Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.

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1 It was probably through the patronage of John Prideaux that Calandrini came into contact with James Ussher [ q.v. ] , later archbishop of Armagh , whom he assisted in his scholarly activities during the latter 's three-year stay in London .
2 With his long-time partner Liesl Karlstadt , Valentin performed his comic-surreal sketches and songs in Munich beer halls of the 20 's and 30's .
3 The key worker system was introduced in children 's homes in the 60 's and 70's .
4 And dumbfounded unionist members in Carrick have been sent a book explaining the controversial employment and investment guidelines by the INC 's president , Fr Sean McManus .
5 Apparently Tom DiCillo cut his cinematic teeth working with Jim Jarmusch , and his directorial debut Johnny Suede certainly shows signs of the latter 's influence , as it doodles out a familiarly minimal comedy around a cool fool who learns the limits of his own hip moves .
6 Indeed , the concept of judicial independence is deemed to entail not merely the freedom of judges from responsibility to the political executive , but their active duty to protect the citizen against the political executive or its agents , and to act , in the state 's encounter with members of society , as the defenders of the latter 's rights and liberties …
7 After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin .
8 Commenting on these provisions in a case in which , through no fault of the plaintiff , process had failed to reach a defendant in France until some two months after the leaving date , a Dutch court said that ‘ the Convention subordinates the interests of plaintiffs in enforcing their rights as quickly as possible against foreign defendants to the latter 's interest in having an opportunity of defending themselves ’ .
9 The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign .
10 At best , this will help to ensure that black workers remain in those employment sectors they entered in the boom years of the 50 's and 60's .
11 In 1846 he was articled to his father and served for seven years in the latter 's chambers in Gray 's Inn , also attending from 1847 to 1849 the evening lectures on architecture initiated at University College , Gower Street , by T. L. Donaldson [ q.v. ] in 1842 .
12 The latest squabble between supermarkets and banks over the latter 's unilateral decision to hoist transaction charges may of course make debit cards less attractive to consumers if the charges end up being passed on .
13 Local shell fishermen have clashed with conservationists over the latter 's appeal for an end to shellfish potting in the waters around Skomer Island 's Marine Nature Reserve , south-west Wales .
14 In spite of our happy experiences with SBA , the electronic throttle and the electronic linkage , we did have some problems with the Same 's performance monitor .
15 ( b ) Putting goods into the accused 's shopping bag : McPherson [ 1973 ] Crim LR 191 ( CA ) .
16 Artists in the 1800–1850 's
17 But Kinsey 's were I suppose is part of a general optimism about sexuality which was felt in academic circles through the 1950 's and 1960's .
18 They coined the phrase " ecological debt " to describe the relationship between the North and South in terms of the former 's excessive use of global resources .
19 The more measurable and specific they become , the less realistic they become in terms of the legislative 's intentions .
20 Following the drilling of deep boreholes in the 1960 's and in 1978–79 which had confirmed the presence of sandstones with good reservoir characteristics in several areas below the thick basalt cover , there was an urgent need to establish whether usable seismic data could be obtained from below the basalts .
21 Jokes pour forth from the PA system , and so do hits from the 50 's and 60's .
22 Defensively , he observes what he considers to be Debord 's virtues and comments on the latter 's avoidance of , as he puts it : ‘ the various pitfalls — formalist essentialism , aestheticist myopia , politically naive fetishism of reflexivity , and so on , typical of certain avant-garde practices linked to radical political agendas . ’
23 In The Form the first two degrees of love seem to correspond to the stages in the contemplative 's life that Rolle has addressed in chapters one to six .
24 Scrope relied almost exclusively on George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , but consequently had to adapt himself to the tergiversations of the latter 's policies .
25 Later James McInally , a forensic scientist with Lothian and Borders police , told the court that after tests on the accused 's clothing and in the burned house , they had concluded that Sutherland had been involved in splashing petrol in the house .
26 The Israeli authorities also said that following denials by the accused 's interrogator and a polygraph ( lie detector ) test on ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin 's , his allegations were ‘ found to be baseless ’ , and that he actually ‘ retracted most of his allegations ’ .
27 As Buckley LJ said in Gillespie v Bowles : it is a fundamental consideration in the construction of contracts of this kind that it is inherently improbable that one party to the contract should intend to absolve the other party from the consequences of the latter 's own negligence .
28 I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept .
29 the subordinate 's ability and experience must be borne in mind when allocating tasks and responsibilities , since it is highly damaging to allocate tasks beyond a subordinate 's capabilities ; and
30 Large regional studies of children 's smoking habits during the 1960 's and 1970's showed that more boys smoked than girls and that boys started earlier [ 3 ] .
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