Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War must be understood in the context of traditional society and the economic stresses it suffered in the 1920 's and 1930's . |
| 2 | After the curtain had come down and she 'd put away the props she hid in the extra 's dressing-room in case the reporter had changed his mind and dared to wait for her . |
| 3 | The TOP 's had one facility they shared with the MID 's and DEEP 's . |
| 4 | There it was collected and served by the Imperial 's own staff to the rest of the guests . ’ |
| 5 | There he attracted his employer 's attention with a polite cough , then whispered in the latter 's ear : ‘ I 'm very sorry , sir , but there appears to be a tiger in the dining room . |
| 6 | While she shared in the bride-to-be 's euphoria , as the wife of the Queen 's assistant private secretary , she could n't help but be concerned about how Diana would cope with royal life . |
| 7 | In some debates it appears that traditional farming is regarded as systems of high input of fertilisers and pesticides which started in the 1950 's and are still progressing and developing today . |
| 8 | individual/individual e.g. the televised Kennedy/Nixon debates in the early 1960s worked to the former 's advantage . |
| 9 | Still , it is far from unlikely that both Swegen and Cnut did have relations with the Scandinavian colonies in Ireland , and there is just enough evidence to suggest that when the Encomiast named among the latter 's dominions not only England , Denmark and Norway , but also Brittania and Scothia , he was not necessarily exaggerating . |
| 10 | The success of these courses at centres whose natural affinities lay with the London rather than the Eastern District led to the latter 's willing agreement to transfer its expanding , populous southern commuter zone to the former in the summer of 1930 . |
| 11 | George Boole 's father had been curator of the Lincoln Mechanics ' Institute when Bromhead was president , and the connection led to the latter 's support and encouragement for the younger Boole , to whom he lent mathematical books . |
| 12 | It would be no exaggeration to claim that the whole of present-day transplantation surgery is based on his original insight and on his subsequent collaboration with Sir Peter Medawar , which led to the latter 's Nobel Prize . |
| 13 | All eventually disappeared except the rorqual 's flippers and teeth , for which the Marine Biological Laboratory had put in a request . |