Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three bells in the tower — age unknown — but they were mentioned in the churchwarden 's accounts in the 17th century . |
| 2 | Huguenot refugees from France settled here in what became one of London 's ghettoes in the eighteenth century , and brought their weaving skills with them . |
| 3 | Britain 's opponents in the First Division are the USSR , France , Italy , Sweden and the Netherlands . |
| 4 | Stockport are Liverpool 's opponents in the first round of the National Veterans Knockout Trophy . |
| 5 | De Gaulle 's opponents in the Third Force feared as much . |
| 6 | Sian , 24 , was counting out the day 's takings after the last race when the killer struck . |
| 7 | Arthur Conan Doyle 's experiments with fairies , Professor Johan Zollner 's trips into the Fourth Dimension courtesy of Henry Slade — these not only provide illuminating parallels with current happenings but still , after myriad exposure and confessions , retain their adherents . |
| 8 | But it 's reminded me of one of my father 's books about the First World War , in which the author writes about the demise of a certain kind of army and a certain kind of warfare : cavalries organised in elegant formation for the war of movement . |
| 9 | On Friday 's show Tim will choose one of this week 's winners for the first prize of fish and chips in a Limo with champagne . |
| 10 | The WWF also launched a Caring for the Earth Campaign for Change , seeking pledges from individuals to make personal contributions to the strategy 's goals over the next year by using energy-efficient light bulbs , cutting car mileage by 25 per cent , planting 10 trees and helping to organize recycling initiatives at their workplace . |
| 11 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 12 | There is n't that sudden moment when the music stops and you look into one another 's eyes for the first time , or whatever . |
| 13 | Fei Yen rose slowly , meeting the prince 's eyes for the first time and seeing how quickly he re-directed his gaze . |
| 14 | Strong and justified pressures for a New International Economic Order also make it imperative for the implications of Europe 's relationships with the Third World to be taken into serious account . |
| 15 | Developments such as these were to occupy some of Newton 's successors for the next couple of centuries . |
| 16 | I enjoyed Amanda Archibald 's articles in the last newsletter and I agree with her that the British government and people ( especially the arts and media ) have failed to build pride and patriotism in young people . |
| 17 | Equally remarkable were the ambition and determination that pushed to completion her final novel , which is also her masterpiece , South Riding ( published posthumously in 1936 and awarded the James Tait Black memorial prize ) : a rich regional study of social change and local government , it drew to some extent on her mother 's experiences as the first woman alderman in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 18 | He 's currently developing a play about Lawrence 's experiences in the First World War and he 's been asked to look at Lawrence 's novel Kangaroo , by the BBC . |
| 19 | Won a national competition — well a competition in a national magazine — by imagining how to put together three exceptional outfits for three occasions : a job interview , meeting a partner 's parents for the first time , and addressing a conference . |
| 20 | The volume of beer sold through Greenall 's pubs over the last couple of months has shown a fall on 1988 levels , said the group financial director , Mr Michael Davis , as he unveiled profits up 10.5 per cent to £52million for the year to September . |
| 21 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 22 | The first round of the National Clubs competition has now been completed with the holders Linden , of Birmingham , drawn against Nottingham 's Cliftonettes in the second round . |
| 23 | The buildings of the Garden of England are extensively surveyed in Anthony Quiney 's English Domestic Architecture : Kent Houses ( £35 ) , a fully illustrated survey of the county 's buildings from the thirteenth century to the present . |
| 24 | Another archaic art-form known to us only from one find is the gold-and-ivory cult-statue : not on the vast scale of Pheidias 's creations in the next century ( below , p. 102 ) , but fragments of several life-size figures have been found buried under the Sacred Way at Delphi , probably from a burned treasury . |
| 25 | They are most commonly found in women 's graves of the sixth century accompanied by a relatively large quantity of grave-goods . |
| 26 | TREATY : An agreement signed by Europe 's governments as the next step towards political and economic unity . |
| 27 | The report , the product of four years ' work by a special WEC committee , attempts to bring renewable energy sources into the council 's calculations for the first time . |
| 28 | Others pointed to the inevitable and embarrassing shadow the embassy occupation would have cast over next weekend 's celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the founding of East Germany . |
| 29 | Together with Nina 's secretary , Alex rescheduled most of the Editor 's appointments for the next couple of weeks . |
| 30 | The applications of Papert 's ideas to the Third World had more to do with Servan-Schreiber 's priorities , than with the immediate concerns of the computer scientists the politician had gathered . |