Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outwardly Carter was more polite towards Congress than Nixon had been , but he shared the latter 's contempt for the legislature and was no less shocked by its disorderly , undisciplined ways and its vulnerability to special interests . |
| 2 | It was the United States ' adamant policy with respect to the PLO that made the latter 's relations with Moscow so robust . |
| 3 | In late November 1989 , Geaga offered to give military support to Aoun if Syrian troops attacked the latter 's Baabda headquarters [ see p. 37030 ] , but as the likelihood of a Syrian offensive diminished , relations between Aoun and Geaga again deteriorated . |
| 4 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 5 | Possibly Mr Quekett came to his aid : it would be a simple matter to consult the parish registers for St George 's until they found the bridegroom-to-be 's baptism in 1818 , son of Benjamin Titford of Chapman Street , ‘ Outrider ’ — and so the entry reads on the marriage certificate . |
| 6 | When the buyer-notify party paid the amount owed to the issuing bank , it received the latter 's authority to claim the goods from the carrier . |
| 7 | The assumption by Franco of the chairmanship of the Party Political Committee , occupied until then by Serrano , further reduced the latter 's ability to influence domestic affairs . |
| 8 | The two brothers were at times united in their hostility to Chilperic 's son Chlothar II , and at one moment they reduced the latter 's kingdom to territory between the Seine , the Oise and the sea . |
| 9 | I baited a 6 's hook to 6lb b.s. line paternostered on a 1½ oz bomb with half a lobworm and sent it out to the marker . |
| 10 | The American blockade of Cuba threw the latter 's post-revolutionary land-use planning into confusion and caused wholesale cultivation of food crops on very vulnerable steep slopes . |
| 11 | The court allowed the accused 's appeal . |
| 12 | Hines ( 1972 ) , for example , using exactly the same words as McKeever and Huling ( 1971a ) replicated the latter 's finding of a right field superiority in bilateral recognition when a digit was presented at fixation but obtained a significant left field advantage without the digit . |
| 13 | Comprising 150 works by artists such as Guigou , Loubon , Isabey , Rousseau , Courdouan , Brest , Monticelli , Ziem and Gresy — who painted the Mont Sainte Victoire in 1843 , well before Cezanne and whose ‘ Les Baigneuses ’ of 1854 inspired the latter 's work of the same name — the exhibition is the fruit of ten years ' research by the Musée de Toulon 's curator-in-chief , Jean-Roger Soubiran . |
| 14 | These were made in consultation with Yeltsin , and replaced the latter 's interim appointments of the day before . |
| 15 | ‘ My father , Mr F. Lavender , was appointed Town Clerk of Bishop 's Castle in 1922 , in succession to Mr Ernest Griffiths and at the same time purchased the latter 's solicitors ’ practice and the old office building . |
| 16 | In politics he was usually to the left of H. M. Hyndman , whom he much admired , but he accepted the latter 's scepticism towards trade unionism and its place in the socialist movement . |
| 17 | Marley had a revolutionary 's zeal and a charismatic presence which made him an intensely romantic figure not only to the young blacks whose predicament he articulated , but also to the white rock audience . |
| 18 | It even had a 1940 's bakelite telephone which seemed to work , but the typewriter was state of the art and so , probably , was the young lady behind it . |
| 19 | Erm , that had a B-52 's ‘ Rock Lobster ’ vibe to it . |