
13 | Leonard has been doubly cheated : of his father 's presence and his rightful position . |
14 | The reductions were caused partly by Poland 's recession and its resulting inability to import and partly because of growing public environmental pressure , according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Environmental Protection . |
15 | His book has interesting passages about the author 's boyhood and his later disenchantment with trade unionism . |
16 | Candidates from the right-wing extremist National Front ( FN ) came second , ahead of the official RPR candidates ( one of whom was Pierre Botton , Noir 's son-in-law and his former campaign manager , running against Dubernard ) . |
17 | Given Piatakov 's views and his official position , the Bolsheviks of the Ukraine seemed to the Rada indistinguishable from both the Kadets and the Petrograd Soviet . |
18 | In Daniel Deronda , Gwendolen 's enjoyment of ‘ her own furlong of corridors ’ at Ryelands , with its ‘ rich glow of light and colour ’ in numerous rooms , is destroyed by her awareness that , although each detail is superficially right , the whole is profoundly wrong , for this house too rests upon the ruin of other lives , those of Grandcourt 's mistress and her unacknowledged children . |
19 | The Deputy Treasurer , who was in charge of the Court 's books and its daily business , was Nicholas 's elder brother John , whom he succeeded in the post in 1622 . |
20 | She more than anyone else understood her husband 's obsession and his overriding ambition to become Australia 's first ornithologist ; she even encouraged and implemented his aims . |
21 | And then his grandfather died , and Leonard was faced with other traumas : his mother 's remarriage and its unhappy dissolution . |
22 | Luke 's words and their possible implication slammed belatedly into her brain as she was being introduced to the entertainment editor of a local newspaper , but natural incredulity dismissed them as more talk , just words carelessly plucked from an inadequate language . |
23 | Pam had also caught Springfield 's glance and his subsequent reluctance to speak , and put in spiritedly , ‘ Nate , do n't hold anything back on my account . |
24 | Labour 's Ministry for the Arts and Media will encourage Britain 's arts and their associated industries , including broadcasting and the press , to develop new ideas and attract more people . |
25 | Apart from Mary 's tragedy and her early demise , the Caplan family are a robust , healthy lot . |
26 | After the publication of Gratian 's Decretum and its wide dissemination , which is illustrated by the large number of manuscripts in different medieval libraries and individually owned by various bishops and scholars , not only could more detailed work be undertaken but it initiated a new epoch in interest in the declaration of law by the pope . |
27 | Mum and Dad and six kids , there was four in one bedroom , me sister , me and her my Me two sisters in the slept in in a double bed in me Mam 's bedroom and we four lads slept in the back bedroom w w whi which was just just big enough to get a double bed in , as you can see , and there was two that slept at the top , and two slept at the bottom . |
28 | There was shock and alarm around the world over Shevardnadze 's announcement , his apparent desertion from Gorbachev 's side and his impending departure from the international diplomatic scene , where he was well-known and respected . |
29 | Copies of Steve 's pamphlet and his earlier work , ‘ Spotting Football Grounds From Tall Buildings A Long Way Off Volume 1 ’ , are on sale at the club office , price £1.75 . |
30 | This is situated on the Backs , with only a short walk across to King 's College and its great chapel . |