Example sentences of "[det] [adj] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aelfflaed 's testimony suggests that Aldfrith had not certainly engineered his son 's succession and that Osred 's triumph over Eadwulf was the work of a powerful faction at court devoted to the preservation of royal power in the hands of the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 2 | Despite such pressure , and despite the evidence of the dangers of lead to children and unborn babies , it was not until an EEC Directive of 1985 stated that member countries must make unleaded petrol widely available by October 1989 that CLEAR 's proposals were followed up . |
| 3 | The key assumption here remains , of course , that the identity of an ontological existent , or , more accurately , its ontological individuality , depends upon all of this existent 's properties , and hence that if any of them were different from what they happen to be , the existent itself would be different . |
| 4 | Aim for Des Voeux Road , road with its rattling trams , and saunter through this shopaholic 's paradise . |
| 5 | David Robb is busy restoring some 1920 's greenhouses on a country estate , and says he 's never been happier : |
| 6 | After setting hair on medium rollers , George at Cat 's Whiskers styled this 1940 's look |
| 7 | Holmewood Colliery provides an atmospheric background to this 1950 's view of Heath Station . |
| 8 | This one 's number seven and this one was in nineteen eighty eight . |
| 9 | Vici at Rare Moods used Copper Gold Colorance on this 60 's style |
| 10 | The generation of this Hercynian ' folding' is discussed later in terms of late Carboniferous basin development . |
| 11 | Now that we 're into the Nineties , the agencies have changed tack , and such Eighties ' characteristics as greed , selfishness and sad Paisley ties have become passé . |
| 12 | Miss Hepburn , best known for starring roles in such 1960s ' classics as My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's , recently toured refugee camps in famine-ravaged Somalia as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nation 's children 's fund . |
| 13 | ‘ And these two 's Lucinda and Jane . ’ |
| 14 | All Grubby 's eyes turned to heaven . |
| 15 | For all FAST 's expertise in industry and biotechnology the biosociety is a far more hazy society than Callenbach 's Ecotopia . |
| 16 | As I said in the case of No 617 Squadron , their enormous success on the Dams raid and on some of the less spectacular sorties that they had flown , rubbed off on all 617 's sorties thereafter . |
| 17 | These were Allen 's and Marian 's guesses as to what had gone on in the darkness but the rest of the story of those two hours before dawn was easily pieced together from Tom All Alone 's account . |
| 18 | In flight all Arctic 's primaries , seen against light , appear translucent and silvery , but Common has only innermost four primaries making a pale translucent patch . |
| 19 | People packed St. Lawrence Church Hall to hear their questions answered , and although all four 's answers ran on fairly predictable lines , intense interest was maintained throughout the nearly two-hour event . |
| 20 | According to Florence of Worcester , shortly after Æthelred died in April 1016 certain English churchmen and nobles elected Cnut king , came to him at Southampton , swore fid-elity and repudiated all Æthelred 's progeny ; in return , he vowed to be a good lord in matters both church and lay . |
| 21 | This part of Majorca is the most popular area on the island and each summer more and more 18–30 's flock here to enjoy the sunshine , the beach , the nightlife and the company of more young people than you could possibly imagine . |
| 22 | Until about three weeks ago there had been a belief among Digital employees in Galway and the Industrial Development Authority in Ireland that Digital 's plant in Ayr would lose out . |
| 23 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 24 | The 13th reform were believed to be sufficient to allow locos to work over the bridge and it is understood that 37/4 's will not be allowed over . |
| 25 | that Martian 's willy from my little hand . |
| 26 | Professor Dolley argued that raids on western England in the 980s were partly the responsibility of Scandinavians who had settled in Ireland , and that Æthelred 's expedition into Cumberland in 1000 , and the activities of his fleet in the Irish Sea , were in all likelihood the result of provocation in that area . |
| 27 | Sexual complications after operation were fortunately uncommon , in line with most other 's experience , furthermore it seems that a close rectal dissection is not necessary to avoid autonomic nerve damage in men . |