Example sentences of "[num] 's [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start , there is more power available and the larger speaker obviously lends a great deal to the 30 's overall performance . |
| 2 | In the 30 's fashionable furniture with a limed oak finish would have the oak converted to a silvery-grey finish before the grain was filled . |
| 3 | As strengths , Slater pointed to the 88000 's high level of integration , good single-precision performance , multi-processor support and Motorola 's advantage of single-vendor control , while as weaknesses , he listed the expense of building a large cache on the 88100/200 implementations and the slow speed of the floating point in double precision mode . |
| 4 | During James V 's personal rule , however , two new factors came into play , which shifted Scottish attitudes further along the road towards friendship with England rather than automatic hostility . |
| 5 | The question of whether the queen would survive was not the only problem created by James V 's early death . |
| 6 | The ways in which SPAR and CLE-1 tackle the problems were compared , leading to pointers for the development of CLE-2 , which is intended to combine CLE-1 's wide coverage of individual linguistic phenomena with a more robust architecture that is sensitive to the interaction of different processes . |
| 7 | Why , we wondered , was a photo of RCN general secretary Christine Hancock juxtaposed with a short piece in the Evening Standard on BBC 2 's Rough Guide to Careers ? |
| 8 | After Home Alone 2 's record-breaking success in the US , British merchandisers have let their imaginations run riot to devise everything from computer games to yo-yos bearing either Macauley 's face or the film 's title . |
| 9 | Two J-types are used , made by SGC themselves , and these work in conjunction with the 305 's passive EQ , offering treble and bass controls , plus centre-notched pan and volume pots . |
| 10 | Sales in the important U.K. domestic market showed no improvement on 1991 's disappointing level , and Continental Europe , particularly France , fell back against prior year . |
| 11 | THE Royal Family have been voted bores of the year — ousting 1991 's top yawn Madonna . |
| 12 | This feature allows you to play direct to tape , or direct to a house P.A. The output from the emulator is not affected by the level control on the JMP-1 's front panel , so any changes you make for your stage level will not affect what goes out front , or to tape , should you be recording the ‘ Live Album ’ . |
| 13 | The AWL 10 's jet-like flame withstands wind and rain . |
| 14 | William III 's one ambition was to topple Louis XIV of France and when James II went to Ireland to establish a following there , William decided to take up arms against him . |
| 15 | Henry III 's political miscalculation had to be set right , and it was imperative that the status of the Gascon lands be redefined . |
| 16 | Contemporary preoccupation with the personification of virtues and vices found expression in the illuminations by Master Honoré to the Somme le Roi , written by Laurent , Philip III 's Dominican confessor . |
| 17 | True , by the time that Edward III 's long reign ended , only Bordeaux , Bayonne , and a coastal strip in that region could be controlled effectively by the English administration . |
| 18 | The Exploitation of the Forest by Household officials During Henry III 's Personal Rule : 1227–59 |
| 19 | The long list of townships claimed for disafforestment had in fact remained in the Forest since the beginning of Henry III 's personal rule , and had been acknowledged and treated as such by judges and juries at successive Forest Eyres . |
| 20 | The other physician in attendance was Larrey , son of Napoleon I 's great surgeon-general , who in 1864 was to diagnose with accuracy the cause of Napoleon III 's declining health — a kidney stone . |
| 21 | From 1859 onwards there was a decline in Anglo-French relations brought about largely by Napoleon III 's Italian policy , which , after much manoeuvring , resulted in a war between the Italian Kingdom of Piedmont and the Austrian Empire . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that Napoleon III 's Italian policy , which seemed the prelude to a new era of French expansion , had alarmed the other European powers . |
| 23 | 2.5 FRENCH CHASED AND ENAMELLED COPPER EFFIGY OF WILLIAM DE VALENCE ( D. 1296 ) , HENRY III 'S LUSIGNAN HALF-BROTHER . |
| 24 | Edward III 's ecclesiastical patronage in the first twenty-five years of his reign was more than treble that of Edward I ( in thirty-five years ) and double Edward II 's ( in twenty-five years ) : the comparative figures , revealed by the researches of Dr Saunders , are 919 ( Edward I ) , 1419 ( Edward II ) and 3182 ( 1327–52 ) . |
| 25 | Apart from the victory at Halidon Hill , which in retrospect was of great military significance but which gave Edward only a temporary and illusory supremacy , the war did little to enhance Edward III 's military reputation . |
| 26 | Zoffany , George III 's favourite artist , is represented by his detailed portrait of King George III , Queen Charlotte and their six eldest children . |
| 27 | That Aethelheard 's flight was not generally seen as discreditable is clear from Leo III 's subsequent praise of him for endangering his life against ‘ Julian the Apostate ’ , as the pope described Eadberht , but Alcuin gave Aethelheard no such credit and remained highly critical of him for allegedly neglecting his Christian duty and it is possible that in his absence the Kentish leaders were considering the election of another archbishop . |
| 28 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 29 | This invaluable extra feature adds little to the overall weight and bulk of the AF-1 , though you do lose the AF-1 's fast-recycling flash and close-up facility . |
| 30 | On Jan 5 , vigils were held at cathedrals all across the country ‘ in silence , music and prayer ’ to show support for the Birmingham Six 's continuing struggle to clear their names . |