Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [noun prp] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes Dieter 's car overtook them ; when they arrived at the auberge , it was parked in the shadows a short distance away with two dim shapes close together in the front seats . |
| 2 | In a few months Rose 's home place and Moran 's house were almost interwoven . |
| 3 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 4 | But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ . |
| 5 | For the first few years Blackpool 's trams represented the only practical example in the World , of electric tramcars running in crowded thoroughfares . |
| 6 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
| 7 | OVER the past few weeks Spain 's government has spared no effort to defend the peseta within Europe 's battered exchange-rate mechanism . |
| 8 | According to some sources Egypt 's acceptance of the Baker plan indicated that the PLO leadership had accepted that it must play an " invisible " role in the initial stages of the peace process . |
| 9 | In some ways Perrett 's findings can be seen as an extension of the results on prestriate cortex in that higher order properties of objects are being encoded , using information from representations of lower order properties . |
| 10 | In some ways Albania 's isolation has advantages . |
| 11 | According to some reports Sisavat 's departure related to charges of corruption and nepotism . |
| 12 | According to some reports Li 's speech had been revised at the last moment to bring it in line with the current Dengist campaign . |
| 13 | In such circumstances England 's goal difference could give them an advantage over , say , Denmark in Group One or The Netherlands in Group Four , both of whom complete their fixtures next month . |
| 14 | As a commentary on such sentiments Eliot 's poem reads with a vengeance . |
| 15 | In spite of such warnings Baldwin 's desire for a settlement was fortified by the views of the Governor of the Bank of England , Montagu Norman , who was with him , and of Auckland Geddes , the ‘ political ’ Ambassador in Washington . |
| 16 | In these areas Gloucester 's appointment in 1480 as the king 's lieutenant in the north did not do much more than recognize existing realities . |
| 17 | In these areas Gloucester 's appointment in 1480 as the king 's lieutenant in the north did not do much more than recognize existing realities . |
| 18 | It is notable that it was Bunting , in his generation the only British emulator of Pound , who was most confident and insistent that in these matters Pound 's immediate master was American , the Walt Whitman of ‘ Out of the Ocean Endlessly Rocking ’ . |
| 19 | In these circumstances Townesend 's own architectural identity is not very clearly defined . |
| 20 | Next consider the situation when a switch is closed at time to connect a steady e.m.f. to a series circuit comprising just capacitance C and resistance R. In these circumstances Kirchhoff 's voltage law gives and taking the Laplace transform with the aid of relations ( 11.20 ) and ( 11.31 ) , the corresponding equation is obtained . |
| 21 | During these years Japan 's new leaders embarked on a programme of radical reform aimed at transforming Japan into a modern industrialized nation capable of dealing on equal terms with the nations of the West , and throwing off ‘ unequal ’ treaties viewed as a national insult . |
| 22 | What is undoubtedly clear is that during these years Henry 's power was still steadily advancing , though most modern writers tend to create the false impression of a king entirely preoccupied with the awkward domestic problem of the quarrel with Thomas Becket . |
| 23 | Personally , she could n't stand homes but these days Jack 's interests were her interests . |
| 24 | For both these commentators Marx 's concept of ideology fails to be useful because of an overarching problem in his claim to have transcended the problem of ideology by the application of a materialist and scientific method . |
| 25 | She and her husband have also learned to make a family joke out of the situation , trying to guess before each visit how many times Jane 's mother will criticise her . |
| 26 | By all accounts Saturday 's display ( it was not desertion of the cause but prior engagements which made it impossible to be there ) from the mighty Quakers was slightly better than the previous innocuous effort . |
| 27 | In many respects Hardy 's birthplace evokes a quintessential vision of the English country cottage , with its thatched roof , old-fashioned garden and secluded setting . |
| 28 | Coggeshall was neither large nor particularly affluent ; John Paycocke , nephew of Thomas and inheritor of the imposing Paycocke house , was assessed at no more than £53 , though the richest man in Coggeshall , his son having £10 as well ; to all appearances Thomas 's munificent bequests had depleted the family fortune . |
| 29 | For many years Tukaram 's enemy Rameshwar had incited the people against Tukaram and been instrumental in having Tukaram 's poems thrown into a river . |
| 30 | For many years WACC 's communication education work has focused on curriculum development , professional education , a training assistance programme , a programme of animateurs and media literacy . |