Example sentences of "[adj] ['s] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new album , ‘ Hype ’ , is more guitar-based than The High 's debut which , forged as it was in the wake of Manchester 's nebulous ‘ baggy ’ explosion , suffered from rather inappropriate comparisons with the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays . |
| 2 | Someone might say : it is a principle of personal morality that if someone shares in the gains of another 's action he must also share the responsibility for wrongs that other person does . |
| 3 | After Edward III 's death he resigned his allegiance and his title , and returned to France , leaving his wife in England . |
| 4 | By the last decade of Edward III 's reign it had become customary for the contracts of service to specify how the gains of war were to be divided . |
| 5 | In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript . |
| 6 | Clotworthy demonstrates that it is the accused 's belief which counts , not whether the owner really would have consented , had he known of the lack of insurance . |
| 7 | She really has n't much choice , there 's the glorified schoolmarm ; there 's the brave little woman who tries to be a good wife and housewife , and I daresay mother , as well , and makes a point of her pretty clothes ; and there 's the bluestocking , the eccentric and frump , the mathematic 's dean who does n't know which side her tea-cup is chipped . |
| 8 | For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite . |
| 9 | Essentially there are two important phases in MDC 's history which , for any meaningful evaluation , require different criteria of analysis . |
| 10 | Due to the diversity of Club 18–30 's programme it is not , unfortunately , possible to give information on each of the countries featured in this brochure . |
| 11 | As discussed above , in Mehmed II 's time there were , as far as one can tell , basically three grades of medreses above the 40-akce level : and the Sahn . |
| 12 | The agonies of the north , both for the local populace and for the king and realm , were by no means at an end yet , but in Edward II 's reign they reached a scale unapproached before and not exceeded afterwards . |
| 13 | In a letter of 1867 to a friend on the death of the latter 's brother he writes : " You have experienced at first hand … why our Schopenhauer exalts suffering and sorrow as a glorious fate , as the deuteros pious [ second way ] to the negation of the will … , |
| 14 | Happily , I was able to acquire the latter 's autograph myself shortly afterwards , but the disillusionment still lingers to this day ! |
| 15 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 16 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |
| 17 | It is only viewed in retrospect that such dual loyalties seem strange : in the context of Edward IV 's reign they made very good sense . |
| 18 | In the early years of Henry IV 's reign it was primarily an official body executing his wishes . |
| 19 | All scholars agree that the text of Boniface IV 's letter which is quoted here was a forgery of the eleventh century , and something must be said about this later . |
| 20 | Following the case of Re Beecham Group Ltd 's Application there seems to be a good chance of any restriction contained in a s.52 agreement being modified or discharged on application ; the Tribunal in that case modifying a restriction contained in a s.52 agreement to allow development , on the basis that the local authority would suffer no injury if the restriction was modified . |
| 21 | In the account of Henry I 's household there is no reference to the ‘ chancery ’ ; there was no formal institution under this title at this time , in the English or in any other European kingdom . |
| 22 | Later in Edward I 's reign he and his wife had a series of disputes with the Dublin government . |
| 23 | At best , however , the feudal summons could produce a cavalry force of little over 500 men , and even in Edward I 's reign it had obviously been insufficient in itself as a means of raising an army . |
| 24 | Customs revenue stood at c. £40,000 per annum in 1509 ; in the last years of Henry VIII 's reign it was still at that figure ; by 1550/51 it had fallen to £26,000 . |