Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile in Turkey itself Turkish troops on Oct. 3-4 devastated the small Kurdish towns of Kulp ( Diyarbakir province ) and Curkurca , causing half of the latter 's population of 8,000 to flee [ see p. 39114 ] , and from Oct. 5 onwards heavily bombarded PKK strongholds in the Mount Ararat region . |
| 2 | After the collapse and division of the NF , the BNP began in late 1989 and early 1990 to take on some of the former 's street-presence . |
| 3 | In turning the tables on Einstein he used another of the latter 's ideas . |
| 4 | It is ‘ of course ’ unlikely that Callinicos ' criticism will cut much ice with those whose substantial career investments lie in one or another of the postmodern 's corners : movementist politics , the radical academy , post this-ism and that-ism , a variety of well-upholstered ‘ dissenting ’ niches from both the dominant culture and traditional opposition to it . |
| 5 | It was a very different beauty from that of a 1930 's Alden ketch or a clipper-bowed Herreshof schooner so admired by the traditionalists . |
| 6 | A court should now consider the effect of the provocation on ‘ a person having the power of self-control to be expected of an ordinary person of the sex and age of the accused , but in other respects sharing such of the accused 's characteristics as they think would affect the gravity of the provocation to him ’ . |
| 7 | That is typical of The Possessed 's speculative openness , within which a reader is entitled to his own view . |
| 8 | Much of the International 's efforts were directed at reinforcing the resolution of European socialists not to go to war with each other . |
| 9 | This , coupled with the decline of the great infectious epidemics which gave homoeopathy its signal successes , eliminated much of the gap between the orthodox and homoeopathic schools and eroded much of the latter 's popularity . |
| 10 | The consignee is then able to sue the carrier directly , but is also subject to the latter 's direct suit . |
| 11 | Eleventh-century additions in English to blank leaves in the York Gospels include surveys of three of the archbishopric 's estates , an inventory of church treasures at Sherburn-in-Elmet , and a list of sureties in a legal case involving one Ælfric , while a Durham copy of Bede 's Lives of St Cuthbert received an inventory of church possessions including a kettle and sixteen ornamented horns . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) For the purpose of determining whether a person occupying any land is in adverse possession of the land it shall not be assumed by implication of law that his occupation is by permission of the person entitled to the land merely by virtue of the fact that his occupation is not inconsistent with the latter 's present or future enjoyment of the land . |
| 13 | All amphibians have mucous glands in their skin which produce a slime that helps to keep it moist and some of these in the firebelly 's skin produce a bitter-tasting poison . |
| 14 | Black as an Ethiopian 's armpit . ’ |
| 15 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 16 | It would never have occurred to Nathan Holland , the young man on whose arm she leant , to think of such a thing ; he had worked with Paul Arkwright in the publishing house which turned out many of the latter 's books on philosophy , and soon Paul had asked him , knowing his astonishing gift for languages , if he would translate some of them . |
| 17 | That rite is turned against itself in the way that the Lord 's Prayer of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is involved in an anti-Lord 's Prayer . |
| 18 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 19 | The London International Book Fair , which runs from 21st to 23rd March , looks set to be the largest in the fair 's 22 year history . |
| 20 | Apart from having to suffer , as she told herself , the royal family 's woefully reduced circumstances , she missed her mother and was genuinely concerned for the latter 's deteriorating health . |
| 21 | The most serious business , though , will not take place at your stand , despite its prestigious location in the most important of the fair 's nine airport sized exhibition halls . |
| 22 | Mayer obligingly pulled al-Kassar 's file and , among other bits of useful information , told Coleman about two more of the Syrian 's aliases , including the numbers of the passports held in those names , and details of al-Kassar 's recent journeys to and from South America . |
| 23 | Reid was familiar with the works of both Malebranche and Arnauld , and expressed views strikingly similar to those in the latter 's Treatise in his own Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man . |
| 24 | A different illustration is provided by the collaboration in 1983–84 between the ILEA and the London Institute of Education , in which one of the former 's advisory teachers acted as placement tutor for six students from the emotional/behavioural difficulties option of the latter 's Diploma Course . |
| 25 | 1st Lt V J Kaminski , flying alongside Mary Alice in the low squadron , was one of the 615 's oldest and best-liked veterans . |
| 26 | One of the seneschal 's two right pupils seemed to be looking at him . |
| 27 | Full details of trading and travel arrangements are available from the fair 's Europe and North America agent , Margaret Ling , ZIBF ( UK ) Ltd , , ( ) , or from ZIBF , ( ) . |
| 28 | It was sufficient that the victim was so shocked by the accused 's presence that the victim suffered a stroke . |
| 29 | Carol Brockwell told the court she was shocked by the accused 's story . |
| 30 | The Alliance for Germany , backed by the West German federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl , advocated rapid monetary union , followed shortly afterwards by political reunification with the accession of the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ) to the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) under Article 23 of the latter 's Basic Law [ see p. 37259 ] . |