Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1942 a violent clash occurred between a small group of armed Falangists and a crowd of Carlists attending a memorial mass for the latter 's war-dead . |
| 2 | The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected . |
| 3 | Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 . |
| 4 | In a further development on Dec. 12 the New York Times reported on a plan put forward by the US Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Carl Vuono , called " Strategic force for the 1990 's and beyond " , which envisaged a cut of one-third of US forces in Europe by 1995 , from 305,000 to 200,000 . |
| 5 | As a new appreciation of the Arctic 's importance has evolved , the littoral states have tended either to exclude non-Arctic states from activities in the area , or to offer them less-favoured treatment . |
| 6 | Both coercion and consent were typical of the Dukeries villages , therefore , and the mechanisms instituted by employers and their employees were integral to daily life and the maintenance of the former 's hegemony . |
| 7 | The question which serves as a starting-point is why there should be legal obstacles to the recognition of the transsexual 's change . |
| 8 | In situations where sex is not an ‘ essential determinant ’ of a legal relationship , he appears to see no reason for denying recognition of the transsexual 's change . |
| 9 | From 1870 to 1880 he was at the office of the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt [ q.v. ] , and later went into partnership with the latter 's son Matthew . |
| 10 | Criticism of the Units is frequently based on research from the 1930 's and 40's , which demonstrated the severe impairment of psychological function and development in traditionally organized residential institutions . |
| 11 | ‘ Until the Butler Act began to take effect in the 70 's and 80's , Britain was outstanding among industrial countries as the home and fount of nepotism in a hundred subtle forms . ’ |
| 12 | An invention which is properly exploited by a small business may have a dramatic impact on the employer 's turnover ; a larger business , on the other hand , may be able to generate a far larger sales income with the same invention but ultimately produce an insignificant effect on the latter 's overall liquidity . |
| 13 | Originally an Artisans ' trophy but extended to the senior club at the former 's invitation in 1951 . |
| 14 | You 've got the psychoanalytical approaches which came out of Vienna , you 've got behaviourism at the 1920 's and then you 've got the emergence of cognitive in the fifties and sixties , so there 's already a sort of historical structure there . |
| 15 | Nowadays they get in free and are given VIP passes ( access to all areas ) , but tonight the five mates with whom they 've driven the 150 miles from Southport have all been refused entry by the Ritzy 's management for being under 20 . |
| 16 | The establishment of internal controls is the responsibility of management , not of internal audit , but as a service to management it is part of the latter 's role to review , appraise and report on the soundness and adequacy of these controls . |
| 17 | An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building . |
| 18 | Under the pre-Theft Act law it was sufficient if any part of the accused 's body was inside . |
| 19 | During the troubles of 1173–4 the inhabitants of the citadel seized the opportunity to turn their enclosure into a proper circuit of walls , a move which was probably aimed against the city rather than against ducal authority , though clearly it was taking advantage of the latter 's temporary weakness . |
| 20 | Absorbed by loving considerations of her tastes , Mitzi did not notice that Elisabeth was not replying , and her attention was drawn to her companion only when the peculiar noise of the latter 's choking was sounding right round the Hall . |
| 21 | The major event in Romanian foreign policy was the conclusion of a treaty of co-operation , good neighbourliness and friendship with the Soviet Union , signed by Iliescu and Soviet President Gorbachev on April 5 during the course of the former 's visit to Moscow . |
| 22 | About two years before the Government Offices competition , he met Henry H. Hofland , who worked for W. B. Moffatt after the break-up of the latter 's partnership with Scott . |
| 23 | Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way . |
| 24 | Yet here , in his uncharacteristic hesitancy , the penetrating and infuriating Alvin Toffler is probably as good a reflection of the 1990 's and as else . |
| 25 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 26 | In July , he will direct A Midsummer Night 's Dream in the National 's Olivier Theatre . |
| 27 | He was being paid in 1275–8 for work on the prior 's house next to St Mary-le-bow in London , and travelled between Canterbury and London several times , working in Canterbury in 1279–80 . |
| 28 | On Russian television on July 4 , Yeltsin said that Kozyrev 's remarks had been assessed at the Security Council as " harmful " , and suggested that if Kozyrev wanted to " be a prophet like [ Eduard ] Shevardnadze , then act like Shevardnadze " ( a reference to the latter 's resignation as Soviet Foreign Minister in December 1990 after warning of an impending coup — see p. 37903 ) . |
| 29 | Howard Davies 's superb new staging at the National 's Olivier Theatre does the play proud . |
| 30 | After the evening when he introduced Atkins , he remained in the background and his place as the latter 's companion was taken by a swarthy newcomer . |