Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did quite well at school in the sports area , and for ages and ages I had the school record for the under-14 's javelin … . |
| 2 | There is no requirement that the abstraction is for the accused 's benefit . |
| 3 | The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter 's departure from its initially predicted orbit . |
| 4 | No mention was made of the February 1992 US-sponsored Washington accord between the legislature and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide , providing for the latter 's return to power [ see pp. 38758 ; 38808 ] . |
| 5 | During the last days of May 1967 the United States reached an understanding with Israel , clearing the way for the latter 's attack on Egypt on 5 June 1967 . |
| 6 | The cars were later used separately by BBC and ABC TV , notably for the latter 's Holiday Town Parade in 1961 . |
| 7 | Eventually , tender of such a bill to the carrier became a prerequisite for the latter 's delivery of the goods to the bill 's holder . |
| 8 | The leader of the Southern Society , Pavel Pestel — executed , not exiled — was the son of the notorious Governor-General mentioned earlier ; G. S. Batenkov , himself of Siberian origin , acted as a close personal aide to Speranskii during the latter 's governorship ; Baron V.I . |
| 9 | He had been in radio contact with Delaney during the latter 's journey down from the MOD to Brize Norton . |
| 10 | Graham defended the decision on the grounds that Bolger and the French Prime Minister Michel Rocard had agreed during the latter 's visit to New Zealand in April 1991 that the Rainbow Warrior affair was closed . |
| 11 | There Cameron made the acquaintance of Charles Louis Clérisseau [ q.v. ] , the scholar and draughtsman , and teacher of Robert Adam [ q.v. ] during the latter 's residence in Italy . |
| 12 | He served on the society 's council in the 1670s ; and in 1677 , after consulting various fellows of the society , Banks appointed John Locke [ q.v. ] to act as tutor to his surviving son , Caleb ( 1659–96 ) during the latter 's stay in France in 1677–8 . |
| 13 | All editions of the eight original works or compilations and five translations by Sir Thomas Elyot [ q.v. ] issued from Berthelet 's house during the latter 's lifetime , and he was evidently well respected in humanistic circles . |
| 14 | A state of relative peace prevailed in West Beirut in the first few months of 1990 , partly owing to a Jan. 25 decision by the Lebanese Cabinet to endorse the West Beirut security plan agreed between Hrawi and the Syrian government during the former 's visit to Damascus earlier in the month . |
| 15 | Corbett regained his strength and scrambled to his feet , dragging the dwarf in his grasp with him as the latter 's accomplice slumped wordlessly to his knees . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 19 | BIIBA has now made a strong complaint to Fimbra about the latter 's decision to withdraw from an agreement made on 18 September which would have allowed BIIBA members , who held existing professional indemnity cover , to renew their existing policies . |
| 20 | The point was that France was protesting not so much about its inability to get its way on agricultural policy nor about the latter 's incorporation into a package , but more about the political or supranational elements of the package . |
| 21 | This machine gives the computer digital information about the last 's freeform surface . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In 1305 the abbot of Thorney in the Fens complained that the abbot of Peterborough ‘ lately by night raised a dyke across the high road ’ , and so cut off the former 's access to corn and pasture . |
| 24 | Similarly , the Hungarians became the principal external threat to the Christianized Germanic peoples of Europe in the late ninth and tenth centuries , particularly in conjunction with the Slavs ; and after the former 's defeat and settlement on the Middle Danube , it was a natural instinct of the Saxon rulers to draw them into the orbit of western Christian kingdoms . |
| 25 | They were united in the implementation of sanctions against Iraq after the latter 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , but differing positions began to emerge by the end of the year [ see p. 37927 ; 37934 ] and the French government 's 11-hour attempt to avoid conflict was made without consultation with its EC counterparts [ see p. 37935 ] . |
| 26 | César Gavira Trujillo , 43 , who had held office as Finance Minister and Interior Minister under the current President , Virgilio Barco Vargas , and who had taken over the election campaign of Luis Carlos Galán Sarmineto after the latter 's assassination on Aug. 18 , 1989 [ see p. 36844 ] , received an estimated 60 per cent of the vote and comfortably defeated his five rivals . |
| 27 | After the latter 's death in 1899 , his brother raised his contribution to £900 per annum . |
| 28 | ( Morton occupied Coleman 's house after the latter 's death , until he retired in 1860 . |
| 29 | After the latter 's death in 1947 , Kathleen became mistress of his household and his wife in 1954 . |
| 30 | Whatever mitigating justifications could be cited in favour of overt action on the campus , in much of the 1960s ' action , students were often reducing other students ' right to learn , were therefore abusing their freedoms and were , as such , forfeiting their own rights as students . |