Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun prp] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London itself , however , may have furnished encouragement for the lines Eliot 's thought was taking . |
| 2 | Last year the soaring public debt reached almost 120% of GDP , even without counting the money owed for the weapons Greece 's soldiers buy from abroad . |
| 3 | Through the centuries Japan 's proximity to Asia allowed for the absorption of Asian cultural influences , yet the distance proved sufficiently great to assist the emergence and maintenance of indigenous cultural traits and enable Japan to avoid a succession of invasions or new influxes of other peoples . |
| 4 | The intention in this chapter is to document some of the resources Easton 's policemen and women draw on in accomplishing their work , with a view to demonstrating the similarity in the way they ‘ do ’ ordinary policing compared to what we know of policemen and women in societies without Northern Ireland 's extreme divisions . |
| 5 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 6 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 7 | Men from the British cruisers London and Curlew protected the foreigners who were concentrated in the neutral zone of the Hotels Reid 's , Atlantic and Savoy . |
| 8 | Even in the yellow glare of the lights Murray 's blush was unmistakable . |
| 9 | From the publication , in 1946 , of his book The Affairs of the Poles Osmanczyk 's constant call was for Polish-German reconciliation as one of the essential steps towards the creation of a new , permanently conflict-free Europe . |
| 10 | With it came the sense of the words Benedict 's tongue had scorched into her skin : ‘ you 're mine ’ . |
| 11 | From the edge of the trees Iorwerth 's green woodpecker laughed again . |
| 12 | An overall difference of impression between Marx 's notes and Engels 's book is that in the case of the notebooks Morgan 's framework is totally subordinated to Marx 's wider concerns , while in Engels 's book we get the impression that Morgan , for great chunks of the book , actually takes over Engels . |
| 13 | There was a bell here , too , that communicated with the Misses Cardings ' rooms above . |
| 14 | The disc is filled out with the tone-poems Pohjola 's Daughter and En Saga , the latter ( I always think ) just five minutes too long . |
| 15 | It was not a position which enhanced his personal popularity , but while he was still coming up with the stories Murray 's position was unassailable . |
| 16 | From the stands Pears ' deliberate knock-down of Pell 's ‘ scoring ’ pass to Hensley defied the laws of probability . |
| 17 | IN THE mid-1980s Tokyo 's dominance of government , business and academia was deemed to ease efficient contact-making . |
| 18 | Over the centuries Cornwall 's tin output has totalled about 10 times the annual quantity the world produces now . |
| 19 | For the Galileo story it is important to know that over the centuries Aristotle 's philosophy had become a part of Catholic orthodoxy . |
| 20 | Over the years Korea 's fast economic growth , unlike Taiwan 's , for example , has done little to boost inflation . |
| 21 | Over the years Gouzenko 's story about the second Elli varied considerably . |
| 22 | Over the years Hahnemann 's original nosodes have been greatly added to and now there are nosodes prepared from all the infectious diseases . |
| 23 | Over the years Reid 's has been host to many people , and its visitors , book reads like an international Who 's Who over the past century . |
| 24 | To the Mensheviks Lenin 's vision smacked of élitism . |
| 25 | on the greens Oxford 's Gary Harrington won the big bowls competition at Worthing … |
| 26 | on the greens Oxford 's Gary Harrington won the big bowls competition at Worthing … |
| 27 | Instead , the debate here focused on the bonuses Charlton 's players will receive for getting to Italy ( £25,000 per man ) and the Sports Minister 's public criticism of Irish television for their decision not to screen the other tie in Group Six , between Hungary and Spain . |
| 28 | Among the subjects Terkel 's interviewees muse on are Louis Farrakhan , the Nation of Islam 's leader , who seems to command utter loyalty or utter loathing ; sexual jealosy , a theme that has gone cool in Britain , but still raises temperatures in the US ; and the future , about which there is absolutely no agreement . |
| 29 | pupil at the Misses Nettingall 's establishment with whom David , while a pupil at Dr Strong 's , falls in love . |
| 30 | And alongside the internal battles partially catalysed by the hopes Kennedy 's Presidency had aroused came the beginnings of opposition to the war his ‘ pay any price ’ foreign policy had finally ignited , Vietnam . |