Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Government 's response to the TGAT recommendations , given in the Parliamentary statement by the Secretary of State for Education and Science on 7 June 1988 , is set out in appendix 4 .
2 There was an obvious danger in such a situation — the danger that concern to keep down the compensation bill would affect the ministry 's judgement of the planning merits of particular cases .
3 Indeed , the very success of the Zimbabwean settlement , in line with repeated British withdrawals from colonial territories since the late 1950s , encouraged a growing impatience on Mrs Thatcher 's part with the consensus men of the Foreign Office and with Lord Carrington , its grandee incumbent .
4 Carl Condit 's description of the colour schemes and materials used in this sumptuous station can not be bettered :
5 Thatcher 's rating in the opinion polls was crashing as the dole queues lengthened .
6 His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard .
7 To the delight of both children , we learned it was just below this spot that Bram Stoker 's Dracula leapt ashore from his sinking ship in the shape of a huge black dog , and slept on a suicide 's grave among the abbey tombs .
8 Charles 's presence in the scene squares with evidence for comparable participation in public ritual by Charlemagne and Louis the Pious when aged six and three , respectively .
9 Thomas Coram 's revulsion at the infant corpses in London gutters led him to campaign for a hospital for foundlings , established in 1741 .
10 The Echo revealed yesterday how Reds ' boss Souness was considering whether to opt for Hooper 's experience in the Cup Winners ' Cup second round , second leg , knowing that in carrying a 4-2 defeat from Russia , his side can not afford to concede on home ground .
11 The Echo revealed yesterday how Reds ' boss Souness was considering whether to opt for Hooper 's experience in the Cup Winners ' Cup second round , second leg , knowing that in carrying a 4-2 defeat from Russia , his side can not afford to concede on home ground .
12 The pace then slackened , perhaps because rising prosperity eased some of the burdens ( and Henry VIII 's expropriation of the Church lands and assets eased the constraints on the king ) .
13 That there is considerable theory presupposed by the assertion , ‘ The electron beam was repelled by the North Pole of the magnet ’ , or by a psychiatrist 's talk of the withdrawal symptoms of a patient , should not need much arguing .
14 " Ringo 's accepted our proposal for repeating Wallace 's search with the Bugis pirates for the Greater Bird of Paradise .
15 Daniels , however , was content to spend the few short months of what remained of his life wearing Sarazen 's polo-coat in the Sandwich pubs , telling everyone how ‘ we won the Open at Prince 's ’ .
16 Exactly ! ’ said Penny Black the following evening , as she peeled off her jeans in the women 's changing-room at the University Sports Centre .
17 The Oxford University Student 's Union has expressed its disappointment at the Government 's action on the Student Loans Bill in the Commons last night .
18 Police rang them as they headed north after a friend 's wedding in the Home Counties .
19 It is logical then to proceed with Jean Packman 's research into the way decisions are made when children and young people , home life being temporarily or long term unable or unsuitable to sustain them , for whatever reason , are received into care — or , in spite of referrals and requests , not received .
20 Ashley ( later Lord Shaftesbury ) wrote with regard to women 's labour in the cotton mills :
21 On the one hand , J89 , as the project was known , seemed to seal Vauxhall 's return from the car manufacturers ' junkyard — a good business story .
22 On the one hand , Kitzbuhel is Austria 's queen of the travel brochures ; a walled , medieval town offering lederhosen , dirndl skirts , fig-flavoured coffee and konditorei cream-cake .
23 Now , thanks to TODAY 's campaign against the photocopier cowboys , the Office of Fair Trading is to consider a dossier of complaints against them .
24 Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy , for example , was associated with the suffrage movement , Butler 's campaign against the CD Acts , and the campaign for the Married Women 's Property Acts , while Millicent Fawcett , though withholding public support for Butler because she feared it would bring the suffrage movement into disrepute , in fact wholeheartedly approved of her work .
25 In the bad old days you could go crazy trying to match a driver 's configuration to the switch settings on a LAN card .
26 Nor do we know what the implications of Sotheby 's withdrawal from the court hearings over the Sevso hoard of silver will be ( see this page ) .
27 It is also significant that Gloucester 's hold on the duchy servants in Lancashire , where he had no land , was weaker than in Yorkshire .
28 It is also significant that Gloucester 's hold on the duchy servants in Lancashire , where he had no land , was weaker than in Yorkshire .
29 WALES yesterday named 11 players from Swansea and Llanelli — the two teams to embarrass Australia already this winter — for Saturday 's Test against the world champions , writes Giles Smith .
30 TELEVISION 'S battle of the kitchen features three contestants from the North this weekend chasing the title of Masterchef .
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